With the dawning of the Information Age and the era of global competitiveness, new demands have been brought to universities to find ways of conducting basic research, of educating engineering students, and of interacting with government and industry. This paper describes an initiative that was created in Rochester, New York, an important center…

This article's focus on the rehabilitation future highlights past, present and probable trends affecting rehabilitation counseling changes in clientele, settings, counselor preparation and role, and in technology. The author believes that employment opportunities for rehabilitation counselors will continue to increase and that persons with…

This article is intended to accomplish three separate goals: to offer a statement of purpose for MISOE, to suggest implications of MISOE for managers of public education and society at large, and to present a guide for efficient reading of this publication. (Author/RK)

This chapter is concerned with introducing and explaining the tools provided to the educational manager for interacting with the MISOE system and provided serveral examples of the interaction process, being essentially geared towards demonstrating how this process might work. (Author/RK)

In part I (JASIS, March-April 1973) the author proposed a methodology for evaluating a retrieval system based on how much users are willing to pay to use the system. Part II sets forth steps in testing the methodology through the analysis of underlying assumptions and through experimentation. (3 references) (Author/RS)

A discussion of computer networks for educational purposes, primarily for information storage and retrieval. (HB)

Improvement in education clearly depends on improved management practice, which, in turn, depends on more effective information systems. The kind of management information systems needed in education in the seventies is referred to in the literature as a "fourth generation" system, one that focuses on the decision process and is developed in terms…

SOLAR is an interactive Storage and On-Line Automatic Retrieval system which is operational at Washington State University. It can run continuously with virtually any mix of tasks in a general purpose computing environment. (22 references) (Author)

A storage and retrieval system for chemical structures, using optical coincidence, is in use at Schering Corp. The system rapidly provides the research laboratories with structural information at any generic level. The design, maintenance, costs, and applications are discussed. (4 references) (Author)

A computer system, named CORA, has been devised for coding chemical structures by fragmentation elements. It has been used to encode Markush formulas in patents according to the Ring codes used in the Ringdoc and Pestdoc services and results in an easy, speedy, reliable and inexpensive method. (4 references) (Author)

Author states that information and communications technology offer students an opportunity for a better learning situation and considers developments taking place in both fields. (Author/RK)

Reports results of a survey made to determine the attitudes of secondary teachers, secretaries, and administrators on the use of a new grade collecting procedure developed by a local department of information services. (Author)

Described in a filing system useful for both regular and special education teachers which involves sample work sheets in a master file numbered to correspond to files of previously prepared materials. (DB)

Applying to air quality data, procedures are presented for site characterization, method identification, data validation, and data summarization that are being established by the Environmental Protection Agency for the National Aerometric Data Bank. Topics review screening criteria, atypical results (data outliers), data accuracy and precision,…