schatz@thumper.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 types 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; we would like to expand this to a complete information environment. Since the goal is a single system to handle all the user's information needs, a key component would be an interactive document processor. This program would be like a real-time Scribe, providing WYSIWYG for document-level features such as headers, cross-references, indexes, and bibliographies. We are seeking new colleagues to help build the telesophy prototype. If interested, please contact me directly. A fuller description of the position appears on misc.jobs . Bruce Schatz schatz@bellcore.com (decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax)!bellcore!schatz