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m Added paragraph reflecting work done at Informatics' office in Glendale in support of NASA (JPL, Ames, Goldstone) where I was employed in 1966-1968 |
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During the 1960s and 1970s Informatics played a key role in the development of online information services. One of these was RADCOL at [[Rome Air Development Center]] (site of some of Informatics's earliest contracts); this was short for RADC Automatic Document Classification On-Line, which ran from the late 1960s into the mid-1970s.<ref>Bourne and Hahn, ''A History of Online Information Services'', p. 333.</ref>
Informatics had several contracts with [[NASA]]. The earliest, in 1966 (and possibly earlier) was in support of NASA efforts at [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] and the [[Ames Research Center]]. In support of the contract Informatics opened a branch office in [[Glendale, California|Glendale, CA]]. Work done there included software developed to support the [[Surveyor program|Surveyor]], [[Mariner program|Mariner]] and [[Apollo program|Apollo]] programs with applications as diverse as satellite tracking, redesigning the [[Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex|Goldstone]] antenna and a database application for maintaining information about [[Monkeys and apes in space|primates]] in use at various NASA labs. The program for redesign of the Goldstone antenna used what came to be called a [[hill climbing]] algorithm and was given special recognition by NASA in the form of a small monetary prize for its developers.
Informatics had a long-running contract with [[NASA]] from 1968 to 1980.<ref name="bh-163">Bourne and Hahn, ''A History of Online Information Services'', p. 163.</ref>▼
▲Later, Informatics had a long-running contract with [[NASA]] from 1968 to 1980.<ref name="bh-163">Bourne and Hahn, ''A History of Online Information Services'', p. 163.</ref>
This began with winning an over-$4 million business to operate the Scientific and Technical Information Facility at [[College Park, Maryland]].<ref name="frank-49">Frank, "Achieving the American Dream", pp. 49–50.</ref> There Informatics maintained NASA online bibliographic systems, including the pioneering RECON facility.<ref name="bh-163"/> These systems involved abstracts and indexes created against microfilm and other representations of documents on NASA-related subject areas.<ref name="frank-49"/>
Informatics made continual improvements to it, including reducing the response time for queries down to three seconds or less.<ref>Bourne and Hahn, ''A History of Online Information Services'', p. 307.</ref> <!-- Informatics loses contract in 1980 https://books.google.com/books?id=LTTvmUU8rskC&pg=PA163 -->
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