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CALL FOR PAPERS
Connexions: linking mind and machine
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
The 16th annual conference of the Canadian Association for
Information Science will convene at the University of Ottawa,
in Ottawa, Canada, May 12 - 14, 1988.
This conference will interest information professionals,
data processing and computer specialists, engineers and others
involved in documentation, communications and computer science.
Previously unpublished papers are solicited. Authors are invited
to submit papers for presentation in either English or French.
Topics may include, but will not be limited to,the following:
- the transfer of information through the information chain
from source to supplier to consumer
- new hardware technologies and software systems and how
they connect to existing systems and services
- new ways of organizing knowledge to expedite its transfer,
such as artificial intelligence and expert systems
- ergonomics and the studies of the interactions between
information systems and users
- the study of information science and its links to other
disciplines as diverse as psychology, linguistics,
communications, computer science and engineering
Three copies of a 500 to 1000 word abstract with the author's full
name, affiliation, address and telephone should be submitted to:
Prof. Charles Meadow
c/o CAIS 88
P.O. Box 38, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1P 6C3
Selected papers will be published in the Canadian Journal of
Information Science.
IMPORTANT DATES: 15 Nov - Abstract Due
30 Dec - Papers Due
For further information regarding the conference, please contact:
David Holmes at the address above, or by telephone: (613)-564-4074
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