Scout Report: Week ending June 10, 1994

Notes from the Editor:

World Wide Web:

  1. China News Digest (CND). A voluntary non-profit organization aimed at providing news and other information services to readers who are concerned primarily about China-related affairs. Includes a link to the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, and the Internet Go Server (IGS) where you can play Wei Qi online, an Ancient Chinese game.
  2. Commercial Net Use Web Resource, an experimental web page that includes pointers to groups and publications which discuss the use of the Internet for commercial purposes. Selected net statistics, including the results of a recent WWW demographic survey done by Georgia Tech. Links to lists of commercial Web sites, such as The Internet Mall and the What's New in Commercial Sites list.
  3. Defense Information System Agency's (DISA) Center For Engineering.
  4. K-12 Resource announced by the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR).
  5. The LISTSERV User Guide (version 2) is now available in hypertext format from the EARN information service. Provides a detailed description of the LISTSERV functions which are available to general users.
  6. Two new Macintosh WWW clients released this week:
  7. Microsoft Corporation WWW Server. Public information about Microsoft and its products: KnowledgeBase articles, sample code, patches and other support related products. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
  8. The Ohio State University at Newark, Art Gallery. Current Roy Lichtenstein Pre-Pop, 1948-1960 Exhbition is now available on the Web. Over 30 works of the famous American artist, most of which have never before been shown to the public. This unusual and very important exhibtion will help in understanding how the artist arrived at his more famous Pop Style. Future exhibits will also be made available.
  9. WebWorld, a virtual world you can move around in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web. Can click on a link, such as a home or an office, or a container, such as a city, town, or large building. Users own the links and paths they build.
  10. WHO's WHO On-Line (first edition) is a collective experiment towards a HYPERbiographical database of people in the Internet. Anyone can submit a listing for themselves, and listings are organized by profession or discipline. Listings can reside on your WWW, Gopher, or FTP server.
  11. WWW in the curriculum. Home page for instructional uses of the Web, located at The University of Texas at Austin. Links to projects in 20 subject areas.
  12. Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
    1. Dartmouth College, Computer Science.
    2. University of Washington, Technical Japanese Program. Services related to the teaching of Technical Japanese, and a good selection of Japan-related resources. Programs offered: Inter-Engineering MSE in Technical Japanese (IMTJ) and Japanese Program for Professionals (JPP).
    3. University of Aberdeen, Electronics Research Group. Topics include artificial neural networks, neural web, hybrid systems and applications, satellite communications - VSATs, site diversity networks, networking - ATM, TCP/IP & X.25 implementation, protocol benchmarking, spread spectrum, and fault tolerant communications. Services provided include online digest archives including Neuron Digest, TidBITS and Alife digest.
    4. The University of Birmingham, Academic Computing Service. Includes documents listing all known UK University Web Servers and UK National Educational Organisations such as NAG and Mailbase.
    5. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science
    6. University of Southampton, U.K., The Interactive Learning Centre

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