Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble, thinks Commander George W. Hoover of the Office of Naval Research, is that the aircraft's swarm of instruments make their reports in figures, usually the positions of needles on round dials. The pilot's brain, however, is designed to work with pictures taken from a visual world. Before the instrument readings mean anything to it, the brain must transpose and combine them into something like a visual picture. It takes time for the brain to function as a rather slow computer, and the time permitted by modern aircraft grows less and less...
...Brown report, produced last spring by a special Committee on the Visual Arts at Harvard, recommended the construction of a Design Center, the merger of the faculties of Fine Arts and Design, the construction of a Harvard Theatre, and certain changes in the Fine Arts curriculum for undergraduates...
...computing machines will determine the orbit, and tracking will then be carried out by a dozen or so photographic stations. When the satellite begins to lose altitude, it will be moving so unpredictably that visual observers must once more assume tracking operations...
Whipple said that the satellite is likely to be set aloft toward the end of 1957, and it will circle the earth in about 100 minutes. Groups of visual observers will be forwarded to computing machines at the Smithsonian here...
...Overseers estimated, is needed for the construction and operation of the Design Center and $1,850,000 more for a new theatre, in line with recommendations made last year by another special committee headed by John Nicholas Brown '22. Expansion costs for the area of the Visual Arts would approximate...