Hypermedia: Our Entry into the Intertwingling Zone
Abstract
Hypermedia is the merging and well-designed inter action (intertwingling) of technologies and media information sources through bitmap systems, networking, artificial intelligence, and electronic media. The bitmap system, with its graphics, multiwindowing, and multitasking capabilities, is the primary vehicle for entry into hypermedia. Networking, from peripheral drives, through internal local area networks, to external wide area networks and communication networks, provides access to the plethora of local and world-wide electronic information sources. Artificial intelligence serves as the interface engine between the user and the information sources. Artificial intelligence serves as the interface engine between the user and the information source to overcome the complexities and diversities of networking, accessing and retrieving. Media is comprised of the multiplicity of diverse sources of information, ranging from online through optical disc, to varying sources such as floppy disks, electronic main, wire news, digitized voice, etc. Hypermedia, in treating information in a nonlinear manner, is creating a dramatic change in the handling and processing of information. In the integration process, hypermedia processes and programs will be developed and implemented to act as power tool adjuncts to the current DoD Gateway Information System (DGIS) and the eventual Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA212604
Entities
People
- Allan D. Kuhn