l-IIPI--· Iit ~..-u--... {C sA_ I916r, I e is f, . ra - ---- - _ I 4_ L~LS-23k54 Admnissions.... .... '...2 Nuts & Sctews ............ 3 I "Continuous News Service Nixn Resigslationl-?......., 4 I I Since 1881" Arts .. ...... .5 I Sports> 12 1 . <,'Qs At3; I - --- - - - - - . - , - . - - - ., ,,," -,T-TC,~~~~~~~~~~~~-,,,, VOLUME 93 NUMBER 52 MIT, CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 IFl-VE CLENTS I 190 I 171v 119 11 I ', I o t . By Mike McNamee come apparent that he was, by Computer Science sections of and Paul Schindler far the most qualified candidate the department, he made a point Professor Wilbur B. Daven- for the position." of mentioning both groups in his I I port, head of the Center for Davenport said simply, "My statements to a special meeting Advanced Engineering Studies, perceptions changed through if the EE department held yes- was appointed yesterday to head time," and noted that, while the terday morning to announce his the Department of Electrical process might have been simpler appointment. He hopes, he said, I to "continue to preeminence of Engineering effective February if he allowed consideration of I 1, 1974. his own candidacy last spring, its education and research in Davenport will replace Jack- the intervening search was a electrical engineering and com- puter science," and that he 3 son Professor of Electrical En- healthy examination of the state I gineering Louis D. Smullin, of the department. wants to do "whatever is poss- I whose resignation from the top Considered by many to be a ible to strengthen the inter- I post in MIT's largest department conciliator with friends in both action" between electrical en- i was made public in September the Electrical Engineering and (Please turn to page 11) (The Tech,9/25). Davenport told The Tech that he was "greatly honored to be yt c Y I come head of a department that has the past - and the future - I that the Electrical Engineering 1 e cem iffee 3 department has." f e I Davenport's name was on a By Mike McNamee Jacoby. The energy conservation list submitted to Dean Alfred Governor Francis Sargent '39 section of the Energy Laborato- I Keil of the School of Engineer- -as appointed several MiT fac- ry is sponsoring, in cooperation Jerome Wies- 1 ing and President u-lty, including the Head of the with three New England utility I I ner, with an indication that he .Energy Laboratory, Professor companies, a conference at MIT I I preferred not to be considered, a on December 1 7 for large energy I David White, and Professor of I statement he has often repeated MAanagement Henry D. Jacoby, users. One proposal that has I in public. The official MIT re- to an Emergency Energy Com- received some publicity is the I lease on the appointment noted mrrittee to investigate ways to idea of using a "cadre" of MIT I that after serious discussions and I "help prevent disastrous energy students to make measurements I additional review, Keil selected Professor William B. Davenport Photo by Margo Foote, shortages in New England this and gather data on energy con- I Photo by Marge Foote, News Office Davenport because "it had be- x-,vinter." servation for large-scale commer- I I "if this winter is a very cold cial users. I one," Jacoby, "We've been operating on I T p es '%'ye I Fy2sel ev ence who was ap- very limited information about o inted by 1 energy use," says Leon I S argent to Glicksman, a Mechanical Engi- By Greg Saltzman coverr the erased Nixon- "fingerprint" when it records a h-ead the com- neering lecturer. "We are think- I t The tape experts scrutinizing Halde]man conversation. If a re- conversation on a tape. Posses- m='ittee, told ing about getting students to go I I the Watergate tapes are unlikely coveryy attempt were fully suc- sion of "the machines will be Th e Te ch out during IAP to collect data in I I to come up with any legally cessfu 1, and if the recovered mat- useful for comparing the ma- '-New England Energy Jarge commercial areas on heat- 3 were incriminating, then I conclusive evidence, according eiial chine fingerprints on the tapes wvill have seri- and ing, lighting, and other energy 3 to Barry Blesser '64, Assistant the e:xperts would be able to to the fingerprint produced by ous problems MIT uses." I Professor of Electrical Engi- provid e more than circumstan- each machine," Blesser said. One with oil and "Hopefully, we can give these II neering. tial eviidence. thing that the experts could do, other energy shortages students enough orientation to I "The most that the technical HIo wever, Blesser thinks that he continued, would be to "see XWarm weather now has been allow them to make suggestions people could say is that there is it is "doubtful that they can if the fingerprints on a tape are beneficial, bat it may be pretty to the establishments they I an