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Scientific American

September 1, 1984

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Computer Software for Information Management

Enormous volumes of stored data are of use only if information can be retrieved quickly in an understandable form. Software for the purpose must reflect the structure of the data base and of the storage medium

By Michael Lesk

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MICHAEL LESK is a chief research scientist at Bellcore in Morristown, N.J. He is best known for work in electronic libraries, including the CORE project for chemical information, and for writing some Unix system utilities, such as those for table printing (tbl) and intersystem mail (uucp). Lesk is a Fellow of the ACM and a visiting professor of computer science at University College London. During 1987 he was Senior Visiting Fellow of the British Library.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 251 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Computer Software for Information Management” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 251 No. 3 (), p. 162
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0984-162
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