PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100160001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 27, 1960
• Content Type: MF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEs,4CY
OFFICE OF CENTRAL REFERENCE
STAT
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/Intelligence
SUBJECT: Professional Society Papers
1. This memorandum will make a matter of record your verbal approval for
me to accept three invitations to present professional papers and one to chair a
session of a scientific meeting. Each invitation Is described below together with
its timing.
2. The Institute on Machine Indexing, American University, 13-17 February
1981. My paper will deal with "A Survey of Foreign Developments in Machine
Indexing" and my source material will be unclassified foreign periodical literature.
The use of machines to index documents is of great interest to the intelligence com-
munity. Our participation in this Institute will benefit that interest. Two other OCR
personnel both of the Automation
Development Group, will also participate in the program. Their papers are titled:
"Permuted Title Word Indexing - Procedures for a Man/Machine System" and
"Machine Input Problems, Alternatives and Practicalities". The preparation of
these papers will be under my direct supervision and will not contain classified
material.
3. National Microfilm Association, 4-6 April 1961. The subject of this paper
will be "A Microfilm Unit Record System : A Case Study". The burden of the paper
will be the operation of large {over 1 million) microfilm collections with special
emphasis on unit record format rather than roll film. I am to develop a model system
in the course of the paper which can be adapted to library, archives, research, and
engineering files. There will be no use of classified information since this Is a pure
systems study.
4. Special Libraries Association, 29 May 1981. Mr. George Mandel of NASA
has asked that I speak to the translation of technical materials with special emphasis
on machine translation. He has asked that I describe the post-editing process as it
has developed at the Georgetown University MT center. Much of this paper will be
reorientation of the paper I presented at the American Documentation Institute last
October.
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5. The Gordon Research Conferences, 2-8 July 1961. These conferences are
regarded as the highest level colloquia in science and are "off-the-record". I have
been asked to chair the session on "Optical Reading Devices" (the so-called reading
machines). Our interest in this field in the MT application among others has
stimulated considerable research and has directed on-going research into more
practical lines.
6. 1 do not propose to accept any other invitations to speak during the six
month period covered above. I consider it to the advantage of the Agency and the
intelligence community to participate in these professional meetings. The AD/CR.
has verbally concurred in the above program.
Acting Assistant Director
Central Reference
STAT
Approved:
Robert Amory, Jr. DD/I
Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
2 - OAD/CR
AAD/CR
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