Index

Abacus, [5], [21], [22], [60], [85], [129], [178], [181]
Abstracting computer, [245], [248]
Accuracy
- analog computer, [82]
- digital computer, [87]
Ackerman, [110]
ADAM computer, [258]
Adaptive principle, [205]
Adders, [107], [108], [115]
Adding machine, [129]
Addition, computer, [106]
Address, computer, [63]
Advertising, use of computer, [180]
AID, [183], [184]
AIEE, [254]
Aiken, [46]
Air Force, [6], [132], [133], [151], [160], [182], [225]
Airborne computer, [90], [154], [158], [162]
AiResearch Mfg. Co., [69]
Airline reservations, computer, [58], [183], [184]
Algebra, Boolean, [8], [110], [119]
Alpha rhythm, [126]
Alphanumeric code, [104]
American Premium Systems, Inc., [175]
Analog computer, [21], [45], [72], [74], [80], [125], [203]
- direct, [76], [79]
- direct-current, [76]
- discrete, [80]
- indirect, [76], [79]
- mechanical differential analyzer, [76]
- scaling, [76]
Analytical engine, [36], [37]
AND gate, [112], [113], [117], [119]
Antikythera computer, [25]
Apollo computer, [182]
- space vehicle, [169]
Applications, digital computer, [92]
A priori concept, [126], [135]
APT computer, [209]
Aquinas, St. Thomas, [235]
Arabic numbers, [23]
Archytas, [25]
Arithmetic unit, computer, [51], [60]
Aristotle, [26]
Aristotelian logic, [109]
Arizona Journal, [179]
Army, U. S., [21], [78], [146], [259]
Ars Magna, [28], [29]
ARTOC, [157]
Artron, [136]
Ashby, W. Ross, [51], [124], [128], [251]
ASC computer, [155]
Associated Press computer system, [177]
Asynchronous computer, [255]
Athena computer, [52]
Atlas missile, [4], [168]
Atlas-Centaur missile, [169]
Atomic Energy Commission, U. S., [149]
Automatic
- control, [80], [203]
- pilot, [203]
Automation, [26], [80], [173], [181], [201], [202], [203], [211], [217]
Automaton, [26]
Auto-parking, use of computer, [178]
Autonetics, [207]
AUTOPROMPT computer, [210]
AUTOTAG, [156]
AutoTutor teaching machine, [213], [225]
B-29, [45], [77], [82]
Babbage, [5], [35], [37], [41], [51]
Babylonian arithmetic, [23]
Ballistic computer, [83]
Banking, [1], [172], [173]
Bar Association, American, [152], [249]
Battelle Memorial Institute, [195]
Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn, [180]
Bell Telephone Laboratories, [4], [147], [241]
Bendix Corp., [182], [190], [218]
Bendix G-15 computer, [183], [188]
Bernal, J. D., [264]
Bernstein, Alex, [141]
Bettelheim, Bruno, [144]
BIAX memory units, [10]
Bierce, Ambrose, [43], [121]
BINAC computer, [7], [47]
Binary, [98]
- digit, [55], [104]
- notation, [101], [103]
- pure, [102], [104]
- system, [85], [97], [99]
- variables, [114]
Bionics, [7], [132], [135], [255]
BIRDIE, [259]
Birds, counting, [18]
Bit, [55], [104]
“Black box” concept, [50], [115]
BLADES system, [191]
Block diagram, [58]
BMEWS, [159]
Boeing Airplane Co., [186]
Boltzmann equation, [158]
Bomarc missile, [186]
Book of Contemplation, [27]
Book of Knowledge, [6], [226]
Boole, George, [38], [110]
Boolean algebra, [38], [110], [119]
Bradbury, Ray, [153], [257]
Brain, [121]
Brain
- computer, [128], [129], [130]
- human, [87], [125], [128]
BRAINIAC computer, [88], [117]
Britton, Lionel, [121]
Buffer
- computer, [55]
- lexical, [238]
