This won't be directly helpful in legal research, but it is such a shocking
piece of misinformation propagated by two generally accepted sources that it
might interest many of us an illustration of the need to question
information published on the web.
According to Simba Information Inc.'s Electronic Information Report,
September 2, 2002, "Twenty years ago, when 19-year-old Dan Wagner founded
Dialog ..." Dialog Returns To Document Delivery Roots, InfoPro News on
LexisNexis.
http://webpublisher.lexisnexis.com/index.asp?layout=story&gid=1150000515&did
=46MW-29D0-00RH-R01S-00000-00&cid=170001217
And here all the time I thought it was an AIIP friend of mine, Roger Summit
(a la the AIIP Roger Summit Award Lecture series), at Lockheed, and that
what Dan Wagner founded was M.A.I.D.
Reflections on the Beginning of Dialog
Dialog Chronolog, June 2002
http://library.dialog.com/chron/2002/0006/jun2002.pdf
http://library.dialog.com/chron/2002/0006/1020628.html
Dialog history pages:
http://www.dialog.com/about/
http://www.dialog.com/about/keydates/
http://www.dialog.com/about/history/transcript.shtml
Dialog Lab Workbook, see beginning at p. 7:
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~iber/242/DIALOG/Workbook.pdf
Entry for Summit on ebrary Advisory Board page:
http://www.ebrary.com/company/advisory.jsp
A bio page for Summit:
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/summit2.htm
T. R. in Montana
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