Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Computers won't argue about overdue accounts l After an hour of rehearsal, orchestra mem- bers leave the band hall for their iifth period class. P Mr. Lewis Gillette, computer director of the American National Bank, explains computerized banking techniques to Cathy Barr, Diana Harris, David Harrell, and Mr. W.R. Robbins, principal. 12 Our society's size and complexity neces- sitates much detailed organization and work. Long established institutions, such as schools, banks, and hospitals, now find it necessary to use computers to take care of intricate bookkeeping, purchasing, and many other business transactions. A bank, for instance, can no longer be run by a smiling teller up-front and a grumbling president in a small back office. Computers are needed to keep books in order for an ever increasing number of depositors and banking services. The American National Bank purchased its tirst computer in November, 1962. Not long afterward, the machine had to be replaced by a newer model which can do the work in less time. Now the bank is planning to buy a third and larger computer that can do the still increasing volume of bank business.

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L Example of the unlimited possibilities for computer help in research is the simulation of ocean conditions at Tracor. Instead of renting an ocean, experimenters perform tests on a com- puter programmed to act like an ocean. Jamie Holtzman listens to recordings of computer activ- ity at the University of Texas Computer Center where Cindy Snowden draws on the screen of a cathode ray-tube display console. Intriguingly new! r 1 i.....- Z. A Municipal Auditorium parking lot was the assembly point for the band when it participated in the Aqua Festival parade. Maroon band was the second to march down Congress Ave. to the capitol building. New UT center aids students, researchers in curricular proiects A Sprucing up the Aqua Festival float are Ed McMahon, Coryell Price, and Susan Sparenberg. Hemisphere, the Student Council float, won first place in the miscellaneous division of the annual event. Twenty-four hours a day, the Com- putation Center of the University of Texas, which serves the entire University com- munity, is active. There is no vacation. Organized in 1959, the Center has grown rapidly to its present capability of providing complete computing services to the University's students, teachers, and researcher. It will continue to expand. Advanced computer systems are used for compiling and programming language development, for computerized artificial intelligence and information storage and retrieval. Possibilities for use are unlimited. These are available to students, faculty, and staff to prepare their own programs as part of academic research and experimentation. 11

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A Before the school year begins, vast planning is done by all faculty Miss Suzanne Crain, S0Ph0m01'e English fe3Che1'S, discuss Curriculum IUHUCIS members. Mrs. Karleen Williams, Mrs. Mary Adkins, Mrs. Grace Bishop, and before more than 1800 students fill the halls and classrooms for the new year. A Frequently students are saved from the dampening rain by using the arcade that joins the main building with the annex which was added in 1939 because of room shortage. Lunch is its busiest time. 13