Word: directness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visual scene a great deal of knowledge about the physical world is needed--knowledge that computers have barely begun to acquire. The method used here is to scan with a camera a scene containing light object on a dark table. The varying light intensity is expressed as logarithms which direct successive scans until a fairly sharp idea of the objects' boundaries are obtained. After many steps an accurate two-dimensional mapping of the scene is completed and translation into three-dimensional models begins. Knowledge from many levels must interact before the computer is ready to put its manipulator into action...
Tonight's action was the first time that the HUC has made a direct challenge to the entire system of student government at Harvard. "We want to get away from the advisory angle," Lance Lindblom '70 said, "and concentrate on real student participation...
...bothered by such distinctions. "I make Tom, Dick and Harry movies," he says. "I'm not interested in those 10,000 Tom, Dick and Harry spectaculars where everything seems to get lost in the shuffle." It is not very likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first...
...Faculty may want to go on record on retirement benefits and recruiting techniques, and will almost certainly want to discuss a proposal to remove the ceiling from senior Faculty salaries. The Dunlop Committee handled the issue of paying for the schooling of Faculty children with a compromise--no direct grants, even for college, but a loan program that includes secondary schools as well as colleges. The recommendation can and may be attacked, either for being ungenerous or for implicitly slapping the Cambridge school system...
...recent student-sponsored Coed Week brought women students from throughout the northeast for academic and social activity. Brewster denied that Coed Week had a direct effect on his decision, but his proposal to the faculty praised the organizers of the week and their guests for providing Yale with "uncommon excitement." The Daily News editor said a study of the additional costs of co-education was ordered by the administration concurrently with Coed Week...