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At 01:50 PM 7/2/1999 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote: >This has its roots in the paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or >Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information" >(1956), Psychological Review, by George Miller[1]. As it happens, Miller >has also been instrumental in creating the rather useful WordNet, a >freely available lexical database which I suspect might figure heavily >at some point in subject classification of Web resources for the >so-called Semantic Web. Therefore we're back on-topic again, phew. Very deft <g>. Thank you for the references! At 01:53 PM 7/2/1999 +0100, Andy.Bradbury@s... wrote: >Small correction - it was 7+/- 2 "bits" of information, according to an >article by George A Miller in the Psychological Review, No. 63 (1956). >The article was called: "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some >limits on out capacity for processing information." > >Whether AT&T did the research John mentions I wouldn't know Couldn't find any mention of AT&T or Bell Labs (or for that matter, any occurrences of the string "phone" except in "phoneme") in the HTML version of the paper that Dan pointed to. That I heard of this 7-more-or-less theory as "belonging to" AT&T about 20 years after Miller's paper was published possibly reflects the embrace-and-extend philosophy: "Not invented here... but if it's useful, we can say it was!" ============================================================= John E. Simpson | It's no disgrace t'be poor, simpson@p... | but it might as well be. | -- "Kin" Hubbard xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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