vra> Scout Report: October 14, 1994 (fwd)

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                      Scout Report:  October 14, 1994

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new
on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of
interest to the IntrNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,
however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated fees.

The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and
WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources of
interest. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick reference,
and you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the items reported in
all previous issues.  The Scout Report is also distributed in an HTML
version for use on your own host, providing fast local access for
yourself and other users at your site.

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher   is.internic.net   choose   Information Services/Scout Report

Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net.

See the end of the report for additional information and detailed access
and subscription instructions.

Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  NIC Locator - network information center info online and
    searchable: enter a profile for your academic, government, or
    corporate NIC
*  NII Awards - call for entries
*  Daily News Online- the newspapers, magazines offered at no cost
*  Pointer to details of the TIIAP grant announcements
*  Wine Enthusiasts Web Paget

World Wide Web
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An Aviation Web server has been built as a collaborative effort of many
administrators who have until now have each maintained there own
versions. The common consolidated list of all the aviation servers on
theWeb is now available at Harvard and will be supported through a group
effort.  Lists of aviation archives will also be maintained, as well as
aviation picture archives and weather information links.
Aviation Servers:
http://adswww.harvard.edu/GA/ga_servers.html
Aviation Archives:
http://adswww.harvard.edu/GA/ga_archives.html
Aviation Picture Archives:
http://adswww.harvard.edu/GA/image_archives.html
Weather Information:
http://adswww.harvard.edu/GA/weather.html

Thc Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the World's Largest Marketplace, trading
approximately $200 trillion annually in underlying value of financial and
agricultural futures and options, now has a Web page. Accessible from the
CME Home Page are background and product information, volume and
membership-price information and charts, and the CME Model for Federal
Financial Regulation, a proposal for streamlining government oversight of
financial institutions.
URL:  http://www.interaccess.com/users/wilbirk

The Health Care Financing Administration (The Medicare and Medicaid
Agency) has announced a Web page.
http:///www.ssa.gov/hcfa/hcfahp2.html

Erasmus now has an experimental page on the Web linking 9 European
universities (Kingston, Paris VI, Montpellier II, Leipzig, Milano,
Muenster, Espoo-Vantaa, South Bank, and Limerick) in Curriculum
Development and Student Mobility programmes.  Students from each of the
participating universities will work in transnational groups, sharing
distributed resources accessible via the Internet.  The 'shop window' to
the programme is at present through the WWW.  Erasmus is being made
publicly accessible on a temporary basis as an example of how new
technologies can be used to add value to Erasmus and other transnational
teaching schemes. There are links to some syllabi, to language and
cultural resources, and to some university profiles.  For copyright
reasons, the teaching materials themselves (text files, HyperCard stacks,
AI programs) are not available via the Web, though may be in the future.
http://141.241.142.53/Erasmus/home.html

Leeds university, School of Mathematics Web server includes activities of
the three departments of the school, links to other mathematics servers,
and preprints.
http://WWW.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and the Planetary Data System have announced an
updated version of one of their most popular Home Pages, WELCOME TO THE
PLANETS. This is a collection of over 200 of the best images from NASA's
planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the
interactive program "Welcome to the Planets" which will be distributed on
the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM in November1994.  There are
captioned images from the major planets, small bodies, and the space
craft used for the images.
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

"The Science Behind Jurassic Park" is an html document describing how
world renowned paleontologist Jack Horner is using computers and CAT scan
machines to peer inside 30 million year old dinosaur fossils.
http://infolane.com/infolane/apunix/sci-jur.html

The Space Systems Laboratory (SSL) at the University of Maryland is
investigating human and robotic performance in space.  Among the many
projects being conducted at the SSL are a telerobotic spacecraft servicer
called Ranger--to be launched into Earth orbit via an expendable rocket
in 1997, and a Space Shuttle flight experiment which will investigate
human fatigue during extravehicular activities (spacewalks).  The SSL
Home Page presents the projects, personnel, and facilities of the lab.
http://ssl.umd.edu/

Youth Affairs Research Network is up and running offering a variety of
services catering to Youth Researchers, including a newsletter: YARNing
http://yarn.insted.unimelb.edu.au/
gopher://yarn.insted.unimelb.edu.au/
ftp://yarn.insted.unimelb.edu.au/YARN/

Gopher
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American Association of Teachers of French
gopher to:   utsainfo.utsa.edu

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
gopher to:   cspo.queensu.ca

Boston Public Library
gopher to:   bpl.org

Brandeis Math Gopher
gopher to:   rsp.math.brandeis.edu

Centre for the Study of Public Opinion
gopher to:   cspo.queensu.ca

CWRU - Dept. of Neuroscience
gopher to:   neurogopher.neur.cwru.edu

Daily News - Free Internet Sources:  provides links to the online news
publications, such as CNN, UPI, and USA Today, which are available at no
cost to Internet users.  Arranged geographically, including a "Global
News Sources".  (from Gopher Jewels)
gopher:   gopher.nstn.ca
   choose:   NSTN CYBRARY/Internet READING Room/Daily News

Georgia Online (GO) State Network Gopher server
gopher to:   gopher.doas.state.ga.us

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
gopher to:   sunsite.ust.hk

