What's New With NCSA Mosaic

What's New With NCSA Mosaic

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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 Enterprise Integration Technologies of Palo Alto, CA as of January 1994. You can now reach him at EIT as marca@eit.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

March 29, 1994

The College of Engineering at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa announces its WWW server. In addition to general information about the College, the server has clickable maps of Holmes Hall (where the College is located) and some interesting user contributions. One particular contribution which has gained recognition recently is the R.A.S Racer Archive, which is a collection of information about f1, indy and NASCAR races.

Educational Online Sources welcomes you to a web of education information, created for and by the K12 community. We encourage everyone to contribute to this shared space!

The University of Surrey's Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering is pleased to announce a new Web server. At present, this contains various information about the EE department, including it's expertise in research and teaching, the Web version of the Edupage IT newsletter, and new guides to several Science Fiction TV series, including ST:TNG and ST:DS9. More information is being added to the server frequently.

The 1.2 Meter Southern Columbia Millimeter Telescope (SCMT) at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) proudly presents its new WWW server. Even though pages are still under construction, you are more than welcome to browse through them. You'll find information on one of the world's smallest radiotelescopes as well as access to some nice other sites.

The Clemson Computational Science and Engineering Resource is a collection of primarily educational resources in computational science and engineering. It contains pointers to servers such as Netlib, mailing lists on CSE, relevant news groups, and contacts for academic materials. The resource is expanding daily. Send additions to D. E. Stevenson, steve@cs.clemson.edu.

FINWeb is a new World Wide Web service that provides access to some of the best economics and finance-related gopher and World Wide Web 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.

The Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics (GANG) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to announce its Web Service. This service will focus on the Center's research in Differential Geometry with particular emphasis on minimal surfaces, surfaces of constant mean curvature, surface and knot energies, along with applications of this research to materials science and quantum physics. The Center's Geometry Archive is an on-line library of papers, pictures, animations and software connected with this research.

The Andrew Consortium at Carnegie Mellon University now has a Web home page. Andrew is a an extensible compound document system for Unix systems running X windows. It includes: Our Web pages have more detailed descriptions of Andrew (including screen snapshots), and links to an FTP archive containing the source code for our new release, version 6.2.

Orange Alert! Syracuse University is pleased to announce its main HTTP server. This server provides links to all our WWW/Mosaic accessible resources, both existing and "under development".

March 28, 1994

Cisco Systems Inc. and UNC's SunSITE are pleased to announce the opening of the Cisco Educational Archive, a collection of educational web resources, including an imagemap of state and regional gophers.

The student chapter of the ACM at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign would like to announce the return of Rob's Multimedia Lab. The multimedia lab was originally on the What's New page for NSCA Mosaic in July '93 run from a machine at the National Institute of Health and went off the air at the beginning of January '94. Thanks to the U of IL's College of Engineering Workstation Labs for a drive to store the lab.

A Prugatory of Semiotics is an on-line chapbook of images and poetry by Michael Mollo. It is in no way associated with Sonoma State University.

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bogazici University in Istanbul,TURKEY is pleased to announce its WWW server. The server currenly provides the following information.

Clemson University College of Engineering has added a server for its Continuous Quality Improvement Project. This site has started with access to files from Tom Glenn's TQMBBS (which has mail and modem access only) and information about the local college continuous improvement program. The Clemson Department of Industrial Engineering provides information about the department and its faculty, and undergraduate and graduate program information.

March 26, 1994

The Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) announces its WWW server. The Department of Information Systems of the Computer Science Institute is the promotor of this WWW Server. One major interest is our literature page of Computer Science, because of faster research.

The School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex has now set up a WWW service. Highlights include an intereactive browser for the School's Technical Reports, some of which are available for FTP, and a Picture Gallery with colour pictures of various members of the School, and a sample of each of them saying "Hello" (in their native language, where appropriate).

The Center for the Study of the American South and SunSITE at UNC-Chapel Hill have recently set up the American South Internet Resource Center, a multimedia collection of resources for research and information about the south. This site will hopefully be expanding quickly over the next few weeks, and we welcome any suggestions for additional links and sources.

Bristol Technology Inc. announces their WWW server. The server contains access to Bristol product information and demos, and a very odd fun page. See if you can find the Bristol cult hero Mike Shields!

Fintronic USA, Inc. announces the availability of its online catalog of Linux workstations and notebooks. Linux is a freely available UNIX-like operating systems. For Linux information see here.

CSC Mathematical Topics provides information for mathematics-related subjects. This service has been expanded and reorganized for better access. CSC Mathematical Topics include links to WWW, FTP, and Gopher, various search services, and Usenet News. There are also pointers to answers for mathematics-related FAQ and announcements of conferences. You can also find information about books published by CSC, and contact CSC online help facilities (information on software etc.). CSC is the Finnish national supercomputer center located in Espoo, Finland.

The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) is pleased to announce a new Internet World Wide Web (WWW) server, which provides public access to education research, statistics, and information about the U.S. Department of Education and its programs.

The Boston Restaurant List is now available at OSF. In addition to detailed reviews of ~400 recommended restaurants in and around Boston, there's also an online form for submitting new or updated restaurant reviews. This resource is an web-oriented version of the list that has previously been distributed through the Usenet groups ne.food and rec.food.restaurants.

The Internet Book Information Center (IBIC) provides information for book-lovers, including: IBIC reviews of recently released and forthcoming books, such as Julian May's DIAMOND MASK, Bill Walton's NOTHING BUT NET, and (coming soon) Steven Covey's FIRST THINGS FIRST; links to Internet resources and metaresources related to books; and The Commonplace Book, an edited collection of striking passages maintained as a shared, updatable Internet resource. Server space for IBIC is provided courtesy of SunSITE, a joint project of Sun Microsystems and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The Artificial Life Online service is intended to serve as a forum for the accumulation and dissemination of information about all aspects of the field of Artificial Life. Artificial Life Online, sponsored by the MIT Press and the Santa Fe Institute, combines the utilities of a WWW-server, a Gopher server, an FTP server, an interactive Bulletin Board, and Usenet News. Hence, there are a number of different access methods for coming into the system. Information available includes Alife software packages, a bibliographic database, suggestions for Alife course curricula, and a large collection of local Alife newsgroups dedicated to a wide variety of topics relevant to Alife research.

The University of Oregon's Computational Intelligence Research Lab (CIRL) is a laboratory affiliated with the CS department and doing research on basic questions in artificial intelligence: search, knowledge representation, and reasoning. CIRL is located at the Riverfront Research Park in Eugene, Oregon, and CIRL faculty participate in university and departmental activities including the supervision of graduate students.

The Web interface to the rec.arts.movies database is now being mirrored in the USA and in Australia.
There is information on over 30,000 titles, 75,000 actors and actresses, 6500 directors, 7900 writers... and much much more, all of which can be searched.
Whether you're a movies fan or just need answers to questions such as "where have I seen that face before ?", then this is for you.. Here are the servers; Other regional mirrors may follow depending on demand.

The National Information Infrastructure Public Interest Summit will take place in Washington, DC on March 29th, on National Public Radio and in ClarkNet webspace. Speakers and panelists include Vice President Al Gore, Dr. Benjamin Chavis of the NAACP, and Mitch Kapor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Send questions for the panelists to summit@tmn.com.

Do you develop software? Do need to develop or test on every type of UNIX, PC, Apple Macintosh, Pen based or Wireless System, printer or network available? The Center For Software Development can help you. The Center is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the growth of software companies. The Software Entrepreneurs Forum, the City of San Jose, California and Novell, Inc. founded The Center. It acts as a catalyst between the key facets of the software industry...software developers, hardware and software vendors, and service providers. The Center provides self-service test labs, events, and an Industry Resource Library. This server is brought to you by Internet Distribution Services.

