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RESEARCH at Dartmouth will soon be given a welcome boost by the addition of a new LGP-30 electronic digital computer due to be delivered early this summer. Looking like a household deepfreeze unit with an electric typewriter mounted on one side, the LGP-30 is expected to be put to extensive use by both faculty and students of the College, and also by Tuck, Thayer and Medical School personnel. The $37,500 computer was purchased with part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's grant of $500,000 to build and equip the new Albert Bradley Center for Mathematics and Mathematical Research. Until the new Center is constructed the computer will be temporarily housed in the tabulating center in the basement of College Hall.

With the arrival of the LGP-30 Dartmouth personnel will be relieved of the necessity of traveling to Cambridge, Mass., with their research problems in order to use the high-speed digital computers located at M.I.T. Thomas E. Kurtz, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, who will be director of the Albert Bradley Center when it is built, stated, "We expect that faculty members will make extensive use of the computer for research. . . . The students will also become familiar with computers' possibilities that they might find useful in college work and in their later careers."