pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans) (04/11/90)
I am currently writing a paper on augmentation/amplification of human intelligence and am searching for sources of information and discussion. Emphasis will be on ways of understanding augmentation and interaction. I might focus in on hypertext and email as examples of augmentation in communication. I have had no difficulty identifying people (Bush, Engelbart, Licklider, Nelson, and Kay) who wrote about these things many/several years ago but have had difficulty finding materials providing overview of the area written recently. e.g. what is the current equivalent of Engelbart's "A conceptual framework for the augmentation of mans's intellect"? If people could post or email any pointers to the current literature I would be grateful. Thanks, Peter Evans --------pevans@umd5.umd.edu---(301) 4545441--\ _--_|\ Rm. 4105 Hornbake Library Building \ / \ College of Library and Information Services \ \_.--._/ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742---------------\--------v---
briscoe-duke@CS.YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe) (04/11/90)
One article I found very readable and interesting was "The Next Knowledge Medium" by Mark Stefik, in The AI Magazine vol. 7 no. 1, Spring 1986. AI Magazine is the official publication of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Stefik discusses the potential for standardizing knowledge representation, creating an interoperable knowledge medium, and the possibility of having "knowledge markets, with mechanisms for distributing and renting knowledge." "Building a knowledge medium is a long-term goal, complementary to the goal of building artificially intelligent agents. Importantly, the vision of a knowledge medium might be the more useful guide to progress. Like the agent goal, it is for the long term. It stands on other work in the larger field of computer science, such as work on databases and network technology. It rests on the same core work of AI - on language understanding, knowledge representation, and problem-solving." Quotes above from Stefik. Hypertext is related to knowledge representation, with an emphasis on guiding a reader through the links of the representation, and presenting the representation in a form similar to standard literature. Perhaps by the time we have substantial AI-type knowledge bases, we will have the capacity to automatically generate good hypertext presentations of the knowledge. Duke
cvelotta@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Chris Velotta) (04/11/90)
In article <6378@umd5.umd.edu> pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans) writes: > >e.g. what is the current equivalent of Engelbart's "A conceptual >framework for the augmentation of mans's intellect"? > I don't know about the recent equivalent to this work, but there is an article on this topic in the March/April 1990 issue of Electric Word pp. 20-25. I have found Electric Word to be very informative. It deals with technical communication, translation, and related technologies (among other things). Here is their address: Emmalaan 21 - EW 18 1075 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands Subscription Price (last time I checked): US $45/year for an individual US $95/year for a corporation
dwiggins@atsun.a-t.com (Don Dwiggins) (04/13/90)
In article <6378@umd5.umd.edu> pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans) writes: > >e.g. what is the current equivalent of Engelbart's "A conceptual >framework for the augmentation of mans's intellect"? > Engelbart is still active, concentrating now on the organizational impact of augmentation technology and how to introduce and maintain it, a process he calls "Bootstrapping". For more information, you can contact: Bootstrap Project Sweet Hall 3rd Floor Stanford, CA 94305-3090 (415)725-2985 engelbart@bootstrap.stanford.edu -- Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando" Ashton-Tate, Inc. dwiggins@ashtate.a-t.com