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[mcharity@hq.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity): Summer UROPs available with LCS Library2000]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Fri Apr 2 14:29:59 1993
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 14:29:51 EST
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU, dapps-urop-req@MIT.EDU
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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 12:45:21 EST
From: mcharity@hq.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity)
To: hackers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Summer UROPs available with LCS Library2000
Reply-To: mcharity@lcs.mit.edu
X-Phone: NE43-512:(617)253-6023 fax:258-8682 home:497-1506
SUMMER UROP with Library 2000
Are you are intrigued by the possibility of someday seeing the library
entirely online, books and all?
The project we are working on is called Library 2000. It is a new
project with the goal of discovering the system support needed for the
electronic library of the year 2000. We are building a service
prototype that is not only stuffed with real data, but also (we hope),
has an architecture that can expand in several directions.
Our prerequisites are enthusiasm, a consuming interest in finding
one's way around in large quantities of information, and an
unwillingness to be intimidated by big collections of interacting
programs. If you are a Freshman you should have some evidence of
programming talent but almost anything will do; if you are already a
Junior, you need to be a pretty experienced C and UNIX hacker to
qualify.
It is our usual practice to ask UROP's to start by working for one
term for credit, rather than for salary. This practice gives us
a better reading on the consuming interest part; we have some neat
toys to play with and we have noticed that people who are attracted
by the toys are the ones who contribute the most. When people propose
to start by working in the summer, we refer them to the LCS UROP
Summer Studies Program, which provides financial support during the
period we are getting to know you. That program is holding an
orientation meeting on Monday, March 29, at 4:00 p.m. in room NE43-518.
We suggest that you plan to attend that meeting.
You can try the current prototype from any X workstation by typing
xhost reading-room.lcs.mit.edu
telnet reading-room.lcs.mit.edu 222
and following instructions. (If you aren't at an X workstation, try
"telnet reading-room.lcs.mit.edu" to get a lower-powered version.) It
should take only about two minutes of use of the prototype for you to
start think of features that should be added. Currently, one of our
major activities is to stretch our system to handle images and full
text of all computer science technical reports published by M. I. T.,
Stanford, Cornell, Berkeley, and CMU.
If you still think you might be interested, start by looking in the
Athena locker "Saltzer" for the files
library/papers/*
library/work-in-progress/*
And if after reading that stuff and attending the LCS UROP program
meeting you are still interested, the next step is to send a resume
((ascii or paper) if you haven't already done so) and contact one of
us for an interview.
Jerry Saltzer Mitchell Charity
NE43-513 NE43-512
3-6016 3-6023
Saltzer@mit.edu mcharity@mit.edu
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