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The commission on extension courses, which is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, also offers a program of television courses for credit. WGBH-TV, Channer 2, is presenting "Dynamics of Desegregation" with Dr. Thomas Pettigrew; "Urban Politics" with Robert Wood, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and "Computer Age...
Five crews have already taken Scheid's "Computer Age Mathematics, Part I." The television courses are viewed by the crews while on patrol, and men registered in them for credit attend classroom sessions and take examinations at the New London submarine base.
Fed with a vocabulary of 3,500 words and 128 different patterns of simple-sentence syntax, the computer can turn out hundreds of poems. Because these creations are as intelligible as some beat poems, the computer's engineers call it A.B.* (for Auto-Beatnik).
With other machines also turning to the muse, there is the chance of a whole new school of poetry growing up. No one can say just what it will be like. But with even an auto-beat computer costing $100,000 to build, the output will certainly not be free...
Also: Michael N. Ozman (third year), "Interferon Production by, and Interferon Sensitivity of the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV);" and Charles D. Woody (fourth year), "Conversion of Analogue Data to Computer Acceptable Format."