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Date: Mon 1 Apr 96 21:25:34-PST
From: Ken Laws
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AI Vol. 6, No. 24 IS March 28, 1996 CS THE COMPUTISTS' COMMUNIQUE
1> Research software. 2> Internet job services. 3> Spiders and search engines.
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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-loss record of the referee. -- John H. Holcomb, "The Militant Moderate." [TFTD, 3/22/96.]
Goood Morning, Full Moon Subscribers!
Due to travel plans, I'm sending this month's Full Moon edition a day early. Enjoy. The next Full Moon edition will be on 5/3/96. Here's the text of last Thursday's Communique:
Today completes the fifth full year of service from Computists International. (TCC 1.01 was published on 4/1/91.) Of the 35 who signed up for that issue -- other than myself -- 22 are still members. I'd like to thank Jerry Brookshire, Dan Corkill, James Critz, Tim Finin, Leonard Foner, Enrico Franconi, Bob Futrelle, Ron Gershon, Nahum Goldmann, Mary Dee Harris, Elizabeth Hinkelman, John Hopkins, John Josephson, Tod Levitt, Dave Lewis, Calton Pu, Ann Reid, Mark Rosenstein, Darrell Skinner, Ken Turner, Matthew Witten, and Bob Woodham for their belief in me and their continuing support.
It's Spring Break, so I'm taking next week off. Look for TCC, CCJ, and CAJ on 4/9/96. Have a good vacation! If you need anything, just email (or try the search engines listed below).
1> Research software (in our CRS digest this week):
Free math-related Windows software from Phillips Exeter Academy.
Nutmeg: commercial Smalltalk-style class libraries for Java.
DOS/Windows software demos for NLP, reference, language learning, and English-Russian machine translation, from Good Language Software.
PILS: free Windows programming environment to supplant Lisp.
Abuse: source code for a Lisp game.
FreeWalk: VR "meeting room" or "party" environment where participants can see and hear what other participants are viewing and saying.
SciPlot: cartesian and polar plotting widget.
Expert Systems Design and Development: book by John Durkin.
Adaption and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems: book edited by Weiss and Sen.
Intelligent Agents II: book edited by Wooldridge, Mueller, and Tambe.
Bibliography of automatic text summarization, from Marcos Casa.
2> Internet job services:
NSF has a new brochure on Information for Graduate Research Fellows (NSF 96-42). FTP nsf9642.txt from stis.nsf.gov. [grants, 3/25/96.]
stu-serv-jshop is a UK list about helping students gain
part-time employment. Send a "join stu-serv-jshop your name"
message to
1st Steps in the Hunt is a daily newsletter for job hunters.
See
4WORK lists US job opportunities, internships, and volunteer
positions throughout the US. You can ask for email notification
when a suitable job is posted.
On Usenet, the national/international jobs listings are misc.jobs.offered and misc.jobs.contract. You might also try posting to misc.jobs.resumes.
Resume Robot is a Winsock application that finds
and parses resumes on the Web. Its database can be used by
job seekers and recruiters.
The Job Seeker's Resource Center is
Another info site for job seekers is
The Job Search Links page at
JobExpress job postings are listed on
The Job-Link mailing list is for job announcements
of any kind. Send a "subscribe" subject line to
Shawn's Internet Resume Center (SIRC) offers members a home
page and other job services.
IS Opportunities Magazine lists career opportunities
around the world.
ELSNET Job Placement Service covers NL and speech research,
primarily for the European communities. Send job ads
or short CVs (with dates of availability), preferably in English,
to
The National Assoc. of Programmers (NAP) serves programmers,
developers, consultants, and students. See
The National Assoc. of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB)
has a job board and resume bank for computer consultants.
The National Home Workers Assoc. (NHWA) lists
more than 76K work-from- home job openings in North America,
including many kinds of computer work.
North Carolina has a career, jobs, and resume service at
Georgia's High Tech Job Bank (and resume database) is
Texas Job Reports offers employment listings
and career opportunities at
Riccione On-Line CompuSearch lists jobs for
software developers and hardware engineers, plus info on
Texas computer user groups.
TOPjobs USA currently has 13K "professional" job listings
in CA, 6K in TX; 2.2K in CO; 2K in AZ; 1.8K in Utah; 700 in
New Mexico; and almost 600 in NV. Other states are also listed,
for 32K total.
(Use WWW search engines to check for other states, countries, or specialties.)
3> Spiders and search engines:
Prodigy now offers searching of 17M messages from the past 18 months, by subject, sender, receiver, or keywords. [St. Petersburg Times, 3/11/96, p. 9. EDUPAGE.] (Privacy advocates are concerned about the ease with which a contributor's participation can be reviewed. Your postings may someday be your biography, or evidence in a libel case.)
("Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder
these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because
you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while
it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the
gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book
can keep on exploding for centuries." -- Chistopher Morley,
"The Haunted Bookshop." [Keith Bostic
Andersen Consulting's webpage describes several projects
that monitor newsgroups and other online sources, finding articles
of interest, contact names, and best prices for offered services.
Dynamic Mapping is a technique for displaying search hits
from an online database.
World Wide Web Launcher offers links to every major
search engine.
Northwestern College SearchIt includes search engines
for the Internet, gopher, WWW, Usenet newsgroups, daily news,
and general reference services.
The Virtual Search Engines page includes the most popular
search engines and tools for searching the Web, newsgroups,
Listserv, FTP, Gopher, email addresses, ZIP codes, etc.
Yahoo,
MOO, Inc. is "the spot to visit if you're interested in
Internet search engines, are an investor looking for the hottest
technology, etc."
The WWW Megalist index/search engine is at
REX is another engine for searching a database of website
descriptions.
BullsEye! is an off-line search tool, to save on
communications costs.
Eureka! is a simple but powerful Internet search engine.
UCB's fast Inktomi search engine offers relevance retrieval
with MUST (+) and NOT (-) search terms. Over 2.8M documents
are searched.
InfoScan is a network-based filtering tools for your own
text and email databases. $35, but with a free demo version
at
topicSEARCH from Verity (Mountain View, CA) is a new
text/HTML retrieval application for webmasters using
the Microsoft Internet Information Server. "Seamlessly
integrated with Microsoft's Internet Server Application
Programming Interface (ISAPI)" to be four times faster
than CGI, with built-in security and administration features.
Distributed free with the Microsoft Internet Business
Development Kit or from
CyberDewey accesses Internet resources by the Dewey Decimal
Classification system. BUBL (Bulletin Board for Library Systems)
does the same using the Universal Decimal Classification system.
See the Scout Toolkit's Search Tools, Subject Catalog section,
on
Home Team Advanced Search Site can search multiple
databases on WWW.
Mother Load is a searchable directory of other people's
directories, lists, and web guides, plus a search engine that
can invoke at least nine other search engines. Stored sections
include Business, Computers, Government, Entertainment,
Medical & Health, Sports & Rec, Travel, World Wide Web resources,
and about 15 very good Mac sites. Other resource lists are
solicited. [Matt Hulbert
Magellan is a searchable database of reviewed internet sites
(rated to *). You can block sites that had "adult" content
at the time of review.
Infoseek Guide, a free search/browse service, returns
both search hits and a list of topics related to your search
terms. In-depth news coverage has also been added.
Savvy Search can query nineteen search engines, including
Alta Vista, Yahoo, FTPsearch95, the Virtual Software Library,
Excite, Lycos, DejaNews, OKRA (email database), and the Internet
Movie Database. Boolean and phrase searches are supported.
Metacrawler is a multithreaded Web searcher that queries
Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, Inktomi,
Alta Vista, Yahoo, and Galaxy. It then verifies that each
URL is valid.
SEARCH IT!!! offers a very simple interface to at least
ten search engines.
Prime Search is another search interface invoking
Yahoo!, Lycos, Webcrawler, etc.
SEARCH.COM from c|net helps you use over 250 search engines,
including Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Alta Vista, and many
single-topic databases about cars, movies, recipes, stocks, etc.
You can even set up a personal page with just your favorite
search engines.
"RES-Links: The All-in-One Resource Page" is a categorized
list of search engines and tools, catalogs, indexes,
databases, locators, resources, guides, and reference materials.
A description is given for each tool. "If you don't find what
you're looking for, I will do the best I can to help you."
-- Ken
Sometimes I think I understand everything ...
Then I regain consciousness. -- Ashleigh Brilliant.
[Amara Graps
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ISSN 1084-015X. Publisher/Editor: Dr. Kenneth I. Laws, 4064 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303; (415) 493-7390. Internet: laws@ai.sri.com (courtesy of SRI International). Copyright (C) 1996 by Kenneth I. Laws. Computists' Communique is a service to members of Computists International. Members may make copies for backup, direct mentoring, or recruiting, and may extract occasional articles if attribution is given.
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