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Computers and the problems of society.

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

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Additional authors
  1. Sackman, Harold
  2. Borko, Harold
  3. American Federation of Information Processing Societies.
Description
  1. vii, 575 pages illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Electronic data processing
  2. Computers and civilization
  3. Electronic Data Processing
  4. Computers and civilization
  5. Electronic data processing
  6. computer
  7. social problem
  8. population
  9. national level
  10. defence
  11. management
  12. planning
  13. econometrics
  14. information network
  15. individual
  16. consumer
  17. mass media
  18. urban planning
  19. ecology
  20. EDP
  21. e-learning
  22. ordinateur
  23. problème social
  24. niveau national
  25. dèfense
  26. gestion
  27. planification
  28. èconomètrie
  29. rèseau d'information
  30. individu
  31. consommateur
  32. mass mèdia
  33. amènagement urbain
  34. ècologie
  35. traitement èlectronique des donnèes
  36. apprentissage èlectronique
  37. rèfèrence bibliographique
  38. computadora
  39. problema social
  40. población
  41. nivel nacional
  42. defensa
  43. administración
  44. planificación
  45. econometría
  46. red de información
  47. individuo
  48. consumidor
  49. medios de comunicación de masas
  50. planificación urbana
  51. ecología
  52. elaboración electrónica de datos
  53. USA
  54. Etats-Unis
  55. Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  1. reference.
  2. referencia.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.