This is a collection of miscellaneous messages that were posted to human-nets without going through the mail gateway. They therefore do not appear in the digests. ------------------------------ From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:human-nets Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Title: This is a test. Please ignore. Article-I.D.: ucb.1222 Posted: Sat May 29 19:43:42 1982 Received: Sun May 30 02:51:17 1982 >From daemon Sat May 29 19:43:32 1982 --Lauren-- ------------------------------ From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!brl-bmd!Pleasant@Rutgers Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Title: Human-Nets Digest Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.277 Posted: Mon Jul 26 23:27:45 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 07:51:25 1982 Hi folks, My name is Mel Pleasant, for those of you who don't know me, and I am becoming the new Human-Nets digest moderator. I've spent all day today going through the backlog of mail messages trying to clear away all of the cobwebs. As many of you have pointed out in your messages, the last Human-Nets digest is dated May 23, 1982. I still have some submissions that must be digestified and mailed to you all. As soon as I get everything cleared away, this digest will start rolling once again. Hopefully, this will start in about a week or so. If any of you have any comments, questions, or requests please send them directly HUMAN-NETS-REQUEST@RUTGERS. Please do not use the MIT or UTEXAS site names since I have not updated the mail forwarding pointers yet (Aha, I told you I just started getting things in shape). Please hold off on sending anymore submissions. More to come in the administrivia section of the my first Human-Nets digest publication.... **cheers**mel** ------- ------------------------------ From: utzoo!decvax!brl-bmd!dpk Newsgroups: fa.human-nets,fa.tcp-ip,fa.telecom Title: More about digest forwarding Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.467 Posted: Thu Dec 2 00:05:31 1982 Received: Fri Dec 3 02:48:34 1982 I have found a way to prevent our system from putting an expiration date on the articles that we forward into USENET. I have changed our system from to not add an expiration date on fa.telecom, fa.tcp-ip, and fa.human-nets. This note supersedes my previous note sent earlier this evening. As before, problems should be addressed to me. Cheers, -Doug- decvax!brl-bmd!dpk and dpk@brl ------------------------------ From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Title: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V6 #24 Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1547 Posted: Thu Apr 14 06:39:11 1983 Received: Mon Apr 18 03:48:18 1983 References: brl-bmd.556 Another comment about the texas computer crime law: If I recall correctly (could someone re-post the text of the law) the law provided NO protection FROM operators. Doesn't this seem like an important omission? If a commercial networking company starts to read the mail that it transfers (presumably in violation of a contract) shouldn't this be a criminal offense comparable to interfering with paper mail? Also, if various types of "use profiles" (relative use of various services, frequency of detectable syntax errors in using the shell or other features, some estimate of reading/writing speed etc.) were constructed of particular users, shouldn't disclosure of that data require user consent (analogous to school transcripts)? I don't recall seeing anything like this. -Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!soreff) ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!akgua!psuvax!bobgian From: bobgian@psuvax.UUCP (Robert S. Giansiracusa) Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Subject: AI and Mysticism -- Netwide course, Pt 1/2 Message-ID: <403@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 19:21:11 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.403 Posted: Mon Jan 2 19:21:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jan-84 02:43:16 EST Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 77 ************************************************************************* * * * An Experiment in Teaching, an Experiment in AI * * Spring Term Artificial Intelligence Seminar Announcement * * * ************************************************************************* This Spring term Penn State inaugurates a new experimental course: "THE HUMAN CONDITION: PROBLEMS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS". This course explores all that makes the human condition so joyous and delightful: learning, creative expression, art, music, inspiration, consciousness, awareness, insight, sensation, planning, action, community. Where others study these DESCRIPTIVELY, we will do so CONSTRUCTIVELY. We will gain familiarity by direct human experience and by building artificial entities which manifest these wonders!! We will formulate and study models of the human condition -- an organism of bounded rationality confronting a bewilderingly complex environment. The human organism must fend for survival, but it is aided by some marvelous mechanisms: perception (vision, hearing), cognition (understanding, learning, language), and expression (motor skill, music, art). We can view these respectively as the input, processing, and output of symbolic information. These mechanisms somehow encode all that is uniquely human in our experience -- or do they?? Are these mechanisms universal among ALL sentient beings, be they built from doped silicon or neural jelly? Are these mechanisms really NECESSARY and SUFFICIENT for sentience? Not content with armchair philosophizing, we will push these models toward the concreteness needed for physical implementation. We will build the tools that will help us to understand and use the necessary representations and processes, and we will use these tools to explore the space of possible realizations of "artificial sentience". This will be no ordinary course. For one thing, it has no teacher. The course will consist of a group of highly energetic individuals engaged in seeking the secrets of life, motivated solely by the joy of the search itself. I will function as a "resource person" to the extent my background allows, but the real responsibility for the success of the expedition rests upon ALL of its members. My role is that of "encounter group facilitator": I jab when things lag. I provide a sheltered environment where the shy can "come out" without fear. I manipulate and connive to keep the discussions going at a fever pitch. I pick and poke, question and debunk, defend and propose, all to incite people to THINK and to EXPRESS. Several people who can't be at Penn State this Spring told me they wish they could participate -- so: I propose opening this course to the entire world, via the miracles of modern networks! We have arranged a local mailing list for sharing discussions, source-code, class-session summaries, and general flammage (with the chaff surely will be SOME wheat). I'm aware of three fora for sharing this: USENET's net.ai, Ken Laws' AIList, and MIT's SELF-ORG mailing list. PLEASE MAIL ME YOUR REACTIONS to using these resources: would YOU like to participate? would it be a productive use of the phone lines? would it be more appropriate to go to /dev/null? The goals of this course are deliberately ambitious. I seek participants who are DRIVEN to partake in this journey -- the best, brightest, most imaginative and highly motivated people the world has to offer. Course starts Monday, January 16. If response is positive, I'll post the network arrangements about that time. This course