INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE INFORMATION SCIENCES, 'WITH FORKS AND HOPE'

Abstract

Electronic information handling is a rapidly developing technology. It is parasitic upon, host to, and symbiotic with many other technologies. Like all other technologies, it is presumably dependent upon a body of fundamental scientific disciplines and knowledge. Advances in information technology can only come in three ways: by specific R and D efforts in information handling per se; by exploiting fortuitous advances in ancillary technologies; and, by improvements in fundamental understanding. The emphasis of the paper is on the last of these, with emphasis on epistemology, intelligent automata, pattern recognition from visual to semantic, self-organization, and computer organization and programming.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0608774

Entities

People

  • Harold Wooster

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Machines
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Programming Languages
  • Recognition
  • Self Organizing Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Microelectronics