At M.I.T.
Whilst at MIT I was the guest of Karen Sollins,
who works at the Lab for Computer Science.
A number of activities at MIT turned out to
be particularly relevant to W3:-
- Information Mesh
- Karen Sollins' project has a lot
in common with W3 in scope, although being a more
research oriented project.
- Library 2000
- Jerry Saltzer's project for library systems using
the technology we can expect in 10 year's time;
- MIT TechInfo
- A practical CWIS actually in use at MIT and other sites;
- OVAL
- "Objects, Views, Agents and Links".
A tool for coordiantion of projects, from
Tom Malone at the Sloan School of Management,
allowing user creation of new objects and types.
- Cybermaps
- Peter Gloor uses lots of CPU time and full-text profile matching to
find related documents and build a web of links where none existed before.
I also took the opportunity of meeting various people from
this side of the continent with relevant projects.
- Brewster Kahle
- Thinking Machines Corporation's charismatic project leader
of the WAIS project.
- CWISP people
- A meeting with people who had been in the CWIS Protocol group,
about U. Penn's "Argo" (not "argot") project,
collaboration with W3, address formats etc etc.
- Dale Dougherty
- I met Dale of O'Reilly Associates,
who supports Pei Wei's Viola browser.
- John Howard, MERC
- Mistubishi Electric's new Research Center, MERC, is just
behind MIT/LCS.
Tim