inconsistency between what recoveer the erased material. all from the same machine." rough in January or February." study," Glicksman continued. has been reported about the They might recover enough to The machine fingerprints The committee, according to Jacoby agreed that the idea I tapes and what has been ob- get so mnething intelligible, but it have several aspects. One is a aacoby, was appointed as an of forming a "cadre" had "been II served," said Blesser, an expert is nott likely that the material characteristic transient signal left effort to get "all the skill we floating around" for some time, I on audio signals. Even if the can bee recovered sufficiently to on the tape whenever a record- could gather in a short time in and that other suggestions have I experts find that the tapes have pass the legal tests" for permis- er's voice-actuated motor was Boston area" to serve the gover- been made for applying MIT's e I been changed, "they cannot sible wvidence. started or stopped. The transient iror in a technical advisory sense. technical resources to the energy I specify the motivation for the Stil11,the inconsistencies that signal makes it possible to detect "The committee is just an problem. I change, and that will be the crux the exxperts might find could be any edited section that does not em-nergency planning group, try- Students would also be need- I of the matter." used in perjury trials. For exam- coincide exactly with a complete -iag to develop contingency plans I Blesser cited the example of ple, it may be possible to deter- period of time in which the ed, Glicksman said, to help ana- I for energy conservation later in lyze data after it had been gath- I the 18 minute section of the mine whether it was Woods' motor was on. thne winter," Jacoby said. "We're I ered, and to upgrade it in "an I Haldeman tape which the White recordLer or a different one that Another aspect of a mna- r-.ore a technical committee - on-going project." He added that -lHouse clains was erased acci- was used to erase the Haldeman chine's fingerprint is its wow and h-:ehave no formal advisory role the emphasis "is on lAP at the 3 dentally by President Nixon's tape. flutter, which are periodic varia- - and we're trying to pull to- moment," but consideration is personal secretary, Rose Mary As part of their search for tions in the tape speed due to aGther data on energy conserva- I being given to proposals that the I Woods. The advisory panel, inconnsistencies, the advisory slight irregularities in the ma- I New En- I tion, the status of project continLue, perhaps with Blesser pointed out, probably panel is studying the nine tape chine's mechanical parts. An I ciand's supplies, and federal pro- assistance ftron ITROP. throtugh- will not be able to determine machi nes used to record Nixon's oscilloscope can be used to ob- grams that may help us out." I out the secC011d term. whether the erasure was acci- conveersations. The machines serve the wow and flutter in Jacoby pointed out that New Jacoby said that the ineer- I dental or deliberate, were turned over to Watergate wave form. -ngland is in a unique position Techniques of computer en- Judge John Sirica last week. Even if a person editing the gen11y : lnery C1Ion mittee hopes I Most of the I ir,_ energy supplies. to make full use of the Insti- hancement of electronic signals Ble;sser explained that each tapes used the same machine gasoline in the Northeast is pro- tute's resources. hbui vwe are just E might make it possible to re- machine leaves a characteristic (Continued on page 3) vided by the US, he said, but in organized to do it." X >Nd, getting fcel oil and other petroleumln The comlinittee is contacting fac- -roducts, -'New England is not ulty memnibers to get help fromn really part of the United States them with consultation and We are almost wholly de- organization. pendent on imports." "I see the Emergency Com- situation will be bad in The mittee as a temporary body," other parts of the country, Jacoby concluded. "We're there Jacoby predicted, especially in to help the governor during the the upper Midwest and Southern present crisis. If the committee California, but "it will really be i needed in the future - if the necessary to conserve to get crisis goes on - then we xvill stay through the winter here." in existence and keep working." Although the current warm 1 spell, which has enabled MIT to In the article "GSC urges Z^- Vi-·''''W sa-ve all its fuel oil reserves so far, Congress to impeach Nixon" has built up oil supplies in the in last Tuesday's issue of The iN ortheast, Jacoby says "we have Tech, Alan Robock was in- all the oil we can hold now, and correctly identified as the have to make these reserves sponsor of a motion to dis- fr ._,__- la st." band the Graduate Student "Using MIT's resources" Council.