Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND thread to our story begins at M.I.T. in the late fifties, where the revolution in computer technology was just getting underway. The great breakthrough that was being made at this time was in the development of computer programming techniques that allowed several different people to work on different tasks on a single computer simultaneously. The development of such "time-sharing" systems enormously improved the efficiency and usefulness of computers, and in 1963 ARPA agreed to fund a project which was intended to develop the full potentialities of the new time- sharing technology. This program (Project MAC) developed over several...
There were three reasons why Harvard was felt to be important to the success of the project. The first was simply the prestige of the Harvard name. A second reason was that Harvard's participation would enable ARPA to simplify and centralize its support of social science research in the Cambridge community...
Proceeding in the knowledge that Harvard social scientists were very interested in the project, and that some kind of relationship to Harvard could probably be worked out, M. I. T. and ARPA put together a second and final draft of the M. I. T. proposal, and in June the Cambridge Project received its initial one- year grant of $1,510,000. Several Harvard professors began receiving support for work during the summer, although all these arrangements were on an individual basis, since Harvard has not yet decided to affiliate with the Project. The Project began holding regular meetings here during...
Dave Ritchie and Roy Hope should play front row, with Ted Langford and Peter Gunn-Wilkinson at second row. Hal Clark and Dick Barrett, substituting for injured Gil Bettman, will be the starting wing forwards. with Kip Holmes as hooker and Harder as prop...
...Tufts dominated the first period, outscoring Harvard 2-0. With the game barely three and a half minutes old, the Jumbos scored on a hard dribbler that fooled Crimson goalie Bill Meyers. The second tally came at 16:20 when a Jumbo forward drove through an open lane, found Meyers alone and put the shot past...