October 11, 1994 (vol. 105, iss. 9) • Page Image 3
…." The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 11, 1994 -3 at'1 Science Foundation give grants to 'U' trating on the earth and space sci- ences. Commercial sponsors including IBM, Apple Computer and…
… Administration and the Advanced Research Projects Agency: $4 million. IBM, Apple Computer, and Encyclopaedia Britannica: $4.5 million W.J. Kellogg Foundation: $4.3 million Mellon Foundation: $700,000 A CLASS ACT…
… provide users with the ability to research an entire report from a computer terminal. The main advantage is the ability to scan through many different articles and references, said Daniel Atkinsdean of the…
…, director of infor- mation technology for the Computer Aided Engineering Network. Over the next five years, students will begin to feel the effects of digiti- zation. "Instead of putting things on re- serve…
… or buying all those coursepacks, students can just call those things up on the computer. It'll be much sim- pler," Atkins said. Asjournals and references are digi- tized, the future libraries will be…