Boston Community Information System User's Manual (Version 8.17).

Abstract

The Boston Community Information System turns your computer into a personal information assistant that monitors the news as it happens. This experiment, CommInS, tests a new way of distributing world news as it happens and features from the New York Times and the Associate Press wire service directly to personal computers via radio waves. Acting on your instructions, your computer will filter this flow of information, saving the stories that match your list of interests. Thus, you can walk up to the system at any time, and browse through the stories that the system has saved you. Because your personal computer can receive and filter much more information that you could read yourself, it can help you focus and enlarge your awareness of the world. You will probably find that the system consistently finds more articles of interest on certain subjects than you do. Keywords: Programming systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA190380

Entities

People

  • David A. Segal
  • David K. Gifford
  • James B. Henderson
  • John M. Lucassen
  • Stephen T. Berlin

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Directories
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Keyboards
  • Language
  • Law
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • New England
  • New York
  • Operating Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Radio Waves
  • Serial Ports

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.