The Computer and the Mind of Man

Season 1 • Episode 5: Managers and Models • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 5: Managers and Models

December 31, 1962 • 30 min

This program explores the design and simulation capacities of the modern digital computer. The program first visits the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where Dr. Helmuth Koeltzer, head of the Space Flight Center’s Computation Laboratory, discusses the importance of mathematical models (for example, the translation of a model of a Saturn rocket into numerical terms) and computers in the design and testing of the booster stage of the Saturn Rocket.

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