HBX@PSUVM.BITNET (Terry Harrison 336 Beam BAB 3-3357) (11/09/89)
i need a reference to a particular type of software, although i am not sure that it exists. i suspect that other net readers would also welcome some pointers in this direction. i earn my living as an academic. so i read lots of papers and make references to other's work in the papers i write. however, i find that i read many more papers than i used to, and am having trouble keeping track of where i found a particular idea. i used to be able to track all of this in my head but am not so successful anymore. what i would dearly like to find is a (database?) package that lets me put in free form statements like: PARALLEL PROCESSING-ANOMALOUS SPEEDUPS-MULTIOBJECTIVE LINEAR PROGAMMING- ORSA JOURNAL OF COMPUTING etc. then i would like to be able to search through this in a number of different ways. my primary aim is to build some form of electronic storage of the main ideas of my reading in a way that i can conveniently access it later. perhaps someone has already implemented a means for doing this kind of thing. i would very much like to hear about it. if enough people respond directly to me via e-mail, i will summarize and post. ------- Terry Harrison Management Science Department Penn State University BITNET: hbx@psuvm UUCP: ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!hbx INTERNET: hbx at psuvm.psu.edu