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SHARING SCIENTIFIC DATA Applied computation has a long and rich history of interdependent developments in number systems, algorithms and aids to calculation, but it was only recently that the means […]

Focuses on the unionization of professionals in the data processing (DP) industry in North America. Conflict between strategies guiding labor relations and structure of professional work in organizations; Success of the Federal Aviation Administration in keeping airports operational; Exclusion of professional DP engineers from bargaining units.

Presents views of several people on the importance of computing in developing nations. Documentation of the number of foreign graduate computer science students in the American universities; Information that from 10-20 percent of university students in Australia were from overseas; Proposal of designing new curriculum for foreign students; Comment that the software in native languages will open new channels for better planning and allocation of scarce resources among Third World countries.

This article presents guidelines for humanizing computerized information systems. Information systems will not become humanized on their own. Required is a conscious effort by concerned citizens including a combination of humanists, intellectuals, professionals and scientists. There has been a rise in the consciousness level of the purpose of computerization of the technological society. Serious investigations need to be undertaken to discover the procedures to be incorporated in information systems or in information parts of systems that would help avoid dehumanizing or would add humanizing qualities to them. Conditions need to be clarified under which humanization, as a discernible dimension, is included systematically as a design attribute to computer-based systems. Especially as systems involved range from information systems in the technical sense to the vague entity of management information systems, which include not only all bureaucratic procedures but perhaps all systems components that enter into the production and distribution of goods and services and into the economic, political and social management of society.

It has always been obvious that the aid to calculation offered by the computer forces a change in the curricula of mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering and other courses. Not so obvious are the many pedagogic aids the computer can offer in teaching the subject mailer, The possibilities of giving the student a better technical as well as conceptual understanding of statistics were explored for a number of years at the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati and are reported here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]