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Edwards, John P. – American School and University, 1970
Describes how Danbury, Connecticut justified its computer costs by consolidating school and city accounting functions. (JF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Time Sharing
O'Neil, Carole; Pytlik, Mark – 1973
The Canadian Department of Education developed this manual to provide teachers and administrators with information about the potential use of computers. Part I describes at length the five components of the computer input, output, storage, control, and arithmetic/logic functions) and gives a discussion of computer languages, programing, batch…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Computer Science
Roberts, Roger – 1969
HELP--a question-answering system--enables a user, sitting at the console of a time-shared computer, to obtain information on questions typed in. This information might concern the operating system itself, the format of commands to the user interface executive program, the use of a selected subsystem, or an area totally separate from the computer.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Information Retrieval, Programing
International Business Machines Corp., White Plains, NY. – 1967
Preliminary specifications of major equipment and programing systems characteristics for a remote terminal central computing facility serving 25-75 secondary schools are presented. Estimation techniques developed in a previous feasibility study were used to delineate workload demands for four model regions with different numbers of institutions…
Descriptors: Centralization, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Fitzhugh, Robert J.; Pethia, Richard D. – 1974
The paper descibes a compact and highly efficient disk file management system responsible for the management and allocation of space on moving head disk drives in a medium-scale time-sharing system. The disk file management system is a major component of the Experimental Time-Sharing System (ETSS) developed at the Learning Research and Development…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Summers, J. K.; Sullivan, J. E. – 1970
This document explains recent developments in computer science and information systems of interest to the educational manager. A brief history of computers is included, together with an examination of modern computers' capabilities. Various features of card, tape, and disk information storage systems are presented. The importance of time-sharing…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Ebersole, Joseph L. – 1970
Improvements in the technology associated with the information sciences will have their primary potential impact on the distribution of costs, information flow level, information availability, and use among information channels. This improvement implied not only a capability to perform a given function, but a lower cost. For example, the trend…
Descriptors: Automation, Clearinghouses, Computer Output Microfilm, Computer Programs
Hsiao, David K. – 1973
The subject of access control mechanisms in computer systems is concerned with effective means to protect the anonymity of private information on the one hand, and to regulate the access to shareable information on the other hand. Effective means for access control may be considered on three levels: memory, process and logical. This report is a…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Confidentiality
Fletcher, J. D.; Schulz, R. W. – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1973
Documents issues on and makes specific recommendations for adapting extant time-sharing systems for computer assisted instruction. (Authors/WM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Man Machine Systems
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY. – 1975
The papers and discussions of the 1975 Pacific Region meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery are presented. Topics included (1) the current and emerging state of the art in data management software and hardware, (2) relational systems with particular attention to new developments in systems for relational data bases, (3) advances in…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
ANDERSON, RONALD R.; TAYLOR, ROBERT S. – 1967
THE MANUAL DESCRIBES AND DOCUMENTS THE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM IN TERMS OF ITS TAPE AND DISK FILE PROGRAMS AND ITS SEARCH PROGRAMS AS USED BY THE LEHIGH CENTER FOR THE INFORMATION SCIENCES FOR SELECTED CURRENT LITERATURE OF THE INFORMATION SCIENCES, ABOUT 2500 DOCUMENT REFERENCES. THE SYSTEM IS PRESENTLY ON-LINE VIA TELETYPE AND CONVERSION IS IN PROCESS…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Correlation, Display Systems
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Ackley, Paul R.; Nardello, Robert A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
The mini-computer is found to be a viable alternative to large computer bio-medical information processing. (Author/RS)
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing, Information Retrieval, Matrices
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Barnes, Martha – Top of the News, 1983
Explains computer terminology in areas of computer memory, computer languages, programing, computer hardware, and time sharing. A list of computer terms is appended. (EJS)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Storage Devices, Glossaries, Information Networks
Brahan, J. W.; Cossalter, J. G. – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1973
The National Research Council of Canada has under way a research project aimed at the development of facilities required to permit the computer to be used effectively in computer-aided learning applications. (Authors)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Clark, David D.; And Others – 1971
The report describes the Classroom Information and Computing Service (CLICS), a pedagogical computer-based information system that is used as a case study in the subject "Information Systems" in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. CLICS is an abstraction of the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (MULTICS) that is being…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing
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