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Lester D. Earnest				display-oriented timesharing
Research Scientist, SAIL			documentation languages


The design and use of display terminals and timesharing systems to enhance
individual productivity is a central interest of Les Earnest.  This includes
both the development of good interactive equipment (audio-visual displays,
keyboards, etc.) and system software that permits efficient control of multiple
processes.  Display terminals can (but usually don't) help keep contexts
straight as the individual switches among a number of concurrent tasks.

He is also interested in the development of advanced documentation languages.
In the next decade or so, the use of computer facilities for creating,
modifying, and disseminating documentation is expected to increase greatly.  The
problem of efficiently creating and representing high quality text, drawings,
and photographs in a way that will permit reproduction on a wide variety of
display and printing devices is far from solved.  Several "first cut"
documentation languages have been developed at the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory.