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A 1401 IBM computer has been installed in the basement of Baker Library at the Business School. It will be used for administrative work, for instruction in operations research techniques that utilize computers, and in research by Business School Faculty members and doctoral students.
Courses at the Business School are taught entirely by the case study method, so no course in programming or computer techniques will be offered. Students will be encouraged to use the 1401 in solving problems in the various courses, however.
Now, with the aid of a portable electrocardiograph, some special telephone equipment and a computer, the U.S. Public Health Service is testing a technique that will allow ECGs to be taken routinely in patients' homes and analyzed within seconds by an electronic brain-all for $1 a heart.
The receiver at G.W. shuts itself off when the nurse hangs up the phone, but then more significant electrical wizardry takes over. The recorded tape is fed into a desk-size computer developed for the PHS's Heart Disease Control Program. The computer "listens" to as much of the...
Following the computer's advice, 100,000 sq. ft. were lopped off the building plans for the new campus. Two additional colleges are planned, and by 1970 a student body of 16,000 is expected for the three superefficient campuses. Said a grateful taxpayer: "How do you give an...