is dedicated to the proposition that the best way to secure for ourselves the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is reverence for all that makes the human condition beautiful, and the best way to build that reverence is the scientific study and construction of the marvels that make us truly human. -- Bob Giansiracusa (Dept of Computer Science, Penn State Univ, 814-865-9507) UUCP: allegra!psuvax!bobgian -or- bobgian@psuvax.UUCP Arpa: bobgian%psuvax1.bitnet@Berkeley -or- bobgian@PSUVAX1 Bitnet: bobgian@PSUVAX1.BITNET CSnet: bobgian@penn-state.csnet USnail: 333 Whitmore Lab, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA 16802 ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.08 10/3/83; site psuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!akgua!psuvax!bobgian From: bobgian@psuvax.UUCP (Robert S. Giansiracusa) Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Subject: AI and Mysticism - Netwide course, Pt 2/2 Message-ID: <404@psuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 19:22:16 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax.404 Posted: Mon Jan 2 19:22:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jan-84 02:43:34 EST Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ. Lines: 143 ************************************************************************* * * * Spring Term Artificial Intelligence Seminar Syllabus * * * ************************************************************************* MODELS OF SENTIENCE Learning, Cognitive Model Formation, Insight, Discovery, Expression; "Subcognition as Computation", "Cognition as Subcomputation"; Physical, Cultural, and Intellectual Evolution. SYMBOLIC INPUT CHANNELS: PERCEPTION Vision, hearing, signal processing, the "signal/symbol interface". SYMBOLIC PROCESSING: COGNITION Language, Understanding, Goals, Knowledge, Reasoning. SYMBOLIC OUTPUT CHANNELS: EXPRESSION Motor skills, Artistic and Musical Creativity, Story Creation, Prose, Poetry, Persuasion, Beauty. CONSEQUENCES OF THESE MODELS Physical Symbol Systems and Godel's Incompleteness Theorems; The "Aha!!!" Phenomenon, Divine Inspiration, Extra-Sensory Perception, The Conscious/Unconscious Mind, The "Right-Brain/Left-Brain" Dichotomy; "Who Am I?", "On Having No Head"; The Nature and Texture of Reality; The Nature and Role of Humor; The Direct Experience of the Mystical. TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING THESE ABILITIES IN HUMANS Meditation, Musical and Artistic Experience, Problem Solving, Games, Yoga, Zen, Haiku, Koans, "Calculus for Peak Experiences". TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING THESE ABILITIES IN MACHINES REVIEW OF LISP PROGRAMMING AND FORMAL SYMBOL MANIPULATION: Construction and access of symbolic expressions, Evaluation and Quotation, Predicates, Function definition; Functional arguments and returned values; Binding strategies -- Local versus Global, Dynamic versus Lexical, Shallow versus Deep; Compilation of LISP. IMPLEMENTATION OF LISP: Storage Mapping and the Free List; The representation of Data: Typed Pointers, Dynamic Allocation; Symbols and the Symbol Table (Obarray); Garbage Collection (Sequential and Concurrent algorithms). REPRESENTATION OF PROCEDURE: Meta-circular definition of the evaluation process. "VALUES" AND THE OBJECT-ORIENTED VIEW OF PROGRAMMING: Data-Driven Programming, Message-Passing, Information Hiding; the MIT Lisp Machine "Flavor" system; Functional and Object-Oriented systems -- comparison with SMALLTALK. SPECIALIZED AI PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES: Frames and other Knowledge Representation Languages, Discrimination Nets, Augmented Transition Networks; Pattern-Directed Inference Systems, Agendas, Chronological Backtracking, Dependency-Directed Backtracking, Data Dependencies, Non-Monotonic Logic, and Truth-Maintenance Systems. LISP AS THE "SYSTEMS SUBSTRATE" FOR HIGHER LEVEL ABSTRACTIONS: Frames and other Knowledge Representation Languages, Discrimination Nets, "Higher" High-Level Languages: PLANNER, CONNIVER, PROLOG. SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THESE ABILITIES IN HUMANS AND IN MACHINES The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. (Would we recognize it if we found it? Would they recognize us?) The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence. Are We Unique? Are we worth saving? Can we save ourselves? Why are we here? Why is ANYTHING here? WHAT is here? Where ARE we? ARE we? Is ANYTHING? These topics form a cluster of related ideas which we will pursue more-or- less concurrently; the listing is not meant to imply a particular sequence. Various course members have expressed interest in the following software engineering projects. These (and possibly others yet to be suggested) will run concurrently throughout the course: LISP Implementations: For CMS, in PL/I and/or FORTRAN In PASCAL, optimized for personal computers (esp HP 9816) In Assembly, optimized for Z80 and MC68000 In 370 BAL, modifications of LISP 1.5 New "High-Level" Systems Languages: Flavor System (based on the MIT Zetalisp system) Prolog Interpreter (plus compiler?) Full Programming Environment (Enhancements to LISP): Compiler, Editor, Workspace Manager, File System, Debug Tools Architectures and Languages for Parallel {Sub-}Cognition: Software and Hardware Alternatives to the Von-Neuman Computer Concurrent Processing and Message Passing systems Machine Learning and Discovery Systems: Representation Language for Machine Learning Strategy Learning for various Games (GO, CHECKERS, CHESS, BACKGAMMON) Perception and Motor Control Systems: Vision (implementations of David Marr's theories) Robotic Welder control system Creativity Systems: Poetry Generators (Haiku) Short-Story Generators Expert Systems (traditional topic, but including novel features): Euclidean Plane Geometry Teaching and Theorem-Proving system Welding Advisor Meteorological Analysis Teaching system READINGS -- the following books will be very helpful: 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Patrick H. Winston; Addison Wesley, 1984. 2. THE HANDBOOK OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Avron Barr, Paul Cohen, and Edward Feigenbaum; William Kaufman Press, 1981 and 1982. Vols 1, 2, 3. 3. MACHINE LEARNING, Michalski, Carbonell, and Mitchell; Tioga, 1983. 4. GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID, Douglas R. Hofstadter; Basic Books, 1979. 5. THE MIND'S I, Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett; Basic Books, 1981. 6. LISP, Patrick Winston and Berthold K. P. Horn; Addison Wesley, 1981. 7. ANATOMY OF LISP, John Allen; McGraw-Hill, 1978. 8. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING, Eugene Charniak, Christopher K. Riesbeck, and Drew V. McDermott; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1980. -- Bob Giansiracusa (Dept of Computer Science, Penn State Univ, 814-865-9507) UUCP: allegra!psuvax!bobgian -or- bobgian@psuvax.UUCP Arpa: bobgian%psuvax1.bitnet@Berkeley -or- bobgian@PSUVAX1 Bitnet: bobgian@PSUVAX1.BITNET CSnet: bobgian@penn-state.csnet USnail: 333 Whitmore Lab, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA 16802 ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Subject: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V7 #4 Message-ID: <610@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 16:48:45 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.610 Posted: Sun Jan 8 16:48:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jan-84 19:24:10 EST References: <763@brl-bmd.