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Notre Dame, Ind., Dec. 13 — The University of Notre Dame w ill ra ise

undergraduate tu itio n f if ty dollars per semester effective next September, i t

was announced today.

Bev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., University president, said

continually ris in g educational costs have forced Notre Dame to se t i t s under­

graduate tu itio n a t $1,400 for the 1964-65 school year. Tuition for graduate

students and law students w ill remain unchanged at $1,000 per year, be said .

Although the cost of liv ing is a t an all-tim e h i# , Botre Dame

w ill hold, the line on i ts fee for board, room, infirmary care, publications

and the lik e , the University president stated . This fee ranges from #80 to

per academic year, varying with the individual student’s room. Father

Hesburgh pointed out that Notre Dame’s board-and-room fee is substan tially the

same as in

Beginning next September, the overall charge to Notre Dame's 4,450

boarding students w ill range from $2,l8o to $2,340. The University's current

to ta l enrollment i s 6,801.

Father Hesburgh said the University w ill endeavor to make special

provision for any students for whom the tu itio n increase would work an undue

hardship. These young men, he said, w ill be given special consideration i f

they apply for assistance from our established governmental or University

student loan funds.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Dec. 14 — In th is age of phenomenally fa s t

"thinking machines", two University of Notre Dame faculty members have just

published a book designed to help both philosophers and computer technologists

b e tte r understand the workings of the human mind.

They are Dr. Kenneth M. Sayre and Dr. Frederick J . Crosson, editors

of the new volume, The Modeling of Mind, Computers and Intelligence (UniversityT . n - W W ' ! » » ■ ■ » n w l i l i l i l l<111 M I ' l l M p i » m w . K m # * * . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . . « < f < # » W M I— m W W O ' « » — I # # # " " * * * l . i # ' l l « l < W III ' I l l II f l l I ........... . . . . . . . . .

o f Notre Dame P ress). Thirteen other scholars and sc ien tis ts are contributors

to the book which attempts to c la rify the problems shared in common by philosophy

and computer technology.

The editors hope the book w ill "open a channel of communication between

two groups o f persons concerned with the impact of computer technology upon our

conception of the human mind." Conceding "there is no nostrum to make philosophers

out of technologists, or to impart technical competence to philosophers," Sayre

and Crosson believe "there is a t le a s t some hope for bridging the informational

gap between these two groups of researchers committed to furthering our under­

standing of the human mind. The present volume is intended to serve as a plank

in th is bridge."

The Modeling of Mind, the editors point out, is not concerned with<—»■ '•« li.'I.—w.

"operations research" -- the use of computers for complex calculations in business,

industry and government — but rather with th e ir po ten tial fo r im itating behavior

which u n til a few years ago "would have been considered uniquely human."

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Sayre and Cross on note th a t computers have been designed to play

chess, compose music, write poetry, recognize le tte r-p a tte rn s in p rin t and in

sc rip t, and to do rather sophisticated problems in logic and mathematics. Some

have gone so fa r to suggest, they observe, th a t men eventually "may become mere

servants within a society of mechanical brains."

Aside from the d esirab ility of having machines take over many or most

of man's mental functions, " i t is not in fac t established th a t these goals are

capable of being realized," the editors w rite. They in s is t tha t "existing chess-

playing machines are not re a lly very clever, and th a t mechanical compositions

of music and poetry are fa r from being imaginative."

These re la tiv e fa ilu res , Sayre and Crosson believe, are probably due

to the fac t tha t the computer technologist is attempting to simulate mental

functions which themselves are not well understood. Philosophers and technologists

alike are in agreement, they w rite, "that a person does not have a very good

chance of simulating behavior which he does not understand."

"Ho one, regardless of professional tra in ing ," the editors argue, "has

an especially clear conception of what is involved in the function of pattern

recognition, in a r tis t ic creation, or in the insigh tfu l decision-making exemplified

in the behavior of even an amateur chess player." For centuries, they observe,

philosophers have been attempting to understand such behavior and some progress

has been made in recent years. Sayre and Crosson believe th a t whatever insight

the philosopher is able to offer to the simulation sp ec ia lis t, " if i t is offered

humbly, might well be humbly received."

Contributors to The Modeling of Mind, Computers and In telligence,

Include Aron Gurwltsch, Lejaren A. H iller, J r . , Leonard M. Isaacson, John R.

Lucas, Donald M. McKay, Allen Newell, Michael Polanyi, Anatol Eapoport, G ilbert

Ryle, Michael John Scriven, Norman S tuart Sutherland, fiao Wang and Ludwig

Wittgenstein.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Dec. 19 — The University of Notre Dame has been awarded a second $6,000,000 grant by The Ford Foundation provided the school doubles that amount in gifts and non-government grants by June 30, 1966.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, 0.8,0,, University president, today announced the grant as well as the Foundation’s renewal of Notre Dame participation in its "Special Program in Education" for another three years. He said the grant's matching gift feature is retroactive to the successful completion of the school’s greatest fund-raising effort earlier this year.