Buildings, automation of, [217]
Burack, Benjamin, [44]
Bureau of Mines, U. S., [189]
Bureau of Ships, U. S., [255]
Burke, Edmund, [32]
Burkhart, William, [45]
Bush, Vannevar, [13], [45], [76]
Business, computer in, [171]
Business management, use of computer, [12], [143]
Butler, Samuel, [32], [33], [121], [252], [268]
CALCULO computer, [75]
Calculus Ratiocinator, [109]
Calendars as computers, [24]
California Institute of Technology, [169]
Cancer Society, American, [193]
Candide, [30]
Capek, Karel, [43], [121], [215]
Caplin, Mortimer, [150]
Carroll, Lewis, [38], [118]
CDC 1604 computer, [165]
Celanese Corp. of America, [207]
Celestial simulator, [85]
Census, [41]
Census Bureau, U. S., [149]
Chain circuit, [127]
Characteristica Universalis, [109]
Charactron tube, [66]
Checkers (game), [8], [143]
Checking, computer, [60]
Checkout computer, [183]
Chemical Corp., [249]
Chess, [8], [9], [16], [35], [99], [142], [156]
Circuit
- chain, [127]
- delay-line, [63]
- flip-flop, [63], [115]
- molecular, [9], [253]
- printed, [62]
- reverberation, [128]
Clapp, Verner, [248]
Clarke, Arthur C., [265]
CLASS teaching machine system, [226]-[228]
Clock, [20], [24], [56], [85]
COBOL language, [234]
Code, computer
- binary-coded decimal, [103], [106]
- binary-octal, [106]
- economy, [106]
- excess-[3], [105], [114]
- “Gray,” [106]
- reflected binary, [106]
- self-checking, [105]
Color computer, [4]
Commercial Art, [175]
Commission on Professional and Hospital Activity, [194]
Communication, use of computers, [179]
Computer
- ADAM, [258]
- addition, [106]
- airborne, [90], [154], [158], [162]
- analog, [21], [45], [72], [74], [80], [125], [203]
  - direct, [76], [79]
  - direct-current, [76]
  - discrete, [80]
  - indirect, [76], [79]
  - mechanical differential analyzer, [76]
  - scaling, [76]
- Antikythera, [25]
- Apollo, [182]
  - space vehicle, [169]
- applications, digital, [92]
- ASCC, [155]
- asynchronous, [255]
- Athena, [52]
- ballistic, [83]
- Bendix G-15, [183], [188]
- BINAC, [7], [47]
- BRAINIAC, [88], [117]
- CALCULO, [75]
- CLASS, [226]-[228]
- code, binary-coded decimal, [103], [106]
- color, [4]
- definition, [129]
- dictionary, [49], [50]
- difference engine, [5], [35]
- digital, [18], [45], [73], [84], [125], [203]
- division, [107]
- do-it-yourself, [75], [88], [117], [147]
- electrical-analog, [75]
- electronic, [1], [46], [122], [151]
- ENIAC, [7], [40], [46], [85], [215]
- ERMA, [173]
- family tree, [86]
- FINDER system, [161]
- flow chart, [58], [59]
- GE [210], [172]
- GE [225], [245]
- general-purpose, [54], [81], [191]
- gigacycle, [254]
- “Hand,” [132], [214], [215]
- household, [15], [257]
- hybrid, [80], [84], [92]
- ILLIAC, [197]
- input, [51], [54], [125]
- JOHNNIAC, [11], [47], [129], [140], [142]
- language, [233]
- LARC, [47], [162], [191]
- LGP-30, [198]
- limitations, [89]
- MANIAC, [47], [156], [165]
- Memex, [13]
- mill, [38], [51], [60]
- MIPS, [159]
- MOBIDIC, [157]
- MUSE, [48]
- music, [11], [92], [196], [257]
- on-line, [81], [205]
- on-stream, [83], [207]
- output, [51], [65], [125]
- parts, [50], [52], [53]
- problem-solving, [140], [143]
- Psychological Matrix Rotation, [78], [94]
