May 26, 2000
National Research Council Seeks Study of Large-Scale Information Systems
A report from the National Research Council recommends that the federal government spend more on research into building large-scale information systems, which the report says are as much "social systems" as they are systems for organizing information.
But the complexity of such research, the report says, will require interdisciplinary work, which many researchers avoid because institutional tenure-and-promotion practices discourage it. A lack of real-world
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