July 1988 - Vol. 31 No. 7
Features
KMS: a distributed hypermedia system for managing knowledge in organizations
Developers of hypermedia systems face many design issues. The design for KMS, a large-scale hypermedia system for collaborative work, seeks improved user productivity…
Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems
NoteCards, developed by a team at Xerox PARC, was designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly…
HAM: a general purpose hypertext abstract machine
The HAM is a transaction-based server for a hyper text storage system. The server is designed to handle multiple users in a networked environment. The storage system…
Abstraction mechanisms in hypertext
Abstraction is the means by which information can be stored and retrieved from an information structure at different levels of detail and from different perspectives. As…
Hypertext and the Oxford English dictionary
Hypertext databases can be produced by converting existing text documents to electronic form. The basic task in conversion is identification of fragments. We illustrate…
Searching for information in a hypertext medical handbook
Medicine is an ideal domain for hypertext applications and research. Implementing a popular medical handbook in hypertext underscores the need to study hypertext in the…
Fourth annual UCLA survey of business school computer usage
The Fourth Survey is based upon data from 128 AACSB-accredited business schools. It provides a wide variety of information to deans and others involved in making computer…
Retraining teachers to teach high school computer science
The national trends regarding the retraining of secondary school teachers in a computer science discipline are examined. Recommendations and guidelines are offered in…