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Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford...
The computer is so penetrating all fields, however, that the Center feels it has a responsibility to expose the students to its technology. In the near future, Oettinger predicts, "Any student who wants to do anything will feel naked without his computer."
A new Gen Ed course may be the answer. Harvey Brooks, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, said that such a lower-level course is now under consideration. Eng Sci 10, an experimental computer course for the uninitiated which was dropped this year, failed, according to Brooks...
The Gen Ed course says Oettinger, could avoid math completely. "Today, you need not know any math to operate a computer, unless you wish to use it to crack mathematical questions."
As more and more students study the rudiments of computer use, more computer time will have to be made available to them. This problem may be alleviated by the consoles which the Center has been trying out this year.