Visit to MIT

# At M.I.T.

Whilst at MIT I was the guest of Karen Sollins, who works at the Lab for Computer Science.

A number of activities at MIT turned out to be particularly relevant to W3:-

Information Mesh
  Karen Sollins' project has a lot in common with W3 in scope, although being a more research oriented project.
Library 2000
  Jerry Saltzer's project for library systems using the technology we can expect in 10 year's time;
MIT TechInfo
  A practical CWIS actually in use at MIT and other sites;
OVAL
  "Objects, Views, Agents and Links". A tool for coordiantion of projects, from Tom Malone at the Sloan School of Management, allowing user creation of new objects and types.
Cybermaps
  Peter Gloor uses lots of CPU time and full-text profile matching to find related documents and build a web of links where none existed before.

I also took the opportunity of meeting various people from this side of the continent with relevant projects.

Brewster Kahle
  Thinking Machines Corporation's charismatic project leader of the WAIS project.
CWISP people
  A meeting with people who had been in the CWIS Protocol group, about U. Penn's "Argo" (not "argot") project, collaboration with W3, address formats etc etc.
Dale Dougherty
  I met Dale of O'Reilly Associates, who supports Pei Wei's Viola browser.
John Howard, MERC
  Mistubishi Electric's new Research Center, MERC, is just behind MIT/LCS.