Terry.pa@XEROX.ARPA (09/17/85)
Lorenzo Aguilar of SRI International has asked me to pass on the following request for information. If you have information that might be of interest to him, please respond directly to him, NOT to me. Thanks... Doug Terry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As part of the SRI International program in multimedia information systems, we are requesting information about recent R&D efforts in the area of multimedia database support for CAD of VLSI circuits. We will appreciate to receive papers and reports on your recent work (1982 and after) related to multimedia databases for CAD of VLSI systems and in general on multimedia databases. We are particularly interested in prototype system implementations. If you have on-line information, please send it to Aguilar@sri-tsc, otherwise send air-mail to: Lorenzo Aguilar SRI International 333 Ravenswood Av. Menlo Park, CA 94025 SRI has an on-going program on multimedia information systems including several data media: computer graphics, formatted data, text, knowledge bases, voice, images. One aspect of the program concerns research on extending database management technology to handle several of the aforesaid data media. Knowledge bases are considered a medium for capturing application domain semantics whereas the other media are considered means for data storage, information capture, and user interface presentation and interaction. We are conducting a short study of the applicability of multimedia database technology and this is the reason for this request. If you have questions regarding this request, please send ARPA mail or call me at 415-859-4118. I will apreciate if you ack the reception of this message. Thanks a lot for your help. Lorenzo Aguilar