§ Mr. Awdryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science in what ways industry will benefit from the work carried out by the Autonomics Division of the National Physical Laboratory.
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§ Mr. HoggThe aim of the Autonomics Division is to extend the range of problems which can be dealt with by computers in Commerce and Industry. There are three main lines of research—the improvement of computers in reliability, cheapness and speed, the automatic processing of printed characters, words and documents, and the self improvement in the automatic control of chemical and engineering processes. The Division acts as the co-ordinator of the Advanced Computer Techniques Project of D.S.I.R., a cooperative venture between various Industrial and Government Laboratories investigating ways of improving computers.