JFK School of Government ( Harvard )
gopher to:   ksggopher.harvard.edu

Medical Research Council of Canada
vhpb1.hwc.ca

NASA K-12 Internet Project  has announced the release of a guide to
Internet access options for K-12 teachers called "Getting US Teachers
Online". The document addresses the fundamental need of the K-12 educator
to find an interim method of connecting to the Internet, at an affordable
price, until complete connectivity of all K-12 schools across the U.S. is
achieved.  The document is aimed at the teacher who understands the
potential for Internet inclusion in the classroom.
gopher:
   choose:   Documents/Getting US Teachers Online/
FTP:   quest.arc.nasa.gov   cd  pub/Document/Getting-Teachers-Online
   three versions
        Regular Text - Online.txt
        Common Ground for Macintosh - Online.mac.bin
        Common Ground for Windows - Online.win.exe

NIC Locator is a new service providing information about dozens of
network information centers (NICs) around the world. of the NISI Working
Group of the IETF and the InterNIC which   The NICs in the NIC Locator
are located at academic, government, and corporate sites. End users and
NIC staffers alike can search or browse for contact information, services
offered, and audience served. All NICs are welcome and encouraged to
submit a profile which can be easily referenced by your users and
colleagues.
WWW:   gopher://ds.internic.net/1/pub/niclocator
Gopher:   ds.internic.net
   choose  Directory and Database Services/InterNIC Database Services/
      NIC Locator Database
Email:   send to mailserv at ds.internic.net
   in the body of the message type:    help

NorthWestNet's Public Gopher
gopher to:   gopher.nwnet.net

SunSITE (Sun Software, Information and Technology Exchange) Hong Kong
gopher to:   sunsite.ust.hk

University of the Aegean, Library
gopher to:   gopher.libuam.ariadne-t.gr

National Information Infrastructure
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NII Awards - Call For Entries: The National Information Infrastructure
(NII) Awards will recognize individuals, organizations and businesses
that have achieved concrete gains through use of the "information
highway".  The Awards are sponsored by more than 50 industry and
community leaders in cooperation with the Clinton Administration's
Information Infrastructure Task Force.  The purpose of the Awards is to:
   - build awareness of people can use the NII to improve their lives,
     communities and businesses (i.e., it's more than "500 channels").
   - encourage broad and beneficial use of the NII.
We're looking for the success stories and examples of electronic
commerce, community and health networks, virtual libraries, distance
learning, online information services, collaborative work and more. It
The NII Awards will be given in six categories: arts & entertainment,
business, community, education, government and health. Price Waterhouse
will oversee and verify the judging process. Sponsors include the C.
Everett Koop Institute, the National Education Assoc., the League of
Women Voters, and the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Winners will receive
national recognition for their achievements at an awards ceremony in
Washington in the spring of 1995 and will be featured in a national
education program.
Email:  write info at niiawards.org
   in the body of your message type:   subscribe
Hard-copy Entry Kits are available by calling 313-453-9137.

New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:

*  Commercial Security and the NII Announcement
*  Summary List of 1994 TIIAP Grant Awards
*  Secretary Brown's Statement on 1994 TIIAP Awards
*  1994 TIIAP Grant Announcements Press Release
*  1994 TIIAP Grant Awards
*  1994 TIIAP Grant Awards by Category
*  TIIAP Grant Announcements, Revised Date

gopher to:   ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
   choose:  Hot Off the Press

NetBytes
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"New on the Net"  states that the Sept. 15th snapshot of the commercial
domains registered with InterNIC shows 20,242 unique domains compared
with 18,403 as of Aug. 15, 1994.  The net increase of 1,839 domains
represents and 10.0% month to month gain. For a copy of the full report,
produced by Internet Info, send mail to the address below. Examples of
new commercial domain names:

Bank of America (ALCATRAZ.COM)
Arizona Association for the Discussion of Budweiser (BUDWEISER.COM)
First Church of Christ, Scientist (SPIRITNET.COM)

New_on_Net at internetinfo.com.

Weekend Scouting
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Best-quality Audio Web Poems (B.A.W.P.) a collection of recordings, in
the MPEG-2 audio format, of poetry readings and live spoken word
performances. The selection changes every two weeks at present.
http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/bawp

Wine enthusiasts WWW page includes an ever expanding archive of tasting
notes; an interactive tasting note compiler allowing folks with browsers
supporting the Forms option to leave tasting notes of their own for
others to read; Washington Wine Tour: Growing resource on WA state wine
producers including discussions of releases as well as tourist
information (i.e. phone #'s addresses and maps); FAQ on wine and of
course links to other wine related resources.
http://augustus.csscr.washington.edu/personal/bigstar-mosaic/wine.html

About the Scout Report
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Resource Addressing Conventions
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After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.

The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP.  Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.

After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
Thi is because some resources are available through multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:

World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS

A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two right
brackets. For example:

http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt

To access the resource through the WWW you will need a WWW client
installed on your host computer. Clients are available for all major
computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW
client on your computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the
Internet, either through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP
connection. See the InfoGuide for additional information about the World
Wide Web and for sites which archive WWW clients.  For more information
about SLIP/PPP, which can be used over a dial-up connection, see the
document listed in the NetBytes section above.

gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/email/

Gopher to: is.internic.net
  Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/

Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
  In the body of the message type: send INDEX

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