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Ascher, Marcia
Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York
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  Computers in the human context: information technology, productivity, and people
Forester T. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.  Type: Book (9780262560504)

Almost all of the 43 articles in this book have previously appeared in journals and magazines or as chapters of books. All were written or originally published between 1984 and 1988. Forester is to be commended for putting together suc...

Nov 1 1991  
  Mapping crime in its community setting: event geography analysis
Maltz M., Gordon A. (ed), Friedman W., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1991.  Type: Book (9780387973814)

The report to the National Institute of Justice on which this book is based details a three-year research project involving participants from four organizations: the Chicago Police Department, the Center for Research in Law and Justice...

Jul 1 1991  
  Archaeologists and the computer
Richards J., Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780470208526)

The scope of the paper is narrower than the title implies. It addresses two questions: what should British archaeology undergraduates be taught about computers and how can computers enhance the undergraduate teaching of archaeology? Th...

Feb 1 1988  
  The computer as a cultural artefact
Whitby B., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1986.  Type: Book (9780471909309)

The paper clearly and concisely presents the view that computer technology arose within a specific subculture and, as a result, carries with it a particular set of assumptions and values....

Dec 1 1987  
  Computerized psychiatric diagnosis in the elderly: AGECAT
Dewey M., Copeland J. Journal of Microcomputer Applications 9(2): 135-140, 1986.  Type: Article

The GMS-AGECAT system (Geriatric Mental State Schedule-Automated Geriatric Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy) has four stages. First, the patient is interviewed and rated on 541 symptoms. The scores are then condensed into 157...

May 1 1987  
  Intelligent knowledge-based systems in archaeology: a computerized simulation of reasoning by means of an expert system
Lagrange M., Renaud M. Computers and the Humanities 19(1): 37-67, 1985.  Type: Article

The authors discuss two forms of formal logical analysis applied to problems in archaeological interpretation. The first form, logicist analysis, consists of clearly identifying the following: (1) the descriptive data on which interpre...

Feb 1 1987  
  The new urban telecommunications infrastructure
Moss M. Computer/Law Journal VI(2): 323-332, 1985.  Type: Article

The paper is a thought-provoking discussion of the growth, and growing importance, of the telecommunications infrastructure. While not directly about their work, the paper relates the activities of computer professionals to other socie...

Sep 1 1986  
  A taxonomy for the social implications of computer technology
Pohl I.  Artificial and human intelligence (, Lyon, France, 2951984.  Type: Proceedings

The author classifies the social impacts of computer technology into three types: (1) methodological shifts brought about by such things as word processors and EFT systems; (2) dislocating shifts from, for example, the use of industria...

Aug 1 1985  
 
 
 
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