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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
219

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Subjects

Forecasting, Library science, Information technology, Information storage and retrieval systems, Information science

People

J. C. R. Licklider

Times

2000
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Libraries of the future
1965, MIT Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 1
Scope
Page 1
Epoch
Page 2
The Role of Schemata
Page 3
Pages, Books, and Libraries
Page 4
The Relevance of Digital Computers
Page 8
PART I. MAN'S INTERACTION WITH RECORDED KNOWLEDGE
Page 11
1. The Size of the Body of Recorded Information
Page 13
Estimates of the Size
Page 13
Size of the Corpus versus Capacity of Computer Memories and Speed of Computer Processors
Page 15
2. Aims, Requirements, Plans, and Criteria for Procognitive Systems
Page 21
Acquisition of Knowledge
Page 21
Organization of Knowledge
Page 24
Use of Knowledge
Page 26
Processing versus Control and Monitoring of Processing
Page 28
Criteria for Procognitive Systems
Page 32
Plan for a System to Mediate Interactions with the Fund of Knowledge
Page 39
Steps toward Realization of Procognitive Systems
Page 59
3. Information Storage, Organization, and Retrieval
Page 70
Systems Based on Sets and Subsets
Page 71
Space Analogues
Page 77
Functions and Relations
Page 78
Predicate Calculus
Page 85
Higher-Order Languages
Page 86
4. Man-Computer Interaction in Procognitive Systems
Page 90
The Physical "Intermedium"
Page 92
Man-Computer Interaction Languages
Page 104
Adaptive Self -Organization in Man-Computer Interaction
Page 126
PART II. EXPLORATIONS IN THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN LIBRARY AND PROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
Page 129
5. Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language by Computer
Page 131
6. Research on Quantitative Aspects of Files and Text
Page 142
On the Length of a Class of Serial Files
Page 143
Entropy of Words in Printed English
Page 146
7. A Measure the Effectiveness of Information- Retrieval Systems
Page 148
8. Libraries and Question-Answering Systems
Page 152
9. Studies of Computer Techniques and Procedures
Page 157
An "Executive" Program to Facilitate the Use of the PDP-1 Computer
Page 158
On-Line Man-Computer Communication
Page 170
A File Inverter
Page 174
An Automated Card Catalogue
Page 175
A System to Facilitate the Study of Documents
Page 177
Associative Chaining as an Information-Retrieval Technique
Page 179
Two Question-Answering Systems
Page 182
An Approach to Computer Processing of Natural Language
Page 192
References
Page 205
index
Page 209

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 205-208.
Based on a study sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, inc., and conducted by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, inc., between Nov. 1961 and Nov. 1963.

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Dewey Decimal Class
010.78
Library of Congress
Z699 .L5

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xvii, 219 p.
Number of pages
219

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OL5942946M
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LCCN
65013831
OCLC/WorldCat
293366
National Library of Australia
2178383
Library Thing
678379
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9780262120166
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