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Computation Center, Time-Sharing System Proposed
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Architect's rendering of Kiewit
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Dartmouth mathematicians John Kemeny and Thomas
Kurtz proposed building a College computation center, saying that
"whether a student will ever use a computing machine or not, his life is likely
to be affected by such machines, and hence, he should know something about
their capabilities and limitations. In this sense, contact with electronic
brains is as essential as learning to use the library." Kemeny
and Kurtz chose to implement a "time-sharing" system based
upon a concept first realized on a small Digital Computer Corporation PDP-1
computer by a team of scientists from MIT and Bolt, Baranek, and Newman, Inc. A
proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation to fund the
development project.
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