سوال ۲۴ کنکور ارشد مهندسی مکانیک ۱۴۰۳

PART C: Reading Comprehension

PASSAGE 3:

Tracing the beginning of a subject is like tracing the source of a river—the Thames or the Danube say. But the Danube has its place that is pointed to as its start –Donaueschingen – and Computer Aided Design (CAD) does too. Mechanical engineering has the distinction of being the discipline which fathered the birth of CAD, 30 years ago. MIT provided the fertile ground. In the early 1950s, the Computer Applications Group of the Electronic Systems Laboratory (formerly the Servomechanisms Laboratory) pioneered paper tape control of machine tools leading in the later 1950s to the development at ITRI of the APT language for automatic programming of tool movements.

In 1958, Dwight Baumann and Steven Anson Coons of MIT Mechanical Engineering approached Douglas Ross of MIT Computer Applications Group, “to see whether it might be possible to take another important step beyond APT,” then want to use the computer “in a much more direct and powerful way in the chain of events that begins with the original concept as envisaged by the designer and culminates in the production of the finished device”, words which were far-seeing. At that 1958 meeting, a system was outlined that would bind man and machine “in an intimate co-operative complex, a combination that would use the creative and imaginative powers of the man and the analytical and computational powers of the machine each with the greatest possible economy and efficiency.” They envisaged the designer inputting at the screen, calling for structural analysis, for tests of clearance between adjacent parts or for calculations to optimize the design.

Which of the following words best describes the author’s attitude to the meeting in 1958?