Welcome to the HRL!

Hypermedia Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, 77843-3112 USA
Phone: (979) 845-3839
Fax: (979) 847-8578
Email: hrl@csdl.tamu.edu

Who we are and what we do

The HRL is a laboratory within Texas A&M University's Department of Computer Science, located on the fourth floor of the H. R. Bright building on the College Station campus.

As our status brochure states, we are "an enhanced environment for student and faculty research centered around the general area of hypermedia systems". Some of our areas of research interest are: data modeling for, and system building of, advanced distributed hypermedia systems, automaton-based architectures for hypermedia systems and process modeling, spatial hypertext systems, computer-human interaction in general, computer-supported collaborative work, and digital library support systems.

For more detailed information please see the aforementioned status brochure (available as a compressed PostScript file).

Material you can access

• A directory; the faculty, staff, and students who comprise the HRL. Each entry has a link to the person's personal offerings as well as their email address.
• Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
• Information on the Digital Libraries '95, held in Austin, TX, June 11-13, 1995.
• Information on the earlier Digital Libraries '94 symposium, held at A&M in June, 1994.
• Publications of the HRL, including technical reports, journal articles, and conference papers.
• Items related to Trellis, a Petri net-based hypertext system.
• Public domain applications distributed by the HRL.
• OHS Working group - formed after the 2nd Open Hypermedia Systems workshop held at Hypertext '96, this group is looking at defining open hypermedia systems usage scenarios and an open linking protocol.
  
• Miscellaneous stuff not in any of the above categories.

About the name of the HRL's original server

The original HRL server was named bush.cs.tamu.edu. The machine is named after Vannevar Bush, the scientific advisor to President Roosevelt who is widely considered to be one of the "godfathers" of hypertext. His seminal article "As We May Think" is available online.