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National Museum of Natural History Automatic Data-Processing Committee Search this
Type:
Classification
Date:
1966
Category:
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes:
Donald F. Squires, "Data Processing and Museum Collections: A Problem for the Present," Curator magazine, Vol. IX, No.3, pp. 216-227.
Summary:
An Automatic Data-Processing Committee is established in the National Museum of Natural History to study potential applications of computers to collections management and systematics research. Committee members include Richard A. Boardman, Donald R. Davis, Mason E. Hale, David B. Lellinger, Philip S. Humphrey, Ernest A. Lachner, Victor G. Springer, Raymond B. Manning and Donald F. Squires, Chair.