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Operating an Emergency Information Service

Operating an Emergency Information Service On Site Ka-Ping Yee Operating an Emergency Information Service Using the Internet to help cope with disaster. n the morning of September 11, while I was still reeling with shock and disbelief, I returned to my room to find a telephone message from a colleague, Miriam Walker. Not content only to watch the awful news unfold on television, she had decided it was time to take constructive action. Her housemates had tried to call New York to check on friends and could not get through, so she wanted to set up a Web site where people could register themselves or those they had contacted so that others could be assured of their safety. I was galvanized by the idea and hurried to my office to start working with her on the project. She showed me her design; I began programming and setting up a simple database. With the help of Eric Fraser and Jennifer Mankoff, we had a site up (safe.millennium.berkeley.edu) and accepting survivor reports just after noon that day. The site provided a reporting form where people could submit information on a survivor, and a search form where people could enter a name and view matching records. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Operating an Emergency Information Service

Communications of the ACM , Volume 44 (12) – Dec 1, 2001

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0001-0782
DOI
10.1145/501317.501332
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Abstract

On Site Ka-Ping Yee Operating an Emergency Information Service Using the Internet to help cope with disaster. n the morning of September 11, while I was still reeling with shock and disbelief, I returned to my room to find a telephone message from a colleague, Miriam Walker. Not content only to watch the awful news unfold on television, she had decided it was time to take constructive action. Her housemates had tried to call New York to check on friends and could not get through, so she wanted to set up a Web site where people could register themselves or those they had contacted so that others could be assured of their safety. I was galvanized by the idea and hurried to my office to start working with her on the project. She showed me her design; I began programming and setting up a simple database. With the help of Eric Fraser and Jennifer Mankoff, we had a site up (safe.millennium.berkeley.edu) and accepting survivor reports just after noon that day. The site provided a reporting form where people could submit information on a survivor, and a search form where people could enter a name and view matching records.

Journal

Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 1, 2001

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