Word: weatherization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-wave technology is worth adopting; instead, they are concerned about how best to use it. They are finding all sorts of ingenious applications. United Airlines has developed a simple frame-based system called GADS (Gate- Assignment and Display System) to help prevent the infuriating delays that occur when weather and scheduling problems scramble gate assignments for incoming planes. The system encodes the reasoning that gate controllers use when scheduling gate assignments (for example, two adjacent gates cannot accommodate two DC-10s at once). Before GADS, United's gate controllers would physically move magnetic pieces around on a big metal...
...battle scenarios, test tactical hypotheses and plan weapons and troop deployment. But the information-processing requirements of a major-theater war would be enormous. Managing a battle is not a case of dealing with one source of data rapidly but, rather, simultaneously processing data about air threats, supply lines, weather and the positioning of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Whether ALBM will be a device for war games or a battlefield tool depends on the military's ability to harness the power of massive parallel processors -- computers with thousands of processors that can work simultaneously on a problem...
Processing power is an even more daunting problem for Pilot's Associate, a knowledge system the military hopes to field in the 1990s. The device is designed to advise electronically a fighter pilot in combat about everything from weather to ground and air threats. It will include several expert systems with sophisticated three-dimensional data bases. But if it is to deliver its advice effectively to pilots who have only seconds to respond and act, this system too will require putting into fighter aircraft the type of computing power that today fills entire rooms...
...Harvard students heading toward warm weather this spring break plan on partying it up along the beaches. A number of Harvard sports teams are heading south or west for special exhibition seasons and warm-weather training. The softball team will be practicing in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the women's lacrosse team will be in Mary-land and both the men's and women's tennis teams are flying out to California. In addition, Constan and his roommates may run into the rugby club in New Orleans...
...days are getting longer. The weather is getting warmer. The midterms and papers you always have just before Spring Break...