MDS: a unique project in computer-assisted mathematics

Abstract

In the education of the deaf, are there problems so special that their solution justifies the use of a computer? And if there are such problems, how can the computer best be used to solve them? Early in the history of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, its administrators voted "Yes" on the first question and "Let's find out" on the second. As a result of these decisions, an IBM 1500 Instructional System was included in the Institute's original home on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology.