Word: computerize
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A committee appointed by President Pusey last Spring has proposed several financial guidelines for the Harvard Computing Center that might result in lower rates for the University's computer users.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Computing Services, headed by Neil C. Churchill, professor of Business Administration, also concluded that computer use at the University was "unplanned and ill-coordinated," and recommended the establishment of two new supervisory agencies to guide future computer policies.
"At the moment, we have no real outside way of evaluating a computer proposal," said Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning and a member of the committee.
Five hundred fifty-five ballots-representing about 75 per cent of the Faculty-were counted Friday by a computer using a program devised by students in Nat Sci 110 under the supervision of William H. Bossert, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics.
Arrow-who estimated that the ballots would take four people three days to count-said that the computer produced the results after calculating for 15 minutes.