DATA CORP. DELVES IN STRANGE WORKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260017-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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H. Giering, the computer man- law that preceded every Written
opinion 'of the Supreme Court.
ager. A former Army officer and
a graduate of the University of The test has required the corn-,
Arizona, he most recently was puters to store some 150 million'
assigned to the Defense Intelli- characters and make them in
gence Agency to develop an in- stantly available through its:
formation storage and retrieval "random access" memory sys
system for intelligence data. tem.
Quite apart from its national
defense interests, Data Corp. Could Aid Lawyers
has developed an information
retrieval system that Vann says
eliminates the need for micro- film in storing records, copies of
newspapers or similar material. interest in the program,
Called (Data) Central, it al- "push-button law" would be
lows the user to search large
volumes of information, magnet-
ically stored, to obtain answers
to questions which are structured
in an English-like format.
FoiY~ap 1~ 1a~a Corp. has imics of Ohio court decisions in
Vann was graduated front'
West. Point iii 1956. Subsequently
he served in the 'Army both as
tichard E. Swing, chief scien-
tist, has been conducting studies
of the spectrum. After that will
come a photographic laboratory
and an IBM System 360-40 com-
puter equipped with remote tele-
processing equipment which will
be a duplicate of two identical
360.40 systems presently operat-
ing at Dayton.
Swing, a graduate of Bucknell
i and formerly with Itek Corp.,
came to Data Corp. after sev-
e al years with the CIA. -Mrs.
ythel Lee Harris, Vann's ad
ministrative assistant, was with;
the CIA 'for 10 years.
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By CIiARLES COVELL
hi I Star Business writer
the early'1950s,is doing q ite
ieking in Arlington todnay.
If ou have forgotte, nns~.A
06 was called a ball-han ing
agician these days. He is the
ayton (Ohio)h company. that
suc
rse subjeots as image analysis,
ology and -testing and evalua-
on.
Actually, the company welds
f intelligence, surveillance and
f it for. the military and 30
rcent commercial."
ialists in aerial reconnaissance
3 Fj5rData Corp. to better
lescri a its association with all
-Star Photographer Frauds Roust
Peter J. Vann, eastern manager for Data Corp., watches Richard R.
Swing, chief scientist, tackle an optical problem at the. company's new
division headquarters in Arlington.
an airborne infantry officer and
as a pilot. Later he was with the
AC Electronics Division of Gen-
eral Motors and Litton Indus-
tries, joining Data Corp. in Au-
gust, 1966.
Division Is Starting
Currently his division is jlist
getting started in offices and
laboratories on the top floor of
the Atlas Machine and Iron
Works building at 1254 Jefferson
Davis Highway. So far there are
only five employes, most of
The company is, Data Corp.,
hick has 16 acres in the center
f a 43-acre research park in
ayton and recently opened a
ouston division, as well as the
nder the name of Systems De-
elopment Corp. by Lysle D.
iam F. Gorog, chairman of the
the Defense intelligence Agency.
But ' Vann predicts. that in six
months there will be 30 em-
ployes and in a year about 60.
First installation was a preci-
e syllabi of the Ohio
s highest court began
,ted statements of the
Francis L. Dale, president of
the bar association, said that
if the test was successful and
enough Ohio lawyers showed
;
available in Ohio within a year.
The next step would be to
store the estimated 400 million
characters and 80 million words
contained in the hundreds of vol-
lem, could pick up a telephone,
pose his question to a computer
in Dayton by giving a. "key".
word, and locate any court decl
lions having a bearing ? oa the
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