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Show Professor To Speak On Computer Talk Dr. David C. Evans, professor of electrical engineering and director of the University Computer Science Center, will lecture on "Talking to Computers," Wednesday, Dec. 6, in 1 the North Physics Bldg. Rm. 101. The noon lecture, free and open to the public, is part of the new Frontiers of Science lecture series, presented by the University Dept. of Physics. Dr. Evans says great progress has been made in harnessing computers com-puters to perform many routine calculations, freeing people to participate par-ticipate in less tedious and more profitable activities. But the second role of the computer com-puter its use as an aid to creative crea-tive activity is the one which scientists have been slow in perfecting, per-fecting, according to Dr. Evans. "Only in recent times has it begun to be reasonable for man to communicate com-municate efficiently enough with computing machines so that man and machines can work jointly on the solution of problems," Dr. Evans says. In University research, Dr. Evans and his colleagues are using a computer com-puter to create the world's first three-dimensional halftone "photographs" "photo-graphs" of man's ideas. They have already made "photos" of objects that don't exist, except in the minds of those at the computer controls. The "Talking to Computers" lecture lec-ture will concentrate on constructive construc-tive use of the computer as an aid to creative activity. |