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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, February 8, 1968
$125,000 System
Donated By Mobil
Data processing equipment spe
cially designed for seismic analog
recording and valued at more
than $125,000 has been given to
Texas A&M by Mobil Oil Corpo
ration.
J. A. Lester, general manager
for the firm’s Geophysical Serv
ices Center in Dallas, headed a
group of Mobil officials which
visited the campus Tuesday for
presentation of the seismographic
equipment to A&M President
Earl Rudder and other university
representatives.
Lester said Texas A&M was
awarded the unique epuipment on
the basis of its programs in geo
physics, oceanography and ge
ology.
Rudder, noting the system is
one of the most valuable corpo
rate gifts ever received by the
university, said it will “add a new
dimension” to A&M’s research
and teaching program.
The equipment was designed by
Mobil for its own use. The firm
has since developed a more sophis
ticated computer system with a
higher through-put.
Dr. Terry W. Spencer, head of
A&M’s Geophysics Department,
said the system will be the only
one of its type on any campus in
the nation.
The machine and associated
print-out devices will be installed
at the Texas A&M Research
Annex and be available for stu
dent course work and graduate
and faculty research.
“Availability of this equip
ment,” Dr. Spencer observed, “will
permit a level of processing con
siderably more sophisticated than
anything that has been possible
previously.”
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, Ocean
ography Department head, said
the system will be particularly
useful for oceanographic seismic
work. He said it will improve
the quality of the records to in
terpret the marine structural
condition in the Gulf of Mexico.
One of the first jobs for the
newly acquired equipment will be
processing a large volume of
marine seismic data which A&M
scientists recorded recently in the
Gulf.
Accompanying Lester for the
ceremonies were M. D. McCarty,
BE THE CAPTAIN
Students are able to go inside the % scale of the Submers
ible ALVIN and sit at the controls of the craft. By press
ing certain buttons on the control panel the occupant can
see what happens in a simulated dive. The ALVIN is a
part of the Hydro-Space Fiesta which will remain on dis
play until Saturday Noon.
engineering and manufacturing
superintendent for Mobil’s Geo
physical Services Center, and
D. H. Sheffield, processing serv
ices supervisor.
Sheffield, 1954 A&M graduate,
will assist university personnel in
installation.
Joining Rudder, Spencer and
Geyer in formally accepting the
equipment were Dr. Robert R.
Berg, head of the Geology Depart
ment, and Dorsey E. McCrory,
development director.
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mental and Professional Club,
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Clubs, and Service Organiza
tions, who did not apply for
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ter, MSC. Deadline Feb. 15,
1968.
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Aggie Makes Bid
For Legislature
W. E. Howard, a Texas A&M
senior majoring in political sci
ence and history, has announced
his candidacy for state represen
tative of the 18th district.
A resident of the Bryan-College
Station area and a Vietnam war
veteran, Howard, 26, was named
an “Outstanding Enlisted Man”
while serving aboard the USS
Brush in 1963.
As a former student of Victoria
College, he was president of the
College Forum. At A&M, he has
been active in the Political For
um, a student committee in the
Memorial Student Center.
UnitariansToHear
SA Minister’s Talk
“Man’s Greatest Danger—Re
ligion!” is the topic to be pre
sented by the Rev. William A.
DeWolfe at the Sunday evening
8 p.m. meeting of the Unitarian
Campus Briefs
Fellowship at 305 Old Highway
6 South, College Station.
Mr. DeWolfe, minister of the
First Unitarian Church of San
Antonio, will explore in his talk
the attitudes and ideas of Martin
Buber, the Jewish Existentialist
philosopher.
Agronomy Society
Names President
Gary McElvaney of Channel-
view has been elected president
of the Texas A&M Student
Agronomy Society.
McElvaney, a senior, was
named to the post by his fellow
students during the January
meeting of the organization.
The society is affiliated with
the American Society of Agron
omy. Student members are ma
jors in agronomy or plant and
soil sciences.
Other officers for the spring
semester are Michael Deike of
Winters, vice president; David E.
Schoenvogel of Moulton, treas
urer; Billy Ray Schuette of
Moody, secretary; and Charles R.
Tischler of Pilot Point, reporter.
Aggie Graduate
Wins Air Medal
Three Texas A&M graduatd
have recently been assigned i
Army posts in Vietnam and Gei
many.
Second Lt. Eugene C. Oates |[
of Bryan and Pfc. William (
Schmidt of Fayetteville, both lift
graduates, drew Germany
Vietnam, respectively.
