00100	  COMPUTING REQUIREMENTS FOR TEACHING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH
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00400		Stanford  University  is  now  considering plans for the next
00500	generation of computers.  The Computer Science Department  wishes  to
00600	state  its  requirements in this respect and also its opinion on what
00700	improvements in facilities are generally required  for  instructional
00800	computing.
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01000		The primary need is for effective interactive facilities in a
01100	wide variety  of  programming  languages  and  also  for  interactive
01200	facilities  that  will  permit some courses to be taught by computer.
01300	Present facilities are inadequate  qualitatively  and  too  expensive
01400	when  used interactively. We are sure this is true for courses taught
01500	by the Computer Science Department and we believe it to be  true  for
01600	other departments using the computer for instructional purposes.
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01800		We  hope that our needs can be met by the Computation Center,
01900	and we will be glad to help in trying to work out  a  suitable  plan.
02000	If the Computation Center cannot work out a suitable plan, it will be
02100	necessary to have a separate facility  for  instructional  work.   We
02200	currently  estimate  that  a  facility  with  a capital cost of about
02300	$1,000,000 based on a Digital Equipment  Corporation  KI10  processor
02400	would  meet  these  needs,  but  it might be more or less.  If such a
02500	facility is necessary, then we hope the Administration  and  Trustees
02600	will  keep  this  requirement  in  mind  when they allocate funds for
02700	re-equipping the Computation Center.