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 26 Several messages commented unfavourably on the idea of using voice recognition for security. They are wrong. Properly done, voice is at present the most secure method of ensuring that the correct people can get access to a physical facility, and presumably it could be arranged similarly for a smart terminal to ensure access. Texas Instruments has for some time controlled access to its Corporate Computer Centre by a voice security system (ask George Doddington for details). In tests for the US Air Force, voice was more accurate than any other single method. Naturally, for even better security you mix methods. Security methods can depend on the posession of an object or on physical characteristics or on abilities. A key or a card can be stolen, fingerprints can be duplicated on a mould, but a voice response cannot be duplicated when the person does not know what string the computer is going to request. If you have a security access card, the right fingerprints AND the right voice, it is highly unlikely you are an impostor. Incidentally, impressionists do only marginally better than random "impostors" at getting past the voice check. Voice security checks are vastly different from voice identification in criminal investigation. That's a much tougher problem. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bambi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!bambi!schatz From: schatz@bambi.UUCP (Bruce R. Schatz) Newsgroups: fa.human-nets Subject: description of Telesophy Project Message-ID: <12@bambi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 18:50:59 EST Article-I.D.: bambi.12 Posted: Fri Feb 1 18:50:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 14:40:22 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research; Morristown, NJ Lines: 44 the following project may be of interest to people on human-nets: Telesophy literally means "wisdom at a distance". The goal of the Telesophy Project is to build a system which makes obtaining information as transparent as telephony makes obtaining sound. The system could be viewed as a "WorldNet" browser, which lets one navigate an underlying information space. The information units in the space can contain any type of data and the system hides their actual physical location. In addition to these retrieval facilities, there are also storage facilities for generation of new items from old. The system thus supports the notion of an Information Community, permitting the users to browse for AnyThing AnyWhere and share their findings with others. These notions are old desires, undoubtably familiar to the readers of this digest. What is new is that these problems seem finally about to break because of coming mass availability of new technology. In particular, because of the speed and transmission characteristics of optical fibers, it is now feasible to consider the idea of building what is logically a single computer physically distributed over a wide area. This potentially worldwide single computer provides the hardware upon which an operating environment permitting the transparent fetching and manipulation of uniform objects can be built. My dream is a worldwide information community, a greatly generalized USENET. I work for Bell Communications Research, the central research organization for the local telephone companies (like Bell Labs before the divestiture). The fiber optic telephone network of the near future will likely obtain end-to-end speeds much closer to gigabits/second than the current kilobits. To utilize this, I have been investigating the architecture of a Telesophy System. Thus far, a long paper has been written describing the underlying philosophical and technological issues. I am now actively seeking colleagues to help build a first version on a local-area network of Apollo workstations. For more information, please contact me at one of the following addresses (a fuller description has been posted to net.jobs): Bruce Schatz physical: Bell Communications Research 435 South Street, Room 2A275 Morristown, New Jersey 07960 phone: (201) 829-4744 USENET: bellcore!bambi!schatz ARPAnet: bellcore!bambi!schatz@BERKELEY ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!news From: news@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Creation of this group Message-ID: <1705@gatech.CSNET> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 19:54:07 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.1705 Posted: Thu Oct 24 19:54:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 07:46:51 EDT Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 6 Approved: usenet@gatech This message is primarily to force the creation of the directory for this newsgroup and thus keep thousands of copies of "rn" and other news readers from complaining about a "non-existent" newsgroup. This group will be carrying articles gatewayed from the Arpanet discussion list "human-nets". ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: [aurora!eugene@RIACS.ARPA (Eugene miya): Re: "enemy" students raping our high tech universities] Message-ID: <12181880131.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:26:09 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12181880131.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Feb 8 23:26:09 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:39:11 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 40 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: From: aurora!eugene@RIACS.ARPA (Eugene miya) Date: 26 Jan 1986 1049-PST (Sunday) Subject: Re: "enemy" students raping our high tech universities I had been following this discussion (I should mention I would at A civilian US government research facility) with some interest when a manual was dropped on my lap. The manual has a nice red cover unlike the white or blue manuals from this manufacturer (I think is this an artifact and not something special), but what really is interesting is the fluorescent orange RESTRICTED label. This label is by the manufacturer and it says that distribution is dependent upon a rep in a specific region or country (latter emphasis). Upon reading this thin manual in detail: it says very little of technical import which is not known by the people in supercomputer community. The problem arises when my Co-PI gives said manual to his grad students, say 50% probability they might be foreign. Does this make me a leak to foreign technology? I have a specific research mission with my Co-PI, but his students have a high probability of being foreign. Do we have to say, "American students only?" Am I going to get thrown in jail or my paper pulled from it's conference? It's not a US G secret. It's not even worth classifying. Are people on the net going to turn me in? [actually this happened two years ago and my managers got phone calls.] Perhaps, I should stop writing to this board, stop publishing in external publications. Are you guys going to turn me in? --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center {hplabs,hao,dual,ihnp4,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene eugene@ames-nas.ARPA NASA, you know us, we're Cap Weinberger's biggest leak of technological data to the world. ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: [Kent_Wada%UBC.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA: Human-Nets submission] Message-ID: <12181880218.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:26:38 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12181880218.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Feb 8 23:26:38 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:39:31 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 216 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: <@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA:Kent_Wada@UBC.MAILNET> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 86 10:40:02 PST From: Kent_Wada%UBC.