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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
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J. C. R. Licklider
Times
2000

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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

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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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010.78
Library of Congress
Z699 .L5

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xvii, 219 p.
Number of pages
219

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