Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight years in the making, the much heralded HOLLIS (Harvard On-Line Library Information System) computer system made its public debut a week ago, as students and faculty first witnessed blinking cursors on eight terminals in Widener Library.
Sleek, new computer terminals have entirely replaced the wooden card catalogs in the two principal undergraduate libraries--Lamont and Hilles--and even Widener's old-fashioned card catalogs will become more and more obsolete as all new acquisitions go directly into the new computer system. HOLLIS, which library officials describe...
Atlanta is transforming its downtown connector highway from a bottleneck to a breeze. The connector had become congested because of the growth of Atlanta's northern suburbs. Thousands of commuters migrate south each morning on two interstate highways, I-85 and I-75, which funnel into the connector three miles...
Write off college loans for graduates who go into teaching. No program for reviving public education can succeed until better-qualified students are willing to become teachers. One way to accomplish this would be to forgive the college indebtedness of top students who spend three to five years in the...
Most recent breakthroughs in remote sensing came from satellites launched in the late 1970s. NASA's Seasat 1, Tiros N and Nimbus 7 satellites took indirect measurements of ocean conditions, such as surface wind speed and direction, by gathering data on radiation scattered by waves. At first, scientists had to...