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Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

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Refdbms is a database system for sharing bibliographic references among many users at sites on a wide-area networksuch as the Internet. This paper describes our experiences in building and using refdbms for the last two years. Itsummarizes the collection of facilities that refdbms provides, and gives detailed information on how well refdbmsfunctions as a collaborative, wide-area, di...

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The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchical naming, and what would now be called middleware, they allowed a collection of systems to operate as a coherent whole. One such system in particular was developed at Newcastle that allowed pre-existing applications ...