Scout Report: Week ending May 20, 1994
World Wide Web:
- WWW server at
The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its
Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), at the National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution. This NASA supported RPIF acts as a
reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to
the extensive collection of image data from planetary missions.
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EcoSystems at the University of Virginia is a recycling and
environmental information server. It provides and connects users to
local, regional, national, and international environmental info. Includes
WWW and gopher servers, a public Lynx Web client, keyword search
capabilities, mailing list info, isolated IRC chats, and more.
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The SunSite Communications archive is now on the web. IRC logs from the
Gulf War, Russian revolution, California Earthquake; a large collection of
papers dealing with virtual communities, chats, and muds; the April Fools
archive.
- The School-to-Work Opportunities Act
is now available on the Internet
in the U.S. Department of Education's online library. The Act was signed
into law on May 4, 1994. Also available: fact sheets on grants, tech prep,
career academies, youth apprenticeships, more.
- The Global Student Newswire
project is a collaboration by a group of
student journalists and media scholars dedicated to creating a multimedia
source of formal news stories on the Internet. It consists of a set of
standards for writing news stories and a collection of Internet resources
devoted to the project.
- An article written for WIRED magazine by Stewart A. Baker, chief
counsel for the National Security Agency, is available online at the
addresses listed below. The article,
"Don't Worry Be Happy", discusses key
escrow encryption. Mr. Baker will host a Q & A session on the Clipper Chip
on America Online in Center Stage on Thursday May 26, 1994, from 7-9 p.m.
EST.
- The Internet Multicasting Service
in conjunction with the New York
University Stern School of Business Information Systems Department are
pleased to bring to the WWW community all corporate filings submitted
electronically by publicly traded firms to the SEC.
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) is now part of the World-Wide Web.
- Wondering what an abbreviation or ancronym really means? Use the
Acronym Translator via e-mail or WWW to receive back the
English meaning of that alphabet soup you've been wondering about for days.
Recently Announced College and University Web sites:
National Information Infrastructure (NII):
Posted this week on the
Department of Commerce NTIA gopher:
- Larry Irving Testimony, House Minority Enterprise Subcommittee Hearing
- Minutes of the Technology Policy Working Group meeting on 04/14/94
- Calendar of Upcoming Public Events
- Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) May Report
- IITF Factsheet, revised 5/10/94
Weekend Scouting:
scout@is.internic.net
guide@is.internic.net