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Ubiquitous Software: An Information Network Paradigm



Appendix




Related Works

  • A collection of related Web Documents
  • Links to Important Sites
  • Thesis Defense Outline


  • Acronyms

    CUI Computer User Interface, not to be confused with GUI, CUI is all interaction between user and computer hardware and software.
    HD Heterogenous Data, includes (but not limited to) plain text, graphics, video, audio, electronic books, links to virtual libraries, U_S components.
    IR also IRs, Information Resources, an instance of HD.
    IRa Information Resource address, like a URL, is the address on an Information Network of a particular Information Resource.
    KR Knowledge Representation language, proposed computer language(s) to support machine-reasoning systems.
    NCs Network Computers, light-weight architecture.
    ORB Object Request Broker (see UNO).
    PSE Problem Solving Environment, computing tools needed to bridge the gap between increasingly complex machines (whose exploitation takes more and more expertise) and the growing community of non-expert users. PSEs describe harnessing computers and interconnected networks, making them powerful resources for education.
    UNO Universal Network Object, a class of General Inter-ORB protocals supporting standardized messages between networked objects. Internet IOP (IIOP) is mandated by UNO and specifies support for inter-ORB communications over TCP/IP.
    URL Universal Resource Locator, used by telecom applications like the Web as an address for some resourse, i.e. a document location.
    TFFL Toyota Families for Learning, is a family literacy program which recognizes the link between undereducated adults and educationally at-risk children. As such, it serves to address the needs of both parents and children simultaneously. It aims to foster parental participation in the educational activities by building on the strengths of the parents involved.
    U_S Ubiquitous Software, seeming to be available all of the time. Is a CUI issue that is needed for the success of Information Networks.
    VLP also VLPs, Virtual Lesson Plans. One instance of the new Writing Space of Information Networks.
    Web World Wide Web.


    Top 10 Events in Computer History

    1. 1943 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." IBM president Watson.
    2. 1950 With fewer than a dozen computers in the world, Douglas Engelbart imagines networks of computer with CRT's as interfaces. Ten years passes before he finds a job in Computer Science.
    3. 1964 NLS is the first digital computer implementation of hypertext. It provides email and document sharing.
    4. 1966 George North learns FORTRAN.
    5. 1979 VisiCalc becomes the first computer program more popular with non-professionals then professionals. Document based, and user programmable, it represents a giant CUI improvement.
    6. 1993 NCSA Mosaic, another document based CUI improvement. Non-professionals now make browsing the Web the fastest growing computer application ever.
    7. 1995 Sun announces Java and enables platform independent development ... forever changing what to consider important.
    8. xxxx 3 events left?
    Biggest Mistake: IBM licenses DOS.

    Computer Science
    MVP


    Figure Ap.1:
    Douglas Engelbart,
    a man who sees the future

    1. 1950, foresees importance of networked computers.

    2. 1964, NLS, first implementation of HyperText, e-mail, groupware.

    3. 1965, Inventor of the mouse, by far the most important hardware user interface.

    4. Current research: collective IQ, using information networks with collaborative systems.

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