A computer-drive interactive aid for movement analysis, called MOVANAID, has been developed to be of assistance in the performance of certain Army intelligence processing tasks in a tactical environment. It can compute fastest travel times and paths through road networks for military units of various types, as well as fastest times in which…

This description of the Census DIME (dual independent map encoding) file is directed toward school administrators and their staffs rather than to computer analysts. DIME can be used as the central component for a geographically based management information system. It provides the mechanism for the spatial display of data and for the determination…

An alternative sociology course is described that links student computer skills with available social survey data. The students, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have primarily technical and scientific interests, and the goal of the sociology courses offered is to promote awareness of the social world they will live and work in. Students are…