What's New With NCSA Mosaic

Announcements

February 28,1994

The Department of Modern Physics - University of Cantabria (UNICAN) in Santander, Spain is running a WWW server.

Chess enthusiasts will be interested in the Internet Chess Library. The ICL has a number of chess-related texts, opening databases, and games. Chess FAQs may also be found here along with information on accessing the Internet Chess Server, a service for real-time chess playing over the Internet. The ICL contains files for specific chess database programs and programs for specific machines and operating systems. There's even a chess art gallery.

Another commercial magazine comes to the Web:
3W Magazine - The Internet with a Human Face
All the Internet - All the resources
Full information and a subscription special offer here.

The Eagle's Nest provides online information about Bridgewater College, its facilities, catalog, and calendar of events. This new server, in its initial growth stages, is sponsored by the C. E. Shull Computing Center.

February 27,1994

WAIS Inc would like Beta Testers to try out its new WAIS-to-Web gateway for searching local or remote WAIS databases. For more information, see the WAISGATE Announcement

A collection of materials related to the British Science Fiction television series Blake's_7 is now available. Scripts for most of the episodes are available, along with sound bites and images.

Engineering Computer Operations at North Carolina State University is pleased to announce the Project Eos Web Server. Project Eos is a distributed academic computing system at North Carolina State University. Begun in the College of Engineering, this network of high-end UNIX workstations uses client/server technology and much of the software developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), IBM, and DEC in Project Athena at MIT. Our Web server contains information and newsletter about Project Eos, information about classes using Project Eos, a nice test of UNIX tutorials, and an on-line version of the book Guide to the Eos Computing Environment at North Carolina State University by Dr. Ellen McDaniel.

The Linda Group at Yale University has set up a WWW site that contains extensive information around Linda, coordination languages, adaptive parallelism, turingware, and the efforts of the local research group.

Rockwell Network Systems now supports a World Wide Web (WWW) server. This server will offer information about the latest Rockwell products and services, articles and analyses written by our staff, and links to other relevant Internet documents. Enjoy!

The English Server at CMU has three new online journals now available in Mosaic/WWW:

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life offers a forum for work in cultural and critical theory discussing American leftist and progressive politics.

CTHEORY is an international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture (reviews are posted monthly of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the mediascape).

Cultronix is an interactive online magazine to be published on the English Server. The topic for the first issue of Cultronix is the implications of technology on postmodern culture.

The Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania announces a new WWW server. The server includes Physics course materials, information on high energy physics, and pointers to other servers of interest to the physics community. The server is still under development and is expected to acquire additional materials in the near future.

The Palo Alto Historical Association, of Palo Alto, California, USA, proudly announces its arrival on the World-Wide Web on a server operated by Digital Equipment Corporation

The DOS Internet Kit for new Internauts coming in from DOS/Windows machines has been updated by Dean Pentcheff to include new software releases. Installation instructions and the disk images are on the WWW server tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (or by anonymous FTP from the same site). It is a self-installing package to get PCs connected to Internet resources (including Gopher, Mosaic, Telnet, etc.). It now includes Trumpet Winsock 1.0 (with SLIP support), Windows Mosaic 2.0 Alpha 1, updates to the Crynwr packet drivers #11, NCSA Telnet 2.3.07b, and updated configuration instructions.

The University of Michigan Historical Center for the Health Sciences (HCHS) is pleased to announce an electronic clearinghouse for information on primary resources in the history of health care and the health sciences as they relate to Michigan. This WWW information service is designed for use by historians, educators, policy makers, archivists, librarians, and manuscript and museum curators interested in promoting the exchange of ideas and the utility of history in the development of ethics and policy, and in managing health science resources.

The EXPO has expanded in a new direction with the addition of a restaurant. The restaurant serves only the some meals of the world-famous school for French cookery Le Cordon Blue.
If you have some intersting data that you would like to be part of EXPO, please contact Frans van Hoesel at hoesel@chem.rug.nl.

The Institute of Systems Science (ISS)at the National University of Singapore is now on the Web. They provide information about their location, facilities and research and educational programs.

February 24,1994

The Computing Support Team, Inc. announces GEMS, Global Electronic Marketing Service. Our first commercial project is providing a Real Estate information service. Home owners and realty agents are invited to advertise property and services.

Fishnet is a weekly collection of assorted stuff discovered while browsing the Internet (primarily netnews). The contents are unpredictable, but are likely to include miscellany connected with computer culture, bizarre humor, fringe politics, technology and environmental issues. E-mail subscriptions are also available from fishnet-request@cs.washington.edu. Fishnet could be considered as an initial attempt at human-based approaches to intelligent information handling in the age of the Internet.

