Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Cambridge Project, funded by the Department of Defense, would use advanced computer technology for social science research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is currently participating in the Project, and a Harvard faculty committee is discussing possible Harvard participation.
Larry E. Kinnard, first to hold this newly-created post, said yesterday that he hopes to place members of minority groups in meaningful jobs. "This means as computer operators, clerk-typists, lab technicians. Nothing like being a dishwasher," Kinnard said.
A free brief course in BASIC-the computer language which most students will use-will be offered in the near future.
Several regular courses will require computer assignments for homework. Four hundred students are now attending Nat Sei 110, although Bossert said he is not certain about the exact number of students who will take the course.
The central time-sharing computer, an SDS 940, in the Computation Lab will be changed to a Sigma model next month. "The change is in no way a political move [referring to the machines' names]-both are made by the same company." Leahy said.