Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inventing an "English-like language" that any good machinist can learn and that a computer can translate into the numerical language of the machines' tapes. A draftsman makes a detailed drawing of the part wanted. A part programer studies it carefully and writes orders for the machine tool in APT (Automatically Programed Tool) language. This language is not decorative. A simple example...
...CIRCLE/CTR AT, + 2, + 3, RADIUS, + 5." Meaning: "Turn on coolant, turn on spindle, go right with tool on left side along circle whose center is at x= +2,y = +3, with a radius of+5." This language is translated by a large computer that has been fed a set of cards punched with the APT grammar and vocabulary, thus has "learned" APT language. After it has read the APT instructions, the computer tests its solution with a blip of light that appears on a screen and goes through the motions that the machine tool is expected to make...
...greatly similar." McClellan expected to prove during a four-week investigation of the nation's $2 billion-a-year coin-machine industry that: 1) organized thugs are successfully moving in on big-city coin-machine operations, especially in the jukebox business and in pinball games; 2) principal tool of the thugs is the corrupt labor union, endowed with all the protection extended by law to legitimate labor. Said McClellan: "The ease with which some of these unions were created -not only locals but entire internationals . . . has no relation to the legitimate labor objectives...
...East as "open totalitarianism, backed by an all-powerful political party." whereas in the West it takes the form of "creeping totalitarianism, backed by powerful institutions, such as press, private enterprise, public opinion and arrogant wealth." Moreover, the Communist regime of East Germany may be regarded as "a tool of God which fulfills a definite function according to the Lord's plans: the function of a punishing...
...nervous system and its functions, and would be characterized by a thoroughness which is not generally achieved in existing General Education courses. In particular, the committee recommended that the mathematical level of these courses be raised, since the compact and elegant language of mathematics is the fundamental tool of the most advanced modern sciences and is gradually becoming more and more important in other branches...