SCOUT and A Guide to Cyberspace

Sun May 29 16:16:06 CEST 1994

Vazeni pratele,

pripominam, ze v patek vyslo dalsi cislo e-casopisu SCOUT, ktere pripojuji.
V teto souvislosti si dovoluji oznamit, ze pekna prirucka "A Guide to
Cyberspace" (verze 6.1) od Kevina Hughese v textove i html verzi byla
zarazena na omicronovske servery. Textova verze je na
"gopher://saturn.felk.cvut.cz/00/archiv/94052901-guide_to_cyberspace.txt",
htm verze na
"http://jupiter.felk.cvut.cz/html/guide.61.html/index.html".

S pozdravem
            Vladimir Vrabec

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                Scout Report:  Week ending May 27, 1994

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World Wide Web:
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1) The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the
US Food & Drug Administration World Wide Web
Server.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/index.html
ftp://vax8.cfsan.fda.gov
telnet://fdabbs.fda.gov

2) Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research is a refereed
journal, covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence, which
is distributed free of charge over the internet.  Links to
other AI sites from the home page.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/home.html

3) The Open Government Pilot provides access to various
segments of the Canadian federal government including:
the House of Commons, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and
federal departments and agencies.

http://debra.dgbt.doc.ca:80/opengov/

4) Window-to-Russia is a Moscow-based project by Relcom
Corporation, oriented towards the international network
community. WWW access to a variety of information
resources from and about Russia, including two original
Virtual Exhibitions: "Moscow Kremlin" and "Contemporary
Russian Fine Arts."  Extensive list of pointers to other
Russian web-servers.

http://www.kiae.su/www/wtr/

5) A new, WWW version of  "Entering the World-Wide Web:
A Guide to Cyberspace" is available.  Intended to be used
as a beginner's, hands-on guide to the World-Wide Web.
Offers answers to many basic questions about the Web.
Web statistics, software pointers, information on
hypertext and hypermedia, and other topics are covered.
Very comprehensive. Text, PostScript, and FrameMaker 4.0
versions also available.

http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/
ftp.eit.com    /pub/web.guide/ directory.

6) * First issue of The Lynx Magazine: Live From WWW '94 in
CERN. One reporter's summaries and comments on events
at the first WWW conference currently happening in
Switzerland at the birthplace of WWW. For the "official"
source of information on the conference, try the WWW'94
home page.

http://www.gold.net/lynx/www94/
http://www1.cern.ch/WWW94/Welcome.html

7)  InterNIC Directory and Database Services added 66
entries to the InterNIC Directory of Directories during the
month of May.

http://ds.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html

Gopher to:   ds.internic.net
choose:   InterNIC Directory and Database
Services/InterNIC Directory of Directories/Recent Listings

8)  The InterNIC Information Services net-happenings
mailing list is now archived and WAIS-indexed on the
InterNIC InfoGuide, and is searchable by keyword.

http://www.internic.net/internic/net-happenings.html

9) Recently Announced College and University Web Sites

* Auburn University College of Engineering
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/homepage.html

* Colorado State University
http://www.colostate.edu/

* Cornell University, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State
Physics, Entertaining Science home page
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/

* Georgia Institute of Technology, Applied Chaos
Laboratory
http://nextworld.cc.gatech.edu:8001/Matt/acl/aclhome.html

* North Carolina State University,  College of Engineering
http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/coe/coe.html

* University of California, Riverside: College of
Engineering, Department of Computer Science
http://engr.ucr.edu/
http://cs.ucr.edu/

* University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Civil
Engineering
http://www.fagg.uni-lj.si/

* Universtiy of Minnesota, Department of Food Science &
Nutrition
http://fscn1.fsci.umn.edu/

* University of Tennessee, Knoxville Research
Advancement Group
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/orawww/default.html

*University of Washington , Department of Statistics
http://www.stat.washington.edu/index.html

Gopher:
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10) NetResults is a growing network of people and teams
working together to reinvent government created in the
fall of 1993 to explore a team-based, open-network
approach to implementing the recommendations of the
National Performance Review. Information on joining the
activities and NPR Success Stories available via gopher
and Email.

Gopher: ace.esusda.gov
choose: Americans Communicating Electronically/National
Performance Review Information

send Email to:   almanac at ace.esusda.gov
text in body of message:   send netresults catalog

or send Email to: netresults at npr.gsa.gov

Mailing Lists:
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11)  The Center for Gifted Education at the College of
William and Mary has established a mailing list as a forum
for gifted education. Information exchange pertaining to
gifted learners such as research, curriculum, intellectual,
academic, moral and ethical, social, and emotional needs is
welcome.

send Email to:   listserver at listserv.cc.wm.edu
text in body of message:   subscribe giftednet-l YourName

12) A newsletter for people with hand, arm or shoulder
injuries caused by computer work ("CTDs" or "RSIs"). Issued
every 2 months.

send Email to: majordomo at world.std.com
text in body of message:   subscribe rsi

National Information Infrastructure:
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13) The National Telecommunications and Information
Administration announced that the Telecommunications
and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP)
received 1,088 applications. TIIAP anticipates making FY94
grant award announcements by the end of September, 1994.
Additional information is available in the press release
posted on the NTIA gopher. Also new this week is a
transcript of the Universal Service Hearing,  held in Los
Angeles, California, February 16, 1994.

Gopher to:  ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
choose:  Hot off the Press

Weekend Scouting:
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* In conjunction with Rice Design Alliance' Virtual City
lecture series held earlier this year, home pages have been
put up for two of the speakers: Howard Rheingold and Bruce
Sterling.  Access to online writings included.

http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/RDA/VirtualCity/index.ht
ml
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/RDA/VirtualCity/Sterling
/index.html
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/RDA/VirtualCity/Rheingol
d/index.html

* Juggling Supplies is now on-line with its WWW catalog.
They carry Juggling Equipment, Kites, Boomerangs and
other skill eqipment. Soon footbags, tops, yo-yos and
darts will also be available.

http://io.com/usr/infinite/index.html/

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