CD ROM: The New Papyrus
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Article last modified on 09-22-1986
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CD ROM: THE NEW PAPYRUS
Edited by Steve Lambert and Suzanne Ropiequet
Paperback: $21.95
ISBN: 0-914845-74-8
Pages: 640
Pub. Date: March 4, 1986

Microsoft Press Releases First Trade Book on CD ROM Technology

   Microsoft Press today released CD ROM: THE NEW PAPYRUS, a compendium of
newly commissioned articles written by leading CD ROM authorities, covering
all aspects of this important new technology.
   This compendium of 44 articles provides an in-depth and instructive
overview.  It is a book for the experienced professional as well as for the
newcomer.
   Starting with an overview of the CD system, the book goes on to cover
product design considerations, authoring and development, production and
manufacturing, the relationship of CD ROM publishing to traditional
publishing, and CD ROM applications under development today.  Some of these
include general reference, library, legal, medical, geographical, research,
and archival applications.
   In addition, 19 of the book's contributors spoke at the Microsoft-sponsored
First International Conference on CD ROM which was held in Seattle at the
beginning of March.
   Two of the 44 articles are reprints from periodicals.  "As We May Think,"
written by Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), and originally published in The Atlantic
Monthly in 1945, is of special historical interest.  In this article, Bush-
the developer of the differential analyzer and the first electronic analog
computer--writes of his vision of a new technology that is now being realized
in CD ROM.
   Other notable contributors include William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
Corporation, Robert Carr, Director of Technology of the Forefront Development
Center at Ashton-Tate, Philippe Kahn, Founder and President of Borland
International, Rockley Miller, Editor of the Videodisc Monitor, Gerald Lowell,
Chief of Cataloging Distribution Services, Library of Congress, and Walter
Boyne, Director of the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian
Institute.
   Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, Washington, develops and sells a
wide range of operating systems, languages, application programs, and hardware
products, as well as books, for the microcomputer marketplace.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986.