Word: lewises
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As Lewis gave instructions by running an electric "pen" across a network of pulsating wires, the machine first changed the circle into a flower, and then transformed the flower into a butterfly.
Lewis was lecturing via closed-circuit television in Applied Math 201, a graduate-level course which he took last year as a junior. He was demonstrating a technique he invented over the summer which makes it possible to visualize in a matter of minutes a complex mathematical transformation.
A television camera transmitted the pictures on the screen from the Cruft Hall computer room to the classroom in Pierce Hall and a loudspeaker hookup enabled students to hear Lewis' voice. After the lecture, students asked questions which Lewis could hear in Cruft, and he answered them.
Lewis designed the program this summer, working on the staff of Technological Aids to Creative Thought (TACT). He can only map the circle a dozen different ways at present, but he said that within a few months he expects to be able to distort the circle to any algebraic map...
Local draft boards across the country will probably follow Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's recommendation that college students who physically interfere with military recruiting personnel on campus be subject to immediate induction, Colonel Paul H. Feeney, Director of the Massachusetts Selective Service said yesterday.