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The article discusses the e-freight initiative of airlines that would speed up paperwork of air transportation of goods. Five airlines are working with freight forwarders on the initiative. The International Air Transport Association says the airline industry can save $1.2 billion a year by getting rid of paper processes. The industry would use electronic data processing to fast track its services.

Reports on AlliedSignal Technical Services Corp.'s conversion of paper-based documents to electronic format at the United States Air Force Space Command's worldwide Satellite Control Network at Schriever AFB, Colorado. Conversion at the computer-aided design and manufacturing level; Estimated cost of the conversion process.

Focuses on the efforts of Boeing to test the Portable Document Query System, to log maintenance on airplanes. Testing for use on a Boeing transport; Comments of John J. Gibson, director of technical publications for Boeing.

The article reports that U.S. local government agencies are switching to electronic data management (EDM) for their growing stock of records and documents. In 2004, the Public Utilities Department in Anaheim, California converted its 50 years worth of varied paper records to an electronic form, enabling records personnel to retrieve files quickly. Since 2002, the Department of Technology Services in Montgomery County, Maryland has been using a Web-accessible EDM system to manage some 20 million files including employee files, documents and contracts.

Profiles TitleLink Inc., provider of client/server software for real estate companies. Clients; How the company's software improves data processing operations of real estate companies.

Focuses on the growing number of individuals and organizations storing documents on electronic systems. Comparison between electronic and paper storage; Concerns about the admissibility of electronic documents.

The article discusses research being done on calibrating a microwave sensor. It references a study by Eric C. Green, Buford Randall Jean and R. J. Marks II published in the December 2006 issue of the periodical "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement." An artificial neural network was utilized for the calibration method. The network can automatically sort between needed versus useless data through its ability to recognize patterns.

This article discusses research by the University of Washington and technology company Microsoft Corp. which proposes DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) as an option for archiving immense volumes of data. Topics covered include the presentation of the paper in April 2016 at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, the rapid growth of the amount of digital data every year, and what makes DNA a good archival material.

Reports on Greenboro News and Record's application of networking. Benefits of networking; Integration of MacIntosh computers with Sun SPARCstations; Enhancement of zoned editions; Network management; Direct access to customers; Planned upgrades.

This paper describe a highly flexible and configurable replacement for std::allocator for use with node-based standard containers. One of the most attractive features of C++ is the Standard Template Library (STL). At the root of the STL is an incredibly rich set of containers. The STL provides default implementations for contiguous storage, lists, sets and maps. As is always the case, however, general solutions do not come without a price. The default implementations of std::allocator provided by STL implementations vary in complexity by the STL implementation from thin wrappers around new and delete to carefully built allocators running to thousands of lines of code. Pool allocators are an extremely efficient method for providing allocation services for objects of fixed size s. The basic strategy is to reserve a chunk of memory sufficient for storing N objects of size s all at once. A potentially more serious caveat is that, since the allocator uses nonstatic data, it is not technically standard compliant because the standard requires that allocators of the same type be equivalent. The StoragePolicy is the most interesting and challenging part of the allocator. It dictates how individual PoolChunks are stored in a BunchOfChunks. It is also responsible for actually releasing the memory allocated by BunchOfChunks. StoragePolicyBoundary is similar to StoragePolicySimple, but it does a bit of extra housekeeping to enforce a boundary between full and nonfull chunks. Each BunchOfChunks object has a GrowthPolicy member that is responsible for calculating the size of the next chunk to allocate.

The paper deals with the Debug and Trace classes offered by the .NET Framework for adding diagnostic messages to a code. By default, every application domain in a process is initialized with a single trace listener of type DefaultTraceListener. Each application domain will have a collection of trace listeners that one can access through the static Listeners property on either the Trace or Debug class. There are two main types of data: First, one may want to test code coverage, so it is useful to record each method called and to record the branch of a test statement. The second type of data are metrics of how well the algorithms are working, so one may decide to trace input parameters, results and selective intermediate values. To trace a message, one call either the WriteLine or Write method. The diagnostics namespace contains and abstract class called Switch that can be used to obtain a value from the element in the application configuration file. When one generate a trace message either through Trace or Debug, the TraceInternal class is called. As the name suggests, an assert tests that some condition is True, and if the test fails, the user is informed. Asserts should be used on important conditions where a failure will mean that the code will fault. The TextWriter Listener class lets one attach any stream to the trace listener.

Explores the evolution of library information science in the United States. Emergence of digital technologies; Conversion of paper records into digital data; Impact of digital information environments.

Electronic data interchange, the computer-to-computer exchange of bills, invoices, orders and other forms of data, is spreading throughout corporations as the benefits of this form of communication become known to more and more businesses. While EDI may never replace paper entirely, its use has become mandatory in many companies. INSET: Should you sign up with a third-party provider?;The roots of....

Examines how many large companies are conducting substantial electronic date interchange (EDI) activities with their large suppliers. Challenge to bring into the loop a second tier of smaller suppliers that may be EDI shy; How companies are encouraging conversion from plain-paper based ways of doing business to EDI; Examples. INSET: The why of EDI-or-die..

The article provides answers to questions about electronic data interchange (EDI) and Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 standard. EDI refers to the exchange of data or information between a sender and receiver via electronic means, usually over phone lines, from one computer to another without the use of printing or paper to accomplish this exchange. X12 refers to the ASC X12, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Another ANSI-accredited standards developer is the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). NISO standards are aimed at libraries, information science and publishing. They tend to be related to data within that industry which identifies and describes bibliographic material, whereas X12 standards deal with business transactions. NISO and ASC X12 are similar in that both organizations are accredited by ANSI. However, they differ in that NISO is industry-specific, whereas X12 is general in its scope. NISO members include libraries, computer manufacturers, system vendors, publishers, research organizations, book and serial suppliers, networks and consultants. X12 members include organizations from industry groups such as transportation, banking, manufacturing, health and retail, federal and state government agencies, educational and financial institutions and trade associations. ANSI ASC X12 was formed for the purpose of exchanging business transaction data over telecommunications connections between computers operated by trading partners. The impetus for using X12 in the information industry instead of developing industry-specific standards under NISO was started by members of the Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee in may 1989.

The article discusses the products and services featured at O'Reilly Media's recent Tools of Change Conference held in New York. It describes the digital content service from Jouve, a 100-year-old printing business in France that transformed into a new media publishing services provider. It describes the e-ink screen technology developed by Mirasol Displays. The site of German startup Paper C offers free online access to the full text of books.

The article discusses the case of San Diego County, California, which decided to overhaul its paper-related forms processing system by implementing a program that uses e-signatures when filling out forms. It details the decision of the Assessor Recorder and County Clerk's office chief information officer (CIO) Rolf Bishop to enlist digital signature vendor SIGNiX to integrate its software into the county office's web portal.

The article focuses on the importance data storage security for individual or corporate users. According to the author, wherever data is stored, so are the threats from amateur hackers to professional identity theft, seeking to compromise data in forms of customer records, product plans, and intellectual property. Due to the increasing threats and stricter regulations, storage security is a concern for everyone from the board of directors to the product designer creating new pieces of information. The author stresses that it is also important to remember that it is not just data on backup tapes that is at risk, it also includes data stored on any storage mediums, including storage-area network, server or employee's notebook computer. INSET: Dealing with the Paper Trail.

This article reports that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation chief information officer Zalmai Azmi signed a $425 million public contract with defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. to build a case file management and information sharing computer system called Sentinel to replace paper-based processes. Project management procedures were reorganized in response to criticisms. Sentinel will use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enable distributed information sharing with other federal agencies.

