FORUM OF FEDERALLY SUPPORTED ANALYSIS CENTERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 26, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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26 July 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: CODIB Members
SUBJECT: Forum of Federally Supported Analysis Centers
1. Members of CODIB have been invited to attend or send
observers to the Forum of Federally Supported Information Analysis
Centers sponsored by COSATI Panel #6, to be held at the National
Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 7-8, 1967,
2. Attached is a copy of a letter from Dr. Edward L. Brady,
Chairman of COSATI Panel 416, sponsor of the Forum, and a tentative
outline of the program. Those who do not participate in the
working groups will be invited to tour the facilities of the
National Bureau of Standards.
3. There will be a registration fee of $25-30 which will
also cover the cost of transportation from and to downtown
Washington and a dinner meeting at the Shoreham Hotel on
November 7.
4. Dr. Brady indicated that there would be room for one
(t)ossibly two) representatives from each agency represented on
CODIBQ
5. Arrangements for attendance/participation should be
made directly with Dr. Brady's office at National Bureau of
Standards, code 164 ext. 2467.
Secretary
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20234
July 12, 1967
IN REPLY REFER TO: 201.00
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Support Staff
CIA Headquarters
Washington, D. C. 20505
In accordance with our conversation, I am writing to give you more infor-
mation about the forum of federally supported information analysis centers
about which we spoke. The forum is under the sponsorship of the Committee
on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) of the Federal Council
for Science and Technology, with arrangements being made by the COSATI
Panel on Information Analysis Centers.
The theme is to be "The Flow of Information--Opportunities and Responsibil-
ities of Information Analysis Centers." The purposes are to allow informa-
tion analysis center representatives to exchange ideas with each other and
with government program officials, with the hope of obtaining at least a
few solutions to key problems. The meeting will also serve to inform in-
formation analysis center managers of COSATI activity and of government
interest in their centers. Some of the major policy problems affecting
information center activities, such as copyright provisions and security
restrictions, will be featured in talks by experts on these matters.
The meeting will open with a brief description of the objectives of the
forum and the activities of the COSATI Panel on Information Analysis Cen-
ters, presented by myself. This will be followed by a keynote speech.
Following the keynote speech, the forum will break up into a series of
workshops which will examine specific problems in several areas and, hope-
fully, suggest solutions to some of them for consideration by COSATI and
its member agencies. The second morning of the meeting features a presen-
tation by the Chairman of COSATI on the future of information programs,
followed by discussions on security and copyright problems. The after-
noon session will consist of reports of the working group chairmen.
I am sending herewith copies of the proposed program.
Sincerely yours,
Edward L. Brady, Chief
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FORUM OF FEDERALLY SUPPORTED
INFO:t,%Ti1:TION ANALYSIS CENTERS
Sponsored by the COSATI Panel 06
Information Analysis and Data Centers
p case print large
PLEASE DISPLAY THIS BADGE FOR ADMISSION
Forum Theme: The Flow of Information_OpportunIties
and Responsibilities of Inforrtallon
Analysis Centers
Dates: November 7-8, 1967
place: National Bureau of Standards
Gaithersburg, Maryland
November 7, 1967
8:00-9:30 Registration, badges. assignment to
working groups
9:30-9:45 Opening comments, administrative proce-
dures, outline of programs-Dr. James I.
Vette (NASA), Program Chairman
9:45-10:15 Objective of Forum and activities of
COSATI Panel #6, I)r. Edward L. Brady
(NBS). Chairman of Panel #6
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30 Keynote Speaker (to'be announced)
11:30-12:30 Working groups assemble in assigned
rooms. Tour group remains in auditorium.
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:3c^-4:G3 Working groups i forracl session
TOUR-demonstrations of man-machine
systems in data centers
4:00-5:00 Working group chairmen and recorders
prepare summary for presentation on tad
day
6:30-7:30 Cocktails, Shoreham Hotel
7:30-8:30 Dinner. Shoreham Hotel Palladium Room.
Spouses and other interested persons
will be able to purchase dinner tickets.
Registration fee includes cost of dinner.
8:30-9:30 After Dinner Speaker (to be announced)
IDEN= ~-cC __CATION OF WOI11U 3 c--EtOUIf'a
AND CHAIRMEN
WORKING GROUP I
SOLUTIONS TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS
Chairman, Dr. Edgar A. Bering, Jr... National Institute
of Neurological Diseases and Blindness. National
Institutes of health.
. WORKING GROUP H
SOLUTIONS TO DATA AND INFORMATION
PROBLEMS
Chairman. Prof. Y. S. Toulouklan, Purdue University
WORKING GROUP III
SOLUTIONS TO PERSONNEL PROBLEMS
Chairman, Mr. John Murdock, Battelle Memorial Institute
9:00-9:10 Administrative mutters-Dr. Vctte
9:10-10:15 Future of National Information Programs-
Chairman of COSATI
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30 Security and R&D-Mr. Joseph J. Liebling,
Director for Security Policy. Office of
Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Administration)
11:30-12:30 Impact of Copyright, Mr. Abraham L.
Kaminstein, Register of Copyrights.
Copyright Office, Library of Congress
12:30-1:30 . LUNCH
1:30-3:30 Report of Working Group Chairmen. Dis-
cussion from floor.
3:30-4:00 E'uture plans and final, comments-Dr.
Brady
WORKING GROUP IV
SOLUTIONS TO CUSTOMER INTERACTION
Chairman, Mr. At Bel/our, Mechanical Properties Data
Center
WORKING GROUP V
INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE
Chairman, Dr. Woodrow C. Jacobs, Environmental Data
Services, Environmental Science Services Adminis-
tration
WORKING GROUP VI
DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE
Chairman, Mr. Curtis L. Fritz, Technical Assistant to
the Director. Office of Science and Technology
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