Gigantische Gehirne

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Modern Mechanix, Oktober 1958: ? ”Thinking Machines Are Getting Smarter”

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“AT THE Vanguard Computing Center in Washington, D. C, I watched a young woman present a machine with an extremely complex problem in ballistics involving hundreds of variables. At once lights on a control panel twinkled and winked as the computer checked to see that all equipment was operating properly. Then it set briskly to work. Magnetic tapes spun in their shiny glass-and-steel vacuum cabinets, the high-speed printer muttered. Suddenly the machine stopped and the electric typewriter wrote: “Last entry improperly stated!”

A little embarrassed, the young operator corrected her error, and the machine started again. Four minutes later it gave an answer that had required several million individual calculations. “This is a wonderful machine” the girl said… (weiterlesen)

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