The progress made on 65 contracts and grants active during 1968 in the four areas designated by the COSATI subject headings: (1) documentation and information technology, (2) language and linguistics, (3) bionics and (4) information theory are presented. Selected highlights of the program are given in the introductory chapter. This is followed by…

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 data involved in a program-planned budget may be considered as being a two-dimensional array of numbers as opposed to a single column of numbers in the traditional budget accounting systems. Depending on the complexity of the organization, there may be more or fewer blanks in the two dimensional matrix. In the worst case, items can be squared,…

This paper provides the description, documentation and users' and programmers' guide for the keyword out of context (KWOC) library indexing system, with coding references, program flow charts, program listings, procedure flow charts and instructions for maintenance and operation. (Author)

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…

When choosing a college, the student must (1) know his own strengths, limitations, resources, and interests, (2) be able to find a college compatible with his various needs and wishes, and (3) know how to compare the likely ones. Since all three problems are difficult to solve, many poor choices are made by both the students and the colleges. To…

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…

A two-fold solution to the cost information deficiency problem is proposed. A formal managerial cost accounting system is designed expressly for the two information services of retrospective search and selective dissemination. The system was employed during a trial period to test its effectiveness in a technical information center. Once…

This paper proposes a method of handling limited problems in dialect research. In approaching the problem, it was necessary to devise a system for coding phonetic transcription which would take into account the variance in the diacritics of different field workers so that none of the material would be lost while permitting computer analysis. The…

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…

The terms in this glossary come from the fields of electronics, communications, systems analysis, mathematics, and computer science. When two or more terms have the same meaning, the preferred term is noted. Relationships between terms are shown by descriptive cross-referencing expressions (i.e., similar to, contrasted with, related to, clarified…

As part of a short (five-hour) "package" or "module" of computer instruction, this booklet can be inserted into existing courses. It is aimed at the problem of giving large numbers of liberal-arts students a "literacy" in computation -- cheaply, feasibly, and with minimum facilities, staff, and administrative…

A system for continuously evaluating the ongoing progress of each child in Project Follow Through classrooms that are involved in the Behavior Analysis Program is discussed briefly. The steps in the process are: (1) define an instructional objective; (2) record the weekly book and page placement of every child in the class on a special roster; (3)…

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…

As the scholarly record has grown, so have bibliographic control instruments, some of which are in machine readable form. The expense of setting up an organization for access to the machine readable data bases seems beyond the budgets of most institutions. The objective is to establish a dependable service organization to make machine readable…