Scout Report: Week ending October 28, 1994
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Highlights In This Week's Report:
- California Election results live on the 'Net
- Data on the number of K12 Internet users
- UK government on the Web
- National Library of Medicine, Educational Technology Branch
- Vice President's Open Meeting on Reinventing Government: Email
participation is encouraged. Also available on the Web.
World Wide Web
- The African
Studies WWW server contains information on programs and
resources at the University of Pennsylvania, in Africa, the U.S. and
elsewhere. The African Studies Center is part of a four-school
consortium, including Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges and
the University of Pennsylvania.
- When California's Fall election
results are posted on the Web it will be
the first time live, on-line election results and pre - and post-election
information is available on the Web. On November 8 anyone with Internet
access can see California's general election returns in graphical,
tabular formats, with up-to-the-minute accuracy, making this the largest
live, on-line Internet project undertaken. Following election night, they
will be able to access detailed summary data on the voting results.
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is proud to announce the creation
of the CPB EdWeb. Edweb is an on-line
tutorial on education, technology,
school reform and the Information Highway. Designed for both teachers and
telecommunication enthusiasts, EdWeb offers a vast collection of on-line
educational resources, success stories of how technology is used in the
classroom, a history of the development of the Infobahn, and much more.
- The Educational Technology Branch
at the Lister Hill National Center for
Biomedical Communication of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
announces a newly revised and restructured home page. New information has
been added: a relevant subset of the NLM's AVLINE database and a Generic
Videodisc/CD-ROM Database for the Health Professions providing
descriptions of materials that can be repurposed by health professions
educators wishing to develop interactive teaching materials. All this and
more is found in a new home page providing ready access to Resources,
Monographs and descriptions of ongoing Research Projects.
- The
Geometry
Sender at Keio University is now opening W3 server. Many 3D
object data, including WebOOGL, off, rwx format, tutorial on data
formats, and information about external viewers for 3D object on Web are
available.
- John and
Janice's Research Page offers pointers to their work in counting
the number of K12 schools and K12 users on the Internet. Data from
previous counts is also included. Additional data can be sent to
clement@k12.cnidr.org.
- A series of
"Letters from
an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War" is now
available. These letters are part of a collection written by Newton
Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, from
1862 thru 1865. Scott's letters are filled with rich details of the war
and the living conditions in the Union camps in Mississippi, Missouri,
Iowa, and Arkansas. Not only do they offer a Company Clerk's detailed
account of the war, they also provide a glimpse of the personal emotions
of a 21-year old farm boy uprooted from family, friends and sweetheart.
- The UK government is now on the
web. Complete with a photo of Big Ben.
- A Virtual Summer
School is being run this month by The Human Cognition
Research Laboratory at the UK's Open University. The summer school
enables students of Cognitive Pscyhology to participate in group
discussions and tutorials via Internet Videoconferencing, and to run
experiments, conduct literature searches, undertake statistical analyses,
and, of course, socialize and chit-chat, all without leaving their homes.
The Human Cognition Research Laboratory undertakes a combination of basic
and applied research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Knowledge
Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Human Computer Interaction
(particularly program visualization). The long-term goal of this research
is to understand the fundamental processes of cognition, and to exploit
this understanding where appropriate in the design of complex software
systems. Also have a look at the experimental Open University Home Page.
Gopher
Email
>From the Vice President's office:
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Coming to Vice President Al Gore's recently released WebToolKit on
November 9: the Vice President's Open Meeting on Reinventing Government on
the Internet. Using tools like e-mail and the World Wide Web, this
experimental venture will provide federal workers and others the
opportunity to discuss implementation of government reform in a new way.
If you have internet email, you will have the opportunity to identify and
create such networks during the Vice President's Open Meeting on
Reinventing Government. (If you've seen previous publicity for a Town
Hall meeting, this is the same event.) This venture will provide federal
workers and others the opportunity to discuss implementation of government
reform in a new way. We are working to be the best source of information
on government reinvention, to be the best means to interact with other
reinvention practitioners, and to be a valuable resource for workers to
engage in policy discussion and implementation.
We are actively inviting federal workers from all parts of the country and
all levels of the workforce, to ensure that a broad range of experience
and perspectives will be represented. Interaction in the meeting will
focus on issues drawn from NPR's Accompanying Reports on reinventing
government, including "Changing Internal Culture," "Improving Customer
Service," and "Streamlining Management Control." Participants will
exchange their insights on implementing these changes,building a
knowledge base of promising practices and brainstorming about next steps.
Please register, and pass this notice along to others who might be
interested!
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send mail to: PARTICIPATE@AL.AI.MIT.EDU
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leave the body of the message blank
Or follow along on the Web:
http://www.npr.gov/OpenMeet/openmeet.html
National Information Infrastructure
New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration
(NTIA) gopher:
- Universal Service Virtual Hearing Information
- NII Security Issues Forum June Meeting Minutes
- NII Security Issues Forum August Meeting Minutes
- Roles and Responsibilities: NII Security Issues Forum
NetBytes
- Boardwatch Magazine is now on
the web. Constant updates plus full-text
and multiple graphics.
- The Internet Conference
Calendar is an organized and concise listing of
conferences, workshops, exhibitions and seminars related to the Internet.
- The papers presented at the WWW
conference in Chicago two weeks ago are
now available in a full-text searchable index. Look in the demonstrations
area, in the spider-built index demos.
Weekend Scouting
- The
Capitol Steps, the Washington-based troupe of Congressional staffers
turned songwriters, have a WWW home page featuring music and political
satire. Hear selections from recent albums (Lord of the Fries, The Joy of
Sax, etc.) plus pre-releases of the latest songs.
- Visit OKbridge to learn about
playing bridge on the Internet. Play duplicate bridge in real time, with
real people.
- SCUBA Diving Web page now
available at The University of Nevada Las :
SCUBA Information (at UNLV) and links to other SCUBA related Web pages
world-wide; the Internet Dive Computer Review lists features and provides
reviews for many diving related computers; and the link to Lake Mead
National Recreational Area includes camping and fishing regulations, dive
spots and conditions.
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