As more organizations store more data longer, the information technology industry in the U.S. seeks a better way for data management in 2005. A record is a record, whether it's a sheet of paper, an e-mail, an electronic document or a digital image. It is the content that drives retention, not the media it's written on. Recent federal regulations are requiring more companies to save more content for longer periods of time. While content may be king in theory, in practice, the media on which it's stored and the software that stores it present problems. As digital tapes and optical discs pile higher and higher in the cavernous rooms of offsite archive providers, businesses are finding them increasingly expensive to maintain. The storage industry is working on the problems of data archiving from various angles. One solution to the backward-compatibility problem is to convert data to common plain-text formats, such as ASCII or Unicode. Another approach is to use PDF files to store long-term data. On the media side, the Storage Networking Industry Association is working toward solving what it calls the '100-year archive dilemma' through a standards effort for media.

Explores the potential of document capture for a growing market of knowledge management in the United States. Decline in overall volume of paper-based business; Stages of evolution of capture; Specialist capture vendors; Benefits of capture solutions combined with IDR technologies.

Reports that Europe is moving towards a uniform data protection policy for all of the countries in the European Union. Advocay of the European Commission (EC) in the policy; EC's plan to give European countries time to broaden their laws covering information stored on paper and in computers.

Reports that Rijnhaave Information Service and Graphnet have joined forces to simplify life for customers in the paper-intensive effort to manage shipping rates and to provide third party services to comply with federal regulations in the shipping industry. Development of the Tariff Information Manager (TIM) by Rijnhaave to allow customers to file tariffs with the Federal Maritime Commission.

Presents a paper which discusses the interfacing of a resistance-temperature detector to a computerized data acquisition system. Need for a resistance-to-voltage converter; Description of the relationship between temperature and electrical resistance.

The article reports that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found no distinct advantage for ending paper drug labeling and solely relying on electronic drug labeling.

Information about several papers discussed at the European Microwave Week (EuMW) exhibition on new technological innovations held in Europe in 2010 is presented. Topics include the presentation of the radio frequency (RF) handheld vector-network (VNA), S-parameter measurement tool for on-site installation and maintenance activities, and use of integrated spectrum analysis for on-site verification or troubleshooting. The exhibition featured several industrial firms including Anritsu.

The article reports on the launch of an electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) system by Transcepta. Its vice president for marketing and product management Shan Haq says that e-invoicing offers more advantage over optical character recognition (OCR) because the latter is still a paper process and requires human verification. He adds that e-invoicing can complement OCR and electronic data integration (EDI). He says that the system integrates EDI and extensible markup language (XML) to the accounting system.

The article discusses the views of artificial intelligence (AI) founder John McCarthy on Elephant, a proposed very high-level computer programming language for transaction processing and electronic data exchange. According to McCarthy, Elephant is on the border of AI. In a 1979 paper, he used the thermostat as an example to consider whether and when it can be legitimate to ascribe mental properties to machines. McCarthy is said to have been thinking about very high-level languages for transactions over computer networks for a long time.

This article discusses the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) in hospitals in the U.S. Although this technology is emerging, paper still remains the preferred method of keeping medical records. The usual reasons given point to cost, user resistance, and lack of interoperability. But these excuses are irrational. Estimates for implementing EHR top out at 12 billion dollars per year. This is about 40 dollars per American, less than four dollars per month. And regarding user resistance, once doctors and nurses actually see test results faster, read patient notes that are not incomprehensibly scribbled, and never have to wonder what is missing from a file, they will be attracted with the new systems.

This article focuses on Convergence 2004, the 30th anniversary event, will be held in Detroit, Michigan, from October 18-20. The theme, "Vehicle Electronics to Digital Mobility: The Next Generation of Convergence," represents how next-generation electronic and mechatronic systems will replace mechanical systems. Digital mobility means using digital data processing to control all vehicle attributes and functions, including ride control, the power train, and navigation. This year's event features 86 white papers, 15 technical sessions, three interactive panel discussions, six keynote speakers from leading companies, and more than 185 exhibits by automotive and electronics companies.

The article discusses data entry and storage. Disadvantages of paper notebooks; Functions of electronic notebooks; Flexibility of Tripos Electronic notebook in delivering comprehensive electronic data entry and storage.