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Subject: interactive document processor for telesophy?
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 10:58:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 10:58:07 1987
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Organization: Bell Communications Research Inc., Morristown, NJ
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Readers of this newsgroup may be interested in the following:

  The Telesophy Project at Bell Communications Research is a 
research effort to understand how to provide uniform access 
to AnyThing AnyWhere and thus permit browsing the WorldNet. 
A telesophy system transparently stores and retrieves
information of different types from different locations.
  We have built a prototype on Sun workstation hardware, which 
accesses multiple types from multiple databases on multiple machines.
A set of databases have been obtained, ranging from Netnews
to journal citations to full-text magazines to color pictures, 
and we are beginning to use the system on a daily basis.
  The prototype currently performs network information retrieval;
we would like to expand this to a complete information environment.
Since the goal is a single system to handle all the user's
information needs, a key component would be an interactive document 
processor.  This program would be like a real-time Scribe, providing
WYSIWYG for document-level features such as headers, cross-references,
indexes, and bibliographies.
  We are seeking new colleagues to help build the telesophy prototype.
If interested, please contact me directly.
A fuller description of the position appears on  misc.jobs  .

	Bruce Schatz
	schatz@bellcore.com
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