PAGE EIGHT Netters Host Unbeaten Penn By BILL JAFFE i Although the weather may bej cold outside, the Lion tennis team, •will have to be extremely "hot”! this afternoon if it hopes to upset; the visiting University of Penn sylvania netters. Match time is 1:30. ■ Penn has never been beaten by! a Nittany court team in a 14-game| series dating back to 1911. ! To add to the -woes of the i Lion courtmen Penn has scored , tvro most convincing victories this week. Tuesday it defeated 9-0. and Thursday shutout Franklin arid Marshall College, 9-0. Last year the Nittanies fell, 7-2, to the Quakers and in 1955 were defeated 8-1. Penn posted two wins in 1956 while losing ten matches in the tough Ivy League. A most interesting battle should develop when Penn’s number one man, John Mangan,.will meet the Lion's-Fred Trust. Mangan is a 6’3”, 200 pound athlete, and will in all probability try to over power the smaller Trust. "I joined IBM for two clear-cut rea sons," recalls Bob. “First, the tre mendous company growth obviously offered every chance for advance ment. Second, the work area was exactly what I was looking for— transistors and their application to computer systems." 'Bob entered IBM's voluntary training program in June, 1955, where he studied the entire organization, its divisions and diversified products. He received technical training in com puter logic, programming, and com ponents such as transistors, cores and tapes. By September, half his day was being devoted to an actual project; by the following March, he was on this project full time. “Our job was Tlm ’ M >msn-grovp** approSch >o research to transistorize six servo-amplifier? for the MA-2 bombing-navigational system,” he recalls, “and we com pleted the project in April.” In CBM Research (as in all IBM) Bob works m a small group. "Our team consists of three E.E.’s and a technician. We start with analysis and synthesis work involving math and systems logic. Then we use the ‘black box’ approach.” His group splits fip occasionally to research special phases of a project but re unites in frequent sessions to coordi nate activities. Promoted to Associate Engineer In August, 1956, Bob was made an Associate Engineer. From April of the same year, he had been working on a new Government project. This was “to design and develop a tran sistorized radar data presentation system for the MA-2 system.” Basi cally, this was a research program in sample data theory and the develop- ‘ 1 • J [ Penn has five returning letter jwinners including their number jtwo performer Ralph Levitan, ; fourth man Axel Jonasson, sixth iman Dave Lieberman, and substi tutes Charles Barclay and Gerald Finerman. Sophomores Robert Robbins will be the number three man • in Penn's singles entrants while i Howie Friedel will go in the { fifth spot for coach Wallace Johnson's netters. I To counter the offensives of the Quakers, Coach Sherm Fogg has named in addition, to Trust Charles Bibleheimer, Joe Galiardi, Charles Questa, Pete DeDad and Dick Jacobs to form his singles play nucleus. Forming- the dou bles combinations will be Trust and Galiardi, Bibleheimer and Quests, and Don Benner and De- Dad or Don Harnett IM Entries Due Entries for Intramural tennis doubles, golf and soccer are due by 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Intra mural office in Recreation Hall. DATA PROCESS)NO • ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS • TIME EQUIPMENT • MILITARY PRODUCTS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Four Tourneys Fill Intramural Card Thursday night was another typical evening of Intramural activity as four tournaments again filled the action-packed IM card. In intramural bowling activity, jAlpha Gamma Rho remained com fortably set in first place of frat ernity League C by defeating Chi Phi, 4-0, to sport a 34-6 mark. Lambda Chi* Alpha downed Zeta Bela Tau, 4-0; Bela Theta- Pi defeated Sigma Nu. 3-1; rind Della Sigma Phi whipped Pi Kappa Alpha. 4-0. Acacia shut out Thela Kappa Phi 4-0. and Sigma Phi Alpha took a forfeit win from Phi Kappa. Sigma. In League B Beta Sigma Rho was held to a 2-2 tie by Delta Tau Delta; Sigma Tau Gamma shutout Alpha Phi Delta, 4-0; and Pi Kappa Phi beat Sigma Phi Ep silon, 3-1. Alpha Rho Chi forfeited to Phi Kappa Tau. Wednesday night: Joe Boston, Sigma Phi Epsilon beat Sid Schreiber, Pi Lambda Phi, 15-5, 15-9; Ed Thost, • Alpha Gamma Rho, defeated Sigma Phi Alpha’s “What’s it like to be A RESEARCH ENGINEER AT IBM?” Two years ago, college senior Robert Thorpe asked, himself this question as he worked toward his E.E. at, the University of Toledo. Todoy, an Associate Engineer in the Applied Logic Group of IBM Research, Bob reviews his experiences and gives some pointers that may be helpful to you in taking the first, most important step in your career. ment of a system containing both analog and digital components. Bob still works on this project—toward a completion date of April, 1957.