When Computers Were Human (76 page)

Read When Computers Were Human Online

Authors: David Alan Grier

BOOK: When Computers Were Human
11.22Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

calculus,
1
,
2
,
5
,
6
,
8
,
12
–
16
,
26
,
27
,
59
,
81
,
100
,
106
,
121
,
182
,
258
,
321
,
322
; and three-body problem,
14
–
16
,
20
,
28
,
79
,
128
,
192

California, University of, at Los Angeles.
See
UCLA

Cambridge University,
11
,
38
,
50
,
51
,
261

Carnegie Institute of Washington,
116
,
117
,
180
.
See also
Newcomb, Simon
,
Institute for the Exact Sciences

Carnegie, Andrew,
4
,
116
,
117

Carnot, Lazare Nicholas Marguerite,
37

Cave-Brown-Cave, Beatrice,
111
,
112
,
130
,
131

Cave-Brown-Cave, Frances,
111
,
112
,
130
,
168
,
263
,
326

Census.
See
United States Census

Chicago World's Fair.
See
World's Columbian Exposition

Civil War (American),
70
–
79
,
81
,
129

Clairaut, Alexis Claude,
16
,
17
,
20
–
25
,
27
,
37
,
53
,
107
,
120
,
121
,
128
,
321
,
326

Clem, Mary,
167
–
69

Coast Survey Office.
See
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

Cold War,
5
,
7
,
194
,
248
,
249
,
298
,
304
–
6

Colmar, Charles Xavier Thomas de,
92
,
93
,
327

Columbia University,
94
,
133
,
136
,
140
,
166
,
170
,
195
,
231
,
303
; and Applied Mathematics Panel,
266
,
267
,
273
,
274
,
285
; Astronomical Computing Bureau (
see
Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau
); and Mathematical Tables Project,
202
–
5
,
216
; and Soviet visitors,
194
,
248
,
249
; Statistical Computing Office,
190
–
94

comets,
72
,
120
,
130
,
301
,
302
; of Maria Mitchell,
61
,
62
; precision of prediction for,
15
,
23
,
24
,
49
,
120
–
23
,
318
–
21
.
See also
Halley's comet

Committee for Conducting Statistical Inquiries into the Measurable Characteristics of Plants and Animals,
106
–
8

Communist Party.
See
Cold War
;
Soviet Union
;
Mathematical Tables Project, security within

complex arithmetic.
See
mathematical methods
;
calculating machines

Computation Laboratory.
See
Mathematical Tables Project

Computers, electronic stored programs,
5
,
7
,
230
,
272
,
273
,
285
,
287
–
89
,
299
,
303
,
304
,
311
–
15
,
318
,
319
,
321
.
See also
calculating machines
;
ENIAC
;
UNIVAC

