#hypertext — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hypertext, aggregated by home.social.
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🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2018
Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu and Jon Atle Gulla: A Deep Joint Network for Session-based News Recommendations with Contextual Augmentation
Research on news recommendation systems.
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🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2018
Sumit Bhatia and Harit Vishwakarma: Know Thy Neighbors, and More!
Research on context-aware entity recommendation in knowledge graphs.
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The #CfP for #HUMAN26 is now online! We’re looking for paper submissions and would be delighted to receive your #research contribution. Find all details here: https://human.iisys.de/human26/
The HUMAN26 workshop will take place at the 2026 @ACM #Hypertext @ht Conference in London, UK.
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The #CfP for #HUMAN26 is now online! We’re looking for paper submissions and would be delighted to receive your #research contribution. Find all details here: https://human.iisys.de/human26/
The HUMAN26 workshop will take place at the 2026 @ACM #Hypertext @ht Conference in London, UK.
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The #CfP for #HUMAN26 is now online! We’re looking for paper submissions and would be delighted to receive your #research contribution. Find all details here: https://human.iisys.de/human26/
The HUMAN26 workshop will take place at the 2026 @ACM #Hypertext @ht Conference in London, UK.
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The #CfP for #HUMAN26 is now online! We’re looking for paper submissions and would be delighted to receive your #research contribution. Find all details here: https://human.iisys.de/human26/
The HUMAN26 workshop will take place at the 2026 @ACM #Hypertext @ht Conference in London, UK.
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The #CfP for #HUMAN26 is now online! We’re looking for paper submissions and would be delighted to receive your #research contribution. Find all details here: https://human.iisys.de/human26/
The HUMAN26 workshop will take place at the 2026 @ACM #Hypertext @ht Conference in London, UK.
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🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2017
Andreas Thalhammer et al.: Entity-centric Data Fusion on the Web
Entity-level fusion of web data. Schema-independent alignment of entity descriptions; improved knowledge panels vs. baselines.
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🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award 2017
Ujwal Gadiraju et al.: Clarity is a Worthwhile Quality
Task clarity in crowdsourcing. 100 workers + 7.1K tasks. ML: clarity consistent, not stable over time. -
Just missed the #HT2026 research paper deadline by a few minutes?
You’re in luck — the submission link is still open until this Thursday!
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🏆 HT Award Spotlight – Ted Nelson Newcomer Award 2016
Britta Meixner, Christoph Einsiedler: Download and Cache Management for HTML5 Hypervideo PlayersHypervideo pre-fetching strategies for HTML5/MSE reduce waiting times when navigating interactive video links. By optimizing download and cache management, playback interruptions drop from 8.1 to <1 break on average, cutting total waiting time by ~1/3 (to <18s) and improving user experience.
🔗 sigweb.org/awards
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Very belatedly watching the 1990 documentary “Hyperland” about hypertext, starring Douglas Adams (who wrote it) and Tom Baker. It originally aired on the BBC just as my husband and I were starting as undergraduate students at St Andrews. https://youtu.be/cyAQgK7BkA8 #TV #DouglasAdams #TomBaker #DoctorWho #Hypertext #Computing #History
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What strategies can be employed to describe a problem and converge on an appropriate hypertext representation? This 1987 paper explored such representation issues with NoteCards, the hypermedia system written in Interlisp.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/317426.317445
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 -
Birkerts has plenty of angst over the demise of the paper book, and I don't share his view, I suspect. But let's give him a fair hearing as he laments the shift from static to dynamic text.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #thegutenbergelegies #svenbirkerts #reading #internet #criticalreading #hypertext #readingwars #refuseit
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”*…
Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI purveyor Anthropic, has recently published a long (nearly 20,000 word) essay on the risks of artificial intelligence that he fears: Will AI become autonomous (and if so, to what ends)? Will AI be used for destructive pursposes (e.g., war or terrorism)? Will AI allow one or a small number of “actors” (corporations or states) to seize power? Will AI cause economic disruption (mass unemployment, radically-concentrated wealth, disruption in capital flows)? Will AI indirect effects (on our societies and individual lives) be destabilizing? (Perhaps tellingly, he doesn’t explore the prospect of an economic crash on the back of an AI bubble, should one burst– but that might be considered an “indirect effect,” as AI development would likely continue, but in fewer hands [consolidation] and on the heels of destabilizing financial turbulence.)
The essay is worth reading. At the same time, as Matt Levine suggests, we might wonder why pieces like this come not from AI nay-sayers, but from those rushing to build it…
… in fact there seems to be a surprisingly strong positive correlation between noisily worrying about AI and being good at building AI. Probably the three most famous AI worriers in the world are Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk, who are also the chief executive officers of three of the biggest AI labs; they take time out from their busy schedules of warning about the risks of AI to raise money to build AI faster. And they seem to hire a lot of their best researchers from, you know, worrying-about-AI forums on the internet. You could have different models here too. “Worrying about AI demonstrates the curiosity and epistemic humility and care that make a good AI researcher,” maybe. Or “performatively worrying about AI is actually a perverse form of optimism about the power and imminence of AI, and we want those sorts of optimists.” I don’t know. It’s just a strange little empirical fact about modern workplace culture that I find delightful, though I suppose I’ll regret saying this when the robots enslave us.
