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Holborn made his predictions in competition with his government tutees and Univac, the mechanical brain used by CBS, whose early predictions he outguessed...
...Neumann is one of the masterminds behind many electronic brains that extrapolate election figures, coordinate weather data, and work out staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
Curtice has a Farleyesque memory for names, stores up facts and figures like a Univac computer. Says one associate: "You'd better not tell him something one day and something else another day, even if it's a year later. But if you're working like hell, he is quick to forgive mistakes." He talks out problems with associates, listens to every angle, then makes his decisions quickly and without worry. Says Curtice: "The best committee is the committee of one." But Curtice's greatest talent is his innate knowledge of what will tickle an auto...
...UNIVAC, Remington Rand's big $1,000,000 electronic brain, is going into the insurance business. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is installing one of the machines at its Manhattan home office to work five days a week assembling and analyzing basic actuarial statistics ordinarily handled by clerks, thus releasing them for other jobs...
...Univac is an electronic brain which the Columbia Broadcasting System hired to provide cold and early mathematical calculation of election trends. But Univac turned out to be as cautious as a pollster in the hands of cautious masters. At 10 o'clock, an assistant to Adlai Stevenson stated in Springfield, 111.: "The news is not good and it looks pretty grim." But it was nearly 10:30 before Univac found the same kind of perspicacity, calculated that Ike would win by 314 electoral votes to Stevenson's 217 (or 27 million popular votes to Stevenson...