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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMPUTER MEMO reproduced in The Crimson last week indicates that College administrators have misled freshmen about the House assignment process. The memo states that the assignments are done by hand; the Administration has implied that the assignments are computerized. This discovery raises serious questions about the House assignment process and the credibility of the officials involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demystify Housing Lottery | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

According to the memo, a computer assigns random numbers to each rooming group. But the crucial part of the housing lottery--the actual assignment--is completed and checked only by housing officials. This contradicts administrators' description of the housing procedure. Many students, having lost faith in the administrations' statements, may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demystify Housing Lottery | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

Next door, Karl Krodel, a computer technician, his wife and three children had piled travel clothes on chairs in their living room. But Krodel was reluctant to evacuate. "We're ready to go if they tell us to," he said. "But we're not going before that. If it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

At the slightest hint of trouble, the reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How It Works | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

On a rainy Sunday morning in March, Brown Admissions Director Jim Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Choosing the Class of '83 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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