DATA PROCESSING

or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a business. In automatic or electronic data processing the operations are performed by a computer. In distributed data processing some or all of the operations are performed in different locations at computer facilities connected by telecommunications links.

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books on: Data Processing  - 10586 results

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Distributed Processing Systems
Book by Robert J. Thierauf; Prentice-Hall, 1978
Subjects: Electronic Data Processing--Distributed Processing, Management Information Systems
...work even though batch processing runs will be stretched...personnel who enter input data and handle output data be included in the data processing schedule. Otherwise...needed for subsequent processing. It is essential that...
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Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing
Book by Ralph Grishman, Richard Kittredge; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986
Subjects: Sublanguage--Data Processing
...S. 1983 . "Relational data base modelling of free-text...on Applied Natural Language Processing . Santa Monica, CA. Grishman...on Applied Natural Language Processing pp. 39 - 45 , Santa Monica...system: Natural Language processing applied to data base query...
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Examination Results: Processing, Analysis, and Presentation
Book by M. F.G. M. Ed., F.C.P. Matthewman; Routledge Falmer, 2000
Subjects: Grading And Marking (Students)--Great Britain--Data Processing, High Schools--Great Britain--Examinations--Data Processing
...Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for...Examination results: processing, analysis, and presentation...Britain Examinations Data processing. 2. Grading and marking...Students Great Britain Data processing. I. Title. LB3060...
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Blissful Data: Wisdom and Strategies for Providing Meaningful, Useful, and Accessible Data for All Employees
Book by Margaret Y. Chu; AMACOM, 2004
Subjects: Decision Making--Data Processing, Management--Data Processing
...Key stakeholders for data warehouse success are...on-line transaction processing. This is a method for con- ducting business by processing transactions against operational...for on-line analytic processing. Informational data are...
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Mapping and Analysing Crime Data: Lessons from Research and Practice
Book by Alex Hirschfield, Kate Bowers; Taylor & Francis, 2001
Subjects: Crime Analysis--Great Britain--Data Processing, Crime Prevention--Great Britain--Data Processing, Law Enforcement--Great Britain--Data Processing
...awareness of sources of spatially referenced data on crime, disorder, land use and socio-demographic conditions An awareness of data quality and data protection issues Expertise in the manipulation, processing and handling of large data sets Familiarity...
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Data Processing Technology and Accounting: a Historical Perspective
Journal article by Robert Kee; The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 20, 1993
Subjects: Accounting, Data processing, History, Information technology
Data Processing Technology and Accounting: a Historical...during antiquity would be considered data processing technology in the same sense as computer...relatively slow and error prone in processing data Coleman, 1949, p. 8-9. For example...
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Pay in Data Processing Services Varies by Occupation and Area
Journal article; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 112, 1989
Subjects: Computer programmers--Salaries, benefits, etc., Data processing personnel--Salaries, benefits, etc., Systems analysts--Salaries, benefits, etc., United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics--Surveys, Wages--Demographic aspects
Pay in data processing services varies by occupation and...employed by establishments providing data processing services, such as special output...the computer programming and data processing services industries combined was...
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Pay in Data Processing Services by Occupation and Urban Area
Journal article; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 107, 1984
Subjects: Data processing personnel--Salaries, benefits, etc., United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics--Reports
Pay in data processing services by occupation and urban...The 1,732 computer services and data processing establishments within the scope of...Industry Wage Survey: Computer and Data Processing Services, October 1982 (Bulleting...
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Do You Really Need to "Reengineer?" (Includes Related Articles on Community Bank Data Processing and How to Reengineer Statement Rendering)
Journal article by Mark Arend; ABA Banking Journal, Vol. 85, 1993
Subjects: Banking industry--Automation, Barnett Technologies Inc.--Automation, Electronic data processing--Planning
...related articles on community bank data processing and how to reengineer statement rendering...of it and still have access to the data in the documents is moving it in...right out the door. They set up data-processing cooperatives administered...
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Signal Processing Analysis of Forced-Choice ESP Data: Evidence for Psi as a Wave of Correlation
Journal article by Norman S. Don, Bruce E. Mcdonough, Charles A. Warren; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 59, 1995
Subjects: Correlation (Statistics)--Usage, Extrasensory perception--Research, Parapsychology--Research, Signal processing--Usage, Statistical hypothesis testing--Usage
Signal processing analysis of forced-choice ESP data: evidence for psi as...astrophysics, another signal processing method was used to analyze data exhibiting unexpected...frequencies and for image processing (Bretthorst, 1990...
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Records Management and Data Processing - a Good Strategic Alliance
Magazine article by John T. Phillips Jr.; ARMA Records Management Quarterly, Vol. 25, April 1991
Subjects: Data processing, Departmental computing, Departments, Internal public relations, Records management, Teamwork, Technology, Trends
Records Management and Data Processing - a Good Strategic Alliance by...the support and involvement of data processing personnel. This approach can...on computer systems. Often, data processing departments take an approach...
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Libraries, Records Management Data Processing: an Information Handling Field
