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...other six Harvard fellowships went to Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts and director of the Fogg Art Museum; Dr. Don W. Fawcett, Hersey Professor of Anatomy; Dr. Karel F. Liem, Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology; and Dr. Alan A. Stone '50, professor of Law and Psychiatry...
...widest benefits of the electronic revolution (unlike those of most revolutions) will accrue to the young. Seymour Papert, professor of mathematics and education at M.I.T., estimates that there will be 5 million private computers in people's homes and available to students within two years; by 1982, he predicts, 80% of upper-middle-class families will have computers "capable of playing important roles in the intellectual development of their children." Says California Author Robert Albrecht, a pioneer of electronic education: "In schools, computers will be more common than carousel slide projectors, movie projectors and tape recorders. They'll be used...
...Watching," in which they help a southward-migrating gray whale make the necessary navigational and survival decisions to reach the Baja California breeding grounds. One effect of the computer, says Albrecht, is "to create worlds of If for children to explore." ¶ In Brookline, Mass., under the direction of Seymour Papert, a pilot study costing almost $1.5 million and financed by the National Science Foundation, is getting its first realistic testing with 48 sixth-graders who are learning to program computers for math, language, music making and, says Papert, "we like to believe, thinking skills...
...Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg, said last night the 6-ft., 8-in. clock, designed by the Welsh clockmaker Richard Watkins, was insured...
Francis D. Moore '35, Cutler Professor of Surgery, and Seymour S. Kety, professor of Psychiatry, went with nine other prominent physicians and scientists to Washington last week to appeal to Congress for increased funding for basic research...