Scout Report: Week ending December 16, 1994
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Highlights In This Week's Report:
The Info Scout is going on vacation, and it's hard to believe, but she's
not taking her laptop with her. (Can you imagine what those mailboxes are
going to look like?? ;-). In any case, this means no Scout Reports until
after the New Year. We assume you'll be busy in the real world, and won't
miss us until then.
We're expecting life in cyberspace to be even more exciting in '95, so
look for improvements in the Scout Report to keep pace with the times.
Until then, everyone here at the InterNIC wishes you all a happy and safe
holiday season.
Best Regards,
Susan Calcari
Info Scout
InterNIC Information Services
World Wide Web
- The Diabetes Knowledgebase
is an effort of the U. of Wisconsin Children's
Diabetes Center to provide diabetes-related information to the world
community in an effort to enhance the lives of individuals with diabetes.
http://islet.medsch.wisc.edu/
- Biomedical
Visualization Dept. at UIC is now
online. Take a look at some of Earth's largest, most successful land
animals. Animations, sound, 3-D and more! Take a tour through an exhibit
3.8 billion years in the making!
- The Erasmus WWW
Server, Faculty of Arts KUL, Leuven, Brabant, Belgium:
Arts -- the final frontier. The Erasmus server's mission is to explore old
worlds and new civilizations, to boldly go where no scientist has gone
before.
- The Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the
University of Virginia would like to announce new publications and
software, in addition to an on-going series of research reports. New
software includes: an image viewer for X-windows that is faster than XV
and provides a panner for large images; a sound driver for the IBM
rs6000, that provides a control panel to record and play; a Perl script
that helps a user add reference line numbers that relate one SGML-marked
text to another. New general publications include: a museum installation
developed from Edward Ayers' Civil war project under development at
IATH; two essays by Jerome McGann about using hypertext in critical
editing; two essays by John Unsworth about use of the Internet by
humanities scholars. Also, visit the IATH-MOO - text-based virtual
reality facility for real-time discussion of IATH projects.
- The Univ of Nebraska Ag
Econ Dept is now providing via WWW and Gopher a
series of 32 papers on the 1995 Farm Bill. The papers are a product of the
National Public Policy Education Committee. 74 extension economists from
36 universities and organizations across the United States have
contributed this series of papers which broadly define the issues and
provide a backdrop for knowledgeable discussion of this far reaching
legislation. They will be of interest to the agricultural industry world wide.
- Department of Computer
Science, Queen's University Kingston, Canada: a new
Server for the Computing and Information Science department, including
faculty and student listings, assorted labs and reports, and the Queen's
electronic phone book.
- Neural Networks
in High Energy Physics Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, Sweden. From the Dept. of Physics-Frescati comes this
comprehensive list of references, recent developments in the field,
upcoming conferences, etc. Of most general interest is the extensive list
of commercial neural network hardware, including VLSI chips, PC
accelerator cards, and neurocomputers.
- Michael Moncur's Quotations
Page: A collection of information and links
regarding quotations, including a search function for quotes matching a
keyword.
- POW/MIA
Database. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: This database
assists researchers investigating the U.S. government documents pertaining
to U.S. military personnel killed, missing, or imprisoned in Southeast
Asia during or after the American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict.
The database is searchable by last name, country name, service branch,
or keywords, and copies of desired documents may be obtained from
the Library of Congress.
- The Deputy Director, Defense Research & Engineering, Laboratory Management
announces the LABLINK WWW Home
Page. LABLINK provides a single entry point
to DoD laboratory activities, and presents reports on ongoing Laboratory
Management projects. In addition, LABLINK connects to a wide spectrum of
government, academic, non-profit and private industry information sources
on science and technology, research and policy.
- Padova Stellar Evolution
Group announces that the large grid of
theoretical isochrones of the Padova Stellar Evolution group is now
available via the WWW server of the Astronomical Observatory of Padova.
Gopher
- Bryn Mawr College
- International Development Research
Centre IDRC-CRDI-CIID (Canada)
- Hong Kong Baptist University
- The Media
Literacy Project is an on-going research activity at the
University of Oregon's College of Education. We are pleased to announce a
new Gopher service dedicated to children and media literacy. The goal of
this project is to make available information and resources of value to
educators, students, parents, media producers, and others interested in
electronic media and its influence on children. The following topics are
available: A listing of associations, organizations, and centers which
have an expressed interest in the study of media; A listing of
conferences, workshops, and other events of interest to individuals
working in media literacy; Programs of academic study or special course
offerings related to media study at all levels of education; Resource
listings including books, journals, newsletters, media resources, and
related gopher sites.
- New York METRO Gopher: The METRO
Gopher is a UNIX-based gopher server
designed to provide information about The New York Metropolitan Reference
and Research Library Agency (METRO) to METRO member libraries and other
interested parties. METRO promotes resource sharing among its 250 member
libraries and library systems, and provides services such as Internet
access, continuing education programs, and consulting services. The METRO
Gopher was developed to provide METRO information to member libraries who
either have direct access to the Internet through their own institutions,
or who have Internet access through METRO's METgate system. It may also be
used as a guide to other New York State 3R's councils online services or
as a general guide to electronic resources located in the New York City
Metropolitan area.
- U.S. Dept. of Energy
Headquarters: DOE information plus links to other
DOE gophers.
Email
- A new email forum, Comparative-Sci-L, has been established. The Australian
National University provides a world-wide communications vehicle and a
central electronic archive for anyone working on, or interested in the
comparative study of sciences in society. The Forum was established on the
8 December 1994 on the joint initiative of the Coombs Computing Unit,
Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies, The
Australian National University, and the 'Working Disparate Knowledge
Systems Group', the Centre for the Study of Sciences in the Society,
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Anyone, whether a registered member
or not, can electronically view and retrieve the communications to the
forum using a database 'ANU-Comparative-Sci-L' accessible through the
standard WAIS software and through the WWW:
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Weekend Scouting
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