Some great real world examples of the power of WWW are on a new server by Electric Press, Inc. Electric Press specializes in high quality layout and design, with digital artists on staff. Electric Press is an "invisible" publisher, operating servers under the names of its customers alone.

The Department of Computing Science, at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is pleased to announce it's new WWW server. Click here to come and check it out. Things are pretty bare-bones so far, (there is a connection to our gopher server) but give us some time.

The Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Victoria (UVic) now has a Web server running. We provide information about our location, our Department and our research activities. We are also serving a number of Documents and we provide pointers to other services here at UVic.

EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) now has its home page on the Web.

The Chemistry Department at Brown has begun a WWW server. The server currently contains information concerning the graduate program of Chemistry available at Brown; short resumees of the faculty members including their most recent works; and current phone book information for faculty, graduate students, and staff members.

The JASON project has made it to Belize, packed in 20,000 pounds of gear and are ready for their first show this Monday. They have started sending daily updates to the JASON Project Home Page and posting them in the "Letters from the Rain Forest" page.

The Duke University Department of Chemistry would like to announce its new WWW site. The primary goal of the site is to promote and advertise the Department and its on-going research. The site currently features an extensive multi-media exhibit of the research of Dr. Michael G. Prisant in chemical physics at surfaces and geometric aspects of protein structure and function. This exhibit contains mpeg movies and gif images produced using computer modeling and state-of-the-art raycasting technology.

A new page has been added to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's WWW server describing EMBYR, a probability-based landscape scale simulation of wildfire. This page describes an actual historical fire that occurred in Yellowstone National Park in 1981, and then simulates this historical burn in an MPEG movie. Check it out!

Austin World Wide Web User Group (AWWWUG) in Austin, TX has now formed. The purpose of AWWWUG is to provide a salient technical and organizational infrastructure which can support the local WWW community, while its mission is to promote the academic, commercial, and educational use of the WWW. If you are interested, there is an online survey fill-out form which can get you onto the AWWWUG mailing list.

The Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University has just started up its WWW server. It contains pointers to other Columbia information sources, but it currently doesn't have much local data.

February 23,1994

On February 23rd, 1994 EcoNet will release the League of Conservation Voters' 1993 National Environmental Scorecard via the Internet. The Environmental Scorecard rates members of the United States House and Senate according to their voting records on critical environmental issues for the past year, and also gives environmental "scores" for regional and state delegations.

The Hub is an Internet resource for mathematics and science education, maintained by TERC on behalf of the Regional Alliance.

The Computer Science Department at University of California at Davis now enters the ever growing World Wide Web with its first homepage prototype. Items of interest are : Melvyl , a UC wide library system, several on-line courses, campus profile of UC Davis, the UCD gopher and anonymous FTP site , and some really interesting links to other home pages. We have just added access to CS technical journal archives in all diciplines of computer science. Also look for some forms-based documents coming soon!

The University of Tennessee High Energy Theory Group has started its WWW server. Among its resources is a large collection of Mandelbrot set images.

The Experiments Online is a collection of home pages of many high-energy physics experiments, and a link to databases covering experiments in particle physics. Coming to you from SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).

Two new resources are presently available at Hahnemann University: NetBiochem - a medical biochemistry course, and UBUdex - a hyperindex to the Macintosh software archives at the University of Michigan.

Python is an object-oriented scripting and prototyping language which some prefer over Perl, TCL or Scheme. Python, developed at CWI in Amsterdam, is free, extensible, and runs on Unix, DOS and Mac. The Unix version has optional X11 and Motif interfaces and considerable multimedia support for SGI and Sun platforms. All documentation and sources for Python are now available on-line via the World-Wide-Web as well as via ftp.

February 22,1994

WIRED Magazine has joined the fight against the Clipper Chip by setting up a web page devoted to the subject, with several selected text files pulled off the net, plus two pre-publication articles to appear in the April issue of WIRED, one by Brock Meeks and the other by John Perry Barlow. The site is provided as a public service by WIRED magazine to educate people about its dangers. Wired's WWW site also includes the full text from every issue up through the January issue (including key word searches), as well information on how to subscribe, how to advertise, and how to submit articles to WIRED.

The Earth Resources Laboratory, part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, is pleased to announce its new server. ERL is primarily concerned with applied geophysics as it relates to tectonophysics, seismology (especially seismic exploration), environmental engineering, and parallel computing.

February 21,1994

As a first WWW link to Croatia we invite you to visit home page of the Telecommunications Department , University of Zagreb. It will provide you links to currently existing net resources in Croatia, and more.

