Scout Report: Week ending June 17, 1994
World Wide Web:
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Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy page: includes the PGP
documentation (authored by Phil Zimmermann), links to the PGP-
related FAQs and newsgroups, links to various archives where PGP
can be obtained (for UNIX, PCs, and Macs), a quick reference sheet
for PGP, links to other cryptography/PGP/privacy pages (including
the Cypherpunks Home Page), and a sub-page devoted to information
about the Clipper chip.
- Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific
and Asian Studies at the Australian National University now runs a
WWW automated subscription facility for its range of the electronic
forums - the Coombslists.
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Computer Music Journal: A quarterly journal published by MIT Press
including electroacoustic, electronic and computer music;software
and hardware for digital audio signal processing; music notation,
printing and archival systems; music representation and cognition;
new musical performance interfaces; aesthetics of contemporary
music.
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Computer Science departments home page.
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The Freenets Home Page: links to all Free-Net gophers/telnet-logins,
WWW sites, relevant documents, conferences, electronic journals, and
newsgroups.
- The Italian WWW community has set up the first mailing list in the
Italian language for World-Wide Web users and information
providers, named WebIt.
- Ministry of Education, Singapore:
provides information on the education system in Singapore.
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The New York Journal of Mathematics.
- The National Library of Medicine:
HyperDOC, a completely redesigned
Web server, which now includes electronic access to all of the
library's on-line database services (some of which require registered
accounts), an interactive multimedia course on the history and uses
of the Internet, several new multimedia exhibits from the
History of
Medicine Division (HMD), and the Web's first large cataloged image
collection, nearly 60,000 images from the HMD prints and
photographs collection, known as
On-Line Images from the History of
Medicine (OLI/HMD). (Note: OLI/HMD requires NCSA Mosaic for X,
version 2.4, or a functionally equivalent browser supporting HTML
forms with hidden fields).
- National Trade Data Bank,
U. S. Department of Commerce: Over
300,000 documents which include over 130 information
programs from over 20 federal sources such as the
Department's Foreign Trader's Index, the Export Yellow Pages,
the Trade Opportunities Program, and Market Research
Reports.
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The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS), Strasbourg
Astronomical Observatory, France. Includes tables from Astronomy
and Astrophysics and other major journals. A&A and A&AS
Abstracts from Astronomy and Astrophysics main journal, and
Supplement Series. The Star*s Family of products, including two new
on-line databases: StarWorlds, and StarBits. Files of URLs (addresses
on the Web) and anchors, for organizations and services, as well as
for individuals. The AstroWeb database of Astronomical Internet
resources. The MediaTheque project. TOPbase: The database of the
OPACITY project.
- Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
- Boston University School of Medicine,
Department of Biophysics
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Duke Univeristy Medical Center
- Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Houston,
W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
- University of California - Davis,
Atmospheric Science Group
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The University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
(German)
- University of Turku, Finland (Finnish)
- University of Wisconsin,
Institute for Molecular Virology
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University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Stanford University,
Cognitive and Psychological Sciences Department
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State University of Stony Brook, Research Informatics (Includes
technology transfer, economic development, international
interests.)
Gopher:
National Information Infrastructure (NII):
New on the Department of Commerce
NTIA Gopher:
- Calendar of Upcoming Public Events
- IITF's June Report (06/08/94)
- ITF Factsheet (Revised 06/08/94)
- 04/05/94 GITS Meeting Minutes
- 05/03/94 GITS Meeting Minutes
NetBytes
- "The Information Superhighway should have 'No Outlet'
signs posted at the entry to paths that are under construction,
just like real roads do!"
-- overheard at a table of Internauts whining :-)
about Gopher menus "announced before their time."
Weekend Scouting:
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The Hang Gliding Mosaic Picture Server is a new WWW server full of
hang gliding and para gliding related material, including: a large
collection of hang gliding photos, hang gliding movies, the hang
gliding FAQ, archived issues of the hang gliding mailing list digest,
programs related to hang gliding, links to other aviation servers and
more.
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Personal Finance Center: Features a complete collection of links to the
personal finance and investment resources of the Internet.
- Pixel Pushers,
a gallery of artworks on paper produced by some of
the world's top illustrators and fine artists working in electronic
media. On June 15th 1994, Pixel Pushers became North America's
first digital art show held concurrently in real space and in
cyberspace. It opened in "real space" at Granville Island, Vancouver
where computer-generated work of the internationally respected
digital fine artists and photographers are on display as signed and
numbered limited editions printed on various media. For that "next
best thing to being there" feeling, check out the Rogues' Gallery--live
pictures from the opening festivities at Granville Island. You can also
read and sign the Guest Book.
- World Cup USA '94 "Official" Web site.
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