- Q-5, [77]
- RAMAC, [150], [151], [198], [199]
- Range Keeper Mark I, [42]
- RAYDAC, [260]
- RCA 501, [151]
- “real-time,” [78], [168], [202], [205]
- RECOMP, [47]
- revolution, [251]
- Sabre, [183]
- SAGE, [3], [12], [37], [53], [158], [159], [226], [259]
- sequential, [126]
- “Shoebox,” [242]
- “software,” [54]
- spaceborne, [167]
- special-purpose, [79]
- SSEC, [155], [156]
- Stone Age, [21]
- store, [36], [62]
- STRETCH, [47], [48]
- subtraction, [106]
- testing, [117]
- UNIVAC, [47], [149], [151], [171], [221]
- VIDIAC, character-generator, [242]
- Zuse L23, [199]
Computer Control Co., [260]
Conjunctive operation, [37], [51], [110]
Consciousness, [144], [145], [267]
Continuous analog computer, [80]
Continuous digital computer, [80]
Continuous quantity, [73]
Control, computer, [51], [56]
Control Data Corp., [194]
Conversion
- analog-to-digital, [74]
- digital-to-analog, [74]
Converters, [94]
Cook, William W., [29]
Copland, Aaron, [11], [196]
Cornell Medical College, [123]
Cornell University, [133]
Corrigan Communications, [231]
Council on Library Resources, [248]
Counting
- Australian, [20]
- birds, [18]
- boards, [20]
- digital, [84]
- machines, [20]
- man, [19]
- modulo-, [97], [101]
Credit card, [13], [256]
Cryogenics, [70]
- components, [63]
Cryotron, [9], [88], [141], [254], [255]
Cybertron, [135], [139]
Cyborg, [265]
Daedalus, [18]
Darwin, Charles, [32], [137], [252]
Data
- link, [14], [185], [256]
- logger, [205]
- processing, [22], [171], [264]
- recording media, [57]
Daystrom, Inc., [211]
Dead Sea Scrolls, [235]
Decimal system, [19]
Decision-making, [91]
Defense, use of computer, [259]
Delay-line circuit, [63]
DeMorgan, Augustus, [38], [110], [115]
Department of Commerce, U. S., [149], [221]
Department of Defense, U. S., [148], [234]
Design, use of computer, [14], [172], [186], [268]
Desk calculator, [51]
Diagnostic use of computer, [194]
Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratory, U. S. Army, [69]
Dictionary, computer, [49], [50]
DIDAK teaching machine, [224]
Difference engine, [5], [35]
Digiflex trainer, [225]
Digital computer, [18], [45], [73], [84], [125], [203]
Digital differential analyzer, [94]
Digitronics, [236]
Discrete quantity, [73]
Disjunctive operation, [110]
Division, computer, [107]
Dodgson, Charles L., [38]
Do-it-yourself computer, [75], [88], [117], [147]
Douglas Aircraft Co., [65]
Dow Chemical Corp., [208]
Du Pont Corp., [208]
Dunsany, Lord, [108]
Eccles-Jordan circuit, [47]
Eckert, J. Presper, [47], [85]
EDGE computer system, [185]
Education, use of computers, [219]
Elan vital, [127]
Election, use of computers, [150]
Electric Questionnaire, [133]
Electric utilities, use of computers, [93], [208]
Electrical-analog computer, [75]
Electrical logic machine, [44]
Electronic computers, [1], [46], [122], [151]
Elephant, compared with computer, [56]
Encyclopedia Britannica, [6], [226]
ENIAC computer, [7], [40], [46], [85], [215]
Erewhon, [32], [121]
ERMA computer, [173]
Ernst, Heinrich, [132], [215]
Euler, [142], [143], [163]
EURATOM, [158]
Family tree, computer, [86]
Farnsworth Car Pool logic problem, [116], [118]
Farrington Electronics, Inc., [240]
