Scout Report: Week ending June 3, 1994
World Wide Web:
-
Analytic Philosophy Project: the peer reviewed Electronic Journal
of Analytic Philosophy in hypertext and including on-line
subscription and referee registration forms.
- Canadian climate: Read
Climatic Perspectives every week in
hypertext (english and french; download the weekly/monthly
postscript version with graphics, tables ; access upper air analysis in
gif and mpeg format ; access our long range forecast ; play a quiz.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
the 1994 Genetics, Cell, & Molecular Biology Book Catalogue.
-
Environmental Resource Center: timely and cost-effective access
to stored environmental data and information.
- Icon Browser
at Pisa University: over three thousands icons on line.
- Finnish Forest Research Institute of Helsinki, Finland:
FORESTRY Web
with research, conference, and biodiversity information, and
forestry mailing list archives.
- Hewlett-Packard now on the Web. Also
see HP's Workstation Systems Group.
- New
HTML Documentation site, including a detailed series of
notes on writing HTML documents: an overview of HTML, including
basic document design rules; description of all HTML markup
elements, with examples; a description of server-side script issues,
such as ISINDEX, FORMS and Image maps (ISMAP), with examples;
pointers to changes expected for HTML; extensive bibliography, and
reference list to other HTML guides.
- NASA's
Planetary Data System,
Microwave Subnode: The
Magellan Image Browser. Tour the planet Venus during your lunch break.
So little time, so much data!
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL) is pleased to announce a major reorganization and enhancement of
its server at its new address.
- Patch American High School: Web page in commemoration of the
50th Anniversary of D-Day. Will feature a Patch HS JROTC Trip to
Normandy, a Stars and Stripes Newspaper Special Edition on D-Day,
materials on loan from the US European Command Historian, Dr.
Bryan T. van Sweringen, Army newsreels of the landing (in
Quicktime and MPEG formats), photos, maps & original top secret
invasion documents (now declassified), and eventually, interviews
with Normandy veterans who will be attending the ceremonies
marking the 50th Annniversary.
- Spanky Fractal Database:
fractal images, programs, documents, papers, code examples, and other
fractal related material. Submitted by contributors or hunted down
from various nooks and crannies on the net. Enjoy and discover.
-
The Chance Server: information useful for teaching any
probability or statistics course that uses current news involving
probability or statistical concepts.
-
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: expanding coverage of
terminology, languages, architectures, institutions, history,
applications, theory, acronyms, telecomms and anything else related
to computing. Many cross-references and links to other Internet
resources. Queries are monitored and new entries for popular
subjects are added every day. Contributions are also welcome.
- PowerPC News:
Full text of an independent electronic magazine
published every two weeks for users and developers who want the
latest news about the IBM/Motorola/Apple microprocessor family
and the systems.
-
Student Government Associations index on the Web. If your SGA
is not included, please send mail to the maintainer.
- Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
- Free University of Berlin,
- Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg,
Institute for Theoretical Physics III
- Georgia Institute of Technology,
School of Physics
- Indiana University, Program in Animal Behavior,
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB)
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory,
Weather Sensing Group.
Also:
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- University of California - Davis,
School of Veterinary Medicine
- The University of Oregon,
Physics Department,
including large databases dealing with
Astronomy and
Environmental Sciences.
- University of Minnesota,
School of Medicine:
Virtual Genome Center
- University of Texas at Austin: Department of Computer Science;
Applied Research Laboratories,
Mid-America Computerized Ionospheric Tomography Experiment.
- The University of Washington,
Department of Pathology
Gopher/FTP:
- ACLU Free Reading Room:
growing collection of ACLU publications
and information resources. Initially, the collection will include basic
publications on issues of high public interest, and our
membership newsletter, Civil Liberties. Future: news releases, calls to
action on legislative issues, ACLU legal briefs.
- The Electronic Zoo:
A List of Animal-Related Computer Resources (Internet/Bitnet
Mailing Lists, Gophers, World Wide Web Sites, Mail Servers, Usenet
Newsgroups, FTP Archives, Commercial Online Services, and Bulletin
Board Systems.)
- On May 8-10, 1994, the Department of Education sponsored the
Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology. The
ED/OERI Web Server now has a
directory of information about the
conference, including the conference agenda, lists of speakers,
presenters, and state team participants, the text of Secretary Riley's
speech, and descriptions of most of the networks and resources
presented at the conference. Most of the plenary sessions will be
rebroadcast via satellite by Star Schools projects June 6 through June
9, 1994.
-
New Gopher compilation of 16
electronic journals and 75
education gophers. Intent is to keep the links updated regularly. to
assure "a fairly complete and painless excursion into Gopherspace for
the professional educator."
- A research project coordinated by Syracuse University and the
United States Geological Survey, funded by the Federal Interagency
Working Group on Data Management for Global Change, has been
working for several months to develop an application profile for
ANSI/NISO Z39.50. The name of the project is "Expanding Research
and Development on the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 Search and Retrieval
Standard". Two documents (below) have been released. An abstract
describing the project is available, providing additional information
about the project's scope and objectives.
-
Mathematics related gopher collection:
Department of Mathematics, Lake Forest College
National Information Infrastructure (NII):
- New on the Department of Commerce NTIA Gopher:
- Demos sought for 7/12 Indianapolis NTIA Universal Service and
Access Hearing. NTIA is looking for companies and organizations that
would like to participate in a technology demonstration, especially
innovative ways of using information technology to promote
education, social services, health care, and economic development
over a National Information Infrastructure. Preference will be given
to Indiana-based companies and organizations, but other
organizations from the Mid-west are welcome to submit applications.
ƒ-mail or fax a copy of your company description and what you
would like to demo on July 12 to Lisa Leidig:
Fax: 202/482-6173
Email: lleidig@ntia.gov.doc
- The National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing
and Communications (NCO/HPCC): release of the HPCC Program's
"FY 1995 Implementation Plan"
on its NCO/HPCC Web server. Plan
describes the President's proposed $1.154 billion HPCC Program
budget, including 88 program activities and milestones. Organized
both according to the 5 HPCC Program components and the 10
participating Federal agencies.
Weekend Scouting:
- World Cup Soccer:
- Learn all you want to know about unicycling from the
Unicycling Web page.
How to ride, how to ride better, and where to buy one.
You can even watch unicycling, if you need to get motivated.
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