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Jury Apportionment System Developed
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John G. Kemeny, students
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Thomas Kurtz wrote a program in BASIC that helped New
Hampshire officials in the Grafton, Carroll, and Coos counties determine the
apportionment of petit and grand jurors for the next 10 years.
Naval Academy Installed DTSS
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Kiewit Computation Center, Arthur W. Luehrmann, Jr.
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The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis became the first institution outside of
Dartmouth to install DTSS software. Vice Admiral James
Calvert, superintendent of the Academy, had visited all major
educational time-sharing facilities in the nation before selecting DTSS.
Move to Standardize BASIC
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room
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Dartmouth joined Hatfield Polytechnic in England to develop a formal
definition of the BASIC language. The aim was to "avoid divergent
interpretations of the language by future implementors. BASIC had rapidly
gained popularity all over the world because of its simplicity and ease of
use." (Data Processing Digest, Los Angeles, California, February
1971)
DTSS Tax App Developed
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Kiewit Public Terminal Room
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DTSS users could prepare their 1970 Income Tax Form 1040 and "Schedule A" by
using a DTSS program called INCTAX-I.
Project COMPUTe Launched
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Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curriculum,
Dartmouth
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Project COMPUTe began as a three-year effort to support "writing and
publication of course materials that would support educational use of computing
in the undergraduate curriculum." Thomas E. Kurtz was the
principal investigator and Professor Arthur Luehrmann was the
project director. Funding was made possible by the National Science
Foundation.
Conference on Computers in the Curriculum
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CCUC Conference
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Dartmouth was host to the "Second Annual Conference on Computers in the
Undergraduate Curriculum (CCUC)." Seventy scholarly papers were presented at
the conference, and every registrant was given a complimentary User
Number for accessing DTSS from public terminals in Kiewit and elsewhere on
campus.
Kiewit Part of New Cancer Center
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Cancer Center Computer Lab: Links the Cancer Center with Dartmouth
College's Kiewit Computation Center for treatment, planning, and dosage
calculations
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Congress approved a $3,000,000 grant to fund the construction of the East's
first regional cancer research and treatment facility at the Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center. The center would feature the third 45-million volt
Brown-Boveri Betatron in the world. According to Dr. Frank
Lane, director of the center, "one of the most important elements of
the new Cancer Research and Treatment Center lies in the College's Kiewit
Computation Center." The computer was used to "prepare treatment plans and
radiation dosages for cancer patients in a matter of minutes." The Center was
eventually named for Senator Norris Cotton of Lebanon, New
Hampshire. See Norris Cotton Cancer
Center.
Dartmouth Educational Network Launched
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Kiewit Computation Center
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The Dartmouth Educational Network became international when three phone
lines were installed in Montreal to bring DTSS services to Canadian
"educational institutions, educational research facilities, medical education
and medical research institutions, government departments, research facilities
for the advancement of the arts and sciences, etc." According to Thomas
Kurtz, the extension of Dartmouth's network into Canada "combined the
dreams of two Dartmouth presidents: former President John Sloan
Dickey was a long-time advocate of closer Canadian-American
cooperation. President Kemeny was a leader in supplying,
through time-sharing, computing to liberal arts and business students."
First Terminal Cluster in Baker
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Kiewit Public Terminal; student in Kiewit shirt is Allan Jayne
'73
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The first Kiewit terminal cluster was installed in Baker Library. The OCLC project was
initiated to allow for automated preparation of catalog entries for new
acquisitions using a dedicated phone line from Hanover to the OCLC offices in
Columbus, Ohio.
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