There is a demand in industry for both computer science graduates and business information systems graduates. Educators need to start this training at the secondary level with an introduction to all phases of data processing for any interested student. (CT)

Several museum information processing systems are discussed in relation to their underlying assumptions regarding museum information and networking needs that have resulted in inadequate service to some kinds of museums, particularly historical museums. Rather than any of these systems, a modular approach is proposed that would allow each museum…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS TO OUTLINE THE MAJOR ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR VOCATIONAL DECISIONS DURING ITS SIXTH QUARTER (1 SEPTEMBER 1967 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1967) AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. THE REPORT INCLUDES DISCUSSIONS ON PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED, SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS, AND PLANNED FUTURE ACTIVITIES. IT COVERS THE…

The NCHEMS Costing and Data Management System is designed to assist institutions in the implementation of cost studies. There are at least two kinds of cost studies: historical cost studies which display cost-related data that reflect actual events over a specific prior time period, and predictive cost studies which forecast costs that will be…

The purpose of this study was to explore cost-effectiveness factors that affect the choice among alternative systems. A cost-effectiveness model that may be used to evaluate potential systems was derived and a statement of the general magnitude of costs that the American Psychological Association (APA) can expect in implementing and operating…

The discussion of the various approaches being taken to education in information science includes the development of specific definitions of "information,""information system" and "information science" which serve to rationalize these approaches. The result is a common core of interest to which the variety of…

The MITRE Corporation provided technical support to the Joint Center for Urban Studies in its Health Information System Project by developing a structured approach for the characterization and analysis of System Options. The approach was designed to stimulate relevant dialog and aid decision processes in the technically diverse, politically…

The general scope of SPIRAL is storage of free-flowing text information into a machine-readable library and recall of any portions of this stored information that are relevant to an inquiry. The major objectives in the design of the system were (1) to make it easy to use by persons unfamiliar with computer systems; and (2) to make it efficient, in…

The paper reports on a series of programs that have been developed at the Moore School to process data-bases, consisting of textual items, and to index and arrange the data items in accordance with an automatically generated classification system. The programs produce the directories and the rearranged data-base on microfilm, where it may be…

WISE-ONE, an information retrieval system, was designed to facilitate searches of the documents cataloged by the ERIC centers and distributed as ERIC RESUMAST master files. WISE-ONE is written to search for documents cataloged under any of the three indices (descriptors, identifiers, and author name), called search keys, and will yield the ERIC…

Broad coverage is essential to the effectiveness of information services. This paper criticizes the misleading claims made regarding computer-based systems in this context. It describes the Scientific Documentation Centre's services, the basis on which its resources are allocated, and the criteria for selection of operating techniques and…

Among other improvements in chemical nomenclature used in the Chemical Registry System, Chemical Abstracts Service intends to standardize the fundamental principles for naming cyclic structures so that procedures for the derivation of ring names can become more amenable to computer generation and translation. (Author/NH)

Discussed is the Czechoslovak program of State Information Policy which aims at the construction of a unified, integrated national system of scientific, technological and economic information. (Author/SJ)

The conversion of an information system containing air pollution related documents from manual to automatic computer-based operation is outlined with emphasis on the increased services to system users which resulted from the conversion. (Author)

We must most of all place emphasis on simulating the problems of business in the classroom rather than on simulating the physical environment. (Editor)