Computer Conference Ahead

Dartmouth will host a Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula June 23-25, 1971 and has invited colleges and universities throughout the country to submit papers on their experiences in using the computer in undergraduate instruction. The National Science Foundation has made a grant of $50,000 to underwrite the conference.

The multi-disciplinary conference, the second of its kind, will enable teachers from all types of institutions of higher learning to present their work and ideas both for integrating the computer into existing courses and refashioning courses to take advantage of computer benefits. The first nationwide conference was held last June at the University of lowa with 750 persons from 46 states presenting papers.

Hosting the conference for Dartmouth are Prof. Thomas E. Kurtz, director of the Kiewit Computation Center, and Prof. Arthur W. Luehrmann Jr., director of Dartmouth's Computer Educational Materials Development Center.

In other computer news, the U.S. Naval Academy has become the first educational institution in the nation to duplicate the time-sharing computer system developed at Dartmouth. Professor Kurtz headed a seven-man Dartmouth delegation that traveled to Annapolis for the formal dedication of the new system on February 17.

The Naval Academy's Honeywell- 635 information processing system, coupled with the Dartmouth Time- Sharing System, will quadruple the academy's computer resources and by September will provide 125 terminals to serve the 4200 midshipmen and faculty. The DTSS was developed here in 1967 with the intention that it would serve as a model for other educational institutions. The Naval Academy made its choice after a thorough study of all available systems. At Dartmouth, where nearly all undergraduates as well as graduate students gain first-hand computer experience, the Kiewitt Computation Center has grown to support more than 130 terminals on campus and 60 terminals at colleges and secondary schools throughout New England.