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...best one can hope to do is to get involved with HUTV, Harvard's closed-circuit cable television. The cable is the ward of the telecommunications branch of the Harvard Office of Information Technology (OIT). Right now two student shows are being broadcast live over the cable weekly. One program, Noon Hits, which got rolling last fall, is a pot pourri of news, entertainment and university issues. It is broadcast on Thursdays from OIT's Video Production Center in the depths of the Kresge building on the Medical School campus...
Students can get independent study credit for working on these programs, and the programs can be seen by other students in the Greenhouse Cafeteria, Science Center lobby, and Holyoke Center. Undergraduate producers can work free of charge since OIT funds it. But there are still kinks in this video opportunity. It is just beginning and therefore somewhat unstructured, it does not count for credit toward any particular major, and plans for placing monitors in the Houses have not yet been realized...
...Office of Information Technology (OIT), pays "a small amount" to cover HITS expenses, Alfred A. Pandiscio, associate director for OIT, said last night...
Ciannavei and Robert A. Carroll, manager of systems and operations in the OIT computing center and head of the group that conducted the study, said last week that Wyatt chose the Datapoint machine after receiving promises of a systems software innovation whose availability was discussed in the report: "Our overall feeling about this system is that with the addition of the 5500 processor, it would be quite adequate to do the presently-defined task in Payroll. However, this system's capability to accommodate more terminals or additional processing functions gracefully would be in question...
Brown-Beasley also contends that the NAMAD retrieval system being developed to allow Fiscal Services faster access to records on students, employees and alumni is over a month and a half late. He also questions the work of OIT analyst Shostack on the system, alleging that his testing is an expensive waste of time. It was an August 3 disagreement between the two men, who worked together when Brown-Beasley was at OIT, that led to Brown-Beasley's dismissal...