CS4984 Quiz for Unit 1 Version A

Instructions

You should take this quiz now, and send in your answers to the instructor (4984i@fox.cs.vt.edu) by email as soon as you are done. That should take less than an hour and so you are required to not spend more time than 90 minutes. You can refer to your notes and the readings (textbook, articles) and Internet items that are part of or referenced by the courseware. Be sure to have "4984" and the quiz ID (e.g., 1A, 2B) in the "Subject:" part of your message.

The Honor Code is in effect. All work on this quiz should be your own. Be sure to put your name and student ID at the top of your set of answers. Do NOT send a copy of your answers to anyone else, or look at anyone else's answers, anytime during this course.

Questions

  1. Briefly explain, in your own words, "memex" and its role regarding the field of hypertext.
  2. For each of the following topics: identify all of the following people who played an important role (and very briefly state what that role was):
    1. Backer
    2. Bush
    3. Englebart
    4. Hooper Wolsey
    5. Lippman
    6. Mohl
    7. Negroponte
    8. Nelson
    9. van Dam
  3. Explain briefly the role of each of the following in the electronic book project:
  4. What are the 3 parts of a Storyspace (i.e., state what are its attributes or contents, etc.)? Explain briefly how the Storyspace data model of links and Storyspaces is useful for hypertext authoring.
  5. Some online search systems use SGML-marked up documents. Explain briefly how that might allow users to state their needs more precisely. [Hint: Consider systems such as MARIAN, with a forms type of interface, where users can ask for some keywords that must appear inside some document element like "title".]