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DIED. J. PRESPER ECKERT, 76, co-inventor of the first fully electronic digital computer; in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. In 1943 Eckert and the late John W. Maulchy created the eniac (electronic numerical integrator and computer), a 30-ton leviathan that was 1,000 times as speedy as the standard calculators of its day, making it invaluable for plotting the trajectory of artillery shells-and for designing the first atom bomb...
Born in Heidelberg. Germany in 1930, Graygraduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and was aFulbrighrt Scholar at Oxford University. Shereceived her Ph. D. From Harvard...
...groups are ordinary people who take ordinary ideas to extremes. "If you think these people are crazy, then you have to ask [if] there [is] anything the Federal Government could do that would make you willing to take up arms against it," says Clark McCauley, a psychology professor at Bryn Mawr College. "If you can answer no, then you're entitled to think these people are crazy. But if you say yes, then you'd better hazard a thought that they are human beings just like you." --By Christine Gorman. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York
Gray was an instructor at Bryn Mawr in 1953 and 1954 and taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960. She returned to Harvard as a visiting lecturer...
...trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Marlboro School of Music, and is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, Gray is a member of the boards of directors of J.P.Morgan & Co., the Cummings Engine Company,Atlantic Richfield Company and Ameritech...