Information Retrieval List Digest 061 (May 13, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-061 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 May 91 10:26:29 PST Reply-To: Information Retrieval List Sender: Information Retrieval List From: IRLIST Subject: IRLIST Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 18, Issue 61 IRLIST Digest May 13, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 18 Issue 61 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. A Comprehensive Strategy for Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century; Stanford University; June 18-20, 1991 2. ML91: The 8th International Workshop on Machine Learning; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 27-29, 1991 B. Publications Announcements 1. Informix Mail List Information II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Coin operated CD-ROMs ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: William Daul Re: A Comprehensive Strategy For Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century Stanford University June 18-20, 1991 SEMINAR LEADER: Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is a recognized visionary and pioneer of strategic frameworks for organizational improvement, groupware, hypermedia, outline and idea processing, multiple windows, display editing, and the mouse, with integrated prototypes in full operation as early as 1968. After 20 years directing his own lab at SRI, 6 years as senior scientist at Tymshare (information systems vendor), and 5 years at McDonnell Douglas (large end-user org with complex project work), Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is working closely with industry stakeholders to launch a collaborative Bootstrap Initiative to put his strategies into widescale practice. He is invited to speak internationally on many related topics, often as keynote speaker, has received awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity, and is also an associate at Stanford University's Center for Design Research. ********************************************************* "Engelbart has forever changed the way we do business in America." (Coors American Ingenuity Award '91) ********************************************************* PROGRAM OVERVIEW: A "bootstrapping strategy" for organizational improvement is the basic theme of this seminar. This strategy is based on a pragmatic co-evolution of technology and work processes, and leads to strategic choices in developing and deploying emergent information technology. A key focus for improvement is the collaborative development of integrated knowledge among widely distributed workers. The strategy further suggests how special deployment of early advances in this capability could yield maximum returns in a longterm investment strategy for highest performance organizations -- whatever their future role, structure and functional dynamics. This approach anticipates significant changes in the marketplace of information-system products and services, and in key components of an organization's winning/survival strategy. Specific interest is growing among a number of organizations toward cooperative exploration of this approach. A New Perspective: * New paradigms -- stretching our perception of the rate, scale, and pervasiveness of change; * An "A-B-C" model of organizational improvement; * The "Co-evolution Approach" -- concurrent improvement of prototypical tools and methods; * "Organizational Bootstrapping" -- a comprehensive investment strategy for continuous improvement; * Extra leverage potential from early investment in improving group knowledge development to reduce both product cycle time and improvement cycle time. Organizational Issues: * What is "group knowledge work"? -- understanding the multi faceted knowledge development requirements of complex projects; * The life-cycle of a project team's knowledge base -- continu ously updated plans, specs, documentation, decision trails, status reports, intelligence material, ...; * The "concurrent enterprise" -- requirements for knowledge domain interoperability; * The aerospace industry as a case in point; * New work methods & issues for strategic deployment. Architectural Issues: * The need for an "open hyperdocument system" (OHS) to support collaborative knowledge development; * Basic design considerations for online creation, exchange, and study -- sharing hypermedia files and sharing screens among widely distributed knowledge workers; * Fundamental issues for an evolvable, inter-operable informa tion system architecture; * Implications for enterprise integration, CSCW/groupware, hypermedia, TQM, CASE, concurrent engineering, integrated CAD/CAM/CALS architectures, ...; * Implications for industry standards. Explicit Action: * Bootstrapping your organization -- an explicit strategy for cost-effective launching and implementation; * Practical recommendations for early investment targets and im plementation approaches; * A case for collaborative exploration; * The role of vendors, consultants, user orgs, universities, and gov't agencies; * Activities already under way. The program includes 3 intensive days of lecture, slides, movies, live demos of AUGMENT (an early OHS prototype), with Engelbart's candid anecdotal experiences woven throughout. Wrap-up session to include special panel discussion on the practical application of the concepts and strategies presented. The program, the facility, the group participation, and the meals are designed to encourage open dialog with Engelbart and other participants. Seminar docu mentation includes over 200 pages of specially organized diagrams, notes, and recommended readings. BACKGROUND: The complexity and urgency facing today's organizations will increase exponentially as we move into the next century. Unless organizations quickly learn to grow increasingly faster and smarter, they will soon surpass their ability to cope. Decades of unprecedented investment in change should be anticipated. Assuming that the rate of return on wiser investments