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Sep13

Meeting 9/10/2008 Here are the minutes from our first meeting of the year (9/10/2008) as transcribed by Joe. Big plans include the yearly LAN party(s), movie nights?, speakers for the year as well as hypothetical topics, and travelling meetings. If you have any further ideas or comments, please forward them to Greg.

Minutes 9/10/2008

May20

Image Galleries I finally got everything together for the new image gallery section so, check out the images from the Ted Nelson talk and look forward to more image galleries soon.

http://wvu.acm.org/gallery2/

Mar22

An Evening with the Inventor of Hypertext: Theodor Holm Nelson When: Thursday April 3, 2008.

Where: Room 113, Mineral Resources Building, Evansdale Campus.

"The computer field has accepted an ancient definition of documents and locked it down. They think paper is rightful just because it's customary.Indeed, today's systems simulate paper under glass: you can't write on it or connect to it. There is no connection of quotations to their origins-- a fundamental issue widely ignored. There are no authorial aids except those which enforce hierarchy (outliners). And today's hypertext systems,including the Web, embed connections so that none can be added by others.We seek to correct these errors with more general forms of structure:parallelism, cross-connection and interpenetration, implementing the openly-defined transliterary data structure in a different kind of 3D (folding space)."

For more information, visit: http://wvu.acm.org/activities/2008-04-03/