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Science, computers, and the information onslaught : a collection of essays
Title:
Science, computers, and the information onslaught : a collection of essays
Author:
Kerr, Donald M.
ISBN:
9780124049703
9781483263052
Publication Information:
Orlando : Academic Press, 1984.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Welcoming comments to the Conference on Science and the Information Onslaught / Donald M. Kerr -- Technological innovation : the key to our national security / William J. Perry -- The human possession and transfer of information / Robert Sokolowski -- Computers, control, and intentionality / Arthur W. Burks -- Machines and elephants never forget / Edward Teller -- Review of the quantum-mechanical measurement problem / Eugene P. Wigner -- How does one get so much information from so few assumptions? / Andrew M. Gleason -- Has anything changed since "Science, government, and information"? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- Some aspects of the information onslaught in geoscience / Rosemary Vidale -- Libraries in the year 2000 / Fred E. Croxton -- Large-scale parallel computers / Jacob T. Schwartz -- Information and digital computing : too much with us, near and far? / Lowell L. Wood -- Words and sounds / Mark Liberman -- Natural language based information management systems / Stanley R. Petrick -- Sandia and information handling / Morgan Sparks -- Remarks on the accuracy of some recent World War II accounts / compiled from notes by Howard Stump and Louis W. Tordella -- Science and national security decisions / Richard L. Garwin -- The irrelevance of information to government decision making / Jeffrey R. Cooper -- Can science education cope with the information onslaught? / Andrew M. Gleason [and others] -- Consensus for action / Noel A.M. Gayler.
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