Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
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ECKERT, W. J., Facilities of the Watson
Scientific Computing Laboratory, _Proceedings
of the Research Forum_, International Business
Machines Corporation, 1946, pp. 75-80.
THE DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER
The basic scientific articles on the two differential analyzers at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology are:
BUSH, VANNEVAR, The Differential Analyzer: A
New Machine for Solving Differential Equations,
_Journal of the Franklin Institute_, vol. 212,
no. 4, Oct. 1931, pp. 447-488.
BUSH, VANNEVAR, and SAMUEL H.
CALDWELL, A New Type of Differential Analyzer,
_Journal of the Franklin Institute_, vol. 240,
no. 4, Oct. 1945, pp. 255-326.
Some of the less technical articles about the second differential
analyzer at M.I.T. are:
CALDWELL, SAMUEL H., Educated Machinery,
_Technology Review_, vol. 48, no. 1,
Nov. 1945, pp. 31-34.
GENET, N., 100-Ton Brain at M.I.T.,
_Scholastic_, vol. 48, Feb. 4, 1946, p. 36.
ANONYMOUS, Mathematical Machine; New
Electronic Differential Analyzer, _Science News
Letter_, vol. 48, Nov. 10, 1945, p. 291.
ANONYMOUS, Robot Einstein: Differential
Analyzer at M.I.T., _Newsweek_, vol. 26,
Nov. 12, 1945, p. 93.
ANONYMOUS, M.I.T.’s 100-Ton Mathematical Brain
is Now to Tackle Problems of Peace, _Popular
Science_, vol. 148, Jan. 1946, p. 81.
ANONYMOUS, The Great Electro-Mechanical Brain;
M.I.T.’s Differential Analyzer, _Life_,
vol. 20, Jan. 14, 1946, pp. 73-74 ...
ANONYMOUS, All the Answers at Your Fingertips;
in the Laboratory of M.I.T., _Popular
Mechanics_, vol. 85, Mar. 1946, pp. 164-167 ...
A differential analyzer was built at the Moore School of Electrical
Engineering:
TRAVIS, IRVEN, Differential Analyzer
Eliminates Brain Fag, _Machine Design_, July
1935, pp. 15-18.
A differential analyzer was built at the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. Instead of using a mechanical or electrical
amplifier of the motion of the little turning wheel riding on the
disc, this machine follows the motion using polarized light. This
machine is described in:
BERRY, T. M., Polarized Light Servo System,
_Transactions of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers_, vol. 63, Apr. 1944,
pp. 195-197.
KUEHNI, H. P., and H. A. PETERSON, A
New Differential Analyzer, _Transactions of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers_,
vol. 63, May 1944, pp. 221-227.
A differential analyzer has been put into use at the University of
California:
BOELTER, L. M. K., and others, _The
Differential Analyzer of the University of
California_, Los Angeles: University of
California, 1947, 25 pp.
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