Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (11/27/83)
TELECOM Digest Monday, 28 Nov 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
French PTT's home computer access
TELECOM Digest V3 #106
Cross directory assistance
Social Impacts Graduate Program at UC-Irvine
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Date: 25 Nov 1983 1117-EST
From: John R. Covert <RSX-DEV at DEC-MARLBORO>
Subject: French PTT's home computer access
I believe this has long passed the experimental stage and is now a
reality in many cities in France. Free terminals (small screens and
keyboards -- I saw several of them at Telecom 83 in Geneva) to anyone
who will give up access to phone books.
You might be able to get more information by calling the New York City
number for Telecom France (the U.S. subsidiary of the French PTT).
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Date: 25 November 1983 14:50 EST
From: "Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr." <SIRBU @ MIT-MC>
Subject: TELECOM Digest V3 #106
It's not Judge Greene but the FCC which has proposed access charges.
Judge Greene is actually opposed, but he has no jurisdiction over the
issue.
Marvin Sirbu
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Date: 25 Nov 1983 1554-PST
From: Ted Shapin <BEC.SHAPIN@USC-ECL>
Subject: Cross directory assistance
I am told that in the Chicago area, you can dial (312)796-9600, are
asked "Number please?" and if you furnish a local number be told the
name and address to which that number belongs.
Does anyone know of a similar service in the (213) (714) areas?
Ted.
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Date: 25 Nov 1983 1414-PST
From: Rob-Kling <Kling%UCI@USC-ECL>
Subject: Social Impacts Graduate Program at UC-Irvine
CORPS
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A Graduate Program on
Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society
at the University of California, Irvine
This interdisciplinary program at the University of
California, Irvine provides an opportunity for scholars and
students to investigate the social dimensions of computerization
in a setting which supports reflective and sustained inquiry.
The primary educational opportunities are a PhD programs in
the Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS) and MS
and PhD programs in the Graduate School of Management (GSM).
Students in each program can specialize in studying the social
dimensions of computing. Several students have recieved graduate
degrees from ICS and GSM for studying topics in the CORPS
program.
The faculty at Irvine have been active in this area, with
many interdisciplinary projects, since the early 1970's. The
faculty and students in the CORPS program have approached them
with methods drawn from the social sciences.
The CORPS program focuses upon four related areas of
inquiry:
1. Examining the social consequences of different kinds of
computerization on social life in organizations and in the
larger society.
2. Examining the social dimensions of the work and industrial
worlds in which computer technologies are developed,
marketed, disseminated, deployed, and sustained.
3. Evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for managing the
deployment and use of computer-based technologies.
4. Evaluating and proposing public policies which facilitate
the development and use of computing in pro-social ways.
Studies of these questions have focussed on complex
information systems, computer-based modelling, decision-support
systems, the myriad forms of office automation, electronic funds
transfer systems, expert systems, instructional computing,
personal computers, automated command and control systems, and
computing at home. The questions vary from study to study. They
have included questions about the effectiveness of these
technologies, effective ways to manage them, the social choices
that they open or close off, the kind of social and cultural life
that develops around them, their political consequences, and
their social carrying costs.
The CORPS program at Irvine has a distinctive orientation -
(i) in focussing on both public and private sectors,
(ii) in examining computerization in public life as well as
within organizations,
(iii) by examining advanced and common computer-based
technologies "in vivo" in ordinary settings, and
(iv) by employing analytical methods drawn from the social
sciences.
Organizational Arrangements and Admissions for CORPS
The primary faculty in the CORPS program hold appointments
in the Department of Information and Computer Science and the
Graduate School of Management. Additional faculty in the School
of Social Sciences, and the Program on Social Ecology, have
collaborated in research or have taught key courses for students
in the CORPS program. Research is administered through an
interdisciplinary research institute at UCI which is part of the
Graduate Division, the Public Policy Research Organization.
Students who wish additional information about the CORPS program
should write to:
Professor Rob Kling (Kling.uci-20b@rand-relay)
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, Ca. 92717
or to:
Professor Kenneth Kraemer
Graduate School of Management
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, Ca. 92717
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