The Kiewit Computation Center will be dedicated on December 2 and 3 with formal exercises and a conference on "The Future Impact of Computing."
Participating in the three panel sessions concerned with the computer's impact on "knowledge," "man and society," and "education," in addition to Dartmouth Professors John G. Kemeny and Donald L. Kreider and Thayer School Dean Myron Tribus are Prof. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, an outstanding scholar in logic and philosophy of science from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Dr. Robert Mario Fano, Director of Project MAC, now with Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. John Wilder Tukey, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton; Martin Shubik, an economist from Yale; John Carr III, Professor of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania; and Marvin L. Minsky, Professor of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T.
Featured speakers for the evening session to be held in Spaulding Auditorium are Francis Keppel, Chairman of the Board of General Learning Corporation and former U. S. Commissioner of Education; and Louis T. Rader, Vice President and General Manager of General Electric's Industrial Electronics Division.
All sessions will be open to the public. Alumni interested in the development of computers, the possibilities and problems in their increased utilization, are invited to attend.