Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With all due respect, you might want to remind the Library of Congress and the Census Bureau of your thesis. In the last U.S. Census meeting in California that I attended, they stated that they had no idea of how they were going to preserve the Year 2000 Census data since this was the first one that was digitally encoded and had the original paper answers shredded rather than microfilmed. This information was from a deputy director of the census. They anticipate that the Library of Congress will solve their problem. Brian Reid writes: | The topic of my Ph.D. thesis, written for a Ph.D. in computer science at | Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980, was on techniques for encoding | information in a computer so that it would still be usable a thousand years | later. "Transmitting information across space or time", I called it. | -- | To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html