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FROM AMOEBA TO REQUEST:: A HISTORY AND CASE STUDY OF CONNECTICUT'S CD‐ROM‐BASED STATEWIDE DATABASE
William Uricchio, Michelle DuffyCircCess, a 35‐member library network, was moving toward a major system upgrade when it discovered that the planned system would not support Boolean functions. An alternative…
THE EDUCOM'89 Infonet
Cole WhitemanThe University of Michigan's Information Technology Division, with the help of 21 corporate partners, created a city‐wide multivendor information network to support the EDUCOM'89…
Electronic conferencing and EDUCOM'89
Michael LougeeComputer conferencing is a form of computer‐mediated communication that facilitates continuing coherent discussions among many persons on multiple, and often complex, topics. This…
Spreadsheet Design: Role of Introductory Documentation in Creating Spreadsheets
Glenn R. Wittig“Documentation”—that which is incorporated into the spreadsheet file, in contrast to manuals that come with the software per se—seems to be acknowledged more in theory than in…
Planning an on‐premise telecommunication system: The University of Michigan case study—part two of two: construction and implementation
Leslie (Southwick) WilhelmThe University of Michigan's telecommunications system cost $38,000,000 to build, includes 30,000 lines, and processes 14,000,000 calls monthly. It is one of the largest private…
Sidebar 3: anatomy of a fiber optic network
Leslie (Southwick) WilhelmLike Rome, the University of Michigan's campus‐wide fiber optic network was not built in a day. During an intense three‐week period in May 1988, Pradeep Patel, Transmission…
The first program for your second personal computer
Walt CrawfordYour second PC will certainly have a high‐capacity hard disk—as will your first, if you're buying it today and intend to do any serious work with it. The author has some (possibly…
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0737-8831Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho