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  1. Nov 2022
    1. This example is basically a list, so the list of links is more important than the text on the node itself. Note that each link has a type ("includes" for example) and may also have comment associated with it. (The bottom line is a menu bar.)

      Object oriented programming is very convenient to control such kind of connections.

  2. Oct 2022
    1. the Museum sponsored theworld’s first Computer Bowl, which is now anannual classic contest of technological know-howbetween computer luminaries on the East andWest Coasts.

      The Computers Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho on December 31, 2006

    1. Information systems start small and grow.

      This requires a distributed structure. Centralisation will make the workload for the center too heavy to control.

    2. Now imagine picking up the structure and shaking it, until you make some sense of the tangle: perhaps, you see tightly knit groups in some places, and in some places weak areas of communication spanned by only a few people. Perhaps a linked information system will allow us to see the real structure of the organisation in which we work.

      Remind me of clustering algorithm analysis.

    3. A linked system would allow one to browse through concepts, documents, systems and authors, also allowing references between documents to be stored. (Once a document had been found, the existing machinery could be invoked to print it or display it).

      Since everything stored into the memory is formatted into bytes, the apperance of the documents(whether it is images, texts, ...) should not influence the ability of linked system.

    4. We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

      In order to be took into real world, a designed system need to improve performance on the basis of practicality instead of go to the extreme for fancy techniques.

    5. It may not be practical to provide the full functionality of the original system through hypertext. In general, it will be more important to allow read access to the general public: it may be that there is a limited number of people who are providing the information

      This is most the case. The distinguish of different access for documents is of great significance. Such as read, write, add, delete...

    6. ortable, or supported on many platforms,

      Nowadays, it is more and more significant for a project to be plantable. For example, any JAVA program, no matter what CPU, operating system or JAVA compiler it runs on, will produce the same results.

  3. Sep 2022
    1. the on-going mechanism of written and pub-lished text fumishes a flexible ve-hicle for this change, continually ad-apting

      When being created to the public, the idea of this publication is seperated from the author's original thoughts just as some literary works do.

    2. The past is con-tinually changing - - or at least seemsto be, as we view it

      The past is developed by the contemporary derivative of every new generation.

    3. heisfollow-ing links as hegets the books andjournals andrefers tothem

      The connection built based on literature reference can be the data source of many academic research such as clustering algorithm and CCA, etc.

    4. It is the designsuggested by the one working precedentthat we know of: literature

      Whether in industrial or academic projects, research a lot before giving a final decision.

    5. What computer youwatch it through, and how that machinei s programmed, is your "fr~end'-- aseparate problem

      Front end can be special regard of different users. However, back end looks more like providing a service to be requested, thus its structure is designed for all users to request, instead of being changed by different users.

    6. Webelievethatanorder-ly overallsystem can be developedformosttypes of writtenandgraphicalinformation anditsinstantaneous de-livery.

      This is one main advantage to seperate front end and back end. By doing so, each side has its own tasks and will not be influenced and mixed by the other one.

    7. Sotheproblemistocreateageneral representationandstoragesystemthat willpermitauto-matic storage ofallstructuresausermightwanttoworkon,andthefaithfulaccountingoftheiJ: develop-ment

      I believe the difference between a senior oftware architect and a simple software engineer is that the former one should have overall insight thoughts to build the whole blue map before coding to achieve its functions and details.

    1. Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he canbetter review his shady past and analyze more complete-ly and objectively his present problems

      However, this is still an unsolved problem for most of people. That's why many top scientists feel depressed when they find themselves would never learn the ultimate essence of their research area.

    2. . There will always be plenty ofthings to compute in the detailed affairs of millions ofpeople doing complicatedthings.

      However, those classic solutions is a classic for a variety of reasons behind them. Not all new ideas will be appliable to the public.

    3. There have long been films impregnat-ed with diazo dyes which form a picture without develop-ment, so that it is already there as soon as the camera hasbeen operated.

      This follows the same thought of my previous comment. The revolution in a certain area will unexpectedly results in boost or perish of another area. So it's really important to get the cutting edge technologies of related areas.

    4. The world has arrived at anage of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and some-thing is bound to come of it.

      I believe that the success of a technology or a research is that it is finally put into practice in a rather reasonable/ cheap way. Otherwise, it is always only a theoretical concept.

    5. Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for histime, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. Hisidea was sound enough, but construction and maintenancecosts were then too heavy.

      The development of technologies in different areas will significantly effect one another. In computer science, it also goes correctly. If the hardware improved significantly, many strategies on software layer will have to be evolved as well.

    6. The investigator is staggered by thefindings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much lessto remember, as they appear.

      This takes me back to my time doing research for my undergrad. When we came up with a new idea, it seemed that there were always someone else that had already got the idea into practice and had a publication. Even though we frequently stress how crucial it is to study literature, accessing all contemporary ideas can be difficult.