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    Location:       http://www.sigs.com/objectcurrents/
    Editor:         Bob Hathaway, bob_hathaway@notesgw.compuserve.com
    Premiere Issue: January 1, 1996  (Available now)
    Next Issue:     February 1, 1996
    Publisher:      SIGS: C++ Report, JOOP, Object Magazine, ROAD, Smalltalk
          Report, X Journal, Object Expert, Objeck Spectrum, Java Report, ...

This is an invitation to join us at Object Currents and view, engage and
participate in new object-oriented technology using the latest form of
information technology.  Object Currents is a complete new free journal
with Feature Articles, Columns, and Departments, along with 7 to 10 *new*
articles from SIGS' Journals.

Object Currents' World Class Columnists:
  Watts Humphrey:         SEI Process Director, CMM & PSP Inventor
  Bertrand Meyer:         Eiffel, OO Design and Software Engineering
  Francois Bancilhon:     President, O2 Technology, Leading ODBMS Expert
  Michael Jesse Chonoles: Chief of Methodology, Advanced Concepts Center of
                          Lockheed Martin
  David Shang:            OO Programming Language Designer, Motorola Labs
  Michael Spertus:        President, Geodesic Systems, Program Automation

Interviews:
  January:  Grady Booch
  February: James Rumbaugh
  March:    Ivar Jacobson

Newsgroup Dialog: 
  February: Robert Martin

Week in OT: Jane Grau
  1/1, 1/8, 1/15

Feature Articles:
Jan 96
  Understanding Objects by Understanding Variables and Functions
    Dr. Stefano A. Cerri
  A Comparison of Objects with Frames and OODBs
    Dr. Xindong Wu
Feb 96
  On the applicability of the evolving Unified Method to Rapid Functional
  Prototyping
    Ian Mitchell
  Others...

Departments: Several more including Code Watch and Question + Answer.

Best new articles from all of SIGS January and February 1996 issues including:
    C++ Report, JOOP, Object Magazine, ROAD, Smalltalk Report,
    X Journal, Object Expert, Objeck Spectrum, Java Report, ...


I've concluded our premiere January issue was a resounding success.  Thanks
to our readership for patronage, praise, and feedback.  Please keep visiting
or give it a try soon.  Please also feel free to inform friends and colleagues
of this free new medium.

Object Currents' unique hypertext media provides for advances over earlier
journals - links to home pages, sites, databases and information servers,
interaction, animation, graphics, code retrieval and execution, expanded
pages, video, virtual reality and chat sessions.  While all of these may
not have appeared in the first issue, they will appear in the future.  For
instance, Dr. Cerri's first article's interaction and code execution didn't
make it into the January issue but will be backpatched soon.  It is exemplary
of an improved medium, with code examples interpreted and executed in
real-time, displaying results and verifying correctness.

Object Currents Contents:
  Object Currents Articles: 2 to 4 per issue. 
  Columns:                  Several columns will appear from regular
			      columnists on important topics. 
  SIGS articles: 	    7 to 10 articles from current SIGS Publications
			      per issue (JOOP, ROAD, Obj Mag., C++ Rpt, etc.)
  Newsgroup Dialog:         Extrapolated subjects with commentary. 
  Fun and Games:            Puzzles to be picked up from the C++ Report  
                              and the net (Obfs. C++). 
  Questionnaire:            W/compiled results from last issue.   
  SIGS Bookshelf:           Book reviews and summary. 
  Movers & Shakers:         Interview or profile of object industry VIPs. 
  Code Watch:               Source code, from both SIGS journals and  
                              elsewhere, such as on the net. 
  Editorial Comments:	    By both authors and readers are encouraged. 
  This week in OT:	    Prepared by SIGS News Editor. 


Check it out!

Best Regards,
Bob Hathaway

Robert John Hathaway III
Editor in Chief
Object Currents Hypertext Journal
655 West Irving Park Road, Suite 5417
Chicago, Illinois 60613-313775  USA
Ph:    312-327-2121
Fax:   312-327-2936
Email: 75027.1663@compuserve.com             - Correspondence, Submissions
       bob_hathaway@notesgw.compuserve.com   - Submissions
       rjh@geodesic.com                      - Unix, Attachments
       ftp://ftp.geodesic.com/objectcurrents/submissions

P.S.  The Questionnaire is worth filling out, so that meaningful results
  can be provided in the next issue.  But the following aren't really from
  OC's Departments:-)
  
  Examples from Object Currents' Question + Answer Department:
    ...
    Q 87. What does IA stand for:
      A. Intelligence Amplification
      B. Intelligence Augmentation
      C. Internet Agent
      D. All of the above
      E. None of the above
    Q 88. Object Currents is a good Spider/Agent test(T, F)?
      B. This question, but not answers, can be found by a Spider/Agent(T, F)?
    Q 89. Lawnmower Man II's Cyber City, Cyber Network, and Cyber Chip are all
	  conceptually valid and technologically sound(T, F)?
    ...

  Instructions from the (YTBI) Puzzle and Games...

    If you reach this point:
      Using only the virtual objects provided, enter the following Cyber City
      and destroy the Cyber Chip before Cyberjobe jacks into the global network.