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Notre Dame, In d ., Jan. 19 — A summer in s t i tu te fo r elementary and secondary

school teachers o f French w ill be conducted by th e U niversity o f Notre Dame a t

T rois-R ivieres in Quebec, Canada, i t was announced today.

Dr. Charles P arn e ll, i n s t i tu te d ire c to r , sa id tw enty-four elementary and

fo r ty secondary school French teachers w ill be en ro lled fo r the e igh t week program,

Ju ly 1 - August 23. The in s t i tu te w i l l be held a t th e College Seraphique, a

Franciscan secondary school midway between Montreal and Quebec, w ith th e support o f

a grant under th e N ational Defense Education Act.

P a rn e ll sa id the Notre Dame program w il l be th e f i r s t summer language in s t i tu te

sponsored by the U. S. O ffice o f Education in Canada. In ad d itio n to improving th e i r

s k i l l s as te a ch e rs , the tra in ees w il l have th e added l in g u is t ic and c u l tu ra l

experience o f l iv in g in a French speaking m ilieu , he sa id .

A s ta f f o f twenty, including Americans, French Canadians and Frenchmen, w ill

operate the summer in s t i tu te . P a rn e ll sa id a modern language labo ra to ry w il l be used

to help tra in e e s increase the accuracy of th e i r sounds, rhythm j in tona tions and the

automatic use of s tru c tu res in French* Lectures and f ie ld t r ip s w ill r e la te the

French language to the cu ltu re and s o c ia l phenomena o f France and Quebec. And

sp ec ia l a tte n tio n w ill be given to th e b e s t p resen t methods and m ateria ls fo r

teaching French in American schools, he explained.

The Notre Dame program w ill be open to teachers who have not p rev iously

p a rtic ip a te d in an NDEA in s t i tu te . P a rtic ip a n ts w ill be chosen from those who ra te

"good" in understanding and speaking French. Q ualifications Include a b ach e lo r’s

degree w ith a t le a s t 18 semester c re d its in French and proof o f employment as a

French teacher next f a l l .

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Teachers w i l l be chosen from both public and p riv a te schools fo r th e

Notre Dame in s t i tu t e w ith tu i t io n and fees underw ritten by the N ational Defense

Education Act. However, P a rn e ll pointed out, only p u b lic school teachers , under

terms of th e Act, a re e l ig ib le fo r a weekly stipend of $75 plus $15 per week fo r

each dependent. Room and board w il l be provided a t the College Seraphique, P a rn e ll

sa id , fo r a fee ranging from $200 to $230 fo r th e e ig h t week period .

Deadline fo r re c e ip t o f completed app lica tions fo r the French te a c h e rs1

in s t i tu te i s March 1 s t . A pplication forms and a d esc rip tiv e brochure may be

obtained from Dr. Charles E, P a rn e ll , Department o f Modern languages, Notre Dame,

Ind iana.

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Notre Dame, In d ., Jan. 21 — John S. H arrison, v ice p res id en t in

charge o f personnel and in d u s tr ia l re la t io n s fo r th e Aluminum Company of America,

P ittsb u rg h , P a ., w i l l be a speaker a t th e U n iversity of Notre Dame's eleventh

annual Union-Management Conference February 22nd (F riday), i t was announced today.

Rev. Mark J . F itzg e ra ld , C .S .C ., conference chairman, sa id more than

s ix hundred in d u s tr ia l executives and labor leaders are expected to a tten d the

conference opening in Washington H all on th e campus a t 10 a.m. (ESI). "Some V ita l

Issu es Before th e P a r tie s" w il l be th e theme o f th e sessions which are sponsored

by th e U n iv e rs ity 's economics department in cooperation w ith th e Notre Dame

Law School, unions and management.

Union and company rep resen ta tiv es w ill jo in in two conference panel

d iscu ssio n s, Father F itzg e ra ld sa id . P a tr ic k J . F ish er, Ind ianapolis a r b i t r a to r ,

w i l l lead a d iscussion dealing with the curren t s ta tu s o f p la n t removals and

eva luating th e sh o rte r work week, Ronald W. Haughton, d ire c to r of th e I n s t i tu te

o f I n d u s tr ia l R elations a t Wayne S ta te U n iversity , D e tro it, w il l p reside a t a

d iscussion includ ing unw ritten grievances in p ra c tic e , con trac t coverage and

fr in g e b e n e f i ts , and wage nego tia tion and p ro d u c tiv ity .

