This article focuses first on two types of innovation in software, microcomputer simulations and applications of artificial intelligence, and second, on innovations in hardware that will have implications for political science research. It also adds to previous reviews of computing in political science (e.g., Frantzich & Purkitt, 1987) by discussing some relatively obscure but relevant and potentially valuable information services. Keywords: simulation, artificial intelligence, online databases.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL BILL SIMULATOR, Focus Media, Inc., 839 Stewart Ave., Box 865, Garden City, NY 11530. Apple, $148
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CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Office of Computer-Based Instruction, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. IBM
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DEFCON 5, Cosmi, 415 N. Figueroa St., Wilmington, CA 90744. IBM, $25
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DIRECT MAIL POLITICS SIMULATION, National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse, Box 8101, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695. Apple, IBM, $23
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DNIEPER RIVER LINE, Avalon Hill, 4517 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD 21214. Apple, IBM, $30
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ECOLOGY SIMULATIONS I, Creative Computing, 39 E. Hanover Ave., Morris Plains, NJ 07950. Apple, $25
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ELECTION SIMULATION, Intellectual Software, Five Chapel Hill Dr., Fairfield, CT 16432. Apple, $45
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE SIMULATION, National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse, Box 8101, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695. Apple, IBM, $23
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ELECTORAL VOTE FORECASTER, National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse, Box 8101, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695. Apple, IBM, $23
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EMPIRE, Interstel, PO Box 57825, Webster, TX 77598. IBM, $50
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EPIDEMIC' Strategic Simulations, 1046 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043. Apple, IBM, $5
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FAIRMODEL , Economica, Inc., 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140. IBM
