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Article #634Re: interesting groupware reference
From: Tod Levitt
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 01:12
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 01:12
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In article <129710@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> prohaska@sun.UUCP (J.R. Prohaska) writes: >... >-- very desirable piece of groupware, a mechanism for achieving consensus >-- of a large group by considering in an orderly manner all pertinent >-- points of view with machine assistance. > >I have not read David Sling's, but it makes me think of Delphi. >... >It's apparently a method for predicting the future by asking a bunch >of experts. This method was devised, what, 25 years ago? It sounds >like a perfect match for email, newsgroups, groupware, but was devised >long before any of this was even within shouting distance! >... It's my understanding that the Delphi method of reaching consensus (for a group of humans) was developed by Professor Norman Dalkey, now at UCLA. It was not specifically aimed at "predicting the future". In fact, the research was funded, I believe, by DoD, for use in policy making.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!think!ames!zodiac!saturn!levitt From: levitt@saturn.ADS.COM (Tod Levitt) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference Message-ID: <10245@zodiac.ADS.COM> Date: 1 Jan 90 01:12:13 GMT References: <10211@zodiac.ADS.COM> <129710@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 18