What's New With NCSA Mosaic

What's New With NCSA Mosaic

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The "NCSA What's New Page" is officially in the public domain. This means that you are free to do anything you wish with the listing found below. However, this does not imply anything about the documents which are referenced via this page or any other pages found on this server.

This document covers recent changes and additions to the universe of information available to Mosaic and the World Wide Web. (See also the Mosaic Demo Document for an organized selection of hypermedia resources and the Internet Resources Meta-Index for a listing of resource guides and searchable databases.)

New resources and interesting additions to existing resources are added to the list on a request basis -- send suggestions to whats-new@ncsa.uiuc.edu in HTML format and written in the third person. Please test the notices and attempt to keep them concise. There is no need to bold every anchor. I know that you consider them important but so does everybody else on the page! This page is maintained as a service to the World Wide Web community. We reserve the absolute right to modify and/or ignore any requests that we receive.

Meta-Announcements

Due to the TREMENDOUS load being handled by the NCSA WWW server there may be times that you are unable to get the NCSA Mosaic Home Page when you first start Mosaic. This in no way should effect your ability to retrieve documents from other sites. To alleviate this problem you may want to set an alternate home page for Mosaic to automatically load on startup.

Marc Andreessen has left NCSA for Palo Atlo, CA as of January 1994. You can now reach him at marca@netcom.com.

Chris Wilson has left NCSA to work for Spry, Inc., a Seattle-based company creating Internetworking tools for end users. He can now be reached at cwilson@spry.com.

The following versions of NCSA Mosaic have recently been released:

Experimental tutorials on various Mosaic-related topics are now available. Comments welcome (send 'em to jonm@ncsa.uiuc.edu).

Announcements

April 7, 1994

The top ftp archive of Europe, FTP.LuTH.SE has started a WWW-service to speed up accesses for all those using WWW-clients. Online you can find, among other things, X11-contrib, Linux, All GNU stuff and Aminet.

The University of Tennessee, Office of University Relations has developed a web server containing: This web server also includes points to other web servers on the Knoxville campus.

The Lurker's Guide to the Babylon 5 science-fiction television series is available. It contains a schedule of upcoming episodes, synopses, information about the characters and storyline, and more.

A Weekly Summary of Tropical Cyclones, including imagery and text, is now available from the NGDC DMSP Data Archive . The summaries are located under "Weekly Updated Items" on the DMSP Home Page. Visible and infrared images of the cyclones as they progressed during the period are posted. The first summary is for March 20-27, 1994.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Education announces, with pleasure, their home page. Information about the school as well as pointers to a wealth of educational-related resources are included. This page is under development; suggestions may be sent to: russo@nucleus.harvard.edu

UniForum, the International Association of Open Systems Professionals, has announced their World Wide Web Server, which contains information about the association, its programs and services.
Included on the server is a complete hypertext version of the Open Systems Products Directory, the only vendor- neutral listing of products and services for the open systems community. Over 7,600 products from 2,200 vendors are listed, with indexes by operating system, keyword, vendor name and product name.
Access to all areas of the server is free to all WWW users until April 25, 1994. After that date, you will have to be a general member of UniForum to access the Products Directory; all other areas of the server will still be available at no charge.

Announcing Interna tional Teletimes' first annual photography contest, PHOTON '94! Entry deadline is May 31st, 1994. Click here for more information.

Generality announces a new exhibit in the Aart Gallery, a sampling of the early work of Canadian photographer Matthew Wolchock. Also available are details on Photon '94, the first ever all-Internet photography contest, presented by Internalional Teletimes.

CyberNews, a grassroots newswire on the Internet, now has a WWW Home Page. The goal and purpose of CyberNews is global student-run media (print, radio, tv, etc...) connectivity. Right now CyberNews is carrying live reports from Sarajevo, and some of the posts can be found on this server.

The University of Michigan (UM) Center for Display Technology and Manufacturing (CDTM) is on the Web. The Center addresses a full spectrum of manufacturing issues that are critical to the emerging flat panel display industry in the United States. This server is currently under construction...right now there are links to the CDTM's ftp server and to the UM College of Engineering's gopher server.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) College of Pharmacy is pleased to announce the availability of a WWW server. This server will include a) information about the College of Pharmacy (including a Faculty directory with research interests), b) a campus demonstration of (NIH/NSF) Template server, gopher and ftp services, c) Oklahoma City area attractions, and d) Pharmacy related Internet Resources (including other WWW servers, listservs, mailing lists, BBSs, and ftp sites). Planned expansion includes inclusion of the College Bulletin with course descriptions etc. and Pharmacokinetic resources.

Two new services are available at GEMS, the Global Electronic Marketing Service. The Product & Services Showcase is a place where companies can easily join the electronic marketplace. And, just in time for the 1994 season, the Internet Baseball Information Center provides members with access to baseball stats, information services, fantasy leagues, and more.

The European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC) maintains a w3 server containing information relating to all of Microsoft software. It has recently released an indexed version of the Microsoft Knowledge Base. The URL is http://emwac.ed.ac.uk/html/top.html. This URL also contains futher information about public domain Windows software, EMWAC reports on Windows NT, and how to get the gopher and w3 servers for Windows NT that EMWAC has written.

The Libertarian Home Page is a place to find out information about Libertarian philosophy and Libertarian Party Politics. It has hotlinks to several Libertarian ftp sites and other Liberty minded Web pages. It has been set up by the College Park Libertarians, a student group at the University of Maryland.

Cirque de la Mama was born to bring works of art to people and to bring people to works of art. Sculptures, paintings, photographs, rhymes, poems, issues and more are coming to Cirque. Link, learn, and enjoy. (bml)

The Florida Institute of Technology exists as a distinctive independent technological university to provide quality education, to further knowledge through basic and applied research, and to provide services to their local, state, national, and international constituencies. The Florida Institute of Technology's WWW Server, known as Arachnophilia, offerrs access to the University's 1994-1995 Catalog, a link to their World Class Education Gopher, and many other services.

Information about ELSNET, the European Network of Excellence in Language and Speech is now available via WWW. With funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT Programme, ELSNET links together almost 100 European academic and industrial laboratories engaged in R&D in natural language and speech processing.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) server is now available. The Laboratory's Home Page opens the door to information on a variety of activities at this Department of Energy laboratory. Managed by the University of California, LLNL conducts world-class scientific research affecting national security, energy, the environment, health and biomedicine, economic competitiveness, and science and math education.

The ACEDB Documentation Server is a repository for documentation concerned with "A C. elegans Data Base", the generic genome database software designed by Richard Durbin (MRC, UK) and Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, France). The server is intended as a resource for developers, curators, and end-users of all databases derived from ACEDB. This project is sponsored by the Plant Genome Database Project at the National Agricultural Library (USDA). The documentation server is listed on the home page for the Agricultural Genome World Wide Web Server.

Quadralay Corporation, in conjunction with Texas A&M University and University of Texas at Dallas, has formed the Texas Information Servers page, a listing of FTP Servers, Gopher Servers, WWW Servers and Mailing Lists that are located in the Lone Star State. While far from complete at this time, there is much interesting information to be found here and new things are added daily. If you are interested in contributing to this list, please contact Brian Combs at combs@quadralay.com.

Issue #1 of Verbiage Magazine has just hit the virtual newsstands, featuring short fiction by Andrew Solberg, Teresa Velez, Greg Downey, and Edward Ashton, among others. Be sure to submit material for the second issue -- Verbiage pays for stories!

Steve Wolf at California State University Stanislaus is developing a Botany Home Page for teaching his biology students how to use the Internet. It contains a variety of resources of particular interest to botanists.

CinemaSpace ,UC Berkeley's Film Studies program has created CinemaSpace: a new www journal focusing on the cinema and its transformation in the digital age. CinemaSpace will engage writers from a broad range of fields : Literature, Film, Cultural Theory, Computer Science, and Philosophy. The journal aims to break free of disciplinary boundaries and bring a diverse assortment of writers, thinkers and users of technology into mutual collaboration and exchange for the purposes of elucidating the transformation of cinema in the age of digital replication. If you are intested in making a submission please contact xcohen@garnet.berkeley.edu.

The Northwestern University Astronomy Group would like to announce its new WWW server. Contents include information on undergraduate studies and graduate studies, who we are, what we do, and our gallery of gamma-ray bursts as observed by the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on board the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO).

Internet's first collaborative travelogue is up on the Web. Travels with Samantha is an account of Philip Greenspun's journey from Boston to Alaska and back. This work is illustrated with over 250 high-quality color JPEG photographs and makes an excellent companion to his popular Berlin/Prague Tale, also profusely illustrated with photos of those cities. Contribute insights and information by using the feedback forms distributed through the documents.

The UCB Museum of Paleontology is happy to unveil DILOPHOSAUR!, featuring narration by the discover and namer of dilophosaur, Sam Welles. Also, the mammal exhibits have undergone extensive changes.

The AstroWeb Consortium would like to announce a new World Wide Web resource AstroWeb which contains links to Internet Resources of use to the Astronomy community. AstroWeb is available at: NRAO, CDS, MSSSO, ST-ECF, and STScI. It merges the resource listings which have been maintained at CDS, MSSSO, NRAO, STECF, and STScI. This merging of effort provides a more complete resource listing and eliminates the need to check several different listings. The AstroWeb database currently contains about 650 resource records, about 185 kilobytes of text. Each resource is categorized, e.g., Data and Archive Centers, Astronomy Departments, Space Agencies, ... Many resources have a paragraph describing the resource and containing links to other URLs. There is a searchable version of the merged resource listing. There are HTML forms by which new resources can be added and existing resources can be edited.

Syracuse University's Computer Graphics for the Arts Department has set up a Digital Gallery of collaborative Internet art projects and other computer art related works. This site is the home to an ongoing collaborative hypermedia project entitled Digital Journeys.

A WWW server is now available from Faculty of Arts, Gvteborg University, Sweden. The purpose of this server is to provide information within the Humanities.

April 4, 1994

The Virtual Pub is a place for network beer aficionados to gather information, about themselves and about other things beer-related. Current features include a semi-weekly beer-tasting, a patron's page, and a small but growing set of documents.

More Cool Video Demos are available from the Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. You can now Browse Late Night Talk Show Monologues and perform Image Processing With Live Video Sources. Also available is Today's NBA Schedule. Descriptions of hardware and software developed by members of the group are included, as well as their recent publications. An index to relevant calls for papers is also provided.

The UCI Bookstore, the academic bookstore at the University of California, Irvine, proudly announces the launch of its World Wide Web site, a source for substantial displays and reviews of trade books, technical books, classical music and jazz, as well as a WAIS-searchable database of books and CDs in stock. There's also a major exhibition of Ansel Adams photographs; the Bookstore is committed to mounting several large-scale Internet-based multimedia exhibitions each year, of which this is the first. Minor pleasures include an already-popular HTML style guide, Elements of HTML Style, and a whimsical introduction to the anteater. Forthcoming: the first functional hypertext on-line travel guide.

NWHQ (New World HeadQuarters) is dedicated to the propogation of post-print culture. Graphics, hypertext, and the electronic literary arts make this well worth a visit. Visit often as NWHQ is a constantly evolving labyrinth of seminal works by Vancouver artists. NWHQ is a publication of the Digital Co-op.

The WWW Sports Information Server is now available. Currently, the service provides a Professional Basketball Server which provides the latest NBA scores and a schedule of tonight's games, the league's standings as of the most recent games, box scores on all the season's games so far, player-by-player cumulative statistics for every team, and complete schedules for each team. In addition, you can get a history of NBA awards like the Rookie of the Year Award or the Most Valuable Player Award.

This is a repost to correct an error:
The Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University is now on the Web. OA is Princeton's outdoor education program that offers wilderness trips and leadership development for Princeton students, faculty, staff, and alumnae. A range of useful outdoor and outdoor program related files will be making their way up to the Web.

Discovery images of supernova 1992bu in NGC 3690 are now available. This supernova was discovered during our 2-micron search for supernovae in starburst galaxies here at IPAC.

IEC Bullentin is in full service from the issue 144 at Ikeda Lab., Chiba University. The texts are supplied from IEC, Geneva. Experimental Library Catalogue for books and magazines in Chiba University is also available. Most of the text are in Japanese, however, you can specify English keywords.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite Data Analysis Center (IUEDAC) is pleased to announce the availability of the IUEDAC Homepage . This homepage contains information about the IUEDAC, provides access to IUE data analysis software and documentation, as well as access to information and services provided by both other NASA Astrophysics projects and ground based observatories.

Introducing the Calvin & Hobbes page. Contains a small number of gifs, bitmaps, and ASCII drawings, in addition to humorour quotations.

April 1, 1994

A WWW server is now available for Alberto's Nightclub in downtown Mountain View, California. It lists current and past monthly calendars, with graphics and audio for many of the artists which play at the club.

A new Coke Machine is available on the Web!

The Cambridge Astronomy Web server continues to develop. New features include the X-ray group's public page, the UK Hubble Space Telescope Support Group's page, an archive of the Starlink Newsgroups, and guides to preparing TeX and LaTeX articles for astronomy Journals.

Internet World & Document Delivery World International 94
Mecklermedia
The UK's first annual conference and exhibition enabling the business, industrial and professional communities to grasp the commercial and organisational opportunities offered in the exploration of access to Internet and related networks.
Internet World and Document Delivery World International is the only event in London this year solely devoted to the needs of users and potential users in this field. With Tony Rutkowski, Arnoud de Kemp, Tomaz Kalin, Professor David Brailsford, Christopher MacPhail, Peter Dawe, Professor Charles Oppenheim, Michael Strangelove, Peter Stone, Eddie Zedlweski and Ian Watson among many others, the conference programme reads like a who's who of the world Internet and networking community.
Conference sessions will range from simple introductory treatments to the more technically focused information for existing users. The accompanying exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to see all the companies and organisations who can help you start out or develop in your use of this unique technological resource.
Full details are available from the event World Wide Web pages.

The Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory , Warsaw, POLAND announces a new WWW server. The server contains general information about the Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena. Information on the side projects conducted parallely to the main search are also there.

Nobody eats at Country Fare just once. Tucked away in Midtown Palo Alto, this gem of a country-style restaurant hooks you in on your first visit. The food is exceptional, the prices reasonable, and the staff makes you feel like family. Country Fare is a real oasis amidst trendy establishments that offer "in" food, inflated prices and interiors that are cold and uninviting. The restaurant is bright and cheerful, decorated with quilts, pine-topped tables, hanging plants and whimsical salt and pepper shakers. The semi-self-service style allows customers to eat and relax as long or as little as they like. Country Fare is brought to you by Internet Distribution Services.

Several new publications are now available on Wimsey Information Services growing Web server, located in Vancouver, British Columbia,

Check out the World Cup USA'94 server for information on one of the biggest athletic events in the world, which is coming to the U.S. this summer. Get tidbits on World Cup history, as well as USA'94 schedules, qualifying results, latest results from friendly matches, venues, teams, and more.

The Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado, is pleased to announce its Web home page. This page provides an overview of the CDC and describes the CDC climatological data holdings. Although the links to the data files are still being constructed, the metadata describing the datasets are available to browse.

Repost due to a mistake:
FINWeb is a new World Wide Web service that provides access to some of the best economics and finance-related resources that can be found on the Internet. FINWeb features links to, among other things, 1) various working paper archives, 2) Gopher and WWW services provided by leading economics departments, finance departments, business schools, and financial institutions throughout the world, 3) EDGAR (the Security and Exchange Commission's online database), and 4) the Financial Executive Journal. FINWeb is offered as an ancillary service of RISKWeb, a Risk and Insurance World Wide Web Server.

Santa Rosa Junior College has their weekly newspaper The Oak Leaf in electronic format. On The SOLAR System (The Super Oak Leaf Archive Reader System), one will find The Oak Leaf, poetry, journalism projects, art and information about on-campus clubs.

CSC Chemistry Topics provides information for chemistry-related subjects at CSC, including visualization and animation done at CSC. CSC Chemistry Topics includes also a presentation of some chemistry groups and chemistry departments in Finland (more will be added when available) and links to Usenet News, Gopher and other WWW information servers. CSC is the Finnish national supercomputer center located in Espoo, Finland.

ARIAWeb is a World Wide Web server that provides information concerning the programs and services offered to members and friends of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA). The American Risk and Insurance Association is the premier professional association of scholars and professionals in the field of insurance and risk management. Click here for more information about ARIA. If you are interested in becoming a member of ARIA, here is an application form.

The Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, ISRAEL, now has a WWW home page.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (USB) Chemistry Department announces the addition of it's WWW server to other campus-based servers. The USB Home Page lists servers as they come on line and currently includes links to Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mathematics and Earth and Space Sciences.

The CMU Genetic Art exhibits (Genetic Art I, Genetic Art II, and Genetic Movies) have all moved to a new machine. If you have links to them, you should adjust them accordingly.

Quadralay Corporation, maintainer of the Austin WWW Server, is proud to announce it's newest service, the Quadralay MarketPlace. The Quadralay MarketPlace is a WWW storefront where WWW users can come to peacefully browse through products that interest them without being bothered by a noisy salesperson. Online purchasing methods will be added soon. Our first store is The Reference Press, Inc., publisher of the Hoover series of business refernce books.

Boston University announces its official web server. You can find general information about Boston University as well as links to college, school, and department servers.

The Student Association of the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) at the University of Michigan has put their newsletter on the Web. It's called the ILSSA Communicator and features links and articles on activities going on around SILS. Check it out!

The University of Oklahoma's Web Server, OU INFO, features a funky interface allowing access to a Virtual Library , the award-winning campus newspaper The Oklahoma Daily, and an experimental hypermedia Campus Directory. In addition to pointers to the latest in hip web sites, the site also includes general information about computing and campus life at Oklahoma.

The Russian and East European Studies Home Pages are a comprehensive guide to the worldwide network-accessible resources available to scholars in the interdisciplinary study of Russia and Eastern Europe. Resources are subdivided into separate pages by discipline, into Language, Literature, Music, Art, Culture, Government and Public Affairs, Science, Technology, Engineering, Computers, and Communications, Business, Finance, Economics, and History, Geography, Sociology. The resources are also cross-indexed by type. The REES Home Pages are presented by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies and the University of Pittsburgh Library System, Networked Information Services Group. Send additions, comments, corrections, and correspondence to Casey Palowitch, cjp+@pitt.edu.

As of April 1st, 1994, EUnet and McDonalds join to offer Global "Internet in a Lunchbox". See the press release for further details of this revolutionary product.

Futuristic Code Tools Alert! Check out the home page for Reasoning Systems. Reasoning sells code analysis and transformation tools for Ada, C, COBOL and FORTRAN that let you-- These products are REFINE Language Tools, and Software Refinery(TM). They run on SPARC, RS/6000 and HP 9000/7xx workstations and are designed to handle millions of lines of source code. Each tool has a comprehensive API so you can extend them to work with different languages and to perform user-specified code analysis and transformation tasks.

The server of the Principia Cybernetica Project has been extended with lots of new material and services (including a Boolean searchable Index). The aim of the project is the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic world view. Put more simply, it tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies. Principia Cybernetica Web provides hundreds of texts and hyperlinks on Cybernetics and Systems Theory (glossary, bibliography, societies, journals, ...), evolution, self-organization, complexity, cognition, epistemology, philosophy, transdisciplinary integration of knowledge, and related topics.

New (classical) music related information source in the Web! The Opera Schedule Server provides you information about hundreds of scheduled opera performances from all over the World! The server is operated at the Process Control Department of the Technical University of Budapest.

biancaTroll Productions gleefully announces the opening of biancaTroll's Chicago Smut-Shack. Inside the shack you will find all sorts information about Chicago's North Side, as well as interactive reviews, gardening tips, coffee table descriptions, offcial boyscout quotes, recipes, and plenty of friendly advice from bianca's Trolls. Take a peek around, sign the guestbook, scrawl some grafitti on bianca's bathroom walls, and post a classified. Enjoy!

The COMPS Lab, part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, is proud to announce it's World Wide Web server. Among other locally produced services, you can find the Iowa Virtual Tourist, a graphical map of Internet resources in Iowa, the 1993-94 Graduate Handbook, a schedule of colloquia and a gateway to the Geographic Name Server at martini.eecs.umich.edu. Please note that this is not the departmental WWW server.

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