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Foil 32 Anecdotes from Use of Computers in Large Organizations

From HPCC Applications in Industry IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

New York Health Department Syracuse office only has home PC's and old (? 6 years) UNIX systems rescued from bankrupt hospitals
  • They take several weeks to access central databases in Albany and produce charts of medical statistics for the Central New York region
Large utility is interested in expert system/neural networks which can be used to analyze bill payment data and predict when payments expected
Large credit card company rumored to be interested in analyzing credit card receipts to discover more than you know about your family's buying habits



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