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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1963
Science Now Striving For Ultimate Intellect
By Delos Smith UPI Science Editor
NEW YORK—To the newest o. the full-fledged sciences is attributed a potential perhaps greater than those of nuclear and space sciences which are new, too, and announced their potentials with atomic explosions and orbiting satellites.
The average layman has barely heard of this newest one. It is "Information Science." To the enthusiastic attributer, Dr. Paul S. Henshaw of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, its potential is to do for the human brain "in a twinkling" what it took evolution many hundreds of thousands of years to do.
What evolution did for the human brain was give it a capacity for being intelligent which is many times larger than that of any other living system. Evolution did it by evolving the human cerebral cortex. What "Information Science" can do is to multiply the brain's capability for intelligence by many fold.
Henshaw pointed out to the everincreasing capacities and subtleties of computers for storing and organizing information and yielding it almost instantly upon demand. He pointed also to the highly sophisticated telecommunications which are little handicapped either by distance or time.
The rapidly enlarging techniques of "Information Science" for utilizing these and other tools promise to enable people to meet their greatest challenge which is "how man will himself deal intellectually with his own intellectual achievements," Henshaw said.
Now, look at the present human predicament
"Because of know-how already available enabling control of disease, development of resources, increase in productivity, management of populations, improvement of heredity and designation of needed
ethical standards, the human species could have for itself almost any standard and level of living it would care to specify."
But "despite this favorable situation, it is evident that feelings of apprehension, fear and insecurity are intense and widespread." Henshaw saw "Information Science" soon putting an end to that, for the following reason:
"There is early likelihood of bringing total accumulated knowledge such as housed in the great libraries to bear on a single problem or concept, and also for a single mind to probe all recorded subject-matter in selected fields, irrespective of location or language, and to consider the results of analyses quite beyond the capabilities of the human mind," he said.
"Because of these various developments, there is the prospect that human minds and intelligence systems of various types can be combined in such a way as to interact as one great thought facility."
Science hasn't "even imagined" so far what this will lead to—in "emotional experience" as well as in quickly and efficiently using all available information in particular fields and in reaching fuller and more workable understandings, Henshaw added.
'The Emperor Jones Will Open October 9
"The Emperor Jones," Eugene O'Neil's play of a man whose sinful past finally catches up with him, will open the University Theatre season at 8:15 p.m. October 9 and will run through October 12.
Clayton Corbin, broadway actor, will portray Brutus Jones, a man wasted away by greed and anger. It will be the first time since 1955, when he played the part at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Miss., that Corbin has interpreted Jones on the stage.
Others in the play are: James P. Coulson, Smithers; Theresa Lockhart, Old Woman; Herb Smith, Jeff; Walter Bgoya, Wendell Roberts, William Fleming, Danny Johnson, Herb Smith, Convicts, Slaves and Soldiers.
Larry Siefkes, Guard; Jerry Battey, Robin Huggins, John Moody, Dandies; Elizabeth Cress, Jo Anne Smith, Teddy Weddingfeld, Janet Whalen, Belles; Neal Nalkins, Ward Russell, Richard Watkins, Planters.
Paul Broderick, Auctioneer; Marjorie French, Louis Hallowell, Myrna Lin, Theresa Lockhart, Edith Stagg, Slaves; Danny Johnson, Witch Doctor; Robin Huggins, Crocodile God; Walter Bgoya, Lem.
William R. Reardon, assistant professor of speech and drama is directing the play.
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Engineering Faculty Members To Attend Dedication in Liberal
A party of KU professors will attend the dedication of the world's largest helium extraction plant Tuesday at Liberal.
The party will consist of John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture; Fred Kurata, professor of chemical engineering; G. W. Swift, professor of chemical engineering, and W. J. Argersinger, associate dean of the graduate school.
The extraction plant is under the joint ownership of the Panhandle
Eastern Pipeline Company, and the United States Industrial Chemicals Company. They are under government contract for the supply of helium to the United States Bureau of Mines.
The University this past week agreed to exchange information on helium research with the Bureau of Mines
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