The Strat had a complex bombing / navigation system, which combined an optical bombsight, a radar presentation of target, and an automatic computer, together with radar modifications designed for use in a high-speed aircraft . The bomber included a fire-control system for the tail-mounted defensive armament.
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Babbage understood that the existence of an automatic computer would kindle interest in the field now known as algorithmic efficiency, writing in his " Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ", " As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.
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At GWU, Ledley acquired the Florida Automatic Computer I and II, two descendants of SEAC that had been discarded by the US Air Force as surplus, for the purpose of establishing a computation center that would use the computers to automate Frederick Sanger s process of determining the amino acid sequence of proteins.
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One reason that Cattell moved to the University of Illinois was because the first electronic computer built and owned entirely by a US educational institution-" Illinois Automatic Computer " ( Illiac I )-was being developed there, which made it possible for him to complete large-scale factor analyses, which had hitherto had been impossible to conduct.
