The document contains an outline of a course developed for an adult class meeting five hours per week for 18 weeks. The objectives of the course are to develop: an appreciation of the growing uses of automatic data processing; an entry level job proficiency in the operation of the keypunch machine; work habits conducive to job proficiency; and…

Presented are the results of a study conducted to develop algorithms for ordering and organizing data that can be presented in a two-dimensional matrix form. The purpose of the work was to develop methods to extract latent data patterns, grouping, and structural relationships which are not apparent from the raw matrix data. The algorithms…

Technique for Establishing Personnel Performance Standards (TEPPS) is a tool for use in man-machine system design and analysis. This is a guide to its application. It specifies the types of input data required, provides instructions and examples on how to proceed through the various steps in TEPPS' application, and includes guidelines for…

This paper discusses in some detail the procedural areas of reconstruction and automatic processing used by the Classroom Interaction Project of the University of Missouri's Center for Research in Social Behavior in the analysis of classroom language. First discussed is the process of reconstruction, here defined as the "process of adding to…

Information systems developed to support university planning must be designed to insure that all planning needs can be met. Only highly flexible, highly integrated information systems can meet current planning requirements. Such systems should be designed in a modular fashion and employ user-oriented languages to select and combine the system…

General Information Storage, Retrieval, and Application System (GENIRAS) is a computer-aided information system designed for the storage, retrieval, and manipulation of data files. The system gives the user (1) flexibility in defining and using data bases, (2) a wide range of procedures to be applied to the data, and (3) a variety of acceptable…

In the area of the mathematical sciences, a national information system will principally be concerned with the dissemination (including publication) rather than the creation of primary information. Here "dissemination" refers to both general distribution of information which is not responsive to specific pre-existing inquiries as well as…

The author suggests that the best guidance programs are those which allow the professional counselor the largest amount of time for counseling. The use of computers in the field of guidance assists the counselors in information storage and retrieval and provides for individualized instruction. However, the use of computers will require specific…

Cooperative Research Project 1605 was concerned with the use of a computer (in the IBM 1620 SPS programing language) in designing school bus routes. This is the concluding report of that project which is here converted into the FORTRAN language. Other objectives were to expand and refine the program, increase its speed, and reduce its costs. The…

This study concentrated on the investigation and development of a computerized system of student registration, sectioning, and record handling. The report presents the results of the study and describes a pilot system that was developed at Texas A&M University. The basic system is discussed, along with the procedures involved in data…

Two essential components of the information-logic problem are: (1) choosing some known part of the total information block for parallel review of the entire block and (2) parallel logic processing of a sequence of codes. The described device fulfills these essential components thereby improving information processing and increasing the speed of…

Working toward the goal of an automatic indexing system which is truly competitive with human indexing in cost, time and comprehensiveness the Machine-Aided Indexing (MAI) process was developed at the Defense Documentation Center (DDC). This indexing process uses linguistic techniques but does not require complete syntactic analysis of sentences…

Data Collection and reduction procedures used in the system for the Analysis of Classroom Communication (SACC) are presented. The SACC is a system devised for the systematic observation of verbal and non-verbal classroom behavior. Coders employ data sheets which contain numbered cells for recording behavior at five second intervals. Each sheet…

Comprehensive Analytical Methods for Planning in University Systems (CAMPUS) and Computerized Analysis Adapting the Techniques of Simulation to Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAATS)-2 are combined to represent a computer based information and planning system. This system is designed to help the community colleges of Ontario gain the…

A comprehensive general reference on computer use, this volume contains reports on the state of the art, data communications, computer techniques, industrial applications, and general data processing. It provides several directories and source lists, including book publishers, professional organizations, and equipment manufacturers. It lists…