From: Joachim Feise (jfeise@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 16:57:41 PST
Now this is cool.
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Subject: Ted Nelson Visit to ICS on March 31
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:48:54 -0800
From: "Michael J. Pazzani" <pazzani@ics.uci.edu>
To: faculty@ics.uci.edu, allgrads@ics.uci.edu
A more formal announcement will appear shortly, with a time, location, and
title,
but I thought I'd let you know now that Ted Nelson is visiting ICS on March
31.
He will give a talk in the AM and be available to chat in the afternoon.
A bio (from his web page) appears below.
Who I Am:
Designer, Generalist, Contrarian Theodor Holm Nelson, 1937-
Best known for: coining terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia," 1963 (first
published 1965), and as founder and pursuer of Project Xanaduฎ, which has
been widely misunuderstood.
ถ Current positions: Visiting Professor of Environmental Information, Keio
University SFC campus, Fujisawa, Japan Visiting Professor of Multimedia,
University of Southampton, Southampton, England.
ถ Mentors (aside from my family): Leo Rosten Michael Scriven Thomas C.
Schelling John Walker
ถ Degrees: B.A., Philosophy, Swarthmore. 1959 M.A., Sociology, Harvard,
1963 (from the late lamented Dept. of Social Relations)
ถ Books: Life, Love, College, etc. Media 72 Computer Lib / Dream
Machines The Home Computer Revolution Literary Machines Biostrategy
and Polymind The Checkmate Proposal The Future of Information
ถ Coined these words in some degrees of general use: "hypertext" and"
"hypermedia" (1965) "zipper lists" (1965) "softcopy" (ca. 1967)
"cybercrud" (ca. 1967) "compound document" (date unclear) "image
synthesis" (1970); "electronic visualization" (1972 -- and thus the later
"computer visualization", "scientific visualization") "dildonics" (1974)
"virtuality" in its computer sense (1975) "technoid" (1981) "docuverse"
(1981) "transclusion" (1987) "micropayment" (1992)
ถ Awards etc: Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award,
1998, presented at WWW7, Brisbane, Australia There is an eponymous "Nelson
award" given at the annual ACM hypertext conference for the best paper by a
newcomer (sponsored by Microcosm, Ltd.)
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