International Federation for Documentation

The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography/International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)

This article suggests that the ideas and practices emfundamental importance in the development of what we braced by the term ‘‘documentation,’’ introduced by Paul now call information science. Otlet and his colleagues to describe the work of the InThe Office and the Institute were closely related orgaternational Institute of Bibliography (later FID) that they nizations. The Office was subsidize...

International Federation of

Scholars and professionals rely upon formal communication mechanisms, such as journals, for access to work aimed at contributing to disciplines' knowledge bases. The extent to which journals succeed at achieving the goal of knowledge growth is an open question. While there are many

IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

Some of the artificial intelligence (AI) methods could be used to improve the automation system performance in manufacturing processes. However, the implementation of these AI methods in the industry is rather slow, because of the high cost of the experiments with the conventional manufacturing and AI systems. To lower the experiment cost in this field, we have developed a special micromechanic...

The ten-twenty electrode system of the International Federation. The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

During the First International EEG Congress, London in 1947, it was recommended that Dr. Herbert H. Jasper study methods to standardize the placement of electrodes used in EEG (Jasper 1958). A report with recommendations was to be presented to the Second International Congress in Paris in 1949. The electrode placement systems in use at various centers were found to be similar, with only minor d...

International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC)