Part 44

“Black box” concept, 50, 115

BLADES system, 191

Block diagram, 58

BMEWS, 159

Boeing Airplane Co., 186

Boltzmann equation, 158

Bomarc missile, 186

Book of Contemplation, 27

Book of Knowledge, 6, 226

Boole, George, 38, 110

Boolean algebra, 38, 110, 119

Bradbury, Ray, 153, 257

Brain, 121

Brain computer, 128, 129, 130 human, 87, 125, 128

BRAINIAC computer, 88, 117

Britton, Lionel, 121

Buffer computer, 55 lexical, 238

Buildings, automation of, 217

Burack, Benjamin, 44

Bureau of Mines, U. S., 189

Bureau of Ships, U. S., 255

Burke, Edmund, 32

Burkhart, William, 45

Bush, Vannevar, 13, 45, 76

Business, computer in, 171

Business management, use of computer, 12, 143

Butler, Samuel, 32, 33, 121, 252, 268

CALCULO computer, 75