Modern Calculators – Locke – Astounding Stories (1949)

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Meteorologists know how to calculate the exact weather six hours in advance. It's sadly useless knowledge, at present, because the best staff of [human] computers needs six weeks of calculating to do it. But a machine, now--

Article is a detailed survey of principles and state-of-the-art of analog and digital calculators (computers), and possible applications such as meteorology, fluid dynamics, and other fields which have actually come to fruitation.

Theoretical studies are now under way about the principles of machines which would solve problems symbolically. One example relates to the solution of problems in symbolic logic, another to a machine which will perform mathematical--not arithmetical--operations directly. There is even a proposal for a machine to play chess.

Modern Calculators – Locke – Astounding Stories (1949)

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