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[Dave Monroe]

Academic Vita of Norbert Wiener

[...]

1940 Appointed chief consultant in the field of mechanical and
electrical aids to computation for the National Defense Research
Committee.
Consultant with the NDRC's Office of Scientific Research and De-
velopment, Statistical Research Group and Operational Research Lab-
oratory at Columbia University.
Consultant to the War-Preparedness Committee of the American
Mathematical Society.
Joined a team at MIT under S. H. Caldwell to study the guidance and
control of antiaircraft fire.
Worked on the theory and design of fire control apparatus for anti-
aircraft guns with Julian Bigelow, under NDRC Project.

[...]

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On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Phillips, R.S. and P.R. Weiss,
> “Theoretical Calculations on Best Smoothing of Position Data for
> Gunnery Predictions,"
> MIT Radiation Lab., Rept. 532, February, 1944
>
> https://books.google.com/books/about/Theoretical_Calculation_on_Best_Smoothin.html?id=p3kVHQAACAAJ
>
> http://www.worldcat.org/title/theoretical-calculation-on-best-smoothing-of-position-data-for-gunnery-prediction/oclc/13686687
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:06 AM, David Casseres
> <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh yes.  Anyone interested in mechanizing computation always looked for the
>> tasks that sent people scrambling to large, unwieldy printed tables. Gunnery
>> was a low-hanging candidate, and I think that was the case all the way back
>> to Babbage and Lovelace; indeed all the way back to Napier.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> " in computing, you start by calculating the flight trajectory of
>>> artillery shells, the task assigned the ENIAC IN 1946. " ---from DATAISM,
>>> Steve Lohr, 2015
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad-
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>>
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