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Ford Foundation announced a $294000 grant to the Graduate School of Design to support research on a new technique for computer map-making yesterday...
Developed two years ago by Howard T. Fisher, director of the new Laboratory for Computer Graphics, the technique is being used at other universities for work in climatology, oceanography, and oil geology. Harvard, Fisher said, is in the forefront of computerized map-making as applied to urban planning...
With the new technique, the researcher will direct the computer to print a "base map" of the region under study. When the relevant data is fed into the machine, it is automatically displayed on the "base map...
Next year the Laboratory for Computer Graphics hopes to produce maps of many different varieties, including a map of the world displaying economic data, and a map showing the spread of infection in the human body, Fisher concluded...
Soviet Switch. The first public inkling of Castro's split with Peking came on the eve of last month's Tri-Conti-nental Solidarity Conference in Havana, where 612 assorted "revolutionists" gathered for twelve days to map plans for upheaval in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the surface, it seemed that Red China, with its "wars of national liberation," would command the most support among the hotheaded delegates. Russia, which has been soft-pedaling violent revolution and has openly favored the via pacifica in Latin America, seemed a poor second...