MECHANICAL “BRAIN”
REMARKABLE MATHEMATICAL MACHINE. OPERATING IN MASSACHUSETTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. A huge mechanical “brain,” which solves in minutes complex mathematical problems which would take experts months or even years, is being used in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the solution of vital war problems. The machine is the first of its kind in the world. It cost more than 130,000 dollars. It is described as a “differential analyser.” It solves obscure differential equations and bears the same relationship to scientific analysis as a computing machine does to arithmetical work. It was ■ financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, whose president, Mr. Raymarid Fosdick, said Hitler’s atrocities had exiled so many notable mathematical scholars that the United States became the world capital of this science, which was very essential to war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1943, Page 3
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