Federal Aviation Authority, [149], [161]
Federal Government, [148]
Feedback principle, [36], [204]
Fein, Louis, [260]
Fermat’s theorem, [56]
Ferranti, Ltd., [182]
Ferrite cores, [9], [63], [131], [253]
FIELDATA computer family, [157]
FINDER computer system, [161]
Finn, James D., [224]
Flexibility of digital computer, [89]
Flight simulator, [83]
Flip-flop
- circuit, [47], [63], [115]
- fluid, [70]
Floating-point arithmetic, [108]
Flow chart, computer, [58], [59]
Flyball governor, [36], [203]
Fluid computer, [70]
Food Machinery Corp., [249]
Ford Instrument Co., [42]
Forrester, J. W., [199]
Fortune, [245]
Frankenstein, [42], [212]
Freed, Roy, [152]
Free learning, [7]
Freight trains controlled by computer, [211]
Game-playing, [8], [12], [143]
Gaming theory, [92]
Gardner, Martin, [140]
GE 210 computer, [172]
GE 225 computer, [245]
General Dynamics Corp., [169], [183], [256]
General Electric Co., [10], [45], [67], [76], [77], [79], [171], [172], [240]
General Motors Corp., [218]
General Precision, Inc., [69]
General-purpose computer, [81], [85], [191]
Gestalt principle, [241]
Giant Brain, [121]
Gigacycle computer, [254]
Gilfillan Radio, [67]
Glenn, John, [3]
Go (game), [143]
Goal-seeking behavior, [124]
Gödel, Kurt, [135]
“Golem,” [27]
Goodrich Tire & Rubber Co., [188]
Goodyear
- Aircraft Corp., [77]
- Tire & Rubber Co., [208]
Goren, Charles, [226]
Government, [258], [263]
Greek numbers, [23]
Grieg, [11]
Grimaldi, [99]
Gulliver’s Travels, [30]
Half-adder, [107], [115]
Hamilton, Sir William, [109]
“Hand” computer, [132], [214], [215]
Handwriting reader, [241]
Harcourt-Brace, [226]
Harvard Business Review, [171], [172]
Harvard University, [132], [217], [224]
Hawkeye aircraft computer, [162]
Heath, D. C., and Co., [226]
HAYSTAQ, [249]
Heikolator computer, [195]
Hero, [18]
Heuristics, [56], [142]
High-school computer training, [15], [220]
High-temperature susceptibility, [69]
Hilbert, David, [110]
Hiller, Lejaren A., Jr., [197]
Hindu numbers, [23]
HIPO system, [195]
Hippo problem, [155]
Hoffman Electronics Corp., [267]
Holland, James, [224]
Hollerith coding, [42]
Hollerith, Herman, [2], [41], [54], [148]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [109]
Homeostat, [124]
Homer, [26], [47]
Hood, H. P. & Sons, [206]
Hoover Commission, [149]
Hourglass, [24]
Household computer, [15], [257]
Hughes Aircraft Co., [203], [215], [222]
Hugo, Victor, [251]
Hybrid computer, [80], [84], [92]
IBM cards, [41]
IBM 704 computer, [8]
IBM 1401 computer, [175]
IBM 1620 computer, [177]
IBM 7074 computer, [175]
Icarus, [18]
Ice cream, computer-made, [206]
ILLIAC computer, [197]
“Illiac Suite,” [196], [197]
Iliad, [26], [235]
India, chess legend, [99]
Industrial Advertising Research Institute, [180]
Industrial revolution, [173]
Industry, [181]
“Inflexible Logic,” [32]
Information explosion, [245]
Information retrieval, [14], [243], [246], [247]
Input, computer, [51], [54], [125]
Instamatic computer system, [183]
Insurance, use of computer, [92], [173]
Intellectronics, [258], [262]
Intelligence, [124], [135]
Interagency Data Processing Committee, [148]
Internal Revenue Department, U. S., [150]
International Air Transport Association, [235]