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Subject: Human-Nets submission I have been requested to post this announcement of a conference concerning electronic mail in Canada to the Human-Nets mailing list. Those not familiar with some of the acronyms used here may find the following useful: IPATT - Inter-Provincial Association for Telematics and Telidon; CUEBC - Computer Using Educators of British Columbia; UBC - University of British Columbia. For more information, please send to PRATT Conference North Island College 407 5th Street Courtenay, B.C. Canada V9N 1J7 or to MAILNET/CDNnet: Roger_Hart@ubc.mailnet BITNET: Roger_Hart@ubc.mailnet ARPAnet/CSNET: Roger_Hart%ubc.mailnet@mit-multics.arpa UUCP: ...!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc.mailnet!Roger_Hart ---------------------------- THE GREAT CANADIAN NETWORK DEBATE February 20-21, 1986 At North Island College in Courtenay Administrators and users face a somewhat bewildering range of choices when deciding on a computer network. At present, there are at least four major networks in operation: CDNnet, DECnet, NetNorth and UUCP. The Great Canadian Network Debate is the first in a series of conferences being organized across the country in 1986, under the aegis of IPATT. It represents the first time that experts of all the four existing networks have been brought together at one conference to address the question: "How can we work together to best serve the needs of the user?' The conference will therefore be of interest to anyone con- sidering networking: - the expert who is fully conversant with the technical details of one or more systems; - the teacher or librarian who has just realised how useful it would be if he or she could only exchange information electronically with colleagues with a similar interest; - the administrator who must make decisions in the face of conflicting claims and demands. Although the speakers at the GCND will be acknowledged ex- perts on one or more systems, there will be a deliberate ef- fort to have them express their ideas and concerns in non- technical language, so that even newcomers to networking will have an opportunity to participate in the debate, and help shape a policy which will satisfy the broadest section of the Canadian public sector. Program Outline FEBRUARY 20: WHO, HOW AND HOW MUCH This day is designed to present reports from those who have already utilized networks and can speak from some experience about current and future needs, problems and possibilities. Westerly Hotel/North Island College -- Workshops 1. Practical Uses (9:00-10:00, 1:00-2:00) a) Teacher Organizations: Gary Shearman has managed the CUEBC group of users of the MTS Forum and Message services provided by UBC. b) Research: Lyle Robertson has been using networks intensively for his work on high-level physics at TRIUMF and CERN. He will speak on the use of international networks and the transfer of large files. c) Teaching: Standard Content Fred Wah has utilized the VAX system to facilitate the teaching of Creative Writing in an open learning fashion. He is also an editor of SwiftCurrent, the literary network which uses a UNIX system at York University linking some 200 writers across Canada. d) Teaching: CBT Content Don Cowper is a long-time user of the UNIX network and has recently incorporated CBT and networking in an innovative fashion at NIC. The current configuration links 5 mini-com- puters in various communities on Vancouver Island. COFFEE (10:00-10:15, 2:00-2:30) 2. Innovative Uses (10:15-11:15, 2:30-3:30) a) Widely Distributed Interest Groups: Gerri Sinclair recently helped organize the World LOGO Con- ference linking a local conference in Paradise Valley with LOGO groups around the world. b) Community Groups: Bruce Lund is from the Secretary of State Vancouver Island office and is very interested in using networks to link and activate local community groups. c) Students: Janet Morton is a counsellor at Shoreline Community School in Victoria, who is involved in the RAPPI project which links some 60 schools in Canada, France, Italy and the U.K. 3. The MTS Common Ground. *FORUM, $MESSAGE and Mailnet at UBC (11:30-12:00) Al Fowler is the Director of the Computing Centre at UBC and has played a major role in the development of mail, file- transfer and conference service there. He will speak on cost/benefit and management factors of these services from an administrative (but supportive) point of view. LUNCH (12:00-1:00) 4. Hands-on Workshops (9:00-10:00, 10:15-11:15, 1:00-2:00, 2:15-3:15, 3:30-4:30) Group scheduling for these workshops on specific systems will be arranged in accordance with indicated responses from participants. If it is necessary to use more than one site for these presentations, trasnportation will be provided at scheduled times. DINNER -- Westerly Hotel (7:00-8:00) Cash Bar (8:00-11:00) Dinner Welcome -- Alice M. Chiko, Chairman of North Island College Board Speaker -- Walter Hardwick "Networking and the Open Learning Authority" FEBRUARY 21: THE DEBATE Westerly Hotel Chairman: Dennis Wing, Principal, North Island College (9:00-9:30) Networks in Canada: The Current Situation. Roger Hart (9:30-10:00) NetNorth. Dale Bent, University of Alberta (10:00-10:30) DECNet. Derek Chambers, Cariboo College (10:30-10:45) Specific questions on NETNorth and DECNet. (10:45-11:00) COFFEE (11:00-11:30) EAN. Paul Gilmore, Computer Science, UBC (11:30-12:00) UNIX/UUCP. Rayan Zachariassen, University of Toronto (12:00-12:30) CDNnet. Jeff Berryman and John Demco, CDNnet HQ, UBC (12:30-1:30) LUNCH (1:30-2:00) Draft Plan of Action. PRATT Executive (2:00-3:00) Discussion. (3:00-3:30) COFFEE (3:30-4:30) Resolutions. Fee Schedule: Feb. 21 Conference Fee (includes Thursday dinner and Friday lunch): $75 Feb. 20 Workshops Fee (includes Thursday lunch): $20 ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: CC.Wilkes@R20.UTEXAS.EDU (Clifford A. Wilkes) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Want ad relationships Message-ID: <8602090425.AA09434@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 10:29:23 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8602090425.AA09434 Posted: Tue Jan 28 10:29:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:39:50 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Recently I met a woman through a personal ad (hers) in the newspaper. We naturally discussed the concept of meeting people this way and the number of responses she got. While it is generally acknowledged that women receive a far-greater number of responses than men do we want to know what would be considered a large number. To that end I'd like to ask a few questions of the readers of this bboard. 1) Has anyone met someone through such ads or know of someone who has? 2) How many responses did the advertiser get? (Please indicate whether the advertiser was male or female.) 3) Did a lasting relationship of any type develop? Any strange or unique responses would also be of interest. Please send to cc.Wilkes@R20.UTEXAS.EDU and if it turns out to be of general interest I will summarize and post to the net. Thanks. <@> ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: [RYUPSKE%UCLASSCF.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU: Please submit text to HUMAN-NETS mailing list] Message-ID: <12181879979.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:25:19 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12181879979.