Electronic Reference Systems in the Year 2000: The Symposium on Advanced Information Processing and Analysis, March 24 - 26, 1992

"I'm drowning in open source information!" is the cry of intelligence analysts, a cry not unfamiliar to many other researchers. How does one navigate through a turbulent paper sea? Confronted with a wealth of new open source material (e.g. newspapers, television, technical journals, wire service bulletins, etc.), analysts, who should be interpreting incoming information, currently spend most of their time either sifting and reading documents or writing reports based upon them. Contributing to their problems are those of inefficient technological transfer, shrinking resources (funds and p)eople), overlapping R&D efforts, and the lack of system integration. Unlike most researchers, however, intelligence community has an organization, the Advanced Information Processing & Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG), through which to present its needs to potential contractors and enough funding to attract bidders. AIPASG held its annual meeting March 24 26, 1992 in Reston, Virginia.