Oates, who studied civil engi
neering, was assigned platou
leader of Company E, 10th Ea^
neer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Diij
sion, near Kitzingen. A raij
science graduate, Schmidt wt[
to the 71st Artillery’s 6th Bii
talion near Cam Ranh Bay.
Capt. Gaylon M. McClinton,
1963 education graduate of Ke
nard, was assigned as assista;
staff officer of the 43rd Media
Group in Vietnam.
McClinton and Oates werecm
missioned at A&M.
An Egyptian temple at Thth,
took 2,000 years to build.
Computers Ease Problems
Of Statistical Research
From streamlining the “Monte
Carlo Method” to checking for
teen-age grandmothers and other
inconsistencies, Texas A&M Uni
versity’s Institute of Statistics is
embarked on research studies
which have increasingly wide ap
plications.
The whole field of statistics
once was considered a pretty dull
arena. Calculations were labori
ous and the statistician was often
regarded as a part-time juggler
who spewed forth figures to
prove ill-conceived assumptions.
But now scientists, doctors,
manufacturers, engineers and
even the man on the street are
coming to realize that neatly-ap
plied numbers may have it where
common sense stumbles.
For example, a chemical engi
neer may have to consider as
many as 50 ingredients in a single
production process or a manufac
turer may want to stamp as many
items as possible out of a single
sheet of steel. This is where the
statistician, who now can call on
lightning-fast computers for cal
culations, enters the picture.
“We’re sort of jacks of all
trades who have to be in com
munication with a large area of
specialties,” says Dr. Herman O.
Hartley, director of A&M’s Insti
tute of Statistics.
The institute, one of the largest
in the nation dealing with applied
statistics, is participating in an
interdisciplinary study of opti
mizing engineering design and
operations. The investigation,
funded by the Department of De
fense, is part of the Project
Themis program.
In its simplest terms, optimi
zation is the best way to perform
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a particular task, whether it be
stacking boxes in a warehouse or
designing an electronic circuit to
do a job at the least cost.
“Very often, what we find
agrees with the immediate ‘com
mon sense’ answer, but sometimes
not,” says Dr. Hartley.
“A very good example of suc
cessful optimization is the trans
portation problem,” he notes.
“How do you transport specified
quotas of commodities from ori
gins to destinations, given certain
costs, routes, times, etc?”
This sort of problem, when tak
en from the mathematical ap
proach, “saved industry millions
of dollars,” observes Dr. Hartley.
In designing methods for gov
ernment and industry, statistical
researchers have sometimes used
the so-called “Monte Carlo Meth
od” of simulating a series of op
erations.
“But this is a long and expen
sive calculation,” Dr. Hartley
pointed out.
The A&M Institute is nearing
completion of a study for the
Army Research Office on a meth
od of streamlining the Monte Car
lo approach.
One important research project
at the institute is funded by the
National Institutes of Health.
This is an attempt to analyze
“unbalanced” data in medical or
biological situations. Normally,
scientists design experiments to
give balanced data, but with
human medical treatment, such
data is either incomplete or un
balanced.
The NIH is interested in this
in studying treatment of patients
—like cancer radiotherapy—in the
hope the analysis will give piiii
lines on the most successful tie
apy under varying conditions.
For the Census Bureau, tl
A&M institute is using high spe
computers for data editing.
“Let's say you get a ceos
questionaire and you find a'tee
age grandmother’,” says Dr.Hit
ley. The high-speed computerpn
gram written by the statistick
would automatically monitor.ei
and correct this inconsistency.
The statisticians at A&M u
using new techniques for sampi
surveys as applied to rice industr
operations. There also is a w
project with the Department
Interior for optimization of wall
resources.
Dr. Hartley, who has doctonti
from the universities of M
Cambridge and London, is wii
to question any method he does:
think quite right—even the m
known PERT (Program Evak
tion and Review Technique) racll!
od which was used to build'h
first nuclear submarine.
“While it had a good impacl-
it made people think—we’ve i 1
covered PERT is biased, 1 ' Ik
Hartley states. “It’s too optimt
tic. It imagines that projects cn
be completed in a shorter to
than they can be.” But he ail
that conservative underestimate
by people involved in PERTprs;
ects balance the error.
Research and educational pn;
ects in which the Institute Is
been active in contracting duriif
the five years of its existences
funded at approximately $1.5 mi
lion.
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