Army War Games Center Opens in Historic Wilson Building
In a stone mill by a trout stream at Fort Carlisle Pennsylvania the Army opened a 1 5 million war gaming center inside the 1760s Wilson building. Officers use computer maps and hex grids to simulate battles from Europe to Iran and North Africa.
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Arlisle
U.S Army
Col
Raymond Macedonia
War
Charles Wilson
U.S. Army War College
Wilson
Europe
Middle East
Red Army
Iran
Central America
Korea
Norway
Erwin Rommell
North Africa
Rommell
NASA patents seek savings and sci tech advances
NASA assigned patents cover an improved power factor controller reducing motor input, enabling gradual start ups, a handheld X-ray gamma ray viewer by Lo Yin, a reactor neutron detector by Kopp and Valentine for Union Carbide, and a doll with extendable nails by Josephine and Jeanne Blanco. The devices were issued last week by the U S Patent and Trademark Office.
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US Patent and Trademark Office
Washington DC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Frank J Nola
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Lo Yin
Goddard Space Flight Center
Josephine
Jeanne M. Blanco
Akron
Ohio
Counts Neutrons Patent For DOE Reactor Core Measure
A patent last week by the Department of Energy covers a device that counts neutrons to gauge fission rate at selected points within a nuclear reactor core, providing a method to monitor heat generation and reactor performance.
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Department of Energy
Talking computer aids in surgical procedure
Researchers at the University of California San Diego test a speech recognizing computer for anesthesiologists to record operation progress. Dr Andrew Sarnat leads the effort with Dr N Ty Smith and Michael Quinn. Intel built the computer with funding from the university and a San Diego electronics firm.
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Los Angeles Times Service
San Diego
University of California
University
Medical Center
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Andrew Sarnat
Sarnat
N. Ty Smith
Michael Quinn
Intel Corp
Santa Clara
Calif
Hopkins team images brain receptors with new scanner
Johns Hopkins University researchers using a novel chemical technique produced the first in living brains pictures of radioactivity. Dr Henry Wagner Jr said imaging receptors in living patients could study disease progression and drug effects in schizophrenia Parkinsons Huntingtons.
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Baltimore
Henry Wagner Jr
Johns Hopkins University
Wagner
Hopkins
Computers in classrooms questioned by Carnegie Foundation
The Carnegie Foundation says the rush to place computers in schools is a flashy symbol of success that does not improve education and may divert funds from needed high school reform. Boyer calls for a strong core curriculum, more student writing, and better teacher autonomy as classrooms adapt to technology.
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Washington Post
Washington
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of
U.S
Ernest L. Boyer
Foundation
America
Boyer
Carnegie
National Commission On Excellence In Education
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