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Parallel Processing and Information Retrieval.
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Rasmussen, Edie M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1991
This issue contains nine articles that provide an overview of trends and research in parallel information retrieval. Topics discussed include network design for text searching; the Connection Machine System; PThomas, an adaptive information retrieval system on the Connection Machine; algorithms for document clustering; and system architecture for…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cluster Grouping, Computer Networks, Computer System Design
Global Change Resources, Projects, and Tools.
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Stoss, Fred; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1995
Contains 16 articles that discuss activities relating to global change, including world data centers; the Global Change Master Directory, the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) gopher, Project Earthlink, Government Information Locator Service, Global Land Information System, National Resources Inventory, Earth System Science…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Curriculum Development, Federal Programs, Information Management
Rhetoric of the 'REN: The Myths of the Information Superhighway.
Case, Donald O. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Examines contrasting scenarios of the proposed National Information Infrastructure and its antecedents, the Internet and the NREN (National Research and Education Network). Topics include a public network offering popular services versus a private, revenue-driven network; network development; information superhighway analogies; network benefits;…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Information Policy
Symposium on Legislative Information Support Systems.
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Bortnick, Jane; And Others – Government Information Quarterly, 1991
This issue includes six articles that discuss access to information provided by computerized databases and communications networks for legislators. Highlights include state legislative systems; information systems in the Senate; online services in the House of Representatives; information technology in the Congressional Research Service; the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries
Technology Brings Voyagers into Classrooms.
Inn, Kristina; And Others – Kamehameha Journal of Education, 1995
Three articles focus on many classroom activities and experiments inspired by the voyage of two canoes, built of traditional materials, from Hawaii's Hilo Harbor in 1995. Nationwide, students followed daily satellite tracking, accessed the Internet for updated accounts of the canoes, talked directly with navigators, and watched television…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Creative Teaching
The Redesign/Reengineering of an Information Services Division in a Major Health Sciences Institution.
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Ball, Marion J.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Seven articles present perspectives on the redesign/reengineering of an information services division in a major health sciences institution, based on lessons learned at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Topics addressed include information technology and the university, information services, user needs, redeploying resources, realigning…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Symposium on the Summary Report of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Information 2000: Library and Information Services for the 21st Century.
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Curtis, Jean M.; And Others – Government Information Quarterly, 1992
Eight articles discuss the ramifications of the summary report of the 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services ("Information 2000") from the perspectives of documents librarians, special libraries, the American Library Association, and Native American library services. The conference themes of democracy, literacy,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, American Indians, Computer Networks, Copyrights