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...Seymour Society, a Black undergraduate Christian fellowship, has also undertaken a variety of community service campaigns in recent years, including programs to fight drug abuse in Roxbury and educate poor minorities on the economic implications of nuclear arms production...
Some educators do believe they see the outlines of change. Seymour Papert, professor of mathematics and education at M.I.T. and author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, invented the computer language named Logo, with which children as young as six can program computers to design mathematical figures. Before they can do that, however, they must learn how to analyze a problem logically, step by step. "Getting a computer to do something," says Papert, "requires the underlying process to be described, on some level, with enough precision to be carried out by the machine." Charles P. Lecht, president...
...received a "substantial number" of submissions from individuals since its computer was introduced in August 1981. Apple Computer Inc. gets 100 every week. For any programmer whose software hits it big, the profits can be enormous. Seymour I. Rubinstein, 48, who wrote WordStar, a program for editing text, notes that while it costs only about $25 to manufacture his software package, the programs retail for between...
...Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Art and one of the nation's preeminent Rembrandt scholars, said he had "no reason to doubt that the materials with which the two paintings were made went available to a 17th-century artist...
This incident, says Professor Seymour Feshbach, chairman of the psychology department at U.C.L.A., occurred at a Los Angeles nursery school. Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But to Professor Feshbach as well as to Joan Anderson Wilkins, a researcher on family issues, it was not a symbol but an illustration of something more portentous: television addiction. Those nursery-school students are video junkies...