Urban technologists are puzzled
Computers give information overload
Computer analysis expert Robert Aangeenbrug says that we have more information than we know what to do with.
Aangeenbrug, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Regional Studies, is an urban geographer who specializes in, among other things, transport geography, computer mapping, and computer information analysis.
Speaking to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, Thursday, Aangeenbrug said. "We are beginning to develop technology which can handle a great deal of information, but we don't have very good guidelines as to what to do with it." He said by using computers as information centers in urban planning processes, urban technologists are faced with
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an "information overload" that is without any precedent.
Aangeenbrug said that urban specialists are just beginning to find ways to make use of this information in a way that is helpful to the urban crisis.
Another problem raised by this new computerized synthesis of vast quantities of information is a language barrier between the urban specialist and the average citizen. Aangeenbrug said that, in training of urban technologists at KU, emphasis is placed on being able to translate confusing statistics into a general pattern of information that is relevant to anyone in the community.
As an example of specialized information being simplified for public consumption. Aangeenbrug cited the use of computers in making maps of an urban area. All of the seemingly unrelated and jumbled information about the area is fed into a computer, and with proper programming techniques, a map can be produced which represents any desired aspect of the area.
This mapping process is an involved one, and Aangeenbrug said that the first time it was done by the Center for Regional Studies, each map cost approximately $2,000. Since then, however, through improved opera-
Military men to return home
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Men of the 69th Infantry Brigade, a Kansas Army National Guard unit mobilized May 13, 1968, will return to their home towns early in December for demobilization.
The Kansas congressional delegation announced Thursday that the men will return to their home towns from Dec. 1 to Dec. 11 to prepare for formal demobilization no later than Dec. 15.
Included in the announcement and scheduled for release was the 995th Maintenance Company, of Hays and Russell. This was the only other Kansas Guard unit mobilized last May other than the Brigade.
It had been announced previously that the 3,400 men in the unit would be released about Dec. 15. The unit is headquartered at Ft. Carson, Colo., but many individuals have been sent to Vietnam as replacements.
The announcement said, "Those personnel assigned to Vietnam as individual replacements from the Strategic Army Force unit who have completed less than a normal tour in Vietnam will leave there during the week of Nov. 22." They will also return home for demobilization.
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Aangeenbrug said there is a wide variety of problems in
The delegation said that those personnel assigned to South Vietnam who have completed a normal tour or have completed their Reserve obligation in Vietnam will be discharged immediately on their return. This apparently means they will be released from the Reserve program.
studying the modern metropolitan area. "We don't have, as in the physical sciences, discreet observable units," said Aangenebrug. He said that all people,
tional techniques, the cost has been cut to about $20 for each map.
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