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- Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) Bibliography
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- Barbara Lincoln (barbara@think.com)
- 8/23/91
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- Hard copies of the following documents are available. Some
- documents are available electronically, as stated, but contain
- figures which are not reproduced in the ascii version.
- Email, fax, mail or phone your name, address and phone number to:
- Barbara Lincoln, Thinking Machines Corp., 1010 El Camino Real, Suite
- 310, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, phone: 415-329-9300, fax: 415-329-9329,
- email:barbara@think.com
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- WAIS Documents
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-
- - "Wide Area Information Servers", (overview sheet) Brewster Kahle,
- Thinking Machines, April, 1991.
- One page overview of the Internet release of WAIS.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/wais-discussion/wais-overview.text@quake.think.com or
- WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src
-
- - "An Information System for Corporate Users: Wide Area Information
- Servers", Brewster Kahle, April, 1991. Thinking Machines technical
- report TMC-199. Also in ONLINE Magazine Aug 1991.
- Report on the system constructed for Peat Marwick and other corporate
- users. Has screen shots of WAIStation.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais-corp.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server
- wais-docs.src
-
- - "WAIS Bibliography", Barbara Lincoln, Thinking Machines, August,
- 1991.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/wais-discussion/bibliography.txt@quake.think.com or
- WAIS server wais-discussion-archive.src
-
- - "Wide Area Information Servers Concepts", Brewster Kahle,
- November, 1989,Thinking Machines technical report TMC-202.
- Early draft of paper outlining how a Wide Area Information System
- could grow.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais-concepts.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS
- server wais-docs.src
-
- - "Wide Area Information Servers: A SuperComputer on Every Desk", Brewster
- Kahle, Thinking Machines, August 1991. This is a set of overview
- presentation slides for WAIS.
-
- - "WAIStation, A User Interface for WAIS", February 1991, Thinking
- Machines technical report TMC-203.
- User interface documentation with screen shots.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais_users_guide.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS
- server wais-docs.src
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- WAIS-related articles/publications
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-
- - "For the PC User, Vast Libraries", New York Times, pg.C1 John
- Markoff, July 3, 1991.
- Overview of WAIS Internet experiment.
-
- - "Browsing Through Terabytes", Byte Magazine, Richard Stein, May
- 1991, pp157-164.
- Readable article on what a large WAIS system looks like.
-
- - "WAIS Promises Easy Text Retrieval", MacWeek, Henry Norr, May
- 14, 1991, pg22.
- Report on the Peat Marwick WAIS system.
-
- - "Release 1.0", Esther Dyson, April 1991, entire issue.
- In-depth article on commercial systems and protocols, featuring
- WAIS.
-
- - "Network to Unite Data Bases", San Jose Mercury News, John
- Markoff, July 21, 1991, page 1F.
- Rewriting of the "For the PC User, Vast Libraries," New York Times
- article with emphasis on Apple component.
-
- - "Designing a Desktop Information System: Observations and Issues",
- Thomas Erickson & Gitta Salomon. Human Factors in Computing Systems,
- CHI '91 Conference Proceedings (pp. 49-54) April 1991, New Orleans.
- New York: ACM, 1991.
- Early paper on the Apple interface for WAIS.
-
- - "Z39.50-1988: Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol
- Specification for Library Applications". National Information Standards
- Organization (Z39), P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20817. (301) 975-2814.
- Available from Document Center, Belmont, CA. Telephone 415-591-7600.
-
- - "Z39.50-1991 Version 2", May 1991. Electronic version of the working
- copy of the Z39.50 implementors group. Anonymous FTP:
- /pub/wais/doc/z3950-spec.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-docs.
-
- - "The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol: An Overview and Status
- Report", Clifford Lynch, Computer Communication Review ACM SIGCOMM
- Introduction to the the protocol of WAIS.
-
- - "WAIS Interface Protocol, Prototype Functional Specification", April
- 1990.
- Our Changes to the Z39.50-1988 specification.
