contd.. from Previous post (Computer Facts...) 21. A computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory. – Source 22. U.S. chose 00000000 as the password for its computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles for eight years. – Source 23. Although 95% of mail is now sorted by computers, the U.S. Postal Service still employs clerks to decipher addresses that are too messy for the computers to understand. These clerks are expected to process 1,000 letters an hour, and upwards of 20% of them quit within the first 5 weeks. – Source 24. The first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar. – Source 25. MIT has developed a computer software that can identify and distinguish a real smile from a smile of frustration. – Source
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