International Association of Machinists, [218]
International Business Machines Corp., [69], [237], [247], [255]
Interlingua, [237]
Inventory, [176], [185]
Inverter, [114], [119]
IRE, [170]
Isaacson, L. M., [197]
Jacquard, Joseph M., [4], [34], [41], [54], [202], [242]
Jet engine simulator, [78]
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, [169]
Jevons, William S., [40]
JOHNNIAC computer, [11], [47], [129], [140], [142]
Johnson’s Wax Co., [178]
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., [188], [189], [205]
Journalistor, [64], [252]
Kalin, Theodore, [45], [135]
Kalin-Burkhart machine, [45]
Kane, Sydney, [193]
Kant, Immanuel, [135]
Kelvin, Lord, [75]
Kelvin wheels, [76]
Khayyám, Omar, [108]
KNXT, television station, [179]
Kresge Eye Institute, [195]
Kyoto University, [243]
Lamb, Sydney, [238]
Language, computer, [233]
LARC computer, [47], [162], [191]
Law, [232]
Law Institute, American, [152]
Learning, [123]
- forced, [133], [134]
- free, [7], [133]
- reinforced, [134]
- soldered, [7], [133]
Learning, Inc., [226]
Leibnitz, Gottfried, [24], [29], [85], [99], [109], [120]
Lenkurt Electric Co., Inc., [190]
LGP-30 computer, [198]
Library, use of computers, [231]
Limitations of computers, [89]
Lincoln Laboratory, [124]
Lindgren, Astrid, [3]
Literature, computers in, [30]
Litton Industries, [128]
Livanov, M., [133]
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., [185], [248]
Logarithms, [30]
Logic, [38], [90], [108], [229]
- Aristotelian, [109]
- Farnsworth problem, [116], [118]
- mathematical, [110]
- symbolic, [38], [109], [110], [115], [248], [255]
- unit, [60]
Logical algebra, [40], [108]
- piano, [40]
Loom, Jacquard, [34]
Loy, W. D., [23]
Luhn, H. P., [247]
Lull, Ramon, [27], [28], [122]
Lull’s wheel, [28]
Machine Design, [180]
Machine shop, use of computers, [209]
Machine Translations, Inc., [239]
MAD, computer language, [220]
Maelzel chess automaton, [35]
Magic squares, [142]
Magnetic cores, [64]
Magnetic disc, [63]
Magnetic drum, [63]
Magnetic films, [88], [255]
Magnetic ink, [3], [240]
Magnetic tape, [55]
Majority rule checking, [60]
Malin, David, [220], [221]
Maloney, Russell, [32]
Management games, [199]
MANIAC computer, [47], [156], [165]
Man-machine relationship, [258]
Mark I computer, [46], [219]
Marquand, Allan, [40], [44]
Matsuzake, Kiyoshi, [21]
Mauchly, John, [47], [85]
Mayans, [24], [97]
McCarthy, John, [170]
McDonnell Aircraft Corp., [186]
McDonough, James, [235]
McDougall, W., [124]
McGraw-Hill Book Co., [226]
Mechanical-relay, [122]
Mediation principle, [102]
Medical diagnosis, [257]
Medical Research Foundation, American, [193]
Medical use of computers, [193]
MEDLARS system, [194]
Memex computer, [13]
“Memistor,” [137]
Memory computer, [51], [63], [254]
- BIAX, [10]
- MIND, [137]
- molecular, [64]
- scratch-pad, [63]
- unit, [62]
Mercury space capsule, [168], [249]
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, [236]
Michigan State University, [151]
MICR, [240]
“Mill,” computer, [38], [51], [60]
MIND memory unit, [137]
Minneapolis-Honeywell Co., [162], [206], [208], [216]
Minimax theory, [156]
Minuteman missile, [4], [137], [168]
