Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steady, now: one delicate shudder, then to business. Water with the pill? Fine. Here we are in Hanover, N.H., where the Dartmouth College campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth...
It is not long before preconceptions begin to fall away -some of them to be later picked up, dusted off and restored to use. The assembled scholars are classics professors, archaeologists, Shakespeareans, graphic artists, historians and musicians flown in from Norway, Israel, England, Canada, France, India and West Germany, as...
Waite, who organized this ICCH/4 conference, might be computer-classified in the "skinny, mild-mannered, wears glasses, enthusiastic" subset of the "professor" category. He likes computers so much that he bought an array of Hewlett-Packard hardware (central processing unit, disc drive, digital tape unit, hardcopy printer, typesetter) with his...
Waite, undiscouraged, says that in 1968 he became the second classics student at Harvard to use a computer for Ph.D. thesis research. Now, Waite adds, it is "not outlandish, though still not common" for a Ph.D. candidate in classics to use a computer. There is still resentment though: "I know...
Both countries need more U.S. capital and know-how. Eager to increase exports, the Israelis are interested in joint ventures with U.S. electronic and computer firms. But Egypt is considerably less developed and more populous (41 million vs. Israel's 4 million) and thus offers both a large market...