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The MIND System: A Data Structure for Semantic Information Processing.
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Examines the social and technical implications of information systems in relation to the individual's ability to control the dissemination of information about himself.
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A panel paper from the UCLA/Informatics Symposium, "Expanding Use of Computers in the 70s." The banking and securities industry will continue to expand rapidly, due not only to the larger number of customers but to the increased number of transactio...
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Compares the relative advantages of two new computers, the University of Illinois' parallel-organized ILLIAC IV and the Control Data Corporation's pipeline-organized STAR. Both increase computing speed by their overall organization. The parallel de...
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The glamour period of programming is over. Disenchanted by errors in billing and ballot counting, and dissatisfied with the quality of computer output, the public wants reliable products more than new ideas. Reprogramming for third-generation hardwa...
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An exercise toward determining how technology might assist the provision of biomedical information. Three present services are scrutinized as to current demand, responsiveness, and quality. The three chosen were MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis...
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The January issue features a major historical survey of Soviet computer technology, including photographs of nearly all Soviet computers in operation today.
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Featured are 3 articles by top Soviet computer scientists: V. M.Glushkov discusses trends in computer technology in 2 articles, specifically computer center organization.
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Description of the MIND Grammar-Rule Language (MGRL), including parsing procedure and grammar rules.
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A detailed description of the ANALYZE module of the MIND information system.
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Discussion of the strong dependence of computer science on probability and statistics. This RAND study in computational mathematics and its applications offers a number of examples to illustrate this dependence and is a potentially profitable source...
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One-constraint optimization problems are approached via Lagrange multipliers. Sequential search schemes for generating suitable trial multiplier values are compared, and it is shown that, in general, the minimax sequential search is bisection. For ...
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The second edition of the Rand Russian-English Dictionary of Cybernetics and Computer Technology contains over 300 new major entries, making a total of 2050 major entries and about 3300 subentries; each subentry defines a key term as it appears in fr...
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The October 1969 issue introduces preview synopses of new Soviet books of special interest to Western readers, and adds coverage of the new CPSU Central Committee newspaper. An overview of Soviet information retrieval work in science and technology i...
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The May issue features an article on automated management information systems in which it is clearly indicated that the Soviet labor force is feeling the effects of automation. Three articles on forecasting show that prognostics is beginning to take...
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This issue features a long article on the ATSEMS-1 hybrid analog-digital computing system; research at the Belorussian Engineering Cybernetics Institute; programming automation and new computer languages in Estonia; computerized retrieval Estonia; co...
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This issue features a 16-page survey of Soviet computer technology, as well as a number of other informative articles. A computerized linguistic information system is being developed at the new structural typology and linguistical statistics laborat...
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A seven-page summary of highlights of the year's contents is followed by three detailed indexes, arranged by subject, by personality, and by organization. An annotated bibliography of 18 RAND publications on Soviet cybernetics and computer technolog...
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A discussion of the problem of maintaining privacy in an age of computerized credit transactions, and a proposal that some government agency be charged with the responsibility for protecting citizens' privacy. Cost and convenience will ultimately fo...
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A discussion of the engineer's responsibility to protect privacy in an age of increasingly automated personal and business documentation. Computer systems could be designed more carefully than they are at present, but safeguards that provide the pro...
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