"large-scale models of revolutionary information systems"

The very fabric of life in the next millennium will be dependent on the effective utility of new communications media ... [T]o prosper, [we need] revolutionary network information systems which can be deployed into mass infrastructure. ... The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ... CANIS carries out large-scale experiments on network information systems, which can serve as effective models for predicting the world of the electronic future. The motto of CANIS is Social Revolution through Information Technology. The primary activity of CANIS is the design of new network information systems and analysis of their deployment in model user communities.

... The Interspace Research Project is developing a prototype environment for semantic indexing of multimedia information in a testbed of real collections. The semantic indexing relies on statistical clustering for concepts and categories. Interactive navigation based on semantic indexing enables information retrieval at a deeper level than previously possible for large, diverse collections.