The SciencesMarch 1, 1997
Going Digital
Electronic libraries will make
today's Internet pale by comparison.
But building them will not be easy
Stories by Michael Lesk
MICHAEL LESK is a chief research scientist at Bellcore in Morristown, N.J. He is best known for work in electronic libraries, including the CORE project for chemical information, and for writing some Unix system utilities, such as those for table printing (tbl) and intersystem mail (uucp). Lesk is a Fellow of the ACM and a visiting professor of computer science at University College London. During 1987 he was Senior Visiting Fellow of the British Library.
TechnologySeptember 1, 1984
Computer Software for Information Management
Enormous volumes of stored data are of use only if information can be retrieved quickly in an understandable form. Software for the purpose must reflect the structure of the data base and of the storage medium