darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP (01/29/87)
-- Readers of this newsgroup may be interested in the following: The Telesophy Project at Bell Communications Research is a research effort to understand how to provide uniform access to AnyThing AnyWhere and thus permit browsing the WorldNet. A telesophy system transparently stores and retrieves information of different types from different locations. We have built a prototype on Sun workstation hardware, which accesses multiple datatypes from multiple databases on multiple machines. A set of databases have been obtained, ranging from Netnews to journal citations to full-text magazines to color pictures, and we are beginning to use the system on a daily basis. The prototype currently performs network information retrieval; it might be thought of as a distributed file system addressable by keyword content rather than by exact pathname. Doing this properly requires efficient symbolic addressing across a large network of machines. We are seeking new colleagues to help build the telesophy prototype. If interested, please contact me directly. A fuller description appears on misc.jobs . Bruce Schatz schatz@bellcore.com (decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax)!bellcore!schatz --