Academic catalog (both undergraduate and graduate) of majors, courses, faculty, and staff for M.I.T. Ths is the second of two catalogs owned by "J. Stone". We received this item from Tamar Stone his daughter in NYC.
There was no separate computer department at this time but under the Electrical Engineering Department we found three graduate courses related to computers. The department was renamed the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department in 1975. There does not seem to be much difference between this and the 1955 catalog with regard to computing except that, oddly enough, the department seems to have dropped a computing course from the previous year. The course that was dropped was 6.537 DIGITAL COMPUTER APPLICATIONS PRACTICE (see related items).
Below are two courses that were being offered in 1956:
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