Father Hesburgh expressed deep gratitude to the trustees and officers of The Ford Foundation "for this reaffirmation of confidence in Notre Dame1 s future and for confronting the University with this second great challenge."He said planning is well-advanced for a comprehensive development program to be announced early in 1964,

Notre Dame was one of the first five private universities selected by The Ford Foundation to take part in the "Special Program in Education" when it was launched in September, i960. Its objective, the Foundation said, was "to assist institutions in different regions of the country to reach and sustain a wholly new level of academic excellence, administrative effective­ness and financial support."

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Ford Foundation.. .2

During the three-year $18,000,000 Challenge Program ending June 30, 1963, Notre Dame received a total of $18,603,157 in gifts and grants from 23,438 donors. Of this, $13,285,520 was in cash, qualifying the University for the first $6,000,000 Ford Foundation grant. The unprecedented support included gifts averaging $345 from a record 80$ of Notre Dame alumni. The funds are being used in overall University development including construc­tion of the 13-story Notre Dame Memorial library, believed to be the largest library building in the world, which will be formally dedicated May 7th.

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The U n iv ersity of Notre Dame today received a g ran t o f $1,543,000

from th e W. K. K ellogg Foundation, B a ttle Creek, M ich., fo r th e construction

and operation o f a Center fo r Continuing Education.

Announcement o f th e g ran t and th e p lans fo r th e new ad u lt educa­

tio n f a c i l i t y was made jo in tly today by Dr. Bnery W. M orris, p resid en t and

general d ire c to r o f th e p h ilan th ro p ic o rgan iza tion , and Rev. Theodore M.

Hesburgh, C .S .C ., U n iversity p re s id e n t.

Of th e g ran t funds, $1,343,000 w il l e re c t and fu rn ish the new

Notre Dame b u ild in g , and th e rem aining $200,000 w il l subsid ize th e f i r s t four

years o f th e C enter’s program.

F ather Hesburgb, in expressing Notre Dame's g ra titu d e to th e

tru s te e s and o ff ic e rs o f the Kellogg Foundation, sa id th e a d u lt education

f a c i l i t y "provides an ex c itin g new dimension fo r th e U n iv e rs ity 's educational

resou rces. I t w il l , " he sa id , "g re a tly f a c i l i t a t e Notre Dame's growth in

q u a lity and educational leadersh ip and make i t s resources more av a ilab le to

g re a te r numbers o f persons."

Notre Dame was chosen as the s i t e fo r th e new Center, a Kellogg

Foundation spokesman sa id , "because of i t s previous in ten siv e in te re s t in

ad u lt education, because i t I s n a tio n a l in ch a rac te r, drawing studen ts from

a l l over th e United S ta te s , and because o f i t s in te rn a tio n a l rep u ta tio n as

a c u ltu ra l c e n te r."

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Kellogg Foundation ,. .2

Since 1951, th e Kellogg Foundation has given approxim ately

$12,000,000 to help e s ta b lish s ix o th e r C enters o f Continuing Education

a t Michigan S ta te U n iversity , a t th e U n iv e rs itie s o f G eorgia, Nebraska,

Oklahoma, and. Chicago, and a t Oxford U n iversity , England. The C enter most

re c e n tly completed, th a t a t Chicago, was opened e a r ly th i s year, w hile th e

Oxford C enter w ill begin operations next year. C onstruction i s expected to

begin on th e Notre Dame f a c i l i ty in 1964.

Notre Dame's Center fo r Continuing Education w ill serve a number

o f th e U n iv e rs ity 's co n stitu en c ie s . Among th ese would be scholars and o thers

p a r tic ip a tin g in academic and c u ltu ra l conferences; alumni en ro lled in continu­

in g education programs; businessmen, p ro fe ss io n a l peop le , tradesmen and o thers

p a r tic ip a tin g in sp e c ia lized programs; and fr ie n d s o f th e U niversity , p aren ts

o f students and v is i to r s .

The new f a c i l i t y w ill be a bu ff b r ic k , tw o -sto ry bu ild in g o f con­

tem porary design . I t s major components w ill include a lobby and re g is tra tio n

a re a , an auditorium sea tin g 350-400 people, a s e r ie s o f sem inar, conference o r

meeting rooms, a l ib r a ry and ex h ib itio n a rea , au d io -v isu a l f a c i l i t i e s , lim ited

food service# o ffic e s and q uarters fo r v is i t in g p ro fesso rs and resea rch

personnel.

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