Computer Science 402

Digital Libraries

Assignment 5 - Readings from the Communications of the ACM

The current issue of the Communications is now online.
By class time on Thursday,

1. READ Fox & Marchionini (pp 30-32),
2. READ two other articles (your choice) from the stuff between pages 34 and 91 and extract a few significant quotations, summarizing the most important points of the ones you choose,
3. BROWSE the rest of the articles in 34-91,
4. COMMENT on the user interface: its features, strengths, problems, etc.

You may wish to choose articles related to your speciality. As usual, write up your findings on a web page.