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The Great Computer Scandal

A report on the state of big research computers.
I think that scandal isn't too strong a word in this connection at all. It seems to me that people working in this country in and around computers have accepted far too lightly conditions of operation which no self-respecting American research worker would stand for. (M. J. Healy, Department of Statistics, Rothamsted Experimental Station)
with Benedict Nixon, Eric Nixon, London University Computer Unit; Sidney Michaelson, Edinburgh University Computer Unit

H-Bomb Detectors
Sir Edward Bullard, F.R.S. tells how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion detector which has changed the political and international outlook for nuclear test controls.

Contributors

Speaker (The Great Computer Scandal):
Benedict Nixon
Speaker (The Great Computer Scandal):
Eric Nixon
Speaker (The Great Computer Scandal):
Sidney Michaelson
Narrator (H-Bomb Detectors):
Sir Edward Bullard
Script:
Gordon Thomas
Cameraman:
John Turner
Sound:
Tony Slater
Film editor:
Roy Fry
Producer:
Michael Latham
Series editor:
G. Rattray Taylor

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