H arrison, who w il l speak on "V ita liz in g the Areas of Understanding

Between th e P a r t ie s ," has been associa ted w ith Alcoa since h is graduation from

Lehigh U n iversity in 1931. He served as a m e ta llu rg is t, sa les executive and

personnel manager before jo in ing the in d u s tr ia l re la t io n s s t a f f in 1$44. He

was e lec ted v ice p resid en t in charge of personnel and In d u s tr ia l re la tio n s in

i 960 and was assigned ad d itio n a l re s p o n s ib ili t ie s as head o f A lcoa's sm elting

and fa b r ic a tin g d iv is io n a year ago.

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For release In PM*a, Wednesday, January 23rd:

Notre Dame, Ind., Jan. 23 — Edward A. Fischer, associate professor

of communication arts at the University of Notre Dame, leaves for Austria

February 6th to deliver a series of eleven lectures a t the Salzburg Seminar in

American Studies. He w ill speak on the general subject of motion pictures during

the four-week seminar (Feb. 8 - Mar. 9) whose theme is "Mass Communications in theUnited States, I f

Benjamin Gilbert, c ity editor of the Washington Post and Times-Herald,

seminar lectures on American newspapers. Author Alvin Toffler is

scheduled to speak on American magazines. Radio and television in the United

States w ill be the lecture topic of Holland Tooke, executive vice

Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp.

Thirty communications specialists, averaging th irty years of age and

representing fifteen countries, have been selected to participate in the seminar.

The aim of the seminar, inaugurated by Harvard University fifteen years ago, is to

help outstanding Europeans learn about America from Americans. Faculty members and

students w ill live and work together at Leopoldskron, a castle on a h il l outside Salzburg.

Professor Fischer teaches Notre Dame courses in film criticism ,

communications media, writing and design. He is the author of The Screen Arts,

a book of standards for motion picture criticism . His documentary, "Life Without

Germs,"was recently selected for inclusion in the Eastman Archives as an outstanding

educational film. He has served as a juror at the Golden Reel, American and

Venice Film Festivals. Fischer is associate editor of the Journal of the

University Film Producers Association and a columnist for THE AVE MARIA, a weekly

magazine published by the Holy Cross Fathers at Notre Dame, Ind.end

Notre Dame, Indiana

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N otre Dame, I n d . , Jan . 23 — A $65,000 g ra n t f o r m icrofilm ing

s c i e n t i f i c m anuscrip ts a t th e famed Ambrosian L ib ra ry in M ilan has been

awarded to th e U n iv e rs ity o f N otre Dame's M ediaeval I n s t i t u t e b y th e N ational

Science Foundation.

P ro f. A. L. G a b rie l, I n s t i t u t e d i r e c to r , s a id th e NSF g ran t i s th e

la r g e s t re c e iv e d to d a te i n support o f a N otre Dame p ro je c t t o m icrofilm

30,000 c l a s s i c a l , m ediaeval and R enaissance m anuscrip ts a t th e 350-year-o ld

l ib r a r y . The m an u scrip ts , never b e fo re m icrofilm ed in to to , w i l l be a v a ila b le

to sch o la rs a t th e 1 3 -s to ry N otre Dame Memorial L ib ra ry scheduled fo r com pletion

next f a l l .

The renowned Ambrosian L ib ra ry was founded in 1609 by C ard inal F red erico

Borromeo (1564-1631)• H is em issaries ga thered documents o f prim e im portance

d a tin g as f a r back as th e t h i r d and fo u rth c e n tu r ie s from a l l p a r ts o f th e w orld.

According to P ro f . G ab rie l, th e Ambrosian m anuscript c o l le c t io n has

g re a t s ig n if ic a n c e fo r sch o la rs study ing th e development o f sc ien ce through th e

c e n tu r i e s . . I t a ls o i s a r i c h mine f o r re sea rch e rs in c la s s ic a l , m ediaeval and

Renaissance c u ltu re and c iv i l i z a t io n , he s a id .

The m icro film ing o f th e Ambrosian L ib ra ry m anuscripts w i l l re q u ire

s e v e ra l years to com plete, P ro f . G abrie l s a id . He estim ated th e o v e ra ll co st

o f th e p ro je c t a t $500, 000.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Jan. 28 -- John H. Fanning, a member of the National

Labor Relations Board, will address the University of Notre Dame’s eleventh annual

Union-Management Conference February 22nd (Friday), i t was announced today by Rev.

Mark J. Fitzgerald, C.S.C., conference director.

Fanning w ill speak on "Trends in Types of Bargaining Units." He is the

f i r s t NLRB member appointed to successive terms by presidents of different p o litica l

parties. He was named to the government board by President Eisenhower in 1957 and

was re-appointed by President Kennedy last December.

