The practice and the economics of applying digital computers to engineering problems
Pier A. Abetti, S. B. Williams · Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Part I Communication and Electronics · 1958
The truly explosive progress achieved by the digital computer in the last 10 years, and its outstanding contributions to the solution of scientific, engineering, and data-processing problems have been recently reviewed by Harder.1 There is no evidence that this phenomenal rate of progress will diminish in the next 10 years.