Men and Machines
WHILE he was in America recently Dr. Cyril Adcock submitted to the Electronic Digital Computer "Tlliac" some research material which required extensive statistical analysis. Although the work would have taken from one to two years to complete with the help of only a desk calculator, Dr. Adcock carried it out, as a part-time job, over the course of a week,and with less than three hours of actual computer time. This experience is the starting point for two broadcast talks by Dr. Adcock, who is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Victoria University College. They are to be heard from YC stations, starting,at 4YC on Saturday, March 2. Dr. Adcock discusses the way in which the new automata employ principles like those we find operating in human beings and ends by examining the question: Will more ‘complex automata really become rivals ‘to human beings? ~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 20
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145Men and Machines New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 20
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