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THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 19(1 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE U.S. Leading Soviets in Computer Uses New York -WPU- When So viet Premier Nikila Khru shchev was here last year, he boasted that Russia turns out more than 100,000 technical and engineering graduates a year compared to some 30,000 in the United States. But the Soviet is acknowl edged to be several years be hind the U.S. in electronic computer development and use. To the extent that American education can be held to ex ploit this gap, U.S. engineer ing and business graduates will be able to multiply the results Irom their talents far more effectively than those trained in Soviet schools. This is the concensus of edu cators polled recently by the Royal McBce Corp., a firm that has delivered more than 50 electronic computers to institutions ranging from large stale universities with 48,000 students , to little schools with just 800 students. The trend toward electronic computer study as a part of the undergraduate curriculum in the nation's colleges and universities Is fairly wide spread. Many of the more than 100 current university computer centers offer computer classes as well as use of the machines for faculty , and student re search and other projects. Limited Us Until recently, computers were limited largely to a few major universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chicago and Har vard. They were employed mainly lor Industry and gov ernment - plus some post graduate specialization. In all, the computers in education are viewed as bright signs for business and industries plagued by a grow ing shortage of able manpow er in their engineering and administrative ranks. ' . , As. Dr. Harvey A. Neville, director of the Institute of Re search at Lehigh, points out, the wider use of electronic "brains" In engineering class rooms can "drastically reduce the time gap for the full de velopment of skilled engineers in Industry." "We can shorten the Indus try apprentice program' and free them to do a much larger volume of creative work,", he MM. ' "This, In turn, can produce millions of additional hours of engineering know-how for In dustrial, business and govern ment developments of every kind." . Many educators see the com puters becoming as essential as the slide rule. "Computers will become more a way ot engineering life in the future than the slide rule has been In the past," said Dr, Thomas F. Jones Jr., head of the electrical engi neering department at Purdue University. "The slide rule was a short hand - a substitute for hand compulation. The computer will presently affect the way in which engineering is done. 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