Information comes of age Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Information Scientists   Edited by Charles Oppenheim     ISBN 0 946138 05 2 1984 £18.00/US$34.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS     Evolution and prediction Sir Fred Hoyle     THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION   On Her Majesty's Record Duncan Campbell   The free flow of information: are politicians against it? Harry Collier   Protection of proprietary information and countering industrial espionage Peter Heims     EUROPEAN INFORMATION   Will Europeans ever learn to communicate? Jean-Michel Gibb   Survival and freedom, commercial or institutional dependence? Marino Saksida     TOOLS OF THE TRADE   Software - ready for a new direction? Mike Hyman   Users and retrieval software: diversity and convergence Susan M. Johnston   Cable TV: the progress Michael Aldrich   Fifth generation computing Roger Needham   Developments in printing technology and electronic publishing Brian Blunden   The management of local area networks Neil Maclean   Public wide-area data networks Adrian Stokes     THE INFORMATION SCIENTIST AS A PROFESSIONAL   The information scientist as a professional: status and marketing Angela Haygarth Jackson   Management's need for information Sir Robert Clayton   The contribution of information to society Lord Gowrie