The Astronomical Observatory of Padova has set up an experimental WWW server. Through this server you can reach the Astronet network which connects most of the italian Astronomical Institutes. Some of these nodes are WWW servers themselves.

TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson Research Facility, conducts research in subatomic particle physics, accelerator design and operation, and various applied programs including medical applications of accelerators. Our new Web server has a small but growing collection of information about the laboratory and its activities, lists of preprints and internal publications, and descriptions of software available from TRIUMF.

February 20,1994

The Space Shuttle Small Payloads Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has a new Web server which provides information and graphics for those interested in the "Hitchhiker" and "Get Away Special" (GAS) payload programs. Learn how your organization can fly its own experimental payload on the Shuttle.

The Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of Calgary is now on-line with its WWW home-page. The document includes information on a proposed high-resolution survey of galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (HI), documentation on user support software for the Russian Space VLBI project RadioAstron, information on graduate studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and a pointer to the University of Calgary's gopher server.

RiceInfo, the campus-wide information server for Rice University in Houston, Texas, is now available via WWW as well as via gopher.

The Supercomputer Computations Research Institute at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida is now online through WWW. Our server contains:

• Information on Computing Facilites at SCRI, and pictures and descriptions of some of the equipment we use.
• Recent Publication Information, and listings of several thousand abstracts from recently published articles.
• Information about Software developed at SCRI, available on the Internet. Notable projects include SciAn, DQS, and Dmake.
• Notes on Tallahassee Free-Net, a SCRI-sponsored public-access Internet provider. Free-Net provides public Internet access to approximately 17,000 local Tallahassee residents.
• Links to other campus resources (gophers, ftp sites, etc.)

The Baylor College of Medicine is now on the Web providing Biomedical Research and Educational Information.

The combined WWW/Gopher server for The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) who supply numerical, statistical, symbolic and visualisation systems plus compilers and tools has moved to a new server here. A direct interface for those interested in the IRIS Explorer visualisation system can be found here, this is also a new address.

The NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center has a WWW server running for it's Workstation User's Group. The WUG, sponsored by Hughes-STX corporation, serves to link workstation users together to share their knowledge and experience and to provide for the open exchange of information and ideas as users from various tasks describe their experiences. It contains useful information for people who work with scientific data.

Professors Henry Wright and Sharon Herbert have made the preliminary report of the 1993 season of the joint University of Michigan/University of Asiut survey in the Eastern Desert of Egypt available on the Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology server.

The University of Southampton Astronomy Group now provides an index of recent International Astronomical Union (IAU) telegrams. To avoid breaching the copyright on the circulars, the full text of the telegrams is only available locally. However, if you have your own legitimate source for these documents then this search tool will tell you which telegrams to look in for news on particular astronomical objects and events.

The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program now has Greek letters in place in their pages. A tar file containing these transparent bitmaps is available. If you haven't been there in a while, much has happened. Look in on their What's New Page.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has a new WWW server online. The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory to pursue studies in astronomy and astrophysics. Information about the research activities at the center, its facilities and achievements is available. Also soon available on the server the CfA preprint series and astronomical catalogs and images.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Washington is pleased to announce the opening of its HTTP server to the outside world. Information accessible on our local web includes an overview of the department and its research, descriptions of our graduate educational programs and research summaries and on-line technical reports. Regional information is slowly being collected.

The Queer Resources Directory (QRD) is now available via http at vector.casti.com. The QRD provides information on HIV/AIDS, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered issues. Contributions and information come from around the world and are categorized and stored appropriately. Come and explore!

Nadine , the magazine that wishes it were a band, has a new Web electrosphere. Nadine is written and published primarily by students at Yale University.

ANSWERS The Magazine For Adult Children of Aging Parents, is written for anyone facing the questions, issues, and concerns from having an aging parent. The magazine covers all aspects of looking after an elderly parent, including how to deal with your feelings and where to get help if you need it. Sample articles and a subscription form are available. ANSWERS is brought to you by Internet Distribution Services.

A home page for the Cyberpunk/Fantasy role-playing game, Shadowrun , is now online. It provides access to many sites for information about Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk related issues in general.

The Los Alamos Physics Papers has moved, and now provides complete form-based access to the physics e-Print archive. The site is also mirrored at http://babbage.sissa.it/ in Italy.

February 17,1994

The independent norwegian telecom newspaper, Telecom Revy, is online with a Telecom Update of the Olympics (in english). This is a cooperation between the Norwegian Telecom Research and the newspaper. Telecom Revy may also be found on the Norwegian Homepage NORWEB), which also have pointers to other Olympic servers.

