Rich interaction in the digital library
Communications of the ACM
Historical note: information retrieval and the future of an illusion
Readings in information retrieval
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It's been nearly 60 years since Vannevar Bush's seminalAtlantic Monthly article, "As We May Think," portrayed theimage of a scholar aided by a machine, "a device in which anindividual stores all his books, records, and communications, andwhich is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceedingspeed and flexibility." Unmistakably in this is the technology nowknown as search by millions and known as informationretrieval (IR) by tens of thousands. From that point in 1945 tonow, when some 25 million Web searches an hour are served, a lothas happened.