MIPS computer, [159]
MIT, [44], [169], [209], [215], [220]
Mobot, [145], [215], [216], [266]
MOBIDIC computer, [157]
Modeling principle, [83]
Modular approach, [115], [116]
Molecular block memory, [64]
Molecular circuit, [9], [253]
Molecular electronics, [9]
Monsanto Chemical Corp., [208]
“Mooer’s” Law, [245]
Morse code, [99]
Mozart, [11], [197]
Multiplication
- computer, [61], [107]
- Russian peasant, [103]
MUSE computer, [48]
Music, [11], [92], [196], [257]
Nanosecond, [61]
NANWEP, [165]
Napier, John, [30]
“Napier’s bones,” [30]
National Library of Medicine, [194]
NASA, [149]
National Bureau of Standards, [94], [239], [249], [258]
National Cash Register Co., The, [240]
National Science Foundation, [158], [249]
Navigation, use of computer, [182]
Navy, U. S., [162]
Negation principle, [113], [114]
Neuristor, [137]
Neurons
- human, [91], [125], [128], [135]
- artificial, [136], [138]
Newell, Allen, [141], [251]
Newton, Isaac, [30]
New York University, [194], [220]
Nike missile, [119], [157], [191]
Nim (game), [8], [143]
NORAD, [3], [160], [258]
North American Aviation Corp., [65], [185]
Numbers
- cuneiform, [23]
- Arabic, [23]
- Babylonian, [23]
- binary, [55]
- discrete, [73]
- Greek, [23]
- Hindu, [23]
- pure binary, [102], [104]
- Roman, [23], [97]
Numerical control, [210]
Numerical weather prediction, [163]
Odyssey, [235]
Ohio State University, [222]
On-line computers, [81], [205]
On-stream computers, [83], [207]
On the Origin of Species, [32]
Operant reinforcement, [223]
Operations research, [36], [155], [256]
Optical scanning, [240]
OR gate, [112], [113], [117], [119]
Outline of Psychology, [124]
Output, computer, [51], [65], [125]
Packaging density, [9], [140]
Paper tape, [54]
Papermaking, [209]
Paradox, [45]
Parallel addition, [107]
Parallel operation, [126]
Parametron, [255]
Parity bit checking, [105]
Parrish, Stephen Maxfield, [235]
Pascal, Blaise, [30], [85]
Patent Office, U. S., [249]
Pauling, Linus, [7], [268]
Pavlov, [133]
Peace Corps, [149], [258]
Peale, Mundy, [125]
PEP system, [186]
Perceptron, [7], [8], [134], [135]
PERT system, [186]
Petroleum industry, [208]
Philadelphia Electric Co., [208]
Philco Corp., [240]
Phillips Petroleum Co., [207]
Phonetic typewriter, [56]
Picatinny Arsenal, [157]
Pierce, John R., [147], [197]
Pitt, William, [39]
Plato, [25], [30]
PLATO computer system, [25], [226]
Player-piano, [54], [68]
“Plot Genii,” [29]
Plotto, [29]
Pneumatic buffering, [69]
Pneumatic capacitor, [69]
Pneumatic computer, [54], [68], [69]
Pneumatic diode, [69]
Pneumatic flip-flop, [69]
Pneumatic inductor, [69]
Poetry computer, [144]
Polaris missile, [4], [162], [168]
Polymorphic data-processing, [264]
Post office, [55], [149], [225]
Potentiometers, [76]
Predictive analysis, [238]
Predictive control, [205]
Prentice-Hall, Inc., [226]
President, [16], [258]
Pressey, Sydney, [222]
Prices, computer, [5], [48], [147]
Primitive equations, [163]
Principia Mathematica, [110]
Printed-circuit, [62]
Printers, [65], [66]
Prison, use of computers, [221]
Problem-solving computer, [140], [143]
Process control, [83]
Procter & Gamble, [249]
Program, [52], [226]
Programmer, [55], [56], [103], [104], [128], [233]
