Licklider, J.C.R. (1960) Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions of Human Factors in Electronics (1), 4-11 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html or read a PDF version at http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
Notes
Section: 1.1, 1.2, 2, 3, 3.1, 4, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Summary
1960: Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Swinging Sixties
"In the anticipated symbiotic partnership, men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will do the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for insights and decisions in technical and scientific thinking."
The work is broken into five sections, some of which contain sub-sections.
Purposes:
Couple of types of machine interaction:
Preformulated problems and predetermined procedures.
Talks about obstacls that have lead to the creation of and research in things like machine learning and exception handling.
The problem "is not, 'What is the answer?' The question is, 'What is the question?'"
Goal: "bring the computing machine effectively into the formulative parts of technical problems."
The other goal is achieving "real time" computing.
Introduces that section 3 will be justification for the statment that "functions that can be performed by data-processing machines would improve or facilitate thinking and problem solving in an important way."
The author served as his own subject because of a lack of existing studies.
"Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting
it."
Goes on to talk about the time consumption of information visualization.
Anticipated seperated functions; machine vs human.
"Men will set the goals and supply the motivations[,][...] formulate hypotheses[,][...] questions[,][...] mechanisms, procedures, and models."
Prerequisites and hurdles are covered in section 5.
Right away, the focus is scientific like As We May Think by Vannevar Bush and unlike The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser.
Do not like the writing style (voice) as much as the other two previous readings.