"THINKING" MACHINE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 22 October 1927, Page 7

"THINKING" MACHINE.

* AMERICAN INVENTION. (BY CABLE—PRESS ABSOCIATIOH—COPYEIGHT.) (AtfFTBALIAN AND Jf.Z. CABLB ABSOCUTIOJT.) NEW YORK, October 20. The Department of Electrica 1 Engineering, in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announces the invention of a ' '"'linking" Machine which is cap; n >le of solving mathematical problems that are too c-mplex for tho human brain. Dr. Vannevar Bush, who, with a staff of research -\. jrkers tlK machine, which is named the Intergraph, said: "It might be called aii adding machine carried to the extreme in design. Where worlc-s in the business world are ordinarily satisfied M'ith addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division the engineer with curves and graphs." Dr. Bush stated that the device is operated electrically and readily plots answers to problems that cannot be solved by formal mathematics and rec, ires only from eight tinutes to a few hours to make computations which would take an engineer from a month to a year to work out by ordinarv methods. s \ The foundation of the intergraph is a watt hour-meter, of the household type, which adds up the. power used, and records the sum on its dial.