Programming, [36], [55]
Psychological Matrix Rotation Computer, [78], [94]
Public Health Service, U. S., [194]
Pueblo Indians, [97]
Punched cards, [2], [34], [41], [42], [43], [54]
Purdue University, [76], [220]
Pure binary, [102], [104]
Q-5 computer, [77]
Radcliffe College, [224]
Radiation effects, [69]
RAMAC computer, [150], [151], [198], [199]
Ramo, Simon, [258], [262]
Rand Corp., [11], [129]
Random-access memory, [63], [131]
Random net, [136]
Range Keeper Mark I computer, [42]
RAYDAC computer, [260]
Raytheon Co., [135], [136]
RCA, [205], [218], [255]
RCA 501 computer, [151]
Reading, by computer, [3], [55], [229]
Reader’s Digest, [236]
Real estate, [179]
“Real-time” computers, [78], [168], [202], [205]
RECOMP computer, [47]
Reeves Instrument Co., [77]
Republic Aviation Corp., [125]
Reservations, airline, [3]
Reverberation circuit, [128]
Revolution, computer, [251]
Rheem Califone, [224]
Richardson, L. F., [163]
Road to Oz, The, [27]
Robot, [44], [212]
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, [194]
Roman numerals, [23], [97]
Rosenblatt, Frank, [133], [135]
Ross, Douglas, [209]
Rossby, C. G., [165]
Royal McBee, Corp., [220]
Royal Society, [251]
Rubáiyát, [108]
R.U.R., [44], [121]
Russia, [11], [77], [133], [143], [195], [207], [215], [221], [236], [242]
Russian peasant multiplication, [103]
Russell, Bertrand, [110], [111], [130]
Sabre computer, [183]
SAC, [160], [161]
SAGE computer, [3], [12], [37], [53], [158], [159], [226], [259]
Samuel, Arthur, [251]
Sara Lee Bakeries, [206]
Sausage making by computer, [179]
Scaling, analog computer, [76]
Scientific American, [140], [239]
“Sea Wolf” testing by computer, [162]
Second industrial revolution, [171]
Self-reproducing machines, [33], [268]
Selfridge, Oliver, [124]
Sequential computers, [126]
Sex and numbers, [19]
Shannon, Claude, [44], [110], [215]
Shelley, Mary W., [42]
“Shoebox” computer, [242]
Sidewinder missile, [160]
Signal Corps, U. S. A., [77]
Simon, Herbert, [141]
Simulator, [79], [169], [187], [189]
Simulmatics Corp., [181]
Simultaneous linear equations, [77]
Skinner, B. F., [133], [223], [230]
Skybolt missile, [160]
Slide rule, [7], [85]
Smee, Alfred, [121]
Social Security, [149]
“Software,” computer, [54]
Solartron-John Brown, Ltd., [174]
Sonotype, [243]
Son pan, [23]
“Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” [27]
Soroban, [5], [22]
Southern Methodist University, [179]
Spaceborne computers, [167]
Space flight, [3], [92]
SPADATS system, [160]
Special-purpose computers, [79]
Speech computer, [242]
Sperry Rand Corp., [255]
Sports, use of computers, [198]
SSEC computer, [155], [156]
Standard Oil Co. of California, [207]
Stanhope, Earl of, [39]
- demonstrator, [40]
Stapledon, Olaf, [265]
Steel mill, [189], [204]
Steele, J. E., [132]
Stock Exchange, American, [176]
Stock market, [176], [177]
Stone Age computer, [21]
“Store” computer, [36], [62]
Stravinsky, Igor, [197]
STRETCH computer, [47], [48]
Stromberg-Carlson, [191]
“Subroutine” computer program, [59]
Subtraction, computer, [106]
Sumerian cuneiform, [23]
Sundial, [24]
Sun Oil Co., [208]
Supermarket, use of computers, [13], [174]
