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...other major recommendations of the committee are directed toward increased instructional use of computers. At present, Dix says, "I would guess that about 80 per cent of the money spent here is for research, and most of the remaining 20 per cent for classroom use, probably most of that by the Business School." The committee asks that "the instructional use of computers should have a priority equivalent to that of the research uses...
Though the Center does virtually no direct work for the government, it receives a good deal of Federal Funds. Enough, Dix says, that it must abide by the government's edict against idle time being used free of cost by students. The Center must collect for every job done on its computers, and for what technical assistance it give those who use its facilities...
...concerns has been how to make more students use possible in the face of this requirement," Dix says...
...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...