Data Processing Dictionary/Wörterbuch der Datenverarbeitung [antikvár]

Préfacé Technical dictionaries, as part of the stock-in-trade of all those engaged in the international exchange of information, must be up-to-date. This is a require-ment which in view of rapid scientific and technological progress, is difficult — if not impossible — to meet with conventional production methods. Technical dictionaries that reflect the latest state of the art on the date of their publication can be produced if all possibilities and advantages offered by electronic data processing are fully exploited. This has been done in producing this dictionary. Ali the processes which go into the making of a dictionary — from the collection of terminology, through a multitude of correcting stages, the treatment of synonyms and compound words, selecting und sorting processes, and updating to fully automated typesetting of the dictionary — were handled throughout by a data processing system without any of the inadequacies hitherto found in mechanical lexico-graphy and all too readily ascribed to the supposed limitations of computers. The terminological data were collected and processed using a special Siemens-developed program system, which is described more closely in the Appendix to this book. The programs were run on a Siemens 4004/45 computer, and a DIGISET filmsetting system of the Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell company was used for the automated typesetting of the dictionary. In this way it was possible to realize complete production, from final editing through typesetting up to the printed book, within four weeks. Although the computer was used in producing this dictionary it still remains a work of man. It cannot, therefore, be perfect. Any criticisms or suggestions for improvement will be gratefully accepted. Munich, September 1970 SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT