Word: computerization
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If the celestial navigator on the flight had not already become lost in space, there was a more puzzling effect to confound him: relativistic aberration, the apparent shift of visible stars toward the direction of the spacecraft's motion. Thus, the computer showed, as the craft approached 45 Eridani...
Discussing Negro employment and discrimination in industry, San Francisco Human Rights Commission Chairman William Becker insists that "the hard struggle is still for entry. Promotions are tomorrow's problem."Perhaps - but tomorrows have a way of dawning fast. In Boston last week, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination agreed to...
Now the ubiquitous computer offers the schedule maker an escape from old-fashioned routine. Programmed by Stanford Professors Dwight W. Allen and Robert V. Oakford, the university's digital giant has taught schools across the country how to build schedules out of combinations of "modules" as brief as 15...
Schools that subscribe to 54 (Stanford School Scheduling System) must first catalogue their resources-faculty, students, space, the curriculum to be offered: Then students, with the aid of their advisers, prepare lists of courses in which they would like to be enrolled with preferences and acceptable substitutes. The data are...
Fatigue Factor. With the computer doing the juggling, all the different-length classes a school could not handle in the past can now be fitted neatly into place. Taking maximum advantage of available time, 54 high schools as far apart as Las Vegas, Miami and Montclair, N.J., all report similar...