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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 87 16:12:49 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen  Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN@NEUVM1.bitnet>


I just returned from a trip where I participated in the Hypertext
workshop held last week at the University of North Carolina.
"Everybody" were there (e.g. Ted Nelson, Doug Engelbart,
Andy van Dam etc.) except Bill Atkinson. HyperCard was presented
and was the focus of considerable interest during the demo periods
(including a nice system for accessing a videodisk with
Landsat pictures).

Most people agreed however, that HC is not a hyperTEXT system
because of its poor text handling. It is "hypergraphics".

A large number of other hypertext and hypermedia systems were
presented together with papers on topics such as hyper-fiction,
multi-user use, educational use of hypertext, real-world use
(the Symbolics Document Examiner), etc. The proceedings from this
workshop are highly recommended for anybody with a more principled
interest in hypertext.

The growth in interest in hypertext has been tremendous (partly because
of HC, and partly because of Guide etc.). When this workshop was planned
about a year ago, the organizers were afraid that they would not be able
to get a sufficiently large number of people together. And it turned out
that they could have gotten 500 people (but since it was an invitational
workshop with limited space, only 180 people actually were there).



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Hypertext'87 Workshop mini trip report