[151] in Information Retrieval
FYI: Mike Lesk talk at Harvard, 3/26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Wed Mar 24 10:58:26 1993
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 10:54:08 -0500
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU, dlicc@MIT.EDU
From: Jerome H Saltzer <Saltzer@MIT.EDU>
>To: system-seminar@das.harvard.edu
>Subject: Harvard U. Computer System Seminar (3/26/93)
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 18:56:04 -0500
>From: smith@das.harvard.edu
>
>
> Harvard University
> Computer Systems Seminar
> presents
>
>
> Better Things for Better Chemistry Through Multi-Media:
> The CORE Electronic Chemistry Library
>
> Michael Lesk
> Bellcore
>
> Friday, March 26, 1993
> 4pm, Aiken 101
> (Cookies at 3:30pm in Aiken Lobby)
>
>We are developing an online file of 10 years of chemical journal
>literature, with both full Ascii text, page images, and manual
>indexing. This talk will describe (1) the chemical journal data and
>how it is scanned and processed to extract graphics from pages; (2)
>the kinds of interfaces we are testing; and (3) the results of our
>experiments comparing paper, image display, and Ascii-based display.
>
>In particular, I'll describe the results of systematic experiments on
>Cornell chemistry students, showing the advantages of computers for
>any task involving searching, and their competitiveness on tasks
>involving reading. The chemists have also provided at least anecdotal
>comments based on their experience, which emphasized that our system
>is not sufficiently focussed on graphics as opposed to text.
>
>This project is a joint effort of the American Chemical Society,
>Bellcore, Chemical Abstracts Service, Cornell University, and OCLC
>(the Online Computer Library Center).
>
>Host: Prof. Margo Seltzer (margo@das.harvard.edu)
>For more information, contact: Prof. Mike Smith (smith@das.harvard.edu)
>
>
