Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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About 60 people at the Law School are playing a computer game this weekend to develop skills for managing modern cities.
Law school students, city planners, and professors from the University of Michigan, are participating in APEX-a computer game-which will simulate pollution problems in Lansing, Michigan and permit the group to make decisions and witness the results.
To play the game, each person assumes a management role, such as politician, city planner, air pollution control officer, industrialist, or real estate developer. Using data supplied by the computer-which simulates the physical, economic, and political environment of Lansing and offers policy alternatives-the players make decisions concerning a...
The decisions, which effect one year of simulated change in Lansing, are then fed into the computer which, within two hours, informs the players of the consequences of their actions.
The leaflet charged that "Hoheywell's recruiting reflects hiring and wage-level discrimination against women" because interviews for the management training program had been offered at Harvard, while computer programming interviews had been offered at Radeliffe.