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84 Graphical Fisheye Views of Graphs Manojit Sarkar and Marc H. Brown March 17, 1992 Systems Research Center DEC’s business and technology objectives require a strong research program. The Systems Research Center (SRC) and three other research laboratories are committed to filling that need. SRC began recruiting its first research scientists in l984—their charter, to advance the state of knowledge in all aspects of computer systems research. Our current work includes exploring high-performance personal comput ing, distributed com- puting, programming environments, system modelling techniques, specification technology, and tightly-coupled multiprocessors. Our approach to both hardware and software research is to create and use real systems so that we can investigate their properties fully. Complex systems cannot be evaluated solely in the abstract. Based on this belief, our strategy is to demon- strate the technical and practical feasibility of our ideas by building prototypes and using them as daily tools. The experience we gain is useful in the short term in enabling us to refine our designs, and invaluable in the long term in helping us to advance the state of knowledge about those systems. Most of the major advances in information systems have come through this strategy, including time-sharing, the ArpaNet, and distributed personal computing. SRC also performs work of a more mathematical flavor which complements our systems research. Some of this work is in established fields of theoretical computer science, such as the analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, and logics of programming. The rest of this work explores new ground motiv ated by problems that arise in our systems research. DEC has a strong commitment to communicating the results and experience gained through pursuing these activiti