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Computer underground Digest Sun Oct 29, 1995 Volume 7 : Issue 85
ISSN 1004-042X
Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
Shadow Master: Stanton McCandlish
Field Agent Extraordinaire: David Smith
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
Ian Dickinson
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CONTENTS, #7.85 (Sun, Oct 29, 1995)
File 1--WebNet-96 Call For Papers (San Fransisco) (fwd)
File 2--UC Berkeley Ethics of the Internet Conference
File 3--"Computer User's Survival Guide" from O'Reilly
File 4--SPEED: Call For Papers
File 5--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 18 Oct, 1995)
CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:23:24 -0500
From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) <telecom@DELTA.EECS.NWU.EDU>
Subject: File 1--WebNet-96 Call For Papers (San Fransisco) (fwd)
From: "assoc. advancement computers ed." <aace@poe.acc.virginia.edu>
Subject--WebNet-96 CFP (San Francisco)
Organization--University of Virginia
Date--Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:36:57 GMT
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INVITATION
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WebNet-96 -- the first World Conference of the Web Society is an
international conference, organized by the Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference
serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the dissemination of information
on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to
the use, applications and societal and legal aspects of the Web in
its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing all modern tools to peruse the
Internet.
This conference is a must for all who plan to use the Internet for
informational, communicational or transactional applications
or, who are currently running or planning to run servers on the Internet.
We invite you to attend the WebNet-96 conference and submit proposals for
papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations/posters. All
proposals are reviewed for inclusion in the conference program.
Major Topics
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Novel Applications of the Web
Collaboration Using the Web
The Web as Teaching Tool
Electronic Publishing and the Web
The Web as Marketing Tool