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Feb 8 23:25:19 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:40:12 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: Date: Sun, 02 Feb 86 21:34:47 PST From: RYUPSKE%UCLASSCF.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Subject: Please submit text to HUMAN-NETS mailing list Everyone who is interested in research on homosexuality can join the "HSRES mailing list" (Research on Homosexuality) by sending a note to: RYUPSKE%UCLASSCF.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (ARPANET), or to: RYUPSKE AT UCLASSCF (BITNET) Kurt Ernulf Sune Innala ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: [Stephen Wolff : Re: HND, V9#3 : RFC972] Message-ID: <12181880043.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:25:40 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12181880043.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Feb 8 23:25:40 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:40:33 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 86 20:43:17 EST From: Stephen Wolff Subject: Re: HND, V9#3 : RFC972 (Password Generator Protocol) > The Password Generator Service (PWDGEN) provides a set of six > randomly generated eight-character "words"..... Some operating systems want longer passwords than that. > Hosts on the ARPA Internet that choose to implement a password > generator service are expected to adopt and implement this standard. Somehow, I fail to feel the warm fuzzies over this. ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!human-nets From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: [Irene Greif : Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: CALL FOR PAPERS] Message-ID: <12181880308.32.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:27:07 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12181880308.32.MCGREW Posted: Sat Feb 8 23:27:07 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:40:54 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 149 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: Date: Fri 7 Feb 86 16:39:40-EST From: Irene Greif Subject: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: CALL FOR PAPERS To: msg-group@BRL, ailist@SRI-AI To: telecom@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU, arpanet-bboards@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU cc: krasner@MCC.ARPA ------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK Austin, Texas December 3-5, 1986 sponsored by Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) Software Technology Program (STP) -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR: Herb Krasner, MCC STP PROGRAM CHAIR: Irene Greif, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science PROGRAM COMMITTEE: John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC Christine Bullen, MIT Center for Information Systems Research(CISR) Paul Cashman, DEC Bill Curtis, MCC STP Clarence A. Ellis, MCC STP Douglas C. Engelbart, McDonnell Douglas George Huber, University of Texas Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management Margarethe Olson, NYU Graduate School of Business Administration Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC Terry Winograd, Stanford University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Bryan Fugate, MCC STP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE THEME -- SUGGESTED TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference takes an interdisciplinary look at computer-supported cooperative work from technological, sociological, organizational, cognitive and task domain points of view. It grows from two past conferences: the DEC/MIT Workshop on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in August, 1984 and the MCC Interdisciplinary Design Symposium in May, 1985. The previous conferences drew participants from computer science, organization design, cognitive science, sociology, artificial intelligence and practical engineering disciplines. We hope to incorporate an even broader range of research and application perspectives on groups and group work at this meeting. We are soliciting new papers on the following representative topics: * Experiences with technology for cooperative work * Computer-based environments that support cooperation: co-authorship, project management, large-scale design of computer systems * Empirical studies of cooperation/teamwork * Impact of computer technology on group behavior, organizational structures and work practices * Underlying technologies: data bases, structured documents and hypertext, access controls and privacy * Theoretical models for analyzing group work: "roles", communication protocols, coordination constraints * Multi-media conferencing * Group decision support systems * Domain-specific requirements for computer-supported group work In order to encourage an informal and informative atmosphere, the conference's size will be limited. The program will include invited speakers, paper sessions, panel sessions and informal interest groups. We invite proposals for panels and discussion groups as well as papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: July 1, 1986 Acceptance Notification: Sept 1, 1986 Final Version Due: Oct 1, 1986 Conference Date: Dec 3-5, 1986 Fifteen (15) copies of a double-spaced extended abstract of 10-12 pages in length should be submitted to: Dr. Irene Greif MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 phone (617)- 253-5987 e-mail: greif@mit-xx.lcs.mit.edu People who have limited access to copiers, or for whom overseas airmail costs will be a burden, should submit only one copy. Suggestions for panels and interest group meetings should be 1-2 pages long. Submit these short proposals either by sending fifteen copies to the address above, or by mailing one copy to the email address above. A conference proceedings will be available at the meeting and published by Ablex. COOPERATING SOCIETIES: Software Psychology Society College of Information Systems of The Institute for Management Sciences ACM SigOA (pending) ACM SigCHI (pending) ACM SigSOFT (pending) IEEE Computer Society (pending) For more information call Barbara Smith, MCC STP at 512-834-3336 or by netmail to basmith@mcc.arpa ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!nike!styx!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Rifkin Message-ID: <12219086198.35.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 22:45:11 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12219086198.35.MCGREW Posted: Mon Jun 30 22:45:11 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jul-86 06:30:42 EDT Sender: daemon@styx.UUCP Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: <@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU:KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 86 21:03:09 EDT From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: Rifkin To: Hoffman.es@XEROX.COM From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.COM From 'The Wall Street Journal', Friday, May 2, p. 40: The spped of computer technology is wrenching society away from its natural rhtthms, much like jet lag, Mr. Rifkin says. "Psychologists across the nation are dealing with time disorientation of computer hackers," he maintains. "They're impatient, intolerant and can't accept 'organic' time." The opposite complaint would be more accurate. Once more, Rifkin proves himself completely ignorant in yet another field. How does he attract followers? ...Keith ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!nike!styx!RED.RUTGERS.EDU!MCGREW From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles) Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: RSA Message-ID: <12219085709.35.