would be compounded, subtle differences in strategy will put some organizations far ahead of others in capability and effectiveness. Where will your organization stand? Early strategic focus on improving tools and methods for Early strategic focus on improving tools and methods for collaborative knowledge development offers a special investment leverage. Heterogeneous project teams which can coordinate their work online using highly effective tools and methods would be faster and smarter at identifying needs and opportunities, designing and deploying solutions, and incorporating lessons learned -- regardless of geographical distance. These capabilities could be applied in both the product-related activities and the improvement efforts of the enterprise. Considering the rapidly shifting challenges facing today's organizations, and the restricted resources for coping, the ability to reduce the improvement cycle time will be just as critical to an organization's survival and success as reducing its product cycle time. Strategic investments in capabilities which support both goals would offer compounded leverage for bootstrapping organizations into the 21st century. These generic capabilities would also provide a powerful infrastructure to integrate and support other key improvement ef forts, such as total quality, enterprise integration, concurrent engineering, CASE, groupware, decision analysis, issue management, online document delivery, records management, integrated CAD/CAM/CALS architectures, and multi-corporate collaboration. ********************************************************* "Engelbart's contribution to personal computing is almost inestimable." (PC Mag. Lifetime Achievement Award '87) "I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when we run out of Doug's ideas." (Computer Currents, Feb '90) "It would be difficult to exaggerate Doug Engelbart's effect on the computer industry." (Electric Word, Mar '90) ********************************************************* WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone responsible for the strategic planning, design, product marketing, or organizational implementation of enterprise integration, total quality, implementation of enterprise integration, total quality, concurrent engineering, groupware/CSCW, hypermedia, CASE, online document delivery, integrated CAD/CAM/CALS architectures, open systems, interoperability, program mgt, issue mgt, records mgt, continuous process improvement, cross-enterprise collaboration, etc. A special effort is being made to have a wellrounded mix of representatives from large end-user organizations, computer vendors, industry consultants, government agencies, and academic research. ********************************************************* "I would encourage you to take part in Engelbart's next seminar..." (Patricia Seybold Apr '90) ********************************************************* REGISTRATION: $900 rcvd by Jun 4, $975 after Jun 4, includes continental breakfast, lunch, & refreshments Tue/Wed/Thu, reception & dinner Tue/Wed, plus all seminar materials. Refund requests must be made by Jun 4. WHERE & WHEN: Stanford University, beginning 8:00 am Tue with continental breakfast & check-in, ending 5:00 pm Thu (all meals & refreshments included). Maps will be sent with registration confirmation. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND ALL SESSIONS AND MEALS. HOTEL & SHUTTLE: For hotel reservations call the Stanford Terrace Inn (415)857-0333 and ask for the special Bootstrap Seminar rate, and for shuttle info to and from the airport and the seminar. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call (415) 713-3550 or info@bootstrap.stanford.edu. !!! Space is limited !!! HOW TO APPLY: Send this form with check payable to Bootstrap Institute to: Bootstrap Institute 1035 Waverley St Palo Alto, CA 94301 Name _______________________________ Title ___________________________ Nickname (for name badge) __________ Dept ____________________________ Org ________________________________ Phone (____)_____________________ Addr _______________________________ Fax (____)_______________________ ____________________________________ Email ___________________________ City ________________________ State ____ Zip __________ Country ______ Special interests (e.g. enterprise integration, groupware, TQM, con current engineering,...) ______________________________________________________________________ ==============================END===================================== For More Information: uunet!TOUCHSTONE.STANFORD.EDU!INFO.BI uunet!TOUCHSTONE.STANFORD.EDU!CHRISTINA ********** I.A.2. Fr: David Lewis Re: Reminder and Registration: Machine Learning and IR Workshop ML91 -- The Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning Registration Information On behalf of the organizing committee, and the individual workshop committees, we are pleased to announce that ML91, the Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning, will be held at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, June 27-29, 1991. ML91 comprises eight workshop tracks: o Automated Knowledge Acquisition o Computational Models of Human Learning o Constructive Induction o Learning from Theory and Data o Learning in Intelligent Information Retrieval o Learning Reaction Strategies o Learning Relations o Machine Learning in Engineering Automation In addition there will be plenary talks by noted researchers in machine learning and related fields. Registration: The registration fee will be $70 for students, $100 for everyone else. This fee will cover conference participation, proceedings, and receptions. To register please send a check for the appropriate amount, made out to Northwestern University, along with a completed copy of the form to be found at the end of this message. The deadline for registration is May 22, 1991. After this date, a late fee of $25 will be charged. Accomodations: We have reserved rooms at the following hotels: Omni Orrington Hotel 1710 Orrington Avenue