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...computer and the instructions for doing the job in the same memory and using the same code. It was a key innovation in computer theory, for it meant that the machine could cope with instructions just as if they were data. As Texas Instruments' William C. Holton explains, "A program can therefore alter another program or even itself...
Members of the Harvard Faculty participating in the conference include Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Everett T. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of the History of Science...
Sociobiologists?whose growing ranks include some 250 biologists, zoologists and social scientists?argue that without consideration of biology, the study of human culture makes no sense. Indeed, sociobiology has significant implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches...
Susan, a boarding student at Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Md., has followed in her mother's jetes. She has studied modern dance since the age of eight, and is now taking ballet lessons as well...
Much of the reaction to any presidential address is, of course, quite inevitable; the President's friends rally, his opponents attack. To California Governor Ronald Reagan, last week's message was "the voice of reason." Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, a moderate Republican, liked the speech ("I agree that we should get on with the public's business"), and so did New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, who felt that "his analogy to the riots of the 1960s was excellent...