The Digital Computer as an Aid in Linguistics
Sydney M. Lamb · Language · 1961
The recent rapid development of electronic computing facilities on college and university campuses has become particularly dramatic during the past several months. Dozens of colleges and universities now have ‘medium-sized’ computers such as the IBM 650, and several campuses have larger machines. The best known of the large-scale digital computers are the IBM 704, 709, and 7090 systems, which are very similar to each other. Among the universities which have machines of this type are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Universities of Michigan, Washington, and California (at both Berkeley and Los Angeles), and several additional ones have recently been installed or are on order at other institutions. Comparable machines made by Remington-Rand are available at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina.