The Scout Report - May 10, 1996

May 10, 1996

A Publication of Internet Scout
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin

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NSF Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education
NSF Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education: A new National Science Foundation program represents one aspect of the Foundation's commitment to the core strategy of integrating research and education, as described in the strategic plan, "NSF in a Changing World." The program will make awards that recognize up to ten research-intensive universities that have shown leadership, innovation, and achievement in their efforts to integrate research and education (specifically college freshmen through Ph.D.) throughout their organizations. Preliminary applications are required and must be received by July 5, 1996. Full information on the Recognition Awards can be found on the NSF Recognition Awards Web page.
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/raire/start.htm
The solicitation (NSF Publication 96-87) is available in HTML, Microsoft Word, or ASCII format.
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/raire/rectoc.htm
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The New England Journal of Medicine
The "New England Journal of Medicine," a weekly journal reporting the results of important medical research worldwide, is provided by the Massachusetts Medical Society and has recently established a presence on the Web. The site provides full text of selected sections of the Journal, including "Images in Clinical Medicine," "Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital," "Molecular Medicine," editorials, opinion pieces, correspondence, and book reviews. Original, special, and review articles contain extended abstracts with some or all of the following: background, methods, results, conclusions, and source information. Full text of these articles is available for a fee, and can be ordered online. Journals are available from January 1, 1996 to the present. In addition, the site offers a searchable employment database that contains opportunities in over 40 specialties ranging from addiction medicine to urology; a searchable database of upcoming medical meetings; a selected list of pointers to other medicine related sites including the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report," among others; and an exhaustive set of guidelines for manuscript submission.
http://www.nejm.org/
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Forbes ASAP -- George Gilder -- _Telecosm_ archive
A Highlight of the new "Forbes" magazine Web site is the full-text archive from George Gilder's book, _Telecosm_. In this book in progress, to be published by Simon and Schuster, Gilder discusses the communications revolution and its implications for the future. It is a sequel to his books _Microcosm_, published in 1989, and _Life After Television_, published in 1992. "Forbes ASAP" has been running excerpted chapters from _Telecosm_ since 1994. At present there are 17 in the archive, including "In the fibersphere," "Auctioning the airwaves," "Michael Milken and the two trillion dollar opportunity," "The bandwidth title wave," "The coming software shift," and "Angst & awe on the Internet." Future excerpts will be published in "Forbes ASAP" and should be available in the archive. The rest of the Forbes site is very much a work in progress which promises to provide full text of "Forbes," "Forbes FYI," and "Forbes ASAP." At present selected articles from "Forbes," and "Forbes FYI" are available.
Telecosm archive:
http://www.forbes.com/asap/gilder/
Forbes home page:
http://www.forbes.com
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Diderot and d'Alembert's _Encyclopedie_ -- Volume I
The well known ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project of the University of Chicago, has recently begun a pilot project to make an online version of the entire _Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Metiers et des Arts_ (_Encyclopedie_), by Diderot and d'Alembert, available. The encyclopedia, written between 1751 and 1772, contains 17 volumes, of which Volume One (AA-AZYMITES) is available for searching. Researchers can view an ASCII text rendering of retrieved articles, or facsimile images of the actual pages. The first volume can be searched by headword, author, classification of knowledge, or parts of speech. All retreival is in French. The headword and classification fields are linked to inverted indexes of their contents to help facilitate searching. The final product is scheduled to include all seventeen volumes of text and eleven volumes of plates that composed the first edition of the work. The _Encyclopedie_ pilot is one of the publicly available portions of the ARTFL project, which include image databases of French Revolutionary pamphlets, and Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, among others:
_Encyclopedie_:
http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/ENC_DEMO/
ARTFL Home Page:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/
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Teachers helping Teachers
Teachers helping Teachers, provided by a California middle school instructor, provides ideas and tips in the form of lesson plans and classroom activities. The content has been submitted by teachers for teachers. The site is designed to be an aid to teachers in K through 12, and provides ideas for classroom management, language arts, math, science, social studies, the arts, and special education. In addition, there is a topic of the week, and a selected list of other educational pointers in various subjects.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
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The Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a think tank based on "limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace." It's Web site is highlighted by the full text of many of its Briefing Papers, all of its Foreign Policy Briefing Series, over 100 of its Policy Analysis Series, all of its Social Security Privatization Series, and articles from its semi-monthly Cato Policy Reports (under Publications and Broadcasts). In addition, the site offers information about the Institute, its staff, its events, and its other publications.
http://www.cato.org/
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Cognitive Science mailing list
COGSCI is an open, unmoderated discussion list about Cognitive Science. Topics including artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, connectionism, psychology, conferences, lectures, and publications.
To subscribe send email to: LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL
In the body of the message type:
SUB COGSCI yourfirstname yourlastname
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Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network, founded in 1985, "works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action." RAN's Web site includes information about the organization, its recent campaigns (including Amazon protection and wood reduction campaigns, among others), rainforests (including world rainforest movement contacts by region and selected book reviews), recent RAN "victories," and actions and demonstrations the group recently participated in. A Kid's Corner contains information about how kids can help save rainforests. Note. RAN is an activist, openly partisan organization that makes no bones about its biases.