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 22:42:30 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12219085709.35.MCGREW Posted: Mon Jun 30 22:42:30 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jul-86 06:30:55 EDT Sender: daemon@styx.UUCP Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: <@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU:KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 86 20:59:01 EDT From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: RSA To: waters%viking.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM Date: Monday, 5 May 1986 05:21:51-PDT From: waters%viking.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM Several issues ago in HUMAN-NETS Digest, someone wondered how RSA could be patented more than a year after its first publication in a 1975 issue of Scientific American. Could this person please step forward with a specific article reference if possible? I looked through all 1975 Scientific Americans to no avail. Thanks. My apologies. A few days after that misguided posting, I discovered that I was thinking of the Mathematical Games column in the August 1977 issue. There is also an article "The Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography" by Martin Hellman in the August 1979 issue. The explanation of the patent appears to be that it was applied for in 1977 but not granted until 1983. I am not sure of this, but I have heard it from several sources. ...Keith ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU!jsq From: jsq@SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #10 Message-ID: <12226109302.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:44:15 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226109302.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:44:15 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:17:47 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jsq@sally.utexas.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 13 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 86 08:41:32 cdt From: jsq@SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU (John Quarterman) Posted-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 86 08:41:32 cdt Subject: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #10 Does anyone know the origin of the term Worldnet which has frequently appeared in HUMAN-NETS since the beginning of the list? Most people who remember that far back seem to think that it was coined in HUMAN-NETS, but it's already in common use in the earliest archives (though there may have been issues of HUMAN-NETS that weren't archived). ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!OFFICE-1.ARPA!wbd.mdc From: wbd.mdc@OFFICE-1.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: IMAX Message-ID: <12226109467.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:45:09 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226109467.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:45:09 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:18:03 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: wbd.mdc@office-1.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 10 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: 7 Jul 86 00:05 PDT From: William Daul / McDonnell-Douglas / APD-ASD Subject: IMAX To: sf-lovers@rutgers Does anyone know if the IMAX people filmed any of the Liberty Weekend activities...especially the fireworks in the harbor!!! Thanks, --Bi// ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!OFFICE-1.ARPA!wbd.mdc From: wbd.mdc@OFFICE-1.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: GAO Message-ID: <12226109640.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:46:06 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226109640.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:46:06 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:18:17 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: wbd.mdc@office-1.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 14 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: 17 Jul 86 18:09 PDT From: William Daul / McDonnell-Douglas / APD-ASD Subject: GAO Could someone tell me more about the Government Accounting Office? How many employees? What do they do? What is the GAO budget? Are all the employees in one place? I keep hearing about GAO reports and don't have any idea about how they work? Are there any GAO readers out there? Thanks, --Bi// ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!AMSAA.ARPA!hofmann From: hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Fundamentalism and Violence. Message-ID: <12226109818.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:47:05 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226109818.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:47:05 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:18:37 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: hofmann@amsaa.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 86 10:07:38 EDT From: James B Hofmann Subject: Fundamentalism and Violence. On this pornography ruling: Has anyone done a study to find out if religous fundamentalism causes violence? I remember vaguely from my sociology studies that there was some sort of causal relationship. If so, can we then ban door to door hucksters and fundamentalist religious literature from all public places so it can go return to it's sleaze palaces (churches) and live with the roaches where it belongs? "consumers for Christ" j. h. ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!topaz!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!R20.UTEXAS.EDU!cmp.werner From: cmp.werner@R20.UTEXAS.EDU Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Macintosh Testimony [in court] Message-ID: <12226110031.23.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 17:48:15 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12226110031.23.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 27 17:48:15 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:19:44 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: cmp.werner@r20.utexas.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 35 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Return-Path: Date: Wed 9 Jul 86 17:22:13-CDT From: Werner Uhrig Subject: Macintosh Testimony [in court] To: info-law@R20.UTEXAS.EDU A Macintosh computer was recently a star witness in the first-degree-murder trial of Sagon Penn, who was charged with the shooting deaths of two San Diego policemen. The defense contended that shots had been fired in self-defense as Penn attempted to escape a brutal beating by the police. The defense's case centered on a 2.3-second tape sequence recorded by the police dispatcher that contained the voices of citizens complaining of police brutality; the voice of the dispatcher; and, faintly in the background, six sounds that both the defense and prosecution agreed could be gunshots. Determining the exact timing of these shots was critical to Penn's claiming of self-defense. Defense attorneys hired speech expert Tito Poza to assist in analysis of the brief tape sequence. Poza used a Macintosh with the Mac-ADIOS audio digitizer and MacSpeech Lab signal-processing program (both produced by [name and address removed- big Arpa is watching you! - CWM]) to locate and time the gunshots and represent the data graphically on the Macintosh screen. According to Poza, "I knew the only way I could get my specialized findings across to the jury was to play the critical section of the tape to them over and over, with millisecond timing .... [With the Mac] there were none of the false starts you get with an ordinary tape recorder." Although a verdict in the case had not been reached at press time, Poza said that the attorneys, the judge, and the jury were impressed with the Macintosh technology and its contribution to the analysis of important evidence. [above, without permission, from A+ Magazine, August '86, page 16, column News and Views, by Frederic E. Davis] ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!NRTC-GREMLIN.ARPA!stef From: stef@NRTC-GREMLIN.