Word: scientist
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...line" computer capabilities for social science. Under the old "batch processing" method, the user would have to wait several hours or days for results from a computer. But "on-line" (or "interactive" or "time-sharing") computing means that many users can almost simultaneously obtain immediate results. To the social scientist, on-line computing enables formulation of each question based on the computer's answer to the previous question. The advantages of such a method for military decision-makers especially in a crisis situation, are evident. Researchers working under the Project's auspices are developing further elaboration of computer techniques...
...Defense Department could hire its own computer experts or contract the problems out to private "think-tanks" like RAND. But for social science techniques the DOD needs what universities--Harvard and MIT in particular--have to offer: a first-rate community of behavioral scientist. The DOD's own such scientist don't know what they are doing, two of the Project's leading participants say; and the behavioral scientists of think-tank staffs number fewer than those at a single leading university. Cambridge offers an unusually large and diverse social science community...
...scene of turmoil--and this is virtually all the world...If you think that Washington could act better if it had a deeper comprehension of the social processes at work around the world, then you should be demanding that the CIA hire and write contracts with our best social scientists. The research now done by the CIA is sometimes well done and sometimes not very well done. I can think of no greater contribution a social scientist could make to the intelligence of the U.S. government than to help improve this effort at knowledge of the outside world...
...dazzling series of generalities designed for the general reader. This book is direct in line of descent from such grand visionary works at Rousseau's Second Discourse and Jacques Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life, Skinner, like Rousseau and Loeb, has attempted to transcend the role of the scientist and assume the mantle of the prophesy. And, more important, like Rousseau and Loeb, Skinner has been carried away by his cosmic dream...
Mysterious Silence. Despite the storm, readings taken by Mariner's infrared spectrometer enabled JPL investigators to identify several earthlike minerals in the Martian crust, including quartz, granite and anorthocite. Those findings caused considerable excitement among the scientists. They indicated that Mars had at one point in its history undergone melting and that lighter elements had floated to the surface, later hardening into an earthlike crust. Included among the lighter elements are carbon compounds that were necessary for the development of life on earth. Said NASA Exobiologist Jerry Soffen, who is project scientist for the Viking program that will make...