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...Haven administrators are steering the university into a network system of personal computers similar to those proposed for Brown and Carnegie Mellon...
...hour approaches midnight on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but in Wean Hall, C.M.U.'s computer center, it might as well be high noon. On the fifth floor, two dozen undergraduates pound computer terminal keyboards, complete class assignments or work on research projects. In a glass-walled room two floors below, 20 students are seated at terminals. Down the hall from them, in a large room known as the SPICE rack (for a project called the Scientific Personal Interactive Computing Environment), several young men and women tap away on Wean Hall's most sophisticated machines...
Since the early 1970s the largest communities of hackers have been found at three of the nation's leading computer centers: M.I.T., Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon. Carnegie-Mellon is perhaps the pre-eminent computer school in the nation. It has more terminals available to students, a more structured computer curriculum, and a number of illustrious experts, such as Herbert Simon, Allen Newell and Raj Reddy, on its faculty. Says Carnegie-Mellon Research Scientist Ronald Cole: "C.M.U. is definitely the most intense computer environment...
...down from the first computer zealots of the early 1970s. To "gronk out," for example, means to go to sleep; to "frobnicate" or "frob" means to fiddle with the controls of a computer. Hackerese changes along with computer technology; even the term hacker is under revisionist pressure. At Carnegie-Mellon, some hackers contend that "wizard" is a more appropriate moniker for those adept at programming...
Last October, Carnegie-Mellon University received widespread publicity when it announced a program to eventually give each of its 5500 students access to a computer terminal...