Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Howard T. Fisher '26, former professor at the Graduate School of Design and director emeritus of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, died of cancer on January 23 in Exeter, N.H. He was 75 years old.
In his later work, Fisher developed SYMAP, a computer program that produces sophisticated statistical maps, but which requires only comparatively simple computer equipment. SYMAP is now the most widely used computer mapping program.
"He has been a pioneer in the effective use of the computer as a means of communicating the large volumes of information in an easily comprehensible form, to the non-technically oriented user," Allan Schmidt, executive director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, said yesterday.
Although the subcommittee is still discussing the final structure of the tests, Gleason said he envisions four kinds of math skills in the requirement: graphing and manipulation of functions, basic computer programming, elementary statistics and use of data.
A somewhat similar linkage between politics and trade has also been imposed occasionally on transfers of technology. After the Kremlin last summer tried and convicted Human Rights Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, for example, Carter strongly condemned the action and blocked the sale of a computer to Moscow. Also canceled were several...