Show i uy? Page 6 From language to food computer does it all In big orange letters on a black screen a computer tells a forgetful student taking a course that a chicken in agriculture AP Coffeehouse Orchesis - Meeting for old members 6:30 pm today at HPER 215 (dance studio) Officers meeting at 6 pm Education Council - will meet on the third floor of the UC at the i ( f i - at the Newman Center Friday Sept 26 8 pm Bring your guitar fiddle or just yourself to spend a delightful evening Free admission free coffee Activity Desk today at 4 pm Blue Key Fraternity - There will be a meeting today at 7 pm in the senate chamber Newman Club - Meeting Sept 28 7:30 pm Sunday Newman Center 795 North 8 East Newcomers welcome 795 N 8 E Attention Academic Board Members - Board meeting — ? 25 UC at5 pm in 327 Women’s Intramural - Join us now! Flag football entries due Sept 30 main office HPER building French Mission Reunion Attention girls - It’s not too late to try out for Sponsors-workshop- s today at 5 pm UC Ballroom Tryouts Thursday at 4:30 pm UC Ballroom e® Thursday Sept fSH Friday October at 7 involved in the course has been overfed “I’ve eaten 200 food pellets and I’m suffering from indigestion’’ the chicken tells the student in smaller letters At the same time in the same town or a thousand miles away another student may be learning Russian or Chinese or physics or any one of scores of other subjects available from the University of Illinois teaching computer PLATO IV PLATO stands for Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations and the IV Yale II Ward Chapel pm 1431 East Gilmer Drive (1000 indicates that the current South) SLC Dinner: $350-eac- h computer teaching program is RSVP - Max Jones 1436 Federal the fourth since 1959 There are now 900 terminals Way SLC 84103 in the connected by telephone lines in the huge central computer here so that sutdents in various parts of the country can study the courses PLATO into programmed Some of the terminals have keyboards others function when a finger touches the screen still others are equipped with color slides and sound Donald Blitzer a professor of electrical engineering first developed the PLATO computer teaching program He said in an interview that he envisions terminals throughout the world connected to the central here com-put- er There have been demonstrations already in Romania Russia and Germany The course work is for every grade level from kindergarten through college A ) at all levels r-- I inlarta 4C? Richie Lecea zy' JStTA in concert M pnji mm fflffilirS ©KEY I? l Era M IN THE $1 50 I1 eofl ©ffke CALICO PERFORMING CO DANCE UNIT MALE — FEMALE OPENINGS AG6IETTES NEW VOCAL CROUPS USO TOURS SUN VALLEY WESTERN STATES TOURING Friday Sep 26 3:30 pm Physical Education Bldg - Dance Studio Further Details - UC 326 ext 7698 ’lift' ' Thursday Sept 25 3:30 pm George Nelson Fieldhouse Further Details — UC 326 ext 7698 yx Call 7524100 Ext 7698 Audition appointment and details Student Productions — UC 326 ¥ |