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Summer Programs

APR 01, 1962
Physics Today

Massachusetts Institute of Technology will offer as one of its special summer programs a one‐week course on “Signal Detection and Identification: Theory of Human Observers” from July 30 to August 3. The program is intended for those interested in research in psychophysics, in the design of man‐machine systems, and in teaching general and engineering psychology. It will be directed by John A. Swets of the MIT Psychology Section and the Research Laboratory of Electronics. Lectures will be given by members of the MIT faculty and by guests from other universities.

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