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Funds buy terminals
for computer study
By Marna Broekhoff
Of th« EmefakJ
In the face of budget cut
backs and a glutted job market,
computer science stands out as
the one field at the University
with a resourceful budget and
significantly strong job pros
pects for graduates. Computer
science graduates generally
have little trouble finding em
ployment in business or in
dustry, or even in education
In addition, students in many
other fields ranging from archi
tecture and communications to
the hard sciences can greatly
increase their employment
prospects by gaining a working
knowledge of computers
"The demand for computer
programmers and systems an
alysts has long been well ahead
of the supply,” says Stephen
Hedetniemi, head of the Univer
sity’s computer and information
science department.
This academic department
offers courses in both the theory
and practice of computing,
which apply toward baccalaur
eate and advanced degrees
Since the early 1960's the
University has also managed
the Computing Center, a service
unit which fills various comput
ing needs of students, faculty,
and the community at large
Unfortunately, in recent years
the computer science depart
ment has not been able to keep
up with the dramatic upsurge of
student demand for course and
major programs.
Nearly one tenth of all new
students this year are consider
ing computer science as their
major field of study. While en
rollment in computer science
has more than doubled in the
last six years, the number of
faculty has remained the same
Consequently, admission stan
dards for upper division courses
have been become stricter. The
long wait for students wanting
to log-on to terminals has
become all-too-common.
The situation will im
provement thanks to nearly
$250,000 allocated for new
equipment and instructional
salaries in computer and
information science. The fund
ing is derived primary from the
University of Oregon Founda
tion Other funds come from
money redistributed internally
by the Office of Academic Af
fairs.
With the funds the computer
science department will be able
to buy two VAX11/750 com
puter systems One will be used
for instructional purposes and
the other for research Each one
can handle one million bytes of
memory, which is 1,000 times
the secondary memory capacity
of the Apple II computers now
being used, says Hedetniemi
The department will also add
10 more Apple II computers to
its existing cluster of 10, which
were installed last year
As a result, the department
will now be able to serve about
500 students per year, an in
crease of almost two-thirds The
number of faculty still remains a
major limiting factor in offering
entry level courses, says Hedet
niemi, but the department
hopes to add several more po
sitions next year
The new equipment in the
computer science department
should help ease the crowds in
the Computing Center The
center itself boasts two large
scale computer systems which
can support a variety of
academic, research, and ad
ministrative needs
In 1980, the center acquired
an IBM 4341, which provides
information processing services
to the Registrar, Admissions,
Financial Aid and other admin
istrative offices At the same
time, it also acquired the DEC
1091, a terminal-oriented sys
tem. used primarily for instruc
tion and research. This system
has a total of 350 terminals
available for use on campus.
The center uses the tradition
al programming languages,
such as FORTRAN and COBOL,
as well as a number of special
applications,including
SNOBOL, PASCAL and BASIC
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