Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship records Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship records circa 1985-1992

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Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship records Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship records circa 1985-1992

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The IRIS records document exploratory work at Brown University in the development and implementation of computing technology in research, teaching and learning. Materials include research documentation and published and unpublished reports, papers, and presentations.

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John Hay Library, Special Collections

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International Business Machines Corporation

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Brown University. Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship

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Brown University established the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), to explore new uses of computing technology in research, teaching and learning. To address the needs of today's "idea workers," IRIS worked to develop a rich set of experimental tools that provide people with new ways to create, retrieve and organize information. The Institute's most important accomplishment was the creation of Intermedia, an advanced hypertext system. The work...