A look at the ALOHA SYSTEM research project at the University of Hawaii, which developed and built a computer-communication network based upon the use of UHF radio broadcast channels for console to computer and computer to computer communication. (Author)

A satire on the use of computers in the classroom. (HB)

A presentation of a model showing how computers can be used in correspondence study. (HB)

Results of a survey on the need, functions, and competencies of the media professional in industry. (DS)

A computer-assisted periodical control system was designed to reduce clerical time required to maintain records in three areas: renewal audit, routing, and records-keeping. The renewal audit features are unusual and are described in detail. (3 references) (Author/DH)

The complex and time-consuming task of preparing an acronym directory with fully documented entries for the library, information, and computer science fields was appropriately aided by methodology of these fields. The input record is constantly available for searching despite dispersal of the component 3 X 5 card records. (1 reference) (Author/NH)

While the computer is presently largely performing functions such as payroll processing and scheduling, in a few years it will affect virtually every student from the kindergarten through the graduate school in some way or another relating to his learning. (Author/CB)

Establishes an argument that questions the validity of one test'' of goodness-of-fit (the extent to which a series of obtained measures agrees with a series of theoretical measures) for the simulated time path of a simple endogenous (internally developed) variable in a simultaneous, perhaps dynamic econometric model. (Author)

Surveys the development of mathematical and computer-oriented tools for historical scholarship in the Soviet Union. (MB)

Question and answer format concludes a series of articles on computing. (Editor)

Discusses the topics of management, satellite uses, and technological advances as they relate to the needs of the urban environment. (Author)

Presents overview of library uses of automation, noting the earliest example of a "black box" in 1588, the "indicator" invented in England in 1863, various forms of card catalogs, and computer solutions posed by Vannevar Bush, J. C. R. Licklider, Project Intrex, and John G. Kemeny. Ten references are cited. (EJS)