William Stewart wrote:

This is a thread made for me to contribute to... EIES actually started > in 1974. Murray Turoff has reviewed and contributed to the following page: http://livinginternet.com/r/ri_eies.htm

The idea for EIES actually came from earlier work hinted at on your web site that was finished in 1970 - "Then five years later I went into a rather unique government situation as a senior operations research analyst and had a chance to work with the very latest technology in time sharing systems. That is where I had a chance to build the first Groupware system that had ever been created (1970), although we called it Computer Conferencing in those days." Quentin