Polychannel systems for mass digital communications
Communications of the ACM
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CCS '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and communications security
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This report describes the first year of an experimental test of the Boston Community Information System (Boston CommInS). The experiment implements new ideas of data communication and database design in the transmission and reception of data. The system offers the Associated Press and New York Times to participants and is provided in exchange for their monthly feedback. During the first year of the experiment, over 200 homes and businesses in the Boston area used and evaluated our system. This report contains all the data we have compiled and analyzed, in addition to a full discussion of several hypotheses and design goals. Among the conclusions drawn, we found the Boston Community Information System provides a useful complement to existing media forms and has proved valuable to the many users in the test population.