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Handling the cornucopia.

The article examines information resources and knowledge management. The tremendous increase in the amount of information available to human beings requires prior processing by computers and systems such as machine learning and visualization to become usable and comprehensible. Problems with compute...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 394; no. 8671; pp. 17 - 19
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 2/27/2010
Subjects:
Information resource research
Information science
Visual programming languages (Computer science)
Database management software
Machine theory
Information resources management
Computer systems
Management information systems
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article examines information resources and knowledge management. The tremendous increase in the amount of information available to human beings requires prior processing by computers and systems such as machine learning and visualization to become usable and comprehensible. Problems with computer systems, database management software and other technologies involved in this process are considered.