“Spatial management of information” by Donelson

  • ©William C. Donelson

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    Spatial management of information

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    Methods of spatially managing data are currently under study at the Architecture Machine Group. Management concepts are drawn from everyday examples of paper and document handling. However, the work elaborates data types to include: animation, movies, and sound-sync computer graphics. Beyond the application of management information systems, the paper portrays a sophisticated surround of keyboardless, interactive, and large scale graphics. Computer graphics, image processing, and broadcast are viewed as one. The system includes three frame buffers, four minicomputers, two touch sensitive displays, an octophonic sound system, and an MCA Optical Videodisc.

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    1. Batter, J., and Brooks, F., Jr., (description of a force-feedback device), Information Processing, Vol. 71, (1972), p. 759
    2. Bolt, Richard A., Spatial Data Management, Interim Report., MIT Architecture Machine Group, November, 1977.
    3. Donelson, William C., Spatial Management of Data., M.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1977.
    4. Herot, C. F., et al, Preliminary Design for a Spatial Data Management System., report to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, April, 1978.
    5. Neisser, U., Cognition and Reality., San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, and Co., 1976.
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    7. Stewart, Lawrence, Xerographic Output for a Color Raster Scan Display., B.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,(1976)


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