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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Information Infrastructure"”.
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Link architecture for a global information infrastructure
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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The National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Space, Discipline, War Machine
… are found in the documents of the National Information Infrastrucure Advisory Council. Close analysis of these examples reveals the disciplinary projects of spatial (re)construction implied by these new practices. The effects of these types of spatial disciplinarity on individual …
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Development of a public health information infrastructure for postmarket evidence
… and Drug Administration to build a public health information infrastructure for drug safety. It also has allotted $1.1 billion dollars in new spending for comparative effectiveness research. A singular, shared, multi-purpose public health information infrastructure can be built to serve both these …
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A shape-based approach for image retrieval in healthcare information infrastructure
This study investigated some models and techniques that would help build shape-based image retrieval with an improved accuracy. As an initial step, a modular prototype system, called BrainSearch was implemented and used to demonstrate the utility of our algorithms and techniques on brain Magnetic …
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Textiles as a meta-wearable: Studies on textiles as an information infrastructure
… 1801) created the world’s first automatic binary information processor – the Jacquard mechanism. This invention in textile manufacturing was instrumental in bringing about the second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Information Processing Revolution. The significant advancements in …
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Singapore national information infrastructure policy and its implementation in the construction industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Implementation of a national information infrastructure: science and the building of society
… activity toward the construction of a national information infrastructure. This study follows several strategic networking activities and identifies four basic threads that contributed to the overall outcome. The first is the series of efforts to establish resource sharing schemes in computing …
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Museum Informatics and the Evolution of an Information Infrastructure in a University Museum
… ahead with any confidence, they had to build an information infrastructure to support these activities as they went along, knowing they would inevitably make mistakes in the process. With few resources, little time, and almost no money, they learned as they worked, simultaneously developing an …
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City knowledge : an emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning
(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct …
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The electronic spiders' web: Food, fodder, problems, and possibilities of a Global Information Infrastructure
… tension in the development of a Global Information Infrastructure (GII) by examining one of the signficant historical trends of 20th century mass media from which this tension stems. The main historical trend examined is the increased control of media by corporate conglomerates. This …
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The economics and organization of information technology governance : sourcing strategies for corporate information infrastructure
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Institutions, innovation, and information infrastructure : the social construction of intelligent transportation systems in the U.S., Europe, and Japan
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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The community informatics of an aging society: a comparative case study of senior centers and public libraries
The information society is also an aging society. This means that as information technology becomes woven into the fabric of daily life, the median age of humanity continues to rise. The participation of this growing population of older adults in the information society is often seen in the popular …
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Proposed management architecture for managing a distributed network information system
… are becoming increasingly dependent on their information infrastructure. Whether is an effort to maintain their competitive advantage, or provide a Joint Task Force Commander with a real-time picture of the battlefield, the organization's information infrastructure is becoming a vital key to …
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Product traceability in the pharmaceutical supply chain : an analysis of the auto-ID approach
… thesis analyzes how the Auto-ID technology and information infrastructure will change the management and distribution of pharmaceutical products within the health care industry by enabling item level product traceability functionality. The complexity of the health care industry is steadily …
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The social shaping of cloud computing: an ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois
… institutional, and technical factors shape information infrastructure and its consequences. This eleven-month ethnographic study provides an account of the everyday technology experiences of social workers, managers, and directors in a community-based organization as they used cloud …
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Small unmanned aircraft system integration into the Mode C Veil using an enterprise architecting framework
… The author uses the ARIES elements (strategy, information, infrastructure, products, services, processes, organizations, and knowledge) to holistically describe the current architecture that allows for very limited sUAS operations in the Mode C Veil.
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HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE
… to the use of digital libraries, an ICT-enabled information infrastructure. Traditionally digital-library use is measured with the help of statistical analysis of download and other related data, but statistics alone have limited power to explain how such an expensive information infrastructure …
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Information technology competencies for Navy enlisted personnel
… to revolutionize the way wars are waged. Information Technology (IT) is gaining momentum as the emerging force in modern warfare. To date, much has been spent on new hardware but training and education for this new hardware has been overlooked. In particular, the U.S. Navy has embarked on …
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An Adaptive Resource Management Architecture for Global Distributed Computing
… safe, customizable middleware for the global information infrastructure. The composition of multiple resource management services is necessary to guarantee safe, cost-effective QoS in such an infrastructure, which by its very nature is open and distributed. We specify core resource management …
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