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The Faculty Committee for the Computing Center made the decision to rent the IBM computer 360/65 on the basis of a study done by the Computing Center last year on computing requirements at Harvard.
Ward said that some members of his committee had objected to IBM computers on the grounds that they are too complex, and not helpful in doing research Dean Ward said that the CDC was "a beautiful computer," but that the IBM model had more business processing capabilities.
One graduate student in Applied Mathematics claimed that the IBM machines were only useful for cataloguing and problem solving. Students doing more complex research work use the PDP 1, a computer not owned by the Center he said.
Professor Bossert said that the Computing Center was forced to be conservative in its choice of machines, since it depends for funds on the money students pay for computer time. It is forced to buy instruments which it is positive will be used a good deal, Bossert said.
Howard T. Fisher, professor of City Planning and associate director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, will be offering a course in the Spring term to explore the different possibilities for use of this technique. The course is open to all students in the Graduate School of...