Magazine article by Theodore J. Vander Noot; ARMA Records Management Quarterly, Vol. 32, October 1998
Subjects: Awards & honors, Data imaging, Data processing, Libraries, Records management, Technological change, United States
Libraries, Records Management Data Processing: an Information Handling Field by...a sea of paper. The librarian, data processor, and the records manager...business, the collecting of meaningful data that could affect a crucial management...
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Agencies Move Data Processing to Private Firms
Magazine article; News Media and the Law, Vol. 27, Spring 2003
Subjects: Data processing, Government agencies, Government contracts, Public records
Agencies Move Data Processing to Private Firms A cross the country...In California, much of the data processing done for state agencies is done by...that is at Teale, they are charged processing costs, which they pass on to requesters...
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First Data Brings Secure Payment Processing to the Internet
Magazine article; Information Today, Vol. 12, February 1995
Subjects: Computer security, Credit cards, Financial services, First Data Corp, Home shopping, Internet, Joint ventures, Netscape Communications Corp, Online transaction processing, Service introduction, United States
First Data Brings Secure Payment Processing to the Internet Netscape Communications...software for the Internet, and first Data Card Services Groups Electronic...combination of First Datas payment processing expertise and our Netsite secure...
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Can't Justify Central Filling? Then Consider Central Processing
Magazine article by Judy Chi; Drug Topics, Vol. 144, September 18, 2000
Subjects: Data processing, Drug stores, Efficiency, Prescriptions, United States
...companies pushing central processing are software maker Tech...another and access a common data-- base so that central processing can take place. The Pittsburgh...however, is pitching central processing to any pharmacy-chain or...
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Automatic Data Processing Opens New Solution Center
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 25, 2010
Subjects: Automatic Data Processing Inc., Computer services industry, Data processing, Electronic data processing, Information technology services industry
Automatic Data Processing Opens New Solution Center. MANILA, Philippines - Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP), a leading provider...representatives from the Business Processing Association of the Philippines and...
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Having a Smashing Time; Victoria Farncombe Speaks to the Birmingham Team Involved in Processing the Data Gleaned from the World's Biggest Atom-Smasher at CERN in Switzerland
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 10, 2009
...the Birmingham Team Involved in Processing the Data Gleaned from the Worlds Biggest...integral role in collat-t ing the data. To understand their involvement...through the night to analyse the data, it was ALICE who pipped the other...
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Clunk Click Can Do Trick in Risc's Pounds 2.5m Takeover; in Association with BUSINESS ... VENTURE Data Storage Firm to Create 40 Jobs as French Group Gains UK Foothold
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 30, 2008
Subjects: CPUs (Central processing units)--Statistics, Central processing units--Statistics, Computer storage device industry--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Computer storage device industry--Statistics, Computer storage devices--Statistics, Information storage and retrieval, Job creation, Microprocessors--Statistics
...2.5m Takeover; in Association with BUSINESS ... VENTURE Data Storage Firm to Create 40 Jobs as French Group Gains UK Foothold...are to be created at a North Wales-based online backup and data storage company after its recent acquisition by a French company...
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Tighten Up Data Protection Policies in Outsourcing or Prepare to Pay Penalty
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 24, 2009
Subjects: Data security--Reports, Data security--Safety and security measures, Outsourcing--Reports, Outsourcing--Safety and security measures
...data security management and data protection. Whilst it is not yet clear how data protection legislation will...RAND report in covering future data protection policies it is clear...and the destinations for data processing need to be dealt with in a...
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Data Privacy Measure to Bolster PH's Top Rank in BPO - Rep. Romulo
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 16, 2010
Subjects: Data security, Privacy
Data Privacy Measure to Bolster PHs...special law securing personal data privacy, House Deputy Majority...Protecting Individual Personal Data in Information and Communications...customer care and electronic data processing. "This will sharpen the countrys...
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encyclopedia articles on: Data Processing  - 24 results

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Data Processing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DATA PROCESSING or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and...transactions of a business. In automatic or electronic data processing the operations are performed by a computer . In distributed...
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Information Processing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
INFORMATION PROCESSING see data processing . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Parallel Processing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...conventional computer . Parallel processing requires two or more interconnected...supercomputer parallel-processing systems have hundreds...The processors access data through shared memory. The efficiency of parallel processing is dependent upon the...
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Computer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...computer called the central processing unit, or CPU contains the...Storage and Retrieval of Data Associated with the central processing unit is the storage unit...being retrieved for further processing. Once made up of vacuum tubes...
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Computer Program
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the physical equipment used in data processing . These programming instructions...executed sequentially; in parallel processing the operations are allocated...input and output operations. Processing programs are those whose execution...
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