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But the computer as an aid to man ia much more than a superbly efficient bookkeeper. For example, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md., is using one of the world’s largest computers to help determine the precise structure and environment of the earth, the Solution of the solar system and of star clusters.
Computers Aid Cities
In just two battles being fought in the war on poverty, agencies in Baltimore and New York City are using the computer to match individuals on their unemployed rolls with suitable jobs.
The FBI, to fight crime, has established a computet-based national data file on illegal activity, called the National Crime Information Center. One of scores of national defense applications is a network of IBM System/800s used by the U. S. Marine Corps to handle global supply requests.
Elsewhere, city planners in the nation’s capital are using a computer In an urban Simula-1
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