Word: computerization
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EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS WANTED--but to be subjected to what? They don't always know. How can they be protected, and what should they be protected from? Scientific experiments have yielded the Theory of Relativity, the transistor, the computer and lots of other Space Age goodies. Think what it might yield...
Like many sequences of this contradictory movie, the primate prologue is overlong and repetitious. Still, it serves to introduce the film's key character: the shining oblong, a mass of extraterrestrial intelligence that supposedly has been overseeing mankind since the Pliocene age. Now, in the 21st century, the mass...
Computer consoles for nightly undergraduate use will be installed in three Houses and in Sever next fall, following a recommendation of the eight-man Faculty committee chaired by Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics.
Dean Ford, with the backing of the Committee on Educational Policy, has approved the plan that will enable undergraduates to use typewriter-sized consoles to punch into an SDS 940 at the Harvard Computer Center.
The Mosteller Committee's other major recommendation for making computers more available to undergraduates has been tabled-at least until next fall, however. In its report last November, the Committee recommended that the Faculty set up a special fund to buy computer time for students who need the bigger IBM...