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Computers and the problems of society.

Title
Computers and the problems of society. Edited by Harold Sackman and H. Borko.
Publication
Montvale, N.J., AFIPS Press, 1972.

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Additional Authors
  • Sackman, Harold
  • Borko, Harold
  • American Federation of Information Processing Societies.
Description
vii, 575 pages illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
USA. Compilation of writings on the growing need for computers to help ameliorate significant social problems - includes papers on the use of computers in respect of population, national level defence, management and planning, econometrics, information networks for the individual consumer, mass medias, urban planning, ecology, EDP, computer assisted instruction, etc., and the problem of individual privacy. References.
Subject
  • Electronic data processing
  • Computers and civilization
  • Electronic Data Processing
  • Computers and civilization
  • Electronic data processing
  • computer
  • social problem
  • population
  • national level
  • defence
  • management
  • planning
  • econometrics
  • information network
  • individual
  • consumer
  • mass media
  • urban planning
  • ecology
  • EDP
  • e-learning
  • ordinateur
  • problème social
  • niveau national
  • dèfense
  • gestion
  • planification
  • èconomètrie
  • rèseau d'information
  • individu
  • consommateur
  • mass mèdia
  • amènagement urbain
  • ècologie
  • traitement èlectronique des donnèes
  • apprentissage èlectronique
  • rèfèrence bibliographique
  • computadora
  • problema social
  • población
  • nivel nacional
  • defensa
  • administración
  • planificación
  • econometría
  • red de información
  • individuo
  • consumidor
  • medios de comunicación de masas
  • planificación urbana
  • ecología
  • elaboración electrónica de datos
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • reference.
  • referencia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / H. Sackman, H. Borko -- Prologue. Computers and human problems / H. Sackman -- Computers and the international order. International aspects / J. McLeod -- Computers and national security / E.W. Paxson -- Computers and the economic order. Population problems / D. Daetz, P.T. Faulkner -- Computers and economics : progress, problems and prospects / C. Wolf, J.H. Enns -- Computer services for individual consumers / J. Klaperman -- Management and planning problems / C.W. Churchman -- Mass communications / B. Bagdikian -- Computers and the environmental order. Urban problems / P. Kamnitzer -- Ecological problems / R. Weinberg, R.E. Morgan -- Biomedical data processing / E.C. DeLand -- Computers and the humanistic order. Educational problems / L.B. Doyle, N.F. Kristy -- Artificial reasoning machines and politics / H. Wheeler -- Individualism old and new / H. Sackman -- Epilogue. Conference summary and results / H. Borko.
ISBN
  • 0882830015
  • 9780882830018
LCCN
72083728
OCLC
  • ocm00707053
  • 707053
  • SCSB-241151
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library