Scout Report: Week ending July 1, 1994
World Wide Web:
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The American South Internet Resource Center: a comprehensive
listing of information servers for Southern universities, with
information for over 80 schools included.
- The paintings
in Ancestry: Religion, Death and Culture document the
native culture of Central Appalachia. The work portrays a sense of
place and character, as well as spiritual conviction, all reinforced by a
repetition of visual imagery.
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The Athens High Performance Computing Laboratory: a not-for-profit
organization formed by the University of Athens, the National
Technical University of Athens, and the Computer Technology
Institute of the University of Patras.
- Britannica Online:
the Encyclopaedia Britannica is now available as a
fee-based subscription service to anyone on the Internet.
- The
Bioinformatics group at the Jackson Laboratory is pleased to
announce the first release of the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), a
comprehensive database of information on the experimental genetics
of the laboratory mouse.
- California State University - San Marcos,
Windows Software Archive:
Incorporates the filenames and descriptions on the hypertext page.
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Canadiana, the Canadian Resources Page (aussi disponsible en
fran¨ais) features references to Canadian news and information
resources.
- The Chinese classic,
Sun Tzu Art of War,
on an experiment Chinese WEB at the University of Singapore.
Also available: the home page for
Chinese WWW.
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Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX): a non-profit trade association of
Public Data Internetwork service providers.
- Crisis in Rwanda:
submissions for inclusion welcome, especially non-copyrighted images,
chronologies, and opinions.
- The
Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School: HTML
version of the Civil Rights Code of the United States. (42 U.S.C. 1981
et seq.)
- Department of Energy,
Office of Fusion Energy: general information
on the nation's fusion energy research program and research on
providing an alternative power source for the future.
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The Foundation for Enterprise Development: a comprehensive
resource on equity compensation, employee involvement and other
leading business strategies. Descriptions of equity compensation
methods, the latest research and statistics, and case studies of
successful employee owned firms such as Polaroid and Avis.
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Information and Computation: international journal of theoretical
Computer Science: hypertext bibliography of all papers published
since 1978; hypertext list of editors, more.
- InterNIC Directory and Database Services: Additions to the
InterNIC
Directory of Directories for the month of June.
- InterNIC Information Services: complete
net-happenings postings are now WAIS-indexed daily.
- Knot at the Cable:
ties together non-governmental organizations,
public libraries and the Internet. Located in a public library (branch
of Helsinki City Library) at the Cable Factory cultural centre in
Helsinki, it offers access to WorldWideWeb and telnet access for
library visitors and acts as a WWW publishing outlet.
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The Legal Domain Network: an attempt to consolidate and coordinate
all substantive legal information and discussions on the Internet.
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Maui High Performance Computing Center.
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Maxwell Laboratories and Caltrans announce the availibility of real-
time traffic information for San Diego, California, USA freeways via
the World Wide Web. Current freeway speeds and flow rates, along
with daily construction closures and updated freeway incident
reports are available in both graphical and text formats. The
information is normally updated about once a minute.
- Mississippi School for Math and Science,
K12 school for gifted children.
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NASA Ames Research Center, Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation
Systems Division, Applied Research Branch: 100+ technical reports
on scientific visualization, virtual reality, and parallel computing; list
of high performance computing sites; computational fluid dynamics
data sets; annotated scientific visualization weblet bibliography; the
latest NAS Parallel Benchmarks.
- National Institutes of Health
molecular modeling oriented information including:
Molecules R US - an interactive interface to
facilitate browsing, searching and viewing of the molecular structure
data contained within the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB); a
hypertext catalogue of the PDB and Structures can be displayed via
the "Molecules R US" interface, the NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling -
an illustrated hypertext-based primer on molecular modeling
methods, software, and applications in the biological sciences.
- NYSERNet's
Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse: an Internet
accessible resource for breast cancer patients and their families.
Current partners represent government health agencies, hospitals,
libraries, hospice and non-profit agencies.
- The
On-line Books Page now lists over 300 books from various
repositories: browse or search by author or by title.
- The
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: the Fusion Laboratories
facilities and mission, including the recent tokamak experiments
which resulted in the production of more than 9 million watts of
thermonuclear energy.
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RailServer, a mail server which contains all German railway stations
and timetables as well as about 4,000 other European cities and their
rail connections to Germany. Also contains information about German
Rail fares and price reductions
- Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
- California Institute of Technology,
Experimental High Energy Physics Group
- Ege University Computer Center,
All About Turkey,
Turkey in Pictures
- Goteborg University:
Swedish Social Science Data Service
- The Graduate School and University Center of
The City University of New York
- Pennsylvania State University,
College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
- Rice University,
Department of Space Physics and Astronomy
- University of California, Davis,
Information Center for the Environment (ICE):
a cooperative effort of a team of environmental
scientists at UC Davis and collaborators at over thirty private, state,
federal, and international environmental organizations.
- University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences:
BRASS -
Bioinformatics Resource for Algorithms, Software and Services, which
was designed as a gateway to different types of bioinformatics tools
and databases available on the Internet.
- University of Michigan,
College of Engineering: considerable amount
of online documentation as well as such network services as the
face/finger gateway.
- University of Pittsburgh,
Learning Research and Development Center
- University of South Carolina,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Tokyo,
RACE (Research into Artifacts, Center for
Engineering), opened the Artist in Residence No.1:
Ideal Copy
- University of Wales,
Institute for Health Informatics
- Williams College,
Astronomy Department
Gopher:
NetBytes
- CONGRESS PLANS REWRITE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW
(from E-D-U-P-A-G-E, published by EDUCOM)
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Two House bills (one from the Energy & Commerce Committee &
one from the Judiciary Committee) would in effect rewrite the 1934
Communications Act and the 1982 consent decree that broke up the
Bell System. If the bills become legislation, the Bell Operating
companies would be allowed to manufacture telecom equipment and
to offer cable TV services, in-state long-distance service, and out-of-
state long-distance service under certain conditions; the long
distance carriers would be allowed to compete with the regionals in
the local market and to reduce the local access fees they pay the
Bells; and the cable companies would be allowed to compete in the
local phone business. The legislation will face problems in the Senate,
where a bill sponsored by Senator Hollings would make it more
difficult for the regional Bells to enter the long-distance market.
(Wall Street Journal 6/29/94 A2)
Weekend Scouting:
- Collection of humor posted on the USENET newsgroup
rec.humor;
including Canonical Lists, various one-liners, more.
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CYBERKIND, a new WorldWideWeb magazine of 'Net-related fiction,
nonfiction, poetry and art, featuring prose and art submitted by the
Internet population. All genres and subjects are included, as long as
there is some connection to the Internet, cyberspace, computers or
the networked world in general. This first issue's features range from
an article on writers and the Internet to a computer-related mystery
to a hyperlinked poem.
- Finally, here it is: the definitive
pub review for Dublin's city center. Each entry comes with a short
review, the address and a personal rating.
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The Running Page: races, marathons, training tips, running
magazines, running clubs, and information about all aspects of running.
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Textiles Server: includes knitting, cross stitch, and links to FAQ's.
- VeloNews Tour de France service
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