Computers in Higher Education: ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 79 oldal |
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4. oldal - We recommend that colleges and universities in cooperation with the Federal Government take steps to provide all students needing such facilities with computing service at least comparable in quality to that now available at the more pioneering schools.
20. oldal - ... decisions regarding expansion and/or budgeting for current operations cannot be made without accurate cost information. Errors made at this stage can only lead to the diversion and dissipation of university resources needed for other educational purposes. We recommend that universities and colleges develop and use accounting procedures which accurately measure the cost and utilization of computer services. With such information the allocation of computer time for research and education and the...
5. oldal - National Science Foundation in sponsoring summer institutes provides a useful model. We recommend an expanded faculty training program to provide adequate faculty competence in the use of computing in various disciplines.
26. oldal - Now, as to secondary education, the PSAC Panel has this to say about computers in secondary education : The advantages of introducing the use of computing into course work and of teaching something about the nature of computers and computing in secondary schools can be considerable, either as a preparation for college work, as a preparation for semiprofessional or vocational training, or as a preparation for employment . . . There can, however, be real disadvantages to an unwise introduction of computer...
5. oldal - ... now available for educational and unsponsored research use are standing idle for major portions of the operating week. We recommend that the present DOD-NSF agreement be extended to other government agencies and private supporters and include both capital and operating cost grants. Additional Federal funds should be made available immediately for support of computing service used for education and unsponsored research activities at institutions presently having the required facilities.
10. oldal - We believe that undergraduate college education without adequate computing is deficient education, just as undergraduate education without adequate library facilities would be deficient education.
6. oldal - ... communities and school boards have been liberal in financing computers and computing in secondary schools. Thus, the lack in many cases may be one of guidance rather than of funds. This will not, of course, be true in remote or underprivileged areas. We urge that the Office of Education and the NSF jointly establish a group which is competent to investigate the use of computers in secondary schools and to give schools access to past and present experience. Cooperation between secondary schools...
21. oldal - Computer), which was first demonstrated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Feb 14, 1946.
63. oldal - ... 2, . . . , n. The pressure is specified at some of these nodes. There is at most a single pipe connected directly between any two nodes. The students write a MAD program which will accept information concerning the above and which will proceed to compute (a) the pressures at all remaining nodes, and (b) the flow rate, and direction of flow in each pipe. Theory. The flow rate...
5. oldal - We recommend that the Government agencies which support computing allow the schools to be free to apply the funds either to the purchase or rental of equipment and the support of staff, or to the purchase of service.