" The Internet has changed our lives. It has revolutionized research, altered the world of
retailing, and caused virtually every institution to redefine itself. Meanwhile, e-mail has …

The story of my involvement with on-line workstations begins in early 1951 with a vision and
a life-time professional commitment. Over 34 years of pursuit have created a lot of personal …

This article presents an overview of the historical evolution of computer‐mediated
communication (CMC) systems within the context of designing for group support. A number …

An electronic community system encodes and manipulates the range of knowledge and
values necessary to function effectively in a community or organization. The knowledge …

The present and projected applications of computer-communication networks or information
networks include electronic mail, teleconferencing" the office of the future," management …

The continually increasing number of applications said to facilitate collaboration makes it
very difficult for educators to identify and evaluate the ones that are suitable for educational …

It must be said that important contributions are now coming from young scholars who, by
choice or necessity (more often because of the latter), are pursuing their research in other …

It is common knowledge that California, especially the San Francisco Bay Area is the
birthplace of modern computing. Between 1945 and 1970 people such as Frederick Terman …

There are several models describing the generation of information, the flow of information
and how it reaches those who need information. One of the most common is the model (see …

The Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), has
been developing for several years a computer-based on-line system called NLS. NLS is part …