The general information processing system (GIPSY).
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Authors
Cooper, John Duffield, Jr.
Subjects
Information retrieval
General information processing
Non-arithmetic processing
General information processing
Non-arithmetic processing
Advisors
Heidorn, George E.
Date of Issue
1969-12
Date
December 1969
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This paper describes the General Information Processing System, a computer program designed to serve a variety of information processing applications. An input deck to the program is composed of a data base and a description of the processing tasks to be performed on that data. A typical task would be to screen the data base according to given criteria and then output information from the data that met the criteria. For output, the system has flexible formatting capabilities. Included in the paper, in Section II, is an example of a bibliographical applications, complete with a listing of the input deck and the output that was produced. Sections III through VII contain detailed instructions on how to prepare an input deck. A description of system implementation is contained in Section VIII.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Committee for Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
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Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.