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: (none) Message-ID: <12239139600.65.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 10:41:48 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12239139600.65.MCGREW Posted: Mon Sep 15 10:41:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 01:16:02 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: stef@nrtc-gremlin Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 119 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP WG 6.5 International Working Conference on MESSAGE HANDLING SYSTEMS (State of the Art and Future Directions) 27 to 29 April 1987 Munich Fed. Rep. of Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program The purpose of the conference is to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on the technical, economic, social, and political impacts of computer message and office systems. The conference format will be two days of conference paper presentations followed by one day of work-shops. Papers are desired in the following topic areas: MHS Interconnection and Interworking Interconnection of X.400 Systems (Private and public) Gateways to X.400 Systems X.400 Shell to non-X.400 Systems Interworking between X.400 and the Postal System Interworking with other Architectures (e.g., DIA/DCA, All-In-1,etc.) Multi-Vendor Private Message Systems Documents and Messages Document and Message Architectures Multimedia Documents and Messages Graphics (GKS) vs. Facsimile Communication of Business Forms and Trade Documents Directory Services Naming and Addressing Public Directory Systems Interworking between Public and Private Directory Systems New Access Protocols Mailbox Services Extensions to X.400 Series Recommendations Message Management Personal Message Management Message and Document Filing and Retrieval Group Communication Distribution Lists Organization of Message Flow Real-Time Conferencing Models for Group Communication Workstations and User Interface Workstation and Cluster Design Backup and Archiving User Interface Issues Message Editing Security Aspects Authentication Confidentiality Impacts of MHS Social and Behavioral Impacts Impacts on Organizations Impacts on Nations Inpacts on Relieving Impairment Policy Issues Public Policy Issues in MHS Transborder Data Flow Legal Status of MHS Privacy and Confidentiality ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions to Authors: Prospective Authors are invited to submit for review unpublished original contributions (not exceeding 5000 words) which describe recent developments on any design or service aspect of computer message systems. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings published by North-Holland Publishing Company. Deadlines: Today Send a postcard with your name, telephone, and EMail address to: Message Systems '87 Mrs. Stenzel Siemens AG D-AP.11 Otto Hahn Ring 6 D-8000 Munich 83 Fed. Rep. of Germany This will ensure that you will receive further information about the conference. Please indicate also the provisional title if you intend to submit a paper. Sept. 30, 1986 Draft versions of papers required Nov. 30, 1986 Notification of acceptance Jan. 31, 1987 Camera-ready papers required Papers should be submitted to: Peter Schicker Zellweger Telecommunications AG CH-8634 Hombrechtikon Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!XX.LCS.MIT.EDU!Grief From: Grief@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: CSCW '86 Program Message-ID: <12239139250.65.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 10:39:53 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12239139250.65.MCGREW Posted: Mon Sep 15 10:39:53 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 01:16:37 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: grief@xx.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 266 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Following is the program for CSCW '86: the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work . Registration material can be obtained from Barbara Smith at MCC (basmith@mcc). *** CSCW '86 *** DECEMBER 3 - 5, 1986 AUSTIN, TEXAS Tuesday, December 2, 1986 6:00pm - 10:00pm Registration 6:00pm - 10:00pm Reception/Refreshments Wednesday, December 3, 1986 8:00am - 5:00pm Registration 8:30am - 9:00am Opening Remarks Welcome: Herb Krasner, Conference Chair Conference Themes: Irene Greif, Program Chair 9:00am - 10:30am Supporting Face-to-Face Groups Chair: George Huber University of Texas, Austin - Project NICK: Meetings Augmentation and Analysis Michael Begeman, Peter Cook, Clarence Ellis, Mike Graf, Gail Rein, and Tom Smith MCC - Cognoter, Theory and Practice of a Colab-orative Tool Gregg Foster University of California, Berkeley - A Group Decision Support System for Idea Generation and Issue Analysis in Organizational Planning Lynda M. Applegate, Benn R. Konsynski, J. F. Nunamaker University of Arizona 10:30am - 11:00am Break 11:00am - 12:30am Empirical Studies Chair: Bill Curtis MCC - The Variable Impact of Computer Technologies on the Organization of Work Activities Jeanette Blomberg Xerox - Cognitive Science and Organizational Design: A Case Study of Computer Conferencing Kevin Crowston, Thomas W. Malone, and F. Lin M. I. T. - Narratives at Work, Story Telling as Cooperative Diagnostic Activity Julian Orr Xerox 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm - 4:00pm Supporting Distributed Groups Chair: Irene Greif M. I. T. - Constraints on Communication and Electronic Messaging Martha Feldman University of Michigan - Evolving Electronic Communication Networks: An Empirical Assessment J. D. Eveland and Tora Bikson The Rand Corporation - Semi-Structured Messages as a Basis for Computer-Supported Coordination Thomas W. Malone, Kenneth R. Grant, Kum-Yew Lai, Ramana Rao, and David Rosenblitt M. I. T. - The Amigo Project: Advanced Group Communication Model for Computer-Based Communications Environment Thore Danielsen, University of Tromsoe, Norway Uta Pankoke-Babatz and Wolfgang Prinz, Institute for Applied Information Technology, West Germany Ahmed Patel, University College Dublin, Ireland Paul-Andre Pays, Department Informatique Appliquee, France Knut Smalland, University of Oslo, Norway Rolf Speth, Commission of the European Communities, Belgium 4:00pm - 4:30pm Break 4:30pm - 6:00pm Panel Sessions in Parallel Panel I: Cooperative Work in the Office Moderator: Clarence Ellis, MCC Panel II: Collaborative Design: Technology Futures Moderator: Herb Krasner, MCC 8:00pm Special Session with Doug Engelbart: High Performance Teams Thursday, December 4, 1986 9:00am - 10:30am Hypertext Systems Chair: Lucy Suchman Xerox - Contexts -- A Partitioning Concept for Hypertext Norman Delisle and Mayer Schwartz Tektronix Laboratories - Supporting Collaboration in NoteCards Randall Trigg, Lucy Suchman and Frank Halasz Xerox - Intermedia: Issues, Strategies, and Tactics in the Design of a Hypermedia Document System L. Nancy Garrett, Karen Smith and Norman Meyrowitz Brown University 10:30am - 11:00am Break 11:00am - 12:30pm Underlying Technology for Collaborative Systems Chair: Thomas Malone M. I. T. - Data Sharing in Group Work Irene Greif, M. I. T. Sunil Sarin, Computer Corporation of America - Network-based Systems for Asynchronous