bc@sri-unix (10/30/82)
An interesting aside to your comment about Fine Arts students: I became involved in computers, and became an engineer, primarily because I was interested in finding ways to get computers to help me make animated films. That was almost 15 years ago, and the art is now just about in the right state. The personal computers of the current generation are just about powerful enough to do the sorts of things I would like as an animator (no, not the number crunching stuff that Industrial Light and Magic do at dagobah and bespin; the sort of thing that Norman Mclaren does by hand). I suspect that a lot of other people could easily become involved in the the things that computers can do for their areas of interest, given exposure to the possibilities. Note the work being done on computer choreographic notation, as an example of imaginative use of computing power. Don't suppose that because you understand what computers are and how they work, that you have any idea of the limits of their applications. It's the users of computers who'll find those limits (though they'll be more likely just to continue expanding them).