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An Automated Consultant for Interactive Environments
Interactive computing environments provide facilities intended to support and assist the range from novice to expert users, but casual users tend to get trapped in the starter set of commands. We have developed a rule-based technology for providing on-line assistance calibrated to both the task at hand and the user's past experience using the system. Such assistance helps users to progress to more advanced features. We present our automated consultant and describe its application to a practical domain, the Berkeley Unix mail system
Middleware’s message : the financial technics of codata
In this paper, I will argue for the relevance of certain distinctive features of messaging systems, namely those in which data (a) can be sent and received asynchronously, (b) can be sent to multiple simultaneous recipients and (c) is received as a “potentially infinite” flow of unpredictable events. I will describe the social technology of the stock ticker, a telegraphic device introduced at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1860s, with reference to early twentieth century philosophers of synchronous experience (Bergson), simultaneous sign interpretations (Mead and Peirce), and flows of discrete events (Bachelard). Then, I will show how the ticker’s data flows developed into the 1990s-era technologies of message queues and message brokers, which distinguished themselves through their asynchronous implementation of ticker-like message feeds sent between otherwise incompatible computers and terminals. These latter systems’ characteristic “publish/subscribe” communication pattern was one in which conceptually centralized (if logically distributed) flows of messages would be “published,” and for which “subscribers” would be spontaneously notified when events of interest occurred. This paradigm—common to the so-called “message-oriented middleware” systems of the late 1990s—would re-emerge in different asynchronous distributed system contexts over the following decades, from “push media” to Twitter to the Internet of Things
Workshop on NASA workstation technology
RIACS hosted a workshop which was designed to foster communication among those people within NASA working on workstation related technology, to share technology, and to learn about new developments and futures in the larger university and industrial workstation communities. Herein, the workshop is documented along with its conclusions. It was learned that there is both a large amount of commonality of requirements and a wide variation in the modernness of in-use technology among the represented NASA centers
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The dynamics of computerization in a social science research team : a case study of infrastructure, strategies, and skills
This paper examines the dynamics of Computerization in a PC-oriented research group through a case study. The time and skill in integrating computing into the labor processes of research are often significant "hidden costs" of computerization. Computing infrastructure plays a key role in reducing these costs may be enhanced by careful organization. We illustrate computerization strategies that we have found to be productive and unproductive. Appropriate computerization strategies depend as much on the structuring of resources and interests in the larger social setting, as on a technical characterization of tasks
Spartan Daily, February 1, 1996
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Do Too Many Chefs Really Spoil the Broth? The European Commission, Bureaucratic Politics and European Integration, CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 09.2, 5 August 1999
There is a puzzling, little-remarked contradiction in scholarly views of the European Commission. On
the one hand, the Commission is seen as the maestro of European integration, gently but persistently
guiding both governments and firms toward Brussels. On the other hand, the Commission is portrayed
as a headless bunch of bickering fiefdoms who can hardly be bothered by anything but their own inÂ
ternecine turf wars. The reason these very different views of the same institution have so seldom come
into conflict is quite apparent: EU studies has a set of relatively autonomous and poorly integrated subÂ
fields that work at different levels of analysis. Those scholars holding the "heroic" view of the ComÂ
mission are generally focused on the contest between national and supranational levels that characterÂ
ized the 1992 program and subsequent major steps toward European integration. By contrast, those
scholars with the "bureaucratic politics" view are generally authors of case studies or legislative hisÂ
tories of individual EU directives or decisions. However, the fact that these twO images of the CommisÂ
sion are often two ships passing in the night hardly implies that there is no dispute. Clearly both views
cannot be right; but then, how can we explain the significant support each enjoys from the empirical
record? The CommiSSion, perhaps the single most important supranational body in the world, certainly
deserves better than the schizophrenic interpretation the EU studies community has given it. In this
paper, I aim to make a contribution toward the unraveling of this paradox.
In brief, the argument I make is as follows: the European Commission can be effective in pursuit of its
broad integration goals in spite of, and even because of, its internal divisions. The folk wisdom that too
many chefs spoil the broth may often be true, but it need not always be so.
The paper is organized as follows. 1 begin with an elaboration of the theoretical position briefly outÂ
lined above. 1 then tum to a case study from the major Commission efforts to restructure the computer
industry in the context of its 1992 program. The computer sector does not merely provide interesting,
random illustrations of the hypothesis 1 have advanced. Rather, as Wayne Sandholtz and John Zysman
have stressed, the Commission's efforts on informatics formed one of the most crucial parts of the enÂ
tire 1992 program, and so the Commission's success in "Europeanizing" these issues had significant
ripple effects across the entire European political economy. I conclude with some thoughts on the folÂ
lowing question: now that the Commission has succeeded in bringing the world to its doorstep, does its
bureaucratic division still serve a useful purpose
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