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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949- terms can be solved by the machines. units which are given the same problem and must reach th same conclusion. Unlvacs may be able to write simple melodies and lyrics, Eckert pointed out, since musical New Electronic 'Brain' Plays Chess, Even Writes Music! "We don't know whether the machines have imagination or not. After all, we haven't yet harmonies follow simple rules. Mauchly and Eckert built Binac "We don't know that it's im over both Eniac and Binac.

They ftfauchly Computer Corporation. possible for them to think, The first, known as the "Eniac, Eckert said. use the binary system in which only two digits, zero and one, represent all numbers. Only a hand was designed to help the United The inventor was asked: Will States Government solve engi been able to translate imagination into cold numbers." Eckert said the first two uni-vacs produced will play a chess game. It will not be difficult, he said, to "teach" the machines the laws and rules of the game.

the day come when each of us has a mechanical man to solve for Northrop Aircraft, of Hawthorne, at a cost of $250,000. It is able to predict mathematically how new planes or guided missiles will behave in flight Mauchly said Binac isn't perfect Sometimes it makes mistakes but not often. As a safeguard Binac has two independent neering and production problems during World War IL It was top secret. Eniac was the first all-elec all his problems? "That's a distinct possibility, Philadelphia Inventors Foresee 'Thinkers' for All By HERB ALTSCHULL, Associated Press Staff Witter PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21 Picture, if you can, a machine doing your thinking for you.

It sounds like something out Of Buck Rogers. But two Philadelphia scientists can see nothing extraordinary in an intricate network of wires, vacuum tubes, coils and elec ful of scientists and mathematicians are trained to use it. Eckert said it's not correct right now to say his machines actually think. They simply follow orders. But in time? THE LUGGAGE SHOP 413 SmltMUH St.

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Eckert and Co-Inventor John W. Mauchly, 42, call the machine "Binac" because it is an automatic computer that uses the binary numbering system. said the scientist. "At the mo "They won't play like masters," Eckert said, "but they'll be tronic automatic computer ever ment, any problem that can be built. It weighs 30 tons, cost as proficient as good amateurs." translated into mathematical $500,000.

Binac weights less than one ton and the inventors say it is faster, more accurate and more versatile than Eniac. Eckert and Mauchly now are at work on what they consider New Brain Planned their masterpiece, the "Univac, This machine will be on the At a demonstration for reporters, Binac solved Poisson's market next year and Uncle Sam will use it to compute 1950 census tronic devices that use electrical impulses to add, subtract, play chess and even write music. Uses Binary System Details of such a giant brain were made public today. In matter-of-fact tones, 30-year-old J. Presper Eckert, one of its Inventors, told reporters: Equation, a difficult engineering problem, 26 times in two hours.

For each solution, the machine data. -Just Follow Orders did 500,000 additions and 200,000 Univac will use the decimal system numbers from zero to multiplications. One man working with an adding machine would have worked years to do the same job. nine in the system of mathema "Machines now do most of our manual labor. Why can't we have machines that do complicated tics everybody learns as one of Binac is the second such device three R's.

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