MINUTES OF COINS COMMITTEE MEETING OF 20 OCT 1967

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000100120016-3
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 26, 1967
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 26 Oct 67
SUBJECT. Minutes of COINS Committee Meeting of 20 Oct 1967
1. The COINS Committee met at NPIC on 20 Oct 1967. A list of those
attending is inclosed.
2. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
25X1 3? DIA COINS Committee member is leaving ? DIA, and
appointment of a successor is still under consideration. will
probably act as principal DIA COINS Representative until a permanen
representative is named..
4. The principal purpose of this meeting was to conduct a survey of users,
information retrieval methods and languages being developed by the different
COINS agencies for internal use; and to discuss various approaches to providing
increased COINS information retrieval capability by the employment of a user
oriented. computer language. Dr. Lawrence Roberts of the DOD Advanced Research
Projects Agency, a recognized authority in computer sciences was invited to
attend the meeting to offer any assistance he can to aid the COINS Committee
in its consideration of the user language problem. Also attending the meeting
was Dr. John Egan., Staff Asst., Office of Special Asst.(Natl..Intel.) Director
Defense R&E, Off of Sec. of Defense.
25X1 a* briefed the group on DIA formatted file retrieval
25X1 language. presented the CIA language TOE. UE, and
presented the NSA TIL language.
b. One factor common to all of the retrieval languages described was
the necessity for users Iuzowledge of the existence of specific files and names
for interrogation, file structure and content, date level, etc.
c. Dr. Roberts presented a brief description of a nationwide computer
nctwork.sponsored by ARPA which will link together many diverse, multiple access
computer systems of independent agencies and universities engaged in research.
Some of the potential uses of this network are:
(1) Access to a language or computer utility not available
locally.
(2) Remote use of a large program eliminating local reprogramming.
(3) Remote bulk computing power for a local machine which provides
interactive input and presentation.
(1+) A centralized program library with directory service and
documentation storage.
Dr. Roberts has been involved in.many of the same problems being
faced by the COINS Committee. Among these are the user language problem and
providing for multi-level security.. Dr. Roberts expressed the opinion that
development of a common COINS users language was not practical at this time.
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