SECOND EDITION. THINKING MACHINE
THE LATEST INVENTION SOLVES COMPLEX PROBLEMS ,'Elcc. Tel. Copyright —United Press Aesn.i (Australian and in.Z. Cubic Association.) (Received! October 21, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 20. The Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces t.*e. invention of a thinking machine capable of solving mathematical problems too complex for the human brain.
Dr. Vannover Bush, who, with a stall' of research workers, developed the machine, which is named the intograph, said: "It might be called an adding machine carried to an extreme in design. Where workers in the business world ordinarily are satisfied with addition, substruction, multiplication, and division, an engineer deals with curves and graphs." Or Bush .stated that the device operated electrically, and readily plots an 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 bj ordinary methods.
The foundation of the Inlograph is a watt hour meter of the household type. From the time it starts it adds up the power used and records the sum on its dial.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 8
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196SECOND EDITION. THINKING MACHINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 8
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