-
- Thinking Machines Technical Reports
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-
- - "Parallel Free-Text Search on the Connection Machine System",
- C. Stanfill and B. Kahle, 1986. Thinking Machines technical report
- TMC-72. Communications of the ACM, Volume 29, Number 12, December 1986.
- How a signature system can be used on a parallel machine.
-
- - "Massively Parallel Information Retrieval for Wide Area Information
- Servers", C. Stanfill, Thinking Machines, October, 1991. Paper presented
- at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
- Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Technical paper on Connection Machine servers on the WAIS system.
- Postscript copy available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/cm-servers.ps@quake.think.com or WAIS server wais-docs.
-
- - "A Parallel Indexed Algorithm for Information Retrieval", C. Stanfill,
- R. Thau, December 1990. Thinking Machines technical report TMC-67.
- Appeared in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Research
- and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR-89.
-
- - "Extracting Content Bearing Terms in Parallel on the Connection
- Machine", S. Smith, 1987. Thinking Machines technical report TMC-71.
- Submitted to ACL.
-
- - "Very Large Database Applications of the Connection Machine System",
- D. Waltz, C. Stanfill, S. Smith, R. Thau, 1987. Thinking Machines technical
- report TMC-70. Appeared in AFIPS/1987 NCC Proceedings, July 1987.
-
- - "Parallel Computing for Information Retrieval: Recent Developments",
- C. Stanfill, January, 1988. Thinking Machines technical report TMC-69.
-
- - "An Analysis of the Effects of Data Corruption on Text Retrieval
- Performance", S. Smith, C. Stanfill, December 1988. Thinking Machines
- technical report TMC-68.
-
- - "Information Retrieval on the Connection Machine: 1 to 8192 Gigabytes",
- C. Stanfill, R. Thau, December 1990. Thinking Machines technical report
- TMC-66. To appear in Information Processing and Management, 1991.
-
- - "WAIStation, A User Interface for WAIS", February 1991, Thinking
- Machines technical report TMC-203.
- User interface documentation with screen shots.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais_users_guide.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS
- server wais-docs.src
-
- - "An Information System for Corporate Users: Wide Area Information
- Servers", Brewster Kahle, April, 1991. Thinking Machines technical
- report TMC-199. Also in ONLINE Magazine Aug 1991.
- Report on the system constructed for Peat Marwick and other corporate
- users. Has screen shots of WAIStation.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais-corp.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS server
- wais-docs.src
-
- - "Wide Area Information Servers Concepts", Brewster Kahle,
- November, 1989,Thinking Machines technical report TMC-202.
- Early draft of paper outlining how a Wide Area Information System
- could grow.
- Available via anonymous ftp:
- /pub/wais/doc/wais-concepts.txt@quake.think.com or WAIS
- server wais-docs.src
-
- Electronic Services
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-
- - wais-discussion@think.com: Weekly digest of mail from users and
- developers on Electronic Publishing.
- Anonymous FTP access to archives:
- /pub/wais/wais-discussion/*@quake.think.com
-
- - wais-interest@think.com: announcements of new releases for the
- internet environment. A message every month or so. Anonymous FTP
- access to archives:
- /pub/wais/wais-discussion/*@quake.think.com
-
- - wais-talk@think.com: interactive list of developers. A couple
- notes a week.
-
- - WAIS Unix Release: Freeware release of client code (X and gnu-emacs),
- protocol code, and server code for accessing existing servers or starting
- new servers.
- Available via anonymous FTP:
- /public/wais/wais-8-b2.tar.Z@think.com
-
- - WAIStation Macintosh program: Freeware client program for accessing
- servers over tcp/ip. See WAIStation documentation above (included in the
- release).
- Available via anonymous FTP:
- /public/wais/WAIStation-0-62.sit.hqx@think.com
-
- - Macintosh demostration screen-movie: Steve Cisler put together a short
- screen-recorder movie for seeing some of what WAIStation does.
- Available via anonymous FTP:
- /public/wais/WAIStation-Canned-Demo.sit.hqx@think.com
-