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Dean Elder showed himself an eminently sensible man by asking if staff members of the Computation Laboratory could help. After some careful initial research, they wrote a computer program which satisfies the distribution requirements and which maximizes the number of students getting the House of their choice. (The IBM system...
"When I came here four years ago," says William O. Kelleher, president of Sears, Roebuck in Brazil, "we were selling a 7-cu.-ft. refrigerator for 49,000 cruzeiros. Today that same refrigerator sells for 227,000." Coca-Cola raised its prices three times in 1963. General Electric writes a...
If CTSS works well, the Harvard Computing Center may eventually purchase a similar system for installation throughout the University, according to Lewis B. Ward, Acting Chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Computing Center. Frank A. Engle, Jr., Manager of the Center, said yesterday, however, that a complete time sharing...
Engle predicted, nonetheless, that researchers in Social Relations, Psychology, Linguistics, and Business Administration would find the "interaction" feature of CTSS particularly valuable because of the exploratory nature of computer use in those fields.
Installation of the teletype has been temporarily delayed while an internal change is being made in the computer to insure that classified information submitted from one console cannot be removed from the computer by users of another console. Once this difficulty has been solved, the system will operate eight hours...