Word: terman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terman (pére), father of many of our present testing concepts, was emphatic about not taking intelligence tests too seriously. He said, "Only through repeated tests of the same individual over periods of time can any reasonable norm be established. No one knows just what physical or emotional problems the testee may be laboring under . . . plus a possible unrelated background to the culture on which the tests are based. There is also a considerable learned facility in taking tests by those familiar with them, which places at a disadvantage those who are new to the game...
...mass-produce good Ph.D.s. The only way to build what Stanford University Provost Frederick E. Terman calls "communities of technical scholars" is to pay big money for a few big stars. Then they can lure the lesser stars and brighter students that ultimately bring in whole industries. That idea is now getting urgent attention across the country. New research centers are being studied or built in Boston, Chicago and Detroit, in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin. Physicist Berkner's center in Dallas is off to a $25 million start as a "mecca...
...fertile research department turned out so many new products to sell. Rangy (6 ft. 5 in.) Dave Packard and compact (5 ft. 10 in.) Bill Hewlett decided to go into business together while both were studying at Stanford University under famed Electrical Engineering Professor Frederick E. Terman. They set up their company in the shadow of Stanford to be near Terman and Stanford's vast research services. Their first sale of any consequence ($489.60) came when Walt Disney bought nine Hewlett-developed audio oscillators for the sound effects of Fantasia. "Bill and I did everything from design to sales...
...simply hitched its star to West Coast prosperity. The university's vast campus was tailormade for "think tank" operations like those of its off-campus affiliate, the Stanford Research Institute, which serves everyone from the Bank of America to a Nevada gambling casino. Led by Provost Frederick E. Terman, the university's own first-rate engineering school produced such electronic inventions as the klystron tube, which in turn spurred a space-age complex around Palo Alto that now comprises more than 200 companies. Today the campus proper boasts a 500-acre industrial park...