Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welcoming comments to the Conference on Science and the Information Onslaught / Donald M. Kerr
  • Technological innovation : the key to our national security / William J. Perry
  • The human possession and transfer of information / Robert Sokolowski
  • Computers, control, and intentionality / Arthur W. Burks
  • Machines and elephants never forget / Edward Teller
  • Review of the quantum-mechanical measurement problem / Eugene P. Wigner
  • How does one get so much information from so few assumptions? / Andrew M. Gleason
  • Has anything changed since "Science, government, and information"? / Alvin M. Weinberg
  • Some aspects of the information onslaught in geoscience / Rosemary Vidale
  • Libraries in the year 2000 / Fred E. Croxton
  • Large-scale parallel computers / Jacob T. Schwartz
  • Information and digital computing : too much with us, near and far? / Lowell L. Wood
  • Words and sounds / Mark Liberman
  • Natural language based information management systems / Stanley R. Petrick
  • Sandia and information handling / Morgan Sparks
  • Remarks on the accuracy of some recent World War II accounts / compiled from notes by Howard Stump and Louis W. Tordella
  • Science and national security decisions / Richard L. Garwin
  • The irrelevance of information to government decision making / Jeffrey R. Cooper
  • Can science education cope with the information onslaught? / Andrew M. Gleason [and others]
  • Consensus for action / Noel A.M. Gayler.