http://www.ran.org/
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Congressional Quarterly -- American Voter '96 On the Job
Congressional Quarterly has recently added an enhancement to its Web site, CQ's American Voter '96 On the Job. Here you can search your House or Senate member by name, zip code, or state, and find a detailed profile, and available recent floor speeches, bills filed, and committee roll call votes.
http://voter96.cqalert.com/cq_job.htm
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Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource
The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource contains over 1,500 links to resources for writers, artists, performers, and researchers. These links are organized by topic, and include library and archival resources, literary magazines and ezines, resources for poets, writers, and artists, grant information, writers conferences and workshops, performing arts links, resources for movie lovers, and resources for creative kids, among many others. The site also contains full text from its quarterly "Zuzu's Petals" magazine, along with selected back issues. The present issue contains four works of fiction and 25 of poetry.
http://www.zuzu.com/
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Russian Life magazine
Russian Information Services, the publisher of "Russian Life" magazine, has established a Web site for the 40-year-old magazine of Russian culture, history, travel and business. The magazine's site offers samples of cover stories and departments: Practical Traveler, Survival Russian, Travel Journal, and Russian Cuisine. Within two weeks the site will add an events database which users can add information to and/or use to search for Russia-related events in their area or sphere of interest. Also, the editors have compiled a collection of Top Ten Russian Web Site Picks. Full-text searching by keyword is available, which also encompasses an on-line catalog -- Access Russia & Central Europe -- which contains over 200 books, maps and products relating to travel and doing business in the region. The site resides on the Friends & Partners server at the University of Tennessee, a site for persons with an interest in travel to or business in Russia.
http://www.friends-partners.org/rispubs/rl-top.htm
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The Tony Awards
The 50th Annual Tony Awards ceremony will take place June 2, 1996. These awards are given to "recognize a person, or a production, or those in the realm of theatre that have achieved a degree of excellence in their fields." The Tony awards Web site is divided into four parts: 96 Awards, highlighted by a complete list of nominees in all categories; A Look Back, with a browsable and searchable archive of all award winners from 1947-1995, and a picture gallery that contains photos, posters, costume designs, or set designs down through the years; Spotlight, which has a long story on Antoinette Perry, for whom the awards were named; and Center Stage, which includes a general chat room, as well as a back stage area where you can chat with the stars. This is a well done, exhaustive, graphically beautiful site for those who follow the awards.
http://www.tonys.org/index.html
Less graphical entrance: http://www.tonys.org/siteindex.html
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The Jazz Photography of Ray Avery
The Jazz Photography Of Ray Avery Web site at the University of California - Irvine offers a multimedia collection of information about jazz in the U.S. during the middle of this century. There is a short introduction, Jazz: The 1950s - Records & Photography, which traces the growing popularity of jazz through magazine articles from this period and provides some historical anchors to the jazz scene of the mid 1950s. A brief biography of Ray Avery provides some background information on his career. A separate catalogue of publications and exhibitions lists Ray's photography credits. The initial exhibit of photographs focuses on his early work from the 1950s. The exhibition is grouped into four major areas: The Lighthouse All Stars - Hermosa Beach & Laguna Beach; Nightclubs, Festivals & Concerts; Recording Sessions - Los Angeles; and Stars of Jazz - TV Series. Also offered is a collection of books and CDs that complement this period and feature releases of music recorded at the time and place that many of the photographs were taken.
http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/jazz.html
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Fox Movietone News Online
Internauts with fast connections will want to peruse the Fox Movietone News Online site. At the heart of the site are short film clips (available for Windows and Macintosh platforms) from old Movietone newsreels. Each week there are clips from historic events. Although the clips are short, they convey a sense of what newsreel coverage was all about in a time before television brought news events to us with astonishing speed.
http://www.iguide.com/movies/movitone/week.htm
[Note: Resource(s)/URL(s) mentioned above is no longer available.]
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Yahoo enhancements
Yahoo has added two enhancements to its popular Internet directory service. It's People Search allows you to find telephone numbers and email addresses by entering a search form. The telephone directory is supplied by Database America (the provider of the Switchboard.com database), and the email interface directly queries Four11.com. Yahoo's map service (maps provided by Etak, Inc.) allows you to enter an address, city, state, and zip code, the intersection of two streets, a street name, or a city name, and get a map of your query in return. Maps can be zoomed in or out, or moved in any direction.
Yahoo People Search:
http://people.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Maps:
http://maps.yahoo.com/
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Advanced CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Discussion List
ADV-CGI is a heavily moderated discussion list provided by the Academic Computing Center at New York University. The ADV-CGI list is for the discussion of all applications of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Other advanced Web programming topics may also be discussed. This list is not, however, for the discussion of Java or JavaScript, though it may expand to include such topics in the future.
To subscribe send email to: listproc@lists.nyu.edu
In the body of the message type:
subscribe ADV-CGI Firstname Lastname
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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1996. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.

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May 10, 1996

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