The Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois: Newletter (1973)
Item
- Title
- The Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois: Newletter (1973)
- Creator
- Valarie Lamont
- Language
- English
- Subject
- PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
- Cybernetics
- Alternative Futures Project
- University of Illinois
- Information Theory
- Social Science
- Description
-
Newsletter for the Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois edited by Valarie Lamont, with grant funding from the National Science Foundation's Social Projects in Graduate Education program for research on 'Social Cybernetics and Computer-based Communications Media'. Project objectives for the PLATO system are listed on page 1:
"More specific objectives are 1) to further develop existing programs on the PLATO teaching computer system; 2) to develop new programs; 3) to study the PLATO system as a dependent variable, the development of which has been influenced by various interest groups; 4) to study the PLATO system as an independent variable which will have an impact on the Champaign-Urbana community." - Publisher
- Office of the Ombudsman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Date
- 1973-03
- Source
- University of Illinois Library, Digital Collections: The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates)
- Coverage
- University of Illinois
- Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Site pages
- PLATO Reports and Research
