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Electronics maze
United Press International
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill.
— Computer whiz Louis Elsen says
he would give up all rights to his
computer system, which already has
saved the government a quarter of a
billion dollars, for a chat with Presi
dent Reagan.
“Yeah, I’d do it,” Elsen says with a
sheepish grin. “I’d probably throw
away a million dollars.”
Elsen developed the system in his
spare time and estimates its worth at
$1 million. The Air Force estimates
the system has saved the govern
ment $238 million in just one year.
Elsen, a civilian working for the
Air Force, says he would give up the
chance to make money with his com
puter system for a two-hour, closed-
door talk with Reagan on the subjects
of Elsen’s choosing.
“I’d like to sit down and talk with
Reagan,” Elsen says.
Elsen’s computer system is called
LOUIS, which doesn’t stand for
Elsen’s first name but Logical On
line User Inquiry System.
“It’s a coincidence it came out that
way, but I’m not denying I’m proud
of it,” Elsen says.
One of the reasons LOUIS is so
valuable is that practically anyone
can learn to use it in minutes. To
perform a variety of complex compu
ter functions, the user has only to
type a series of commands in simple
English.
If the user gives an incorrect com
mand, LOUIS says so.
“LOUIS is a very fast and usable
system,” says Elsen, a computer
trouble-shooter for the Air Force
Communications Command based at
Scott. “Just about anyone with
reasonable intelligence should be
able to use this system.”
Elsen claims his brain-child is
almost an artificial intelligence. Four
years in development and testing,
LOUIS is used throughout the Air
Force and some federal agencies. Air
Force officials say the system’s value
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lomponents. The equipment was part of an
exhibit on campus by Fluke Manufacturing,
an electronics company that does much busi
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INDIANAPOLIS — Former Gov. Otis M. Bowen has traded his
office in the Capitol for a front spot in the classroom, but he’s not
leering his students into politics.
Bowen, Indiana’s best-known family doctor, is encouraging his
students at the Indiana University Medical Center to enter family
iractice — a profession he delved into for nearly 30 years before
devoting hill time to politics.
The former governor, who began his new career Monday as profes-
or of family medicine, said a solo family practitioner is rarely seen
low, but the times are ripe for family doctors.
“People are beginning to get more interested in somebody to look
liter their total body, and also to have a one-stop place for care,” he
aid.
I suspect the fact you can have a one-stop area (for health care)
Would be a money-saving thing for the family,” Bowen said.
That’s not to say there isn’t a place for specialists.
“There is so much to know in medicine,” Bowen said. “A family
practitioner has to be well-versed in a lot of it, but not necessarily doing
“You have to recognize limitations,” he said, and refer patients to
specialists if necessary. ”
Bowen, who practiced from the mid 1940s through 1972 in Bremen
in northern Indiana, doesn’t mourn the demise of the solo practitioner.
Really, they kill you in a country practice,” he said. “You need a
little family practice group of two or three so you can have a day off now
and then, and a vacation once in a while.”
Bowen had a family practice until 1964, when he became so involved
politics he felt he wasn’t giving enough time to his partners. He and
his late wife, Beth, then ran his medical practice from the basement of
their home.
The experience taught Bowen to manage his time by juggling “regu
lar appointments, work-ins, walk-ins and sneak-ins. ”
The regular appointments, he said, were not much trouble. Walk-
ins were people who suddenly became ill and needed to get in right
away.
Then there are the sneak-ins, ” he said, “like the mother who comes
in for a check-up and brings three kids and says ,‘as long as I’m here. ’”
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is its simplicity and the reduced use
of computer time.
LOUIS is a tape program that can
be placed into the memory of any
Honeywell government computer.
Once the tape is stored in the com
puter’s memory, simple commands
can be used to get information on
personnel, budgets, finance, inven
tories, status of equipment, availa
bility of communications circuits and
whatever else government compu
ters have stored away.
Elsen, 31, said his family back
ground had much to do with LOUIS’
development.
“When I was a kid, my dad was
working at a plant and one day he
pulled out a piece of welding rod,’
Elsen said.
“‘What are you going to do with
it,”’ Elsen asked.
“Anything I want,” was the reply.
Elsen says keeping in mind that a
single item can be used for many
things is important.
“I’m a very basic individual,”
Elsen said. “The simple approach is
usually the best approach. ”
Though he is known as something
of a marvel in the Air Force, Elsen
has no formal data processing train
ing and developed LOUIS on his off
hours. The inscription on a cartoon
over his desk reads, “Louis Elsen, a
legend in his spare time.”
The Air Force currently has exclu
sive rights to LOUIS, but Elsen says
private industry may be using the
system within six months.
“I didn’t realize the significance it
(LOUIS) would have,” Elsen says.
“To me, it was just a toy.”
Elsen has his own computer re
search company, Evolving Compu
ter Concepts Inc., in suburban St.
Louis, but says he currently has no
plans to market LOUIS.
Air Force work is important, he
says, adding, “I’m going to be ex
tremely cost-effective for the next
eight years. ”
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