Abstract :
In 1971 Murray Turoff, a computer scientist working in the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Executive Offices of the President of the United States, was tasked with developing an electronic information and communication system to aid the US government´s response to emergencies. The resulting Emergency Management Information System and Reference Index (EMISARI), based on a smaller system Turoff created the previous year, is often considered the first computer mediated, multimachine communications and conferencing system and an early precursor to many of today´s chat, messaging, conferencing, and collaboration systems.
Keywords :
emergency services; EMISARI; Murray Turoff; computer conferencing; electronic information and communication system; emergency management information system and reference index; emergency preparedness; multimachine communications; Biographies; Emergency services; Teleconferencing; US Government agencies; Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES); Emergency Management Information System and Reference Index (EMISARI); Murray Turoff; Office of Emergency Preparedness; Starr Roxanne Hiltz; The Network Nation; computer-based communications; computer-mediated conferencing; history of computing; networked communities;
