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A bibliographic search by computer

MAY 01, 1966
Updating plasma‐physics data was a chance to experiment with information and programs of the Technical Information Project at MIT. The computer searched for indicative words in titles, papers that shared bibliographical references and those that referred to papers that have become classics in plasma physics.
Sanborn C. Brown

ANY COLLECTION OF DATA one can make these days is out of date before it is published. This is true, for example, of my Basic Data of Plasma Physics. In the book I tried to bring together in useful form the data of gaseous electronics and plasma physics upon which scientists base calculations and further work with basic parameters.

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References

  1. 1. S. C. Brown, Basic Data of Plasma Physics (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1959).

  2. 2. M. Kessler, PHYSICS TODAY 18, no. 3, 28 (1965).https://doi.org/PHTOAD

  3. 3. R. M. Fano in Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Augmentation of Human Reasoning; IEEE Spectrum 2, 56 (1965).https://doi.org/IEESAM

  4. 4. R. B. Brode, Rev. Mod. Phys. 5, 257 (1933).https://doi.org/RMPHAT

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Sanborn C. Brown, Dartmouth College and MIT.

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