By: Murray Turoff

Murray Turoff — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 04:12:26 +0000

The library of NJIT has a collection of all the early reserach reports of the development of EIES from 1974 on. This was the NSF effort under the leadership of Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz.
EIES was the first social network but it was designed to allow groups within hte system to have developed special group functions to facilitate the type of communication process that was better suited to carry out their objections. We also did many experiments on groups making decisions and other objectives for asynchronous computer conferencing. The link to see the list of research reports and other associated items is at http://library.njit.edu/archives/cccc-materials/
We are planning to add additional items to this free library resource next semester at njit.
There is also some material from the earlier EMISARI system at the Office of Emergency Preparedness. EIES=Electronic Information Exchange System EMISARI =Emergency Management Information System and Reference Index.
The people who create the Well (the explicit first social network system were one of the early EIES groups that used their experience on EIES to design the Well.
User manuals for EIES and EMISARI are in this list of material and also some the special group designs. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments on what you find
murray.turoff@gmail.com
there is also some material on my njit website which was frozen in 2007 when i retired
http://web.njit.edu/~turoff The Delphi Method book (for free on htat web site) has a final chapter on the early computer conferencing work. The most complete work is the “network nation” book by hiltz and turoff which is still in print by MIT press (it has one new chapter in this 1993 version which has all the rest of the material from the original 1978 version.
computer conferencing work.

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By: Murray Turoff