- Shortly after this program started, Bob joined the Applied Logic Group. Hotting transistor characteristics Here, he was concerned with research in new areas of computer technology —for example, cryogenics and high speed memories. Bob studies systems which operate on “real time,” and his immediate problem is to analyze and synthesize closed-loop sample data systems for the control of com plex data processing. Asked yhat his most, interesting assignment was, Bob replied, “My New area* of computer technology work on a digital-to-analog converter with a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy. This strictly electronic con verter, with transistors, combines both digital and analog circuitry. It was a tough problem, and a fasci nating one.” What does the future hold? At the present time, after two years in IBM Research, Bob is more than enthusiastic about his future. He plans to continue in systems study and to develop “a more sophisticated approach.” Two lines of advancement are open to him: to Project Engineer, By 808 GULLO IM BOWLING: IM BADMINTON: the administrative side, or to Staff Engineer, the technical side of Re search. “Either way, I’m sure I’ll get ahead,” Bob feels. -“Electronics re search is really on the move at IBM. We have about 600 people at Pough keepsie now, as against 56 in 1950. We’ll need some 1,700 before 1960 to help staff a new research laboratory at Yorktown Heights, Westchester .County, N. Y.” What does he like best about IBM? Probably the fact that he’s so much “on his own.” “There’s no ‘over-the shoulder’ supervision,” he sayß. "You schedule your own program and cre ate your own ‘pressure.’ And, if you Promoted In fourteen monthi feel the: need for more education, IBM provides every facility for con tinued study. Besides the voluntary "training programs, there are excellent afterhoura courses offered by the IBM Department of Education.. And you have a chance-to work toward ad vanced degrees—at IBM expense.” IBM hopes this .message will give you some idea of what it’s like to be an E.E. in Research at IBM. There are equal opportunities for E.E.'s, LE.’s, M.E.’s, physicists, mathematicians, Liberal Arts majors, and Business Administration graduates in IBM's many divisions— Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Sales and Sales Assistance. Why not drop in and discuss IBM with your Placement Director? He can supply our brochure and tell you when IBM will next interview, on "your campus. Mean while, our Manager of Engineering Re cruitment, R. A. Whitehome, will be happy to answer your questions. Just write him at IBM Corp., Room 11804 690 Madison Ave., New York 22, N. Y. IBM Sam Moore, 0-15, 15-13, 15-10. Jim Kane, Phi Kappa Sigma, downed Jim Wentz, Theta Xi, 15-3, 15-5; and Tom Allardice, Pi Sigma Upsilon defeated’ Theta: Delta Chi’s Harv Eckert, 7-15, 15-8, 15-0. Indie victors were Bruce Pellnitz, Bill Mikesell, and Gary McFarlane. Thursday night: Jim Schry, Phi Delta Thela. walloped Fred Donahoe. Tau Kappa Epsilon, 15-1, 15-1; Ken Christiansen, Alpha Chi Sigma, trounced Francis, Paolone, Theta Chi, 15-1. 15-1; Bill Wild, Alpha Sig ma Phi, whipped Steve. Justr ham. Alpha Chi Rho, 15-0, 15-2. Chuck Glidden, Alpha Gamma Rho, beat Craig Kauffman, Kap pa Sigma, 15-9, 15-5; Pete DeDad, Sigma Pi, downed Angelo Capu ano, Sigma Phi Epsilon,. 15-5, 15-12; and Ron Casarella, Phi Kappa Tau, beat Dave -McCol loirgh, Theta Delta Chi, 11-15, 15-10, 15-11. Mel Royer, Alpha Tau Omega, Jack Javens, Pi Kappa Sigma, and Stanton Vogin, Phi Sigma Delta, copped forfeit win. IM HANDBALL: i ■ Jim Lysek and Russ Mandeville, ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, • downed INTONATION*!. BUSINESS MACHINES COBFOBATtON SATURDAY. APRIL 13. 1957 Ray Myers and Andy Hibler, Sig ma Nu, 21-15, 21-12; Bob Neff and Carl Hiester, Alpha Gamma Rho, beat' Jim Jordy and Ed Lynam, Sigma Chi, 21-4, 21-15; John Wright , and Norm Schue, Alpha Zeta, romped over Denny Uhrin and Bill Gallagher, Phi Kappa, 21-4, 21-1. . Milt Plum and Paul Schon bachler. Phi Della Theta, de feated- Hal Pellow and Chet. . Buckenmaier, Phi Kappa Sig ma, 21-6, - 21-6; Don Ferguson, and Barry Hough, Phi Gamma . Delta, decisioned Les Walters and Joe Riley. Della Upsilon. '2l-11, 21-17. John Haas and Jim Keith, Sigma Chi, downed Bob Schreider and Jim Robson, Sigma Nu, 21-9, 21-10. IM VOLLEYBALL Volleyball winners were: the Hornets, the Bullets, the Cougars, Jordan Two, Theta Chi, Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Theta, Delta Chi, Delta Upsilon,- Sigma Phi Alpha and Alpha Zeta. CLASSIFIEDS ADS MUST BE IN BT 11:00 u.m. 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