(Encyclopedia) bossism, in U.S. history, system of political control centering about a single powerful figure (the boss) and a complex organization of lesser figures (the machine) bound together by…
WHERE DO NEW PRODUCTS COME FROM? WHAT IS MASS PRODUCTION? BIOGRAPHY: HENRY FORD American, 1863–1947 PRODUCTION LINEFIND OUT MOREFrom ankle socks to aircraft, almost everything we use has been…
WHAT IS A NANOMACHINE? WHAT IS SELF-ASSEMBLY? ARE THERE ANY DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH NANOTECHNOLOGY? CARBON COMPUTERFIND OUT MOREA nanometer is one billionth of a meter. This is about a million…
ROBOT DOGFACE RECOGNITION PROGRAMCOGKISMETBIOGRAPHY: CYNTHIA BREAZEAL American, 1969-FIND OUT MOREArtificial intelligence gives machines the ability to solve a problem, such as recognizing a face…
(Encyclopedia) programming language, syntax, grammar, and symbols or words used to give instructions to a computer.
Once the program is written and has had any errors repaired (a process called…
(Encyclopedia) Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 1834–1906, American scientist, b. Roxbury, Mass., received only a high school education but continued his studies in science in Boston libraries. He became,…
(Encyclopedia) thermographythermographythûrˌmŏgˈrəfē [key], contact photocopying process that produces a direct positive image and in which infrared rays are used to expose the copy paper. In a…
(Encyclopedia) fluoroscopefluoroscopefl&oobreve;rˈəskōp [key], instrument consisting of an X-ray machine (see X ray) and a fluorescent screen that may be used by physicians to view the internal…
(Encyclopedia) Backus, John Warner, 1924–2007, American computer scientist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Columbia (M.A. 1950). Trained as a mathematician, he was hired (1950) by IBM Corp. as a computer…
