Kiewit Goes International

The Kiewit Educational Computer Network, which already links 50 educational institutions in the northeastern states to Dartmouth's Computation Center for high-speed, time-sharing computer services, has spread into Canada. With the installation of three computer lines between Hanover and Montreal, the potential for providing computer services to institutions throughout the provinces has been vastly increased.

The Montreal firm of Joseph and Chambers Ltd. will serve under a three year agreement as the official representative in Canada for the distribution of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Initial plans call for the installation of as many as 18 high-speed computer circuits throughout Canada, possibly in due course connecting all the provinces over a single long-distance telephone line to Hanover.

When all the circuits have been installed, Canadian institutions will be allotted nine million words of computer storage, about ten percent of Kiewit's capacity. They will have access to some 500 computer programs in the arts and sciences, business, medicine, and engineering, or they may write their own in any one of seven computer languages.