computers, human,
4
,
7
,
48
,
53
,
70
,
98
,
120
,
172
,
276
,
288
,
293
; and agriculture,
159
,
166
,
188
; and ballistics,
74
,
129
,
130
,
132
,
136
,
140
,
141
,
144
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
260
,
261
,
271
,
283
; and biology,
106
,
108
,
110
,
130
; boys as,
50
–
52
,
59
,
113
,
132
,
321
; and calculating machines,
7
,
69
,
92
,
93
,
96
,
120
,
142
,
157
,
165
,
166
,
168
,
171
,
188
,
213
,
217
,
220
–
23
,
225
,
226
,
231
,
234
,
242
,
255
,
258
,
259
,
274
,
285
,
287
,
291
,
312
; and clerical labor,
49
,
52
,
81
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
126
,
147
,
198
,
256
,
287
,
292
; compared to machines,
43
,
54
,
70
,
114
,
168
,
231
,
267
,
268
,
275
,
288
,
303
; compared to operators,
164
,
168
,
231
,
258
,
259
,
267
; cost of calculation by,
67
,
79
,
83
,
84
,
95
,
143
,
160
,
223
,
227
,
231
,
259
,
267
,
268
; division of labor among (
see
division of labor
); education and training of,
7
,
51
,
59
,
68
,
76
,
78
,
106
,
113
,
132
,
133
,
141
,
156
,
196
,
210
,
212
,
252
,
258
,
259
,
261
,
273
,
282
; and electronic programmable computers,
231
,
263
,
264
,
273
,
285
,
288
,
295
,
296
,
302
–
4
,
312
,
313
,
316
,
318
,
319
,
312
; instructions and plans for,
30
,
36
,
37
,
52
,
63
,
78
,
120
,
124
,
201
,
213
; labor discontent among,
52
,
83
,
86
,
113
,
114
,
131
,
151
,
292
–
94
; management of,
68
,
70
,
78
,
113
,
114
,
131
,
133
,
136
,
137
,
144
,
167
,
196
,
197
,
203
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
263
,
269
,
277
,
278
,
301
,
321
; and mathematical tables,
125
,
184
,
185
,
232
,
281
,
285
,
313
,
314
; and mathematics,
78
,
81
,
121
,
140
–
42
,
159
; and meteorology,
76
,
77
,
143
; professional institutions for,
7
,
173
,
179
,
181
,
197
,
236
,
239
; professionalization of,
7
,
177
,
181
,
239
,
243
,
255
,
285
,
286
; professional literature for,
7
,
157
,
177
,
179
–
81
,
185
,
186
,
195
,
199
,
236
–
39
,
257
,
261
,
272
,
286
,
312
–
14
; reference books for,
63
,
84
,
156
,
157
,
177
; social status of,
19
,
24
,
36
,
52
,
67
,
71
,
110
,
113
,
133
,
141
,
167
,
196
,
200
,
212
,
221
,
253
,
276
,
280
,
283
,
288
; and statistics,
106
,
108
,
116
,
117
,
148
,
188
; and surveying,
65
,
72
,
78
,
93
,
159
; wages of,
52
,
64
,
67
,
79
,
82
–
84
,
95
,
111
,
113
,
160
,
220
,
223
,
247
,
259
,
267
,
268
; and war,
71
–
73
,
74
,
126
–
43
,
145
,
151
,
253
,
269
,
313
; and
women,
24
,
61
,
81
–
88
,
102
,
103
,
106
,
110
–
12
,
126
,
138
–
40
,
147
,
152
,
167
,
168
,
170
,
189
,
190
,
218
,
230
,
238
,
252
,
253
,
256
,
258
–
61
,
276
,
282
,
303
; working conditions of,
51
,
53
,
64
,
76
,
77
,
84
,
86
,
87
,
95
,
96
,
111
–
13
,
117
,
142
,
144
,
170
,
171
,
210
,
215
,
217
,
218
,
220
,
221
,
250
,
260
,
263
,
268
,
269
,
291
,
300
,
301
.
See also
Aberdeen Proving Ground
;
Babbage, Charles
;
Bureau Cadastre
;
Connaissance des Temps
;
de Prony, Gaspard Marie Riche
;
Harvard University, Observatory
;
Mathematical Tables Project
;
Nautical Almanac, American
;
Nautical Almanac, British
;
Royal Greenwich Observatory

computing forms,
37
,
52
,
54
,
63
,
76
,
77
,
94
,
143
,
147
,
148
,
213
–
15
,
217
,
219
,
220
,
246

Computing, Tabulating and Recording Company (CTR).
See
International Business Machines

Comrie, Leslie J.,
154
–
57
,
172
,
179
,
186
,
192
,
215
,
219
,
221
,
240
,
242
,
263
,
276
,
287
,
288
,
311
,
321
,
326
; and British Nautical Almanac,
172
–
74
,
196
; and calculating machines,
171
,
172
,
174
,
193
,
261
,
263
; and Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation,
196
,
237
,
257
; and Mathematical Tables Committee,
173
,
174
; and Mathematical Tables Project,
211
,
215
,
251
,
252
; and Scientific Computing Service,
196
,
197
,
239
,
261

Condon, Edward,
289
–
91
,
305
,
306
,
309

Connaissance des Temps
,
24
,
29
–
31
,
36
,
65
,
68
,
75

Other books

Dead Room Farce by Simon Brett
In Darkness Lost by Ariel Paiement
Torn Apart by Sharon Sala
Scrivener's Tale by Fiona McIntosh
The Mangrove Coast by Randy Wayne White
Eye of Ra by Kipjo Ewers