"Some Vital Issues Before the Parties" will be the theme of th is year's

Unx on -Management Conference which w ill open in Washington Hall on the campus at

10 a.m. (EST). Industrial executives and labor leaders from throughout the midwest

w ill attend the sessions which are sponsored by the University's economics department

in cooperation with the Notre Dame Law School, unions and management.

John S. Harrison, vice president in charge of personnel and industrial

relations for the Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pa., earlier was

a conference speaker. His subject w ill be "Vitalizing the Areas of Understanding Between the Parties."

Fanning established the Office of Industrial Relations in the Department of

Defense and served as i t s f ir s t director from 1951 to 1955. During the next two

years he was director of the Office of Domestic Programs in the Defense Department.

In this post he directed activities in industrial relations, non-discrimination in

employment, industrial aspects of the military reserve program and civ il emergency

planning and c iv il defense. Fanning received the Department of Defense Meritorious

Civilian Service Medal in 1958. He is a graduate of providence College and the

Catholic University of America School of Law.

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Notre Dame, Ind., Jan. 30 — Computer specialists who are trying to teach today's electronic machines how to "think" might learn a thing or two from philosophers who lived centuries ago, according to a University of Notre Dame faculty member.

Dr. Kenneth Sayre, assistant professor of philosophy, says some of the problems encountered in building machines for pattern recognition and problem solving "have been familiar for centuries to philosophers concerned with the analysis Of human mental behavior."

Sayre, who is a former systems analyst for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, claims philosophers thought of "thinking machines" first. In the 17th century, he says, Pascal and Leibniz had plans for complex calculating machines which were the ancestors of today's electronic computers. The

writings of St. Thomas Aquinas on abstraction can be useful to space-age specialists in pattern recognition, Sayre says, and David Hume's work on the relations of association among ideas has implications for modern problem solving.

With the support of a $11,100 National Science Foundation grant, Sayre is conducting a year-long study of problems connected with the simulation of mental processes on electronic computers. The purpose of the project, he says, is "to clarify the structure of human behavior, which technologists are attempting to duplicate mechanically, with special reference to major writings in the philosophy of mind in our western tradition."

Dr. Frederick Crosson of the Notre Dame faculty is serving as a project consultant on psychology and phenomenology. Sayre and Crosson are co-editors of a forthcoming book, The Modeling of Mind.

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’’Some of these philosophical writings have been with us for a long time, "Sayre notes, ’’but they are not often intelligible to people without formal philo­sophical training* It is important to make them understandable to computer specialists because these philosophers have developed significant analyses of mental behavior very similar to the sort they are trying to duplicate.”

Sayre believes access to these writings in intelligible form ’’will at least be stimulating to technologists who are involved in theoretical problems of computer simulation and may have positive results in suggesting fruitful directions of research which might otherwise have been overlooked. ”

No ready-made solutions to technical problems can be found in philosophy,Sayre points out, but lie says philosophy contains ’’strong hints ” about how some problems currently blocking efforts to simulate human mental capabilities by mech-

anieal means might be resolved,’’Some of the basic problems in the development of pattern recognition

machines, for example, stem from unclear conceptions about just what sort of mental activity recognition actually is, and about how a letter pattern or the pattern of a musical melody differ from a meaningless jumble of lines and sounds,” he says.

Technologists who attempt to simulate recognition with a machine which does no more than classify may as well try to simulate the batting of Roger Maris with

a machine that does no more than swing a stick around like a turnstile, Sayre observes, ”It might work, but it would not work very well.”

"It is not unreasonable to hope," he says, "that the prospects for anadequate mechanical pattern recognition system will increase appreciably with a better understanding of human recognition and what it would be to simulate it successfully, Philosophy, of course, is no substitute for sound technical thinking.But technical thinking is likewise no substitute for sound philosophy. And some of the problems of computer technology today are just as philosophical as those faced by Plato, Kant and St, Thomas Aquinas,”

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HEWS RELEASES FOR JANUARY, 1963

63/1 1/8/63 Election of four directors of The Notre Dame Lumni Ass'n, - Bnriscillo, Fenlon, Goodman and Smith.

63/2 i/9/63 American Catholic Clergyman - Fr. McAvoy63/3 1/11/63 A Philosophyof Education - Dr. Herbert L.63A 1/19/63 Johnston

French Institute63/5 1/21/63 11th Annual Union-Management Conference63/6 1/23/63 Edward A. Fischer lectures in Austria63/7 1/23/63 Father Gabriel receives $6$,000 grant for

Ambrosian Library.63/a 1/28/63 Hth Annual Uni on-Management Conference

(John H. Fanning will address)63/9 1/30/63 Dr, Kenneth Sayre