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Last year American firms invested $10.2 billion, or about 14% of all their capital spending on plant and equipment, in ventures outside the U.S. This rising annual amount brought their total overseas ante to $64.8 billion, more than the gross national product of many a nation, and eight times the...
The committee did not recommend any new computer purchases, concluding that the existing facilities were inadequately utilized now. But if Harvard has enough computers, its computers and their operators seem not to have enough space. Already the Computer Center is splintered off into several separate locations in Cambridge and one...
Dix sees another obstacle to expanded computer use at Harvard--the "have" school's difficulty getting Federal funds. Mosteller attended a computer conference this weekend at the University of Maryland, where the main concern was the setting up of conferences to help specifically small schools gain access to computer networks...
Dartmouth, Dix says, has "considerable private endowments" in the computer area. Harvard, to undertake the kind of expanded computer activity recommended by Mosteller and his colleagues, will have to eke out funds from the Faculty, which this year ran an unusual financial deficit.
The prospectus, despite the computer committee's 72 pages of explication, is not all rosy, which makes it the more remarkable that Mosteller can declare, "We'd like to be able to say, 'The equipment is available, go and use it.'"