Machine That Thinks
INVENTION IN AMERICA COMPLEX MATHEMATICS By Cable. — PreS3 Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.18 a.m. NEW YORK. Thurs. A message from Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that the Department of Electrical Engineering in the Massachusetts institute of Technology has announced the invention of a thinking machine, capable of solving mathematical problems too complex for the human brain. Dr. Vannevar Bush, who with a staff of research workers, developed the idea, said: “It might be called an adding machine carried to the extreme in design. Where workers in the business world are ordinarily satisfied with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the engineer deals with curves and graphs.” Dr. Bush stated that the device, which is operated electrically, readily plots the answer to problems that cannot be solved by formal mathematics, and requires only from eight minutes to a few hours to make computations which would take an engineer from a month to a year to work out by ordinary methods. The foundation of the integraph (as it is called) is a watt hour-meter of the household type. From time to time it adds up the power used, and records the sum on its dials.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 1
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194Machine That Thinks Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 1
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