Anecdotes of Books and Authors'

Anecdotes

The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

Slicing Books – The Authors' Perspective

While authors are still struggling to understand how to make best use of the potential offered by hypertext documents, computer science research proceeds to develop the next generation of the digital documents. This next generation will be based on richer semantics, more potential for automation and personalization and will pose new challenges to the authors. This paper aims to give a first imp...

Anecdotes

1 Slicing Books – The Authors ' Perspective

The next generation of hypertext documents will be based on richer semantics and have more potential for automation and personalization than is currently possible. One system that shows much promise is the "sliced book". Slicing Book Technology splits textbooks into small, self– coherent slices and then uses semantic links to make structural relationships such as "Slice A builds on Slice B" exp...

Evaluating anecdotes and case reports.

Stories are more memorable than statistics. Newspaper or magazine articles about some new chemotherapy for cancer typically will include an interview with a patient who is doing well on it. Websites of alternative practitioners and clinics sometimes feature stories by or about patients describing their successful treatment. These stories can be very persuasive to readers, but some scientists di...