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Fredette, Michelle – Campus Technology, 2012
"Rent or buy?" is a question people ask about everything from housing to textbooks. It is also a question universities must consider when it comes to high-performance computing (HPC). With the advent of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Windows HPC Server, Rackspace's OpenStack, and other cloud-based services, researchers now have…
Descriptors: Systems Development, Educational Technology, Technology Planning, Information Networks
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Moulton, Lynda W. – Special Libraries, 1980
Describes the use of word processors for catalog card production, bulletin production, printouts of technical service data, and specialized bibliography printouts in the Energy Economics Group of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (FM)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Equipment, Information Centers, Information Services
Thomas, Stephen B. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1988
The article presents a brief, explanatory overview of the history and basic principles of teleprocessing and its application for health education. More technical information is provided on the related topics of data transmission and error checking schemes. (CB)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Health Education, Information Services
Woolfe, Roger – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1981
Introduces the concept of home publishing on the television screen, and provides detailed descriptions of videotex and teletext, including their similarities, differences between them and future prospects for educational applications of these two new information services designed for use with adapted TVs. (CHC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Futures (of Society), Information Services
Cox, Janis F.; Hiser, Judith N. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1983
At Clemson University, requests from individual departments for specialized data processing services are increasing. Avenues taken by the division of administrative programing services to respond to department requests include: expanding availability of existing data retrieval and restricting new development to areas of general use by all…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Processing, Departments, Higher Education
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Brandow, Ronald; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes a system that performs automatic summaries of news from a large commercial news service encompassing 41 different publications. This system was compared to a system that used only the lead sentences of the texts. Lead-based summaries significantly outperformed the sentence-selection summaries. (AEF)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Data Processing, Electronic Text, Expert Systems
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Shekhel, Alex; Freeman, Eva – Library Hi Tech, 1987
Discusses the advantages of parallel processor computers in terms of expandibility, cost, performance and reliability, and suggests that such computers be used in library automation systems as a cost effective approach to planning for the growth of information services and computer applications. (CLB)
Descriptors: Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Information Services
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Brown, Thomas P. – Library Trends, 1982
Presents new perspective on computerized information interchange within library community, and explains Open Systems Interconnection Model promoted by International Organization for Standardization, American National Standards Institute, and National Bureau of Standards. The Linked System Project undertaken by Library of Congress, Research…
Descriptors: Communications, Data Processing, Information Services, Information Systems
Porter, Sherron H. – School Business Affairs, 1979
Utah is one of the few states in the nation to provide statewide educational computer services from a centralized data processing installation. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
Zorn, Peggy; Emanoil, Mary; Marshall, Lucy; Panek, Mary – Online, 1999
Defines data mining and the three categories of data mining models: classification, clustering, and associations and sequencing. Discusses how specific text mining, knowledge management, and search engine vendors are developing products that will take the Web to the next level. (AEF)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Information Industry, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1985
Three Local Area Networks of up to 48 microcomputers each have been installed at San Francisco State University. In the administrative computing area the University is moving toward end user preparation and control of data as well as submission of batch jobs. Instructional computing and data communications are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
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Lancaster, F. W.; Neway, Julie M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982
Discusses the developments that have positively or adversely affected abstracting and indexing services over the past several decades, addressing such topics as the impact of computers and the migration from print-on-paper to online information provision. Forecasts for the near and long-term future are made and a reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Costs, Data Processing, Databases
Bluh, Pamela; And Others – Library Administration & Management, 1996
This special section on EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) in libraries includes eight articles that discuss experiences in libraries in the United Kingdom, EDI and the acquisitions process in Europe, a Canadian viewpoint, the ILS (Integrated Library Systems) vendor and EDI, public libraries, and EDI in the information services industry. (LRW)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Foreign Countries, Information Industry, Information Services
West, Thomas W. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1980
The experience of Indiana University in managing information resources--computing, word processing, telephone services, mail services, microfilming, and duplicating services--in a more integrated fashion is described and strategies to overcome tradition, the fiefdom syndrome, and institutional inertia are detailed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Data Processing, Higher Education
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Firth, Christine – Canadian Library Journal, 1985
Introduces the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM), one of Canada's first computerized databases consisting entirely of Canadian data. System design, distribution network, services (time series, cross-classified system, summary data system), information retrieval, data presentation, and the graphic displays of Telichart…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Data Processing, Databases, Display Systems
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