Group Communication Nancy F. Jarrell and Bill Barrett IBM Cambridge Scientific Center - Tools Help People Co-operate Only To The Extent That They Help Them Share Goals and Terminology Robert Neches USC Information Sciences Institute 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch and CSCW '88 Planning Meeting (Open) 2:00pm - 4:00pm Collaboration Research Chair: Margrethe Olson N. Y. U. - A Language Perspective on the Design of Cooperative Work Terry Winograd Stanford University - A Framework for Studying Research Collaboration Lucy Suchman and Randall Trigg Xerox - Relationships and Tasks in Scientific Research Collaborations Robert Kraut, Bell Communications Research, Jolene Galegher, University of Arizona Carmen Egido, Bell Communications Research - Collaboration Research in SCL George Goodman and Mark Abel Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Northwest 4:00pm - 4:30pm Break 4:30pm - 6:00pm Panel Sessions in Parallel Panel I: From Theories to Systems Moderator: Paul Cashman, Digital Equipment Corporation Panel II: Computer-Supported Groups: Trends & Markets Moderator: Robert Johansen, Institute for the Future 7:00pm Banquet Friday, December 5, 1986 9:00am - 10:30am Interfaces: Multi-media and Multi-user Chair: Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland - A Performing Medium for Working Group Graphics Fred Lakin Stanford University - An Experiment in Integrated Multimedia Conferencing Keith Lantz Stanford University - WYSIWIS Reconsidered: Early Experiences with Multi-User Interfaces Mark Stefik, Gregg Foster, Stan Lanning, Deborah Tatar Xerox 10:30am - 11:00am Break 11:00am - 12:30am Industrial Experiences with Computer-Supported Groups Chair: Mark Stefik Xerox - Computer Teleconferencing: Experience at Hewlett Packard Tony Fanning and Bert Raphael Hewlett Packard Company - Achieving Sustainable Complexity Through Information Technology: Theory and Practice Paul Cashman and David Stroll Digital Equipment Corporation - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Examples and Issues in One Federal Agency Cathleen Stasz and Tora Bikson The Rand Corporation 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm - 4:00pm Coordination and Decision Making Chair: Chris Bullen M. I. T. - CHAOS as a Coordination Technology F. De Cindio, G. De Michelis, C. Simone, R. Vassallo, and A. Zanaboni Universita di Milano - Using a Computer Based Tool to Support Collaboration: A Field Experiment Robert Dunham, Management Effectiveness and Planning Bonnie M. Johnson, Aetna Life and Casualty Grady McGonagill, Merron & McGonagill Associates Margrethe Olson, New York University Gerladine M. Weaver, Aetna Life and Causalty - Computer-Based Systems for Group Decision Support: Status of Use and Problems in Development Kenneth Kraemer and John King University of California, Irvine - SYNVIEW: The Design of a System for Cooperative Structuring of Information David Lowe New York University 4:00pm - 4:30pm Break 4:30pm - 5:30pm Invited Speaker: John Seely Brown Vice President, Advanced Research Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ------- ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cs.mass.edu!Gutfreund From: Gutfreund@cs.mass.edu Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Chinese Nets Message-ID: <12273231253.21.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 10:52:51 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12273231253.21.MCGREW Posted: Fri Jan 23 10:52:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:15:45 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Gutfreund%cs.mass.edu@relay.cs.net Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Has anyone noticed an interesting correlation between recent protests in China for democracy and WorldNet. It seems that one of the concrete components of what the students are asking for is freedom of speech, specifically: the ability to post "Large Character" posters on walls of highly emotional content (read "flaming"). These "Large Character" posters gather large crowds who spread their contents via the human grapevine. There is no other media that is freely open for public flaming. They even seem to have a variant of the same "anonymous" issue that occurs in our electified digests and mailing lists. - Steven Gutfreund ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!OFFICE-1.ARPA!wbd.mdc From: wbd.mdc@OFFICE-1.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Records Accessability Message-ID: <12273231491.21.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 10:54:09 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12273231491.21.MCGREW Posted: Fri Jan 23 10:54:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:16:04 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: wbd.mdc@office-1.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 13 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu What are an individual's rights with regards to their medical, job and education records? Can anyone gain access to them legally? When I apply for a job and list my last employers, do those ex- and current employers have to verify my employement? Can they say more than that? And what about my medical and educational records? I realize these are broad questions, but I would appreciate any responses I can get. Thanks, --Bi// ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BRL.ARPA!abc From: abc@BRL.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: Re: Records Accessability Message-ID: <12273231740.21.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 10:55:31 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12273231740.21.MCGREW Posted: Fri Jan 23 10:55:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:16:23 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: abc@brl.arpa Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu I can give you a partial answer. Schools who receive any public money (especially if it can be traced to federal sources) may not give out your academic records without your written permission. Included is a prohibition on instructors' posting exam results and final grades. Similarly, your medical records cannot be released without your permission, except perhaps by subpoena. I'm not sure about job records. You get into a "freedom of speech" issue here if you attempt to constrain one employer from talking to another about a former employee. I hope that this was helpful. _Brint ------- ------------------------------ Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cornella.BITNET!rmxj From: rmxj@cornella.BITNET Newsgroups: mod.human-nets Subject: (none) Message-ID: <12273232026.21.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 10:57:06 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12273232026.21.MCGREW Posted: Fri Jan 23 10:57:06 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:16:42 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: rmxj%cornella.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 22 Approved: human-nets@red.rutgers.edu Originally sent from: MARIEA@CRNLGSM Originally sent to: RMXJ@CORNELLA Mariea Blackburn, Director for Admissions at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, will be conducting two workshops at Cornell entitled "Managing Admissions with a Microcomputer". The dates are: March 23-25 and July 27-29 (1987). For further information, please write to: Programs in Professional Education Cornell University B-12 Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-4201 OR You may contact Ms. Blackburn directly at: Mariea @ CRNLGSM (on BITNET) Mariea%crnlgsm.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Internet) -------