By popular demand, COSTA TRAVEL ON-LINE has added a 5 % rebate on ANY CRUISE or TOUR booked through this service. Rebates on air travel alone coming soon! COSTA TRAVEL ON-LINE offers discount travel packages and crui ses along with airfare special deals. Reservations can be made via FAX, EMAIL, or Intern ational TOLL FREE PHONE NUMBER. UCSD / SDSU / USD on-campus delivery FREE!

The Cypherpunks Home Page is where you can access various information related to security, cryptography, and privacy. The cypherpunks are interested in keeping strong cryptography publically available. A Cypherpunks's Manifesto is a good overview of the group's ideals. The Cypherpunks WWW is maintained by Sameer <sameer@soda.berkeley.edu>.

The Amos Tuck School of Busniess Administration now has a home page on the Dartmouth College WWW server. It contains information about the school, including course descriptions, and links to other business schools.

Clockwork is an underground student-run WWW site at Carnegie Mellon Unversity.

Hot off the presses from a growing media avalanche, The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) invites you to come browse our rapidly growing archive of underground and not-so-underground music from around the world. If you are in a band (especially unsigned) information on how to make your music available to the Internet can be found on the site.

March 22, 1994

CBCL, the MIT-based Center for Biological and Computational learning, announces its Web pages. We are an interdisciplinary center which promotes research collaboration in artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, and the neurosciences. The Web pages include information on our research programs, our principal investigators, our seminar schedule, and a number of ongoing projects.

The University of Sheffield is pleased to announce a WWW server based at its Academic Computing Services. Currently there is information from:

Visit SurfNet, your window to the worlds' beaches. SurfNet provides live (or as close to live as possible) views of the worlds' beaches. In addition, SurfNet provides a worldwide audience for surfing photographers, writers and videoartists. "Let's go to the beach!"

The Decision Analysis Lab of Stevens Institute of Technology, in conjunction with SmartChoice Technologies Corporation, is undertaking a Computer Mediated Communication Survey to gauge the impact that CMC has had on the workplace. It will be accessible from Sunday, March 20 until Saturday, April 2. You need to be using a WWW Browser with forms support to take part in the survey.

We'd like to introduce the The Santa Cruz community and it's growing number of WWW sites.
Santa Cruz Geek Houses: Santa Cruz Web Services:

We would like to announce OncoLink, a WWW-server and gopher server oriented to CANCER. This resource is directed to physicians, health care personnel, social workers, patients and their supporters. This cancer information server is currently under development, with frequent additions. OncoLink is currently subdivided into areas covering: medical oncology, radiation oncology, pediatric oncology, surgical oncology, medical physics, psychosocial support for oncology patients & families, and other links to other cancer resources throughout the world.

The EXPO is pleased to announce the addition of the EXPOPost Office.
Also the EXPORestaurant will soon be showing in color (due to popular request).

AskERIC announces a major upgrade to its WWW/Mosaic Server. The AskERIC Virtual Library is an ongoing project to build a digital library for educational information that educators can navigate as they would in a real library. Also on the site is a Slide Show explaining what AskERIC is and how to use it with narration (for Mosaic Only).

Some new clickable cards(mainly on planets & shuttles) have been added to the Rennes' CRI-CICB astronomy page (images, animations). Moreover, a Space Movie Archive is now available: it consists of about 90 anims, the biggest archive in the world i know.

A Fractal Movie Archive has been opened. You may also have a look at the Fractal Art Gallery of Mandelbrot sets at CNAM of Paris too.

The La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation made one more step into the internet. The new WWW server is still under construction, but come and visit!! Information about seminars and events at the Foundation and much more will be available soon.

Amdahl Corporation announces its WWW server. The server has gone public because of three press releases about new software products from Amdahl's Open Enterprise Systems Division. The server has actually been running for a couple months since Amdahl hosted February's Bay Area SIG-WEB meeting.

Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, a major law firm in the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area, has become perhaps the first legal services provider to establish its own World Wide Web server. In addition to information on the firm's services and attorneys, the Venable WWW Server provides timely and interesting materials on a variety of legal issues, including Information Law topics relating to the Informati