Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vanelli said, however, that the fund cut would not influence the support or hiring of junior Faculty members. "Whether a man is kept depends on his intellectual ability, his capacity to produce research and to teach-his ability to raise money should never be taken into the picture," he added...
...being made at this time was in the development of computer programming techniques that allowed several different people to work on different tasks on a single computer simultaneously. The development of such "time-sharing" systems enormously improved the efficiency and usefulness of computers, and in 1963 ARPA agreed to fund a project which was intended to develop the full potentialities of the new time- sharing technology. This program (Project MAC) developed over several years a time-sharing system for the IBM 7094 computer, and by 1967 had brought this system to the point where the machine could be used simultaneously...
...PROBLEM, in any event, is ultimately not where research money come from but how the research will eventually be used. The fact that the Defense Department is willing to fund a project is only an indicator that the project is likely to have Defense applications, whether immediate or remote. The money does not in itself transform the project, and it would be unfortunate if the mounting arguments over the Cambridge Project became sidetracked into questions of "tainted money" and guilt by association...
...date, only three anti-riot measures have passed the House. Of these, the only one of any substance is that attached to the State-Commerce-Justice appropriations bill. It would require colleges receiving funds from those departments to give the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certification that they were complying with the legislation calling for fund-cut aid cut-offs to disruptive students...
Critics, though, tend to forget the many benefits he has staged for various causes, ranging from the People's Park Bail Fund to the Episcopal Church. He has also made numerous interest-free loans to musicians and he gives intense loyalty to those who work for him. "If I have an act I think is good but that hasn't made it yet," he says, "I put it on a bill with the Who or the Jefferson Airplane. This approach to my business has gotten me a good reputation nationwide, but here in San Francisco the kids...