A new home page for the JASON PROJECT is now available. JASON V: Expedition Planet Earth, will take place in Belize, Central America from February 28 - March 12, 1994. Scientists and students will follow the path of a raindrop as it forms in the atmosphere and makes its way to the rainforest canopy, floor, the river and limestone cave system of Belize, and out onto the coral reefs. Studies in atmospheric chemistry, biology, botany, ethnobotany, geology, archaeology, anthropology, and related environmental studies will be undertaken by expedition participants and their counterparts at the Primary Interactive Network Sites (PINS).

The Dept. of Astronomy at Cornell University is proud to announce that its Web server is now up and running. It includes information about astronomy graduate studies at Cornell and summer student programs.

The Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory has gone public with its web server. Notable offerings:

• Virtual documents about how things work. Using model-based reasoning and machine-generated explanation technology, these documents explain the behavior and structure of engineered systems (e.g., thrusters on the NASA space shuttle, power generation plants). They dynamically generate answers, in natural language, to questions as the reader browses the document. These are true virtual documents in that they are generated from underlying models and are not simply remote user interfaces to conventional software.
• A library of shareable ontologies and knowledge bases , with related papers and software, related to the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort. The domains include engineering mathematics, elevator design, bibliographic data, thermodynamic systems, and object-oriented knowledge representation. There's even an answer to the question, What is an ontology?
• Agent-based servers for engineering that encapsulate conventional CAD software. Built for the SHADE project in collaboration with Lockheed AI Center and Enterprise Integration Technologies, these agents talk standard protocols and languages to support distributed, concurrent engineering.

The Sisters Of Mercy pages are now up and running... these include links to all lyrics and tab available on the net, along with record details, scanned pictures, interviews... etc. Check it out !

February 16,1994

Due to overwhelming demand, a mirror site for Olympic Information has been established for North America and the Pacific Rim. Over 100 000 requests were logged the first day that the Norwegian server was up ! Please use this link/URL to lessen the impact on the trans Atlantic links. The server here will provide much improved response to all in North America and Asia.

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has an illustrated project description available, including sections on the Center, our on-line text collections, our users, and the training we provide. Comments can be sent to etext@virginia.edu.

The presentation of Slovenia is now spread over J. Stefan Institute and University of Maribor servers. Both now jointly offer general information about Slovenia (geographical, cultural, tourist, ...); some hints about Slovenian wines and food recipes are also served. Links to other WWW and Gopher servers in Slovenia, as well as links to on-line information and library services are provided from home pages.

A list of commercial services available over the Web is now being maintained.

There is a home page for the anarchy-list, a mailing list for discussing society without governments. Some introductory material and a complete archive are available, as well as instructions for subscribing.

Spunk Press, an electronic publishing effort with an emphasis on anarchist and alternative material, is now also accessible through WWW. Our current catalog comprises some 200 articles, books, magazines, etc.

Project GeoSim has started a WWW server to distribute Geography Education software developed by the Departments of Geography and Computer Science at Virginia Tech. The software will run on MS-DOS, Macintosh, and DECstations running X-Windows. The GeoSim Gopher server is also available.

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) now has its Abstract Service available via WWW. It provides access to currently about 160,000 Astronomy and Astrophysics abstracts with a sophisticated searching system. Using Lynx, this now also provides access to this service from character based terminals. More information about this service is available in the Abstract Service Help Pages.

RISKWeb is now available to the WWW community. RISKWeb provides information of interest to persons interested in Risk and Insurance issues, as well as additional Gopher and WWW information served locally at the University of Texas at Austin campus and throughout the world.

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace is for those who are interested in the application of computers & networks -- especially the World-Wide Web -- to support the work of astronomers & astrophysicists. It contains hyperlinks to:

• other documents concerning astronomy and the WWW;
• some online papers on those topics;
• meetings & conferences;
• announcements; and a
• quotation corner.

The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's Facilty Manual is now online. DAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Rsearch Council of Canada. The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is a group within the DAO which is responsible for the Canadian archive of data from the Hubble Space Telescope as well the archive of data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. You might also want to check out the DAO Virtual Library.

The Space Data and Computing Divison of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center now has a Web server. This server provides access to information about the NASA Center for Computational Sciences, the most active UniTree mass storage site in the world, the HPCC Earth and Space Science Applications Project, a project is to accelerate the application of high performance technologies to meet the Grand Challenge computational needs of the U.S. Earth and space science community, and NASA's Digital Library Technology Project, a project to support the development of new technologies to facilitate public access to NASA data.

February 13,1994

A Web server for Winter Olympics Information in Lillehammer, Norway is now available due to a joint effort between Skrivervik Data, Oslonett, and Sun Microsystems. Check out the Daily Olympic Events schedule, or the Chronological List of Events , both will be updated starting on Feb 12 (MET).

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