Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computer consoles for nightly undergraduate use will be installed in three Houses and in Sever next fall, following a recommendation of the eight-man Faculty committee chaired by Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics.
Dean Ford, with the backing of the Committee on Educational Policy, has approved the plan that will enable undergraduates to use typewriter-sized consoles to punch into an SDS 940 at the Harvard Computer Center.
The Mosteller Committee's other major recommendation for making computers more available to undergraduates has been tabled-at least until next fall, however. In its report last November, the Committee recommended that the Faculty set up a special fund to buy computer time for students who need the bigger IBM...
In attempting to re-enter the ship from the pod he has used to retrieve Poole's corpse, Bowman must improvise for the first time, ad-lib emergency procedures to break-in against HAL's wishes. His determination is perhaps motivated by the first anger he has shown, and is...
Bowman's complex act parallels that of the australopithicus: his use of the pod ejector to re-enter the craft was improvisational, the mechanism undoubtedly designed for a different purpose--this referring to the use of bone as weapon-tool. Finally in committing murder, Bowman has essentially lost his dehumanization...