Of current interest: High-speed electronic computer built for navy´s bureau of ordnance

The smartest electronic “brain” ever built was demonstrated recently by International Business Machines Corporation. No other computer in existence can match its speed and productive capacity in solving vital defense problems, some requiring literally billions of computations. The big computer, called the NORC, for Naval Ordnance Research Calculator, was built for the Navy´s Bureau of Ordnance at the Watson Laboratory operated by IBM at Columbia University.