The event which would be held at the premises of the West Africa Senior High School at Adenta in Accra, is expected to be carried out simultaneously in all regions of the country.

[contextly_sidebar id=”hIiNfaHCGctAujEFqblNefHRHwpyhmyJ”]According to the Director General of the Ghana Education Servce, Mr. Jacob Kor, all Regional Ministers have been informed to liaise with the Ghana Education Service in the regions to observe the all-important event in a secondary school near them or any open space.

He explained that, although initial arrangement was to have a national program at the West Africa SHS, due to the level of importance that presidency placed on the project, the President has advised that the occasion be observed nationwide concurrently.

“On Tuesday President would do an official launching of the Free SHS Program at West Africa Senior High School at Adenta in Accra. The President has decided that the official launching would take place simultaneously in all the regions. They may decide to do it in a school or in an open space,”  he stated.

The Free Senior High School program is the flagship education program by the new government that seeks increase access to Secondary Education by removing the burden of paying fees from parents.

Under the policy, government would foot all bills including feeding fees, tuition fees and all other charges.

Over 420,000 eligible students would enjoy the program when it kicks off.

The Director General made the statement in Ho at the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary School last week.

He however added that “My First Day at School” a special event to welcome students in the basic schools back to a fresh academic cycle has been rescheduled from Tuesday to Wednesday.

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By: King Norbert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Dr Huskey was a key member of the team that built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Eniac) which first ran in February 1946.

Eniac is widely considered to be one of the first electronic, general purpose, programmable computers.

Dr Huskey also helped complete work on the Ace – the Automatic Computing Engine – designed by Alan Turing.

Founding father
The Eniac was built at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s and, once complete, was more than 100ft (30m) long, weighed 30 tonnes, used 18,000 valves and 1,500 relays.

Programming the massive machine to do different computational tasks involved rewiring its various units. Eniac was built to calculate the trajectory of shells for the US army.

Dr Huskey became involved with the development effort to create Eniac soon after joining Pennsylvania to teach mathematics to Naval recruits. His task was to make the punched card reader for the machine work and to write technical manuals describing how to operate it.

After the war, Dr Huskey travelled to the UK to help Alan Turing refine and complete the Ace.

This was built at the National Physical Laboratory and in 1950, when it ran its first program, it was the fastest computer in the world.

He also helped design and build two other machines – the Swac (Standards Western Automatic Computer) and the G-15 which, despite weighing almost a tonne. was known as a personal computer because it could be operated by one person.

Dr Huskey spent his entire academic career involved with computing teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and was one of the founders of the computer science faculty at UC Santa Cruz.

“Harry basically lived through and participated in the entire span of the history of electronic computing,” Dag Spicer, a curator at the Computer History Museum, told the New York Times.

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Source: BBC

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