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President Pusey and Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, will address 150 computer scientists Friday at the dedication of the Harvard Computing Center in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.
Incorporated in the Computing Center is a unique training program which will allow graduate and postdoctoral students and computer experts from industry to spend a year or two at the Center, taking courses in their own fields and in computer usage and theory.
The main attraction of the new Center is the new IBM 7090 computer. It has replaced most of the large machines formerly housed in the Computation Laboratory, with only sections of Mark I, the world's first large-scale digital computer, being retained.
The second problem he forsees is getting the relevant information about each student recorded in a "machine-readable" form. Someone would have to cull the records of each freshman, punching the appropriate facts about him onto an IBM card, or typing them onto a magnetic tape. In Octtinger's view...
The third problem, intimately connected with the first, is to decide the secondary "rules of the game": which factors should have priority, where to send students when the Houses they have applied for have no more vacancies, and so forth. Given this information and a solution to the first problem...