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<h4 align=center><a target=slide href="title.html">[Accompanying slide</a> |
<a target=_top href="fgoal.html">Next slide]</a></h4>
<h3>Greetings!</h3>
I'm William Cohen, and I'm going to try to simulate giving you a
"live" demo. This frame will contain my running commmentary on the
demo. This demo was originally presented at SIGMOD-98, and concerns a
system called WHIRL. WHIRL is designed to make it easy to provide a
database-like interface to information on the Web.
<p>This demo is really designed for frames, which you browser doesn't
seem to support. You may be able to make do by reading the
running commentary, in order.
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<li><a href="comments1.html">The goal of WHIRL.</a>
<li><a href="comments3.html">The main ideas in WHIRL.</a>
<li><a href="comments3.html">The on-line demos.</a>
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