Evanston, Illinois 60201 (708) 866-8700 or (708) 866-8700 or 1-800-THE-OMNI Rates: $78.00 single per night $88.00 double per night The Orrington is a five minute walk from the conference site. Holiday Inn -- Evanston 1501 Sherman Avenue Evanston, Illinois 60201 (708) 491-6400 or 1-800-HOLIDAY Rates: $60.00 single per night $70.00 double per night The Holiday Inn is a fifteen minute walk from the conference site. You must make hotel reservations yourself. When you reserve your room, please inform the hotel that you are registering for the Machine Learning Workshop. We are currently trying to arrange dorm space on campus. A message about this will be forthcoming shortly. Travel By air: Chicago has two airports: O'Hare and Midway. Most flights go to O'Hare, which is also the most convenient to Evanston. To get from O'Hare to Evanston, the following options are available: Taxi: The fare from O'Hare to Evanston should be about $25. Bus Service: Continental Air Tranport (312-454-7799) and Larry Webb Bus Service (312-866-7163) leave O'Hare for Evanston every hour from the American Airlines baggage area. Each line will take you to the Omni Orrington Hotel in Evanston. The Holiday Inn is 3 blocks south of the Orrington. Inn is 3 blocks south of the Orrington. Public Transportation: The CTA (1-800-972-7000) "El" trains run from O'Hare to downtown Chicago, and from Chicago to Evanston. Follow the airport signs to locate the O'Hare "El" stop. The fare is $1 per person. Take the "El" to the Washington St. stop, which is the end of the line. Transfer to a Northbound train. Take this train to the Howard St. Station. Transfer to a Northbound Evanston train. Get off at the Davis St. station in Evanston. To get to the Holiday Inn, walk east to Sherman Ave., turn right and go south two blocks. To get to the Orrington, walk east to Orrington Ave., turn left and go north one block. This trip will take at least an hour. It's reasonably safe but we don't recommend it because of the aggravation involved. By car: To get to Evanston, take Dempster St. east from either the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) or the Edens Expressway (I-94). Follow Dempster east to Chicago Ave. (one block past the "El" train overpass). Turn left on Chicago and go north. To get to the Holiday Inn, turn left on Grove St., go one block west. To get to the Orrington, turn left on Davis St., go one block west to Orrington, turn right and go one and a half blocks north to the hotel. By train: Amtrack trains stop at Union Station in downtown Chicago. Walk 4 blocks north on Canal St. to the Chicago & Northwestern Commuter Train Station. Take a Northbound train to the Davis St. station in Evanston. Directions from there to the hotels are as from the "El" above. **************************Registration Form************************** Please send this form, along with a check in the appropriate amount made out to Northwestern University, to the following address: Machine Learning 1991 The Institute for the Learning Sciences 1890 Maple Avenue Evanston, Illinois, 60201 USA phone (708) 491-3500 fax (708) 491-5258 email ml91@ils.nwu.edu Registration information (please type or print): Name: Address: Phone: Email: Type of registration: ( ) Student -- $70 ( ) Others -- $100 Registration is due May 22, 1991. If your registration will arrive after that date, please add a late fee of $25. ********** I.B.1 Fr: Bob Stringfield Re: Informix Mail List Info Informix E-Mail Discussion List (from Walt Hultgren) This is to announce an electronic mailing list for the discussion of Informix software and related subjects. Topics include all of the Informix offerings, from C-ISAM to WingZ, plus third-party products. Membership in the list is open to anyone, including end-users, vendors and employees of Informix Software, Inc. The list is unmoderated, so members are solely responsible for its content. All contributions are welcome, so long as they emphasize substantive information. To subscribe, send e-mail to informix-list-request@rmy.emory.edu with the following information: 1. Your name (not just your login ID) 2. Organization or Company name 3. Postal address 4. Voice phone number 5. Operating environment, such as hardware, OS, network 6. Informix products your regularly use: 4GL, ISQL, RDS, etc. 7. Whether you want Informix-related Usenet comp.databases articles sent to you via e-mail (see below) 8. The number of User-ID's served if you use an alias (see also below) 9. Any comments or suggestions you have about the list About #7: The list provides a gateway service where Informix-related articles posted to the Usenet newsgroup comp.databases can be sent to you via e-mail. This is a one-way transfer, in that messages posted directly to the list will not be automatically sent back to comp.databases -- at least not for now. If you do not want the gateway service, please indicate this in your mail. About #8: If there are several users on your system(s) that want to subscribe, you may want to set up a local mail alias for incoming list messages if you have that capability. If you do, pick an alias such as "informix-distr" to which users are unlikely to post, and do *not* include the main list address in your alias. I'd appreciate knowing the number of User-ID's that it serves. I'm excited about the prospects for this list, and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. Thanks, Walt Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA BITNET: walt@EMORY Voice: +1 404 727 0648 UUCP: {...,rutgers,gatech}!emory!rmy!walt ---- ["Informix", "C-ISAM" and "WingZ" are registered trademarks of Informix Software, Inc.] ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.2. Fr: Wandy Loucks Adresse alternative de l'envoyeur: Re: Coin operated CD-ROMs Our library is thinking of installing coin-operated CD-Rom equipment for student use. We would appreciate any information on the following: working experience with coin operated cd-roms; equipment recommendations, reviews. 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