Anyway if you run an AI lab and are trying to recruit the best researchers, you might promise them obvious perks like “the smartest colleagues” and “the most access to chips” and “$50 million,” but if you are creative you might promise the less obvious perks like “the most opportunities to raise red flags.” They love that…
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In any case, precaution and prudence in the pursuit of AI advances seems wise. But perhaps even more, Tim O’Reilly and Mike Loukides suggest, we’d profit from some disciplined foresight:
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The slow progress of enterprise AI adoption from pilot to production, however, still suggests at least the possibility of a less earthshaking future. Which is right?
At O’Reilly, we don’t believe in predicting the future. But we do believe you can see signs of the future in the present. Every day, news items land, and if you read them with a kind of soft focus, they slowly add up. Trends are vectors with both a magnitude and a direction, and by watching a series of data points light up those vectors, you can see possible futures taking shape…
For AI in 2026 and beyond, we see two fundamentally different scenarios that have been competing for attention. Nearly every debate about AI, whether about jobs, about investment, about regulation, or about the shape of the economy to come, is really an argument about which of these scenarios is correct…
[Tim and Mike explore an “AGI is an economic singularity” scenario (see also here, here, and Amodei’s essay, linked above), then an “AI is a normal technology” future (see also here); they enumerate signs and indicators to track; then consider 10 “what if” questions in order to explore the implications of the scenarios, honing in one “robust” implications for each– answers that are smart whichever way the future breaks. They conclude…]
The future isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we create. The most robust strategy of all is to stop asking “What will happen?” and start asking “What future do we want to build?”
As Alan Kay once said, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Don’t wait for the AI future to happen to you. Do what you can to shape it. Build the future you want to live in…
Read in full– the essay is filled with deep insight. Taking the long view: “What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond,” from @timoreilly.bsky.social and @mikeloukides.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy.
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* Alan Kay
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As we pave our own paths, we might send world-changing birthday greetings to a man who personified Alan’s injunction, Doug Engelbart; he was born on this date in 1925. An engineer and inventor who was a computing and internet pioneer, Doug is best remembered for his seminal work on human-computer interface issues, and for “the Mother of All Demos” in 1968, at which he demonstrated for the first time the computer mouse, hypertext, networked computers, and the earliest versions of graphical user interfaces… that’s to say, computing as we know it, and all that computing enables.
https://youtu.be/B6rKUf9DWRI?si=nL09hD5GQD670AQO
#AI #AIRisk #artificalIntelligence #computerMouse #culture #DarioAmodei #DougEngelbart #graphicalUserInterfaces #history #hypertext #MikeLoukides #mouse #networkedComputers #scenarioPlanning #scenarios #Singularity #Technology #TimOReilly -
@mjd “Was the alphabetic index invented before the scroll was superseded by the codex?” — Not really. Plinius' “Natural History“ has an index and he tells in his preface about another work with an index, but that seem to be the only cases. The problem is that with a scroll, you cannot actually use the index, because “leafing” through the pages (or better, “scrolling”?) would be too much effort.
It is also said that the introduction of Christianity was the reason why in later times, codices were much more popular than scrolls. The problem was the Bible: To work as a theologian, you have jump backward and forward between gospel and prophet books, between different gospels, and so on — much too much work if you have scrolls. The Bible was the first hypertext!For more about indices, see “Index, A History of the” by David Duncan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index,_A_History_of_the).
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We retrieved from an old archive "NoteCards User’s Guide" V2.0 and added it to the source tree. Published in 1991, this manual better matches the NoteCards code that comes with Medley Interlisp but some of the information the document provides is now only of historical value.
https://files.interlisp.org/medley/notecards/docs/user-guide-v2.0
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In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
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A NoteCards "browser" is a type of card that shows a hypertext network as a graph structure, i.e. a graph view like in this example. The thumbnail at the top left corner lets you pan and scroll the graph.
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Although NoteCards predated the WWW, in the early days of the web the hypermedia system developed with Interlisp-D was also used for research on the design, analysis, and documentation of web sites such as the projects described in these papers.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/268820.268861
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At ACM #Hypertext @ht: Mark Anderson talking about spatial hypertext and its origins, also referring to Frank Halasz's #NoteCards. See his full paper “W(h)ither Spatial Hypertext?” at http://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746683
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@interlisp ☝️ The NoteCards logo still looks cool. This is a frame from one of the above introductory videos on NoteCards, the hypermedia system developed in Interlisp at Xerox PARC.
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A comprehensive introduction to the NoteCards hypermedia system developed in Interlisp at Xerox PARC. This 1985 videotape covers and demonstrates tha basic system, the programmer's interface, and research issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZCitxFlnqQ
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Heute mal wieder ins #MultiMedia Buch von #DataBecker geschaut (danke @82mhz) - die Fibel von 1994 zu Multimedia-Treibern, Klängen, Bildern, Animationen, Videos, #Hypertext und #Cyberspace. Und mit CD-ROM! Habe ich mir zum Schulpreis 5. Klasse ausgesucht und waren meine ersten Berührungspunkte mit #MIDI und #VisualBasic. #RetroComputing #VintageWeb
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#Mastodon und #Twitter sind jeweils #Editoren und #Publikationswerkzeuge für #Hypertext // #Web2.0 als #Reentry von #HMTL in #Computer
#Hyperlinks #Setzen funktioniert entsprechend #Markdown im Unterschied zu #Markup wie bei HTML
#Verzicht auf #kompliziert(e) #Befehle. #Hashtag genügt.
#Kollaborativ(es) #Arbeiten wird #ermöglicht, indem der zu editierende Hypertext aus sich akkumulierenden #Elementen #zusammengestückelt wird als #Tweets und #Toots