Word: dix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer, an IBM 360/65, is a third generation machine which will replace the current second generation machine. David S. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computing Center, said that "the growth of interest in computing has led to projects which just can't be done on the old machine...
...might even fight in your stupid wars if you hadn't forbidden Elvis. Why didn't you let us have friends with greasy hair? Why? Why couldn't we go meet our friends at the drive-in? Why couldn't we go to Union Hall to see Jonny Dix Why did you wrench us away from the turned-down transistors in our bedrooms? Why? Why? Don't you see what you've done. America You made drugs. You made SDS. You made us follow Leary and Ginsberg and Marcuse. You created Haight-Ashbury, you gave us Dylan, you big creep...
...committed to Her Majesty's asylum. With the help of his animal chums, he breaks away and sails on the good ship Flounder in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. On board his overloaded ark are an Irish cat-food seller (Anthony Newley), a small boy (William Dix), and a pretty admirer (Samantha Eggar). All too soon the Flounder flounders and the story slows down to its quarry's pace. Moreover, because violence is done to the original-there was no love interest in the books, for example, except between animals-even the underlying whimsey is worn...
...Dix sees another obstacle to expanded computer use at Harvard--the "have" school's difficulty getting Federal funds. Mosteller attended a computer conference this weekend at the University of Maryland, where the main concern was the setting up of conferences to help specifically small schools gain access to computer networks...
Dartmouth, Dix says, has "considerable private endowments" in the computer area. Harvard, to undertake the kind of expanded computer activity recommended by Mosteller and his colleagues, will have to eke out funds from the Faculty, which this year ran an unusual financial deficit...