A 16-year-old Israeli high school student faced a press conference here today and explained to newsmen the workings of a digital, electronic computer which he had designed and built, and will display next month at the National Science Fair-International, to be held at St. Louis.
The boy is Zvi Klein, a sixth-grade pupil at the Rehovoth Secondary School. He was the winner of this year’s annual Israeli science model contest. The Fair at St. Louis is to be conducted under the auspices of Science Service, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences; the National Science Research Council, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the E.W. Scripps Estate and the American Journalistic profession.
Young Klein described his computer as an elementary adding and subtracting machine with a capacity of two digits, able to perform any number of both operations in any order within certain limits. His electronic circuitry comprises 968 assorted components. The contest among Israeli high school students aged 14 to 18, was conducted by the Weizmenn Institute of Science, in the boy’s home town of Rehovoth, in cooperation with El AI Israel Airlines.
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