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William E. Bennett

Researcher at IBM

Publications -  29
Citations -  1707

William E. Bennett is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Message queue & User interface. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1701 citations.

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Optical stylus and passive digitizing tablet data input system

TL;DR: In this paper, a stylus and table X-Y data input system for a video display system is presented, where absolute positional information is encoded in binary form in the tablet in such a fashion that the pen position upon the tablet is automatically determinable by illuminating a particular area of the tablet and reading off the digitized XY coordinate data stored therein.
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ITS: a tool for rapidly developing interactive applications

TL;DR: The ITS architecture as mentioned in this paper separates applications into four layers: the dialog layer defines the content of the user interface, independent of its style; the style program layer implements primitive toolkit objects that are composed by the rule layer into complete interaction techniques; and the action layer implements back-end application functions.
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Deferred acknowledgment communications and alarm management

TL;DR: In this paper, a message bundle is sent through a slow communication link and the message bundles are temporarily stored as outstanding messages in a retransmission queue until the transmitted messages are acknowledged or until a time-out period associated with the messages has lapsed.
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Method and apparatus for electronically integrating data captured in heterogeneous information systems

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a system that includes at least one local computer system which electronically captures information input by a user of the computer system and can access one or more remote servers via the Internet for form a dynamically reconfigurable wide area network (WAN).
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Sequence of events detection in a process control system

TL;DR: A sequence of events detection system for use in a process control system uses sequence of event detection cards to detect and store indications of events and the times at which these events take place within the process control network.