Register of the John A. Starkweather Papers, 1965-1985
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Register of the John A. Starkweather Papers, 1965-1985
Collection number: MSS 92-92
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
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- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
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Descriptive Summary
Title: John A. Starkweather Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1965-1985
Collection number: MSS 92-92
Creator:
Starkweather, John A.
Extent: Number of containers: 1 carton, 2 boxes
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received from Dr. Starkweather, 11/2/92.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John A. Starkweather Papers, MSS 92-92, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Abstract
Includes correspondence, sample programs of Computest (early version of Pilot), and
materials detailing the development of Pilot, various Pilot user manuals.
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
John Amsden Starkweather was born on August 30, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan. During World
War II, he served in the U. S. Coast Guard and attended the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in
New London, Connecticut. He obtained his A.B. degree in Art from Yale in 1950, and
graduate degrees from Northwestern University (M.A., Experimental Psychology, 1953;
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1955). During his Ph.D. candidacy, he was an assistant
research psychologist at the University of California San Francisco campus, and a
lecturer in psychology at Northwestern. After obtaining his Ph.D., he returned to UCSF's
Department of Psychiatry to conduct courses in medical psychology, first as an assistant
professor (1955-1961), then associate professor (1961-1966) and later as a full professor
(1966-1992) and emeritus professor (1992-). He also has lectured in pharmacology
(1956-1962) and in psychology at U. C. Berkeley (1957-1958).
Dr. Starkweather's teaching activities from 1955 through 1961 centered primarily on
clinical skills of diagnostic psychological testing and interviewing. Referrals were also
accepted for evaluative consultations for faculty members and students in outpatient
clinics of Psychiatry, Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and
inpatient wards of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medicine. Following a sabbatical leave in
1962, his emphasis of teaching shifted from clinical skills toward consultation about
data analysis, research methods and computer usage, involving consultation with faculty
and staff, with postgraduate fellows, residents and medical students. It was in this
second field of interest that much of Dr. Starkweather's later work took place. From 1965
to 1977 he was the director of UCSF's Office of Information Systems and Computer Center,
and from 1967 to 1992 he was first a faculty member and later chairman of the Graduate
Group in Medical Information Science.
Notable among Dr. Starkweather's achievements during this period was the development of
two interactive computer programming languages, initially designed for automated
examinations and learning exercises: COMPUTEST was developed in the early 1960s, and
PILOT (Programmed Inquiry, Learning Or Teaching) in the early 1970s. Of the two systems,
PILOT --designed for use on individual desktop microprocessor equipment --has been the
most successful. PILOT was chosen by the National Library of Medicine as their primary
computer language for the dissemination and interchange of computer-based instructional
materials in the health sciences, and for the instruction of medical librarians about how
to search the MEDLINE data files; a more recent version has been used to develop current
instruction about access to toxicology information.
Carton Carton 1, Folder 1.
Computest description and listing
Folder 2-3.
Computest programs, 1st, 3rdgrade
Folder 7.
Programmed interview: menstrual disorder
Folder 8.
Diagnostic interview: chest pain
Folder 13.
US Office of Education H226 final report 1/69
Carton Carton 1, Folder 14.
Folder 21.
Coursewriter PILOT translator, 1974
Folder 24.
Examples formatted for slides
Folder 25.
PILOT Datapoint distribution
Folder 27.
NIH-LM-01843 final report 6/76
Folder 28.
PILOT for IBM, VM/370 CMS 1976
Folder 29.
PILOT information exchange, 1975-76
Box Box 1, Folder 30.
IEEE P1154 PILOT standard development
Folder 32.
Nielsen (MUMPS Pilot)(ATARI)
Apple Pilot Editors Manual (Apple II), 1980
Apple Pilot Reference Manual (Apple II), 1980
Conlon, Tom. Pilot--The Language and How to Use It, 1984
Nielsen, Tom. Esteem (TM) Pilot, 1990
Box Box 2
Starkweather, John A. A User's Guide to Pilot, 1985
Starkweather, John A. Utah PILOT version 7.0, Programmer's Reference manual, 7th ed., 1985
Starkweather, John A. Nevada PILOT Programmer's Reference Manual, 1982
Starkweather, John A. Guide to 8080 PILOT, Version 1.1, [s.d.]
PILOT Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching Language Reference Manual [ca. 1984?]
ATARI 400/800 Student Pilot Reference Guide, 1981
ATARI 400/800 PILOT Demonstration Programs Users Guide, 1981
ATARI 400/800 PILOT Primer The PILOT Programming Language Instruction Manual, 1980
Cassette PILOT User's Manual. Processor Technology, 1978
Chapman, Glen I., and William H. Ford. LHC-PILOT User Guide, NIH, 1978
Turner, Lawrence E. PILOT Reference Manual [Hewlett-Packard Computer Curriculum], 1973
