Three basic notions--version, session and command language--are discussed which are essential for a user of the Rapidly Extensible Language (REL) system. The first is defined as a language--data base package consisting of a language, data and definitions. A session is stipulated to be the period during which the user operates at a terminal, and…

The general public's attitudes towards continually expanding computer usage is frequently speculated about but is far from understood. This study is aimed at providing objective data on the public's attitudes towards computers, their uses, their perceived impact on the American economy as well as on the individual, and their future uses. The…

The May 1971 issue of "College and Research Libraries" featured an article by Dr. Ellsworth Mason which constitutes an all-out attack on the application of computer technology to library systems. Dr. Mason views the computer-based technology to library systems developed to date (at least the ones he has studied) as unqualified disasters from a…

The bibliography contains 308 abstracts of unclassified Rand studies dealing with various aspects of computing technology. The studies selected have all been issued during the period January 1963 through August 1971. The intention is to revise the bibliography at periodic intervals to incorporate new publications. Both subject and author indexes…

These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to…

This report describes the initial evaluation of a text compression algorithm against computer assisted instruction (CAI) material. A review of some concepts related to statistical text compression is followed by a detailed description of a practical text compression algorithm. A simulation of the algorithm was programed and used to obtain…

The primary aim of these five technical papers is to indicate aspects of proof theory which may be of use in the study of non-numerical computing. The three main papers are entitled: "Checking of Computer Programs;""Consistency Proofs and Programs for Translators;" and "Experiments with Computers on the Complexity of Non-numerical computations."…

Electronic computers have caused numerous changes in medical health sciences, and the abilities of the computer are so great that much research thinking, administrative planning, and other medical activities are controlled largely by what the machine can do. However, developments in computer technology have occurred in different areas with little…

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…

The Creativity Center, a consortium of 56 cooperating specialists, has as its primary objective the development of a computer-aided process which will assist the common man in solving the problems of daily life more creatively. The current model guides an individual by questions which lead to an acceptable solution to the problem. Over the…

This paper discusses in general terms when computer based instructional simulation (CBIS) is appropriate and suggests how to construct a good instructional simulation. The role that documentation plays is particularly stressed, as is determining that CBIS is the proper instructional method. (Author/IRT)

Presents the feelings and considered opinions of noncomputer professionals in an effort to provide information to computer professionals who are concerned with defining their responsibility in the area of the effects of computer technology on human society. (Author/IRT)

As computers continue to play an increasingly greater role in all segments of society, both government and business must begin to more vigorously attack the human-related problems they create before these problems become entrenched and impossible to rectify. (Author)

Describes technological advancements being made in the Japanese computer industry. (SL)