A Workshop on Information Access and Capture in Engineering Eesign Environments, November 12-14, 1991, Ithaca, New York

计算硬件、数字存储系统和高速计算机网络已经发展到这样的地步：构建非常大的数字文档集合并提供对这些集合的便捷的分布式访问是实用和经济的。然而，许多困难问题仍然阻碍着这些制度的实施。开始建立广泛的科学基础来支持这一活动的时机已经成熟，并在大学开始学术计划，以产生推动这一领域进展所需的博士学位。这一奖项资助了一个为期三天的研讨会，让大约30名信息获取和获取领域的关键研究人员聚集在一起。参与者代表了研究领域的广泛覆盖面，以及工业和学术之间的平衡，以及项目实施者和更注重科学基础的个人之间的平衡。研讨会将于1991年11月12日至14日在纽约伊萨卡举行。协调人是康奈尔大学计算机科学系主任约翰·霍普克罗夫特和施乐设计研究区经理格雷戈里·扎克。研讨会的主要目标是确定信息获取和获取方面的最新水平，确定关键的研究努力和项目，并突出可能取得进展的研究方向。此外，讲习班将确定将促进合作研究工作的共同基础设施。施乐公司是此次研讨会的共同赞助商。//

Computing hardware, digital memory systems, and high speed computer networks have progressed to the point where building very large digital document collections and providing facile distributed access to these collections is practical and economical. However, many difficult problems still stand in the way of implementing such systems. The time is ripe to begin building a broad science base to support this activity and to begin academic programs at universities to produce the PhD's needed to advance progress in this area. This award funds a three day workshop to bring together about 30 key researchers in the area of information capture and access. Participants represent broad coverage of the research area and a balance between industrial and academic and between project implementors and more science base oriented individuals. The workshop will be held November 12-14, 1991 in Ithaca, New York. The coordinators are John Hopcroft, chair Computer Science Department, Cornell University and Gregory Zack, manager Xerox Design Research Area. The primary objectives of the workshop are to determine the state of the art in information capture and access, to identify key research efforts and projects, and to highlight research direction where progress is likely. In addition the workshop will identify common infrastructure that would foster cooperative research efforts. The Xerox Corporation is a co-sponsor of the workshop. //