Surveyor space vehicle, [169]
Swift, Jonathan, [30]
Switch, statistical, [137]
Syllogism, [26], [109]
Symbiosis, [265]
Symbolic logic, [38], [109], [110], [115], [248], [255]
Synnoetics, [260]
SYNTAC, [150]
Synthetic rubber production, [208]
System Development Corp., [156], [220], [226]
Szoeny refinery, [207]
Tabula rasa, [126]
Tallies, [20]
Tape memory, [64]
- magnetic, [54]
- paper, [54]
TASCON, [180]
Taylor, Frederick W., [171]
Teaching machines, [6], [100], [222], [225]
- AutoTutor, [213], [225]
- CLASS, [226], [227], [228]
- DIDAK, [224]
- Digiflex, [225]
- PLATO, [226]
- Pressey, S., [222]
- Skinner, B. F., [133], [223], [230]
- Videosonic, [222]
Technical Information Service, [249]
Technical Operations, Inc., [150]
Telecredit, [179]
Teleflite, [183]
Testing computers, [117]
Texas Company, The, [208]
Thinking, [123]
- molecular theory of, [268]
Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., [226], [258]
Thomson, James, [75]
Thomson & McKinnon, [177]
Thor missile, [167]
Tick-tack-toe, [8], [143]
Tik-Tok, [27]
Titan missile, [168]
TMI Grolier, [226]
Torres y Quevedo, L., [35]
Trading stamps with computers, [175]
Traffic control, [218]
Trains, [215]
Transcontinental & Western Air Lines, [186]
TransfeRobot, [4], [213], [217]
Transportation, [181]
Transistors, [9], [87], [144]
Translation computer, [91], [92], [237]
Traveling-wave tube, [255]
Truth tables, [110], [112]
Tunnel diode, [255]te
Turing, A. M., [191]
TutorText, [226]
UNESCO, [236]
Unimate, [4], [212], [213]
Union Carbide, [208]
Unitary system, [97]
Unicall, [243]
United Air Lines, [182], [183]
United States Industries, Inc., [213], [218], [225]
UNIVAC computer, [47], [149], [151], [171], [221]
University of California, [76]
University of California at Berkeley, [238]
University of California at Los Angeles, [133], [219]
University of Illinois, [78]
University of London, [8]
University of Michigan, [135], [220]
University of Pennsylvania, [46]
University of Philadelphia, [193]
University of Southern California, [225]
University of Washington, [152]
Upjohn Co., The, [127]
Vacuum tubes, [9], [63], [114], [122]
van Vogt, A. E., [267]
Venn, John, [29], [38]
Videosonic trainer, [222]
VIDIAC character-generator, [242]
Vitruvius, [25]
Vocal computer, [67]
Voltaire, [29]
Voltmeter, [76]
von Braun, Wernher, [168]
von Kempelen, Wolfgang, [35]
von Neumann, John, [130], [137], [156], [251], [253]
Wall Street, [6], [176]
Walter, Grey, [251]
Walnut information retrieval system, [246], [247]
War strategy, [143]
Water clock, [24]
Watt, James, [36], [203]
Way of All Flesh, The, [32]
Wearever Aluminum Co., [236]
Weather Bureau, U. S., [166]
Weather map, [164]
Weather prediction, [15], [163]
Wells, H. G., [13], [121]
Werner, Gerhard, [123]
Western Electric Co., [212]
Western Reserve University, [245]
Westinghouse Corp., [76], [211], [218]
Whitehead, A. N., [110], [130]
Wiener, Norbert, [123], [251]
Williams, John, [268]
Wood, Tom, [21]
World Brain, [13]
Wright Brothers, [18]
X-15 aircraft, [71], [160]
Young & Rubicam, [181]
Zero, concept of, [24]
Zuse L23 computer, [199]
Zworykin, Vladimir, [194]

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