Temple and Pepperdine Universities have found it profitable to contract out developing a plan for new computer facilities, equipment, systems, and staff to meet the needs and goals of the institutions. (Author/MLF)

This paper classifies and surveys the basic peripheral hardware, in particular, that relevant to graphic data entry, and relates the merits of each device to the interaction process. (Author)

With the fantastic growth in computerized data processing and management, there arises a great need for improved techniques in cataloging of machine readable data bases. The purpose of this report is to define a system by which computerized data bases may be cataloged for easy reference and availability. Developed from a computer scientist's…

Reviews some of the more concerted, large-scale efforts in the earth resources areas" in order to help the computer community obtain insights into the activities it can jointly particpate in withthe earth resources community." (Author)

Discusses the role and importance of computers in today's society. Business teachers must prepare their students to function in an environment which includes all kinds of computers. (JOW)

A model which relates the access control and indexing functions. The model is based on concept protection which allows a practically unbounded number of levels (subsets) of protection without requiring a fixed hierarchy among the levels. This protection is offered independently for each of the user operations allowed. (Author)

A number of basic concepts relating to debugging are identified and a gross theory of debugging is described. (Author)

DATADRAW is a command language, written in FORTRAN IV, to manipulate stacks, queues, lists and trees, and to display them on the CDC 252 scope system attached to a CDC 6600. A DATADRAW primer is given, and the algorithms for updating and displaying structures are described. It is noted that DATADRAW was designed to be a simple command language…

Article describes a generalized data service system that incorporates many scanning applications. (Author)

Examines the effect of Developments in the internal logic devices on the future evolution of the computer. The invention and role of new transistors is discussed. Bibliography. (LC)

A full service educational data processing center has been serving the data processing needs of the local schools and intermediate agencies for 16 years without interruption. (Author/MLF)

The importance of using a theory of characters in the designing of automatic computer character recognition algorithms for hand-printed letters is demonstrated. (Author)