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Museum and University Data, Program, and Information Exchange

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS--GENERAL

A MUDPIE recipient has remarked that we should stress the large number
of library programs already available from the various commercial time-share
firms. It is, of course, quite true that each contractor furnishes a collec¬
tion of programs that will fit practically every kind of general need, but
it is assumed that all time-share users are already aware of this library
availability. It would seem unethical for a user to make programs from the
library of his contractor available to other users with a different contrac¬
tor, without direct permission. We shall, therefore, list no programs in
MUDPIE that have been taken directly from the general library of a contract¬
ing firm. We are solely interested here in programs written by museum or
university scientists for use in research, and will limit submissions to
these. Since several time-share firms can accept ALGOL and FORTRAN as well
as BASIC, programs written in these languages for specific use in our work
are welcome for listing. At the present time no one receiving MUDPIES is
using QUIKTRAN, so we will not include such programs.

EDP-IR SYSTEMATICS PROJECT INDEX

Theodore J. Crovello, Department of Biology, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556, and Robert D. MacDonald, University of Tennessee
Arboretum, 794 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37830, are jointly
preparing a list of projects in systematics that use any kind of electronic
data processing for information retrieval. They say "the type of information
being retrieved may be anything of value to systematics." After compiling
the list, they expect to publish it in TAXON, the journal devoted to systematic
botany. Anyone who has a project appropriate to their index is invited to
submit it for inclusion, and a list of the details needed will be sent upon
request to either of the participants.

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS-- BASIC

7. STATAN--Calculates Student 'T 1 as well as other statistical information

Axtell, Southern Illinois University].

8. CLUSTR--A program for cluster analysis, operating in four phases:

computation of similarities, formation of OTU clusters,
computation of cophenetic values, and construction of a
dendrogram. Written by Henry Feldman.

Peters, Smithsonian Institution],

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THE "BASIC 1 LANGUAGE

One of the recipients of MUDPIE has asked about the language "BASIC."
since it is not used at the computer center of his university. This
language was developed by Dartmouth College under an NSF grant. The work,
done by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, involved creation of a compiler for
the BASIC language and the executive routines for a GE-235--Datanet 30
computer system. The primary value of BASIC is that it is a user-oriented
language, very simple and easy to learn. It permits the scientist to carry
on a direct conversation with the computer, and eliminates the need for an
intermediate programmer. Dartmouth has a copyrighted manual for the language,
written by the men mentioned above, and (I presume) available directly from
the College. All of the commercial time-share firms furnish manuals to their

users, however, usually somewhat re-written for the specific purposes and
need s.

TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR EXISTING INSTALLATIONS

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia TELETYPE: (215) 569-8609.

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(618) 692-3928.

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181

Contact C. R. Shoop, on Department telephone: (617) 235-0320, ext. 469.

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NEW INSTALLATIONS

Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park,
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ADDITIONAL TELETYPE SERVICES

The John Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60616,

has a teletype service for rapid turn-around on orders for photoduplication

from over 7500 periodicals. A list of prices and services available can be

obtained from the address above, or presumably at their teletype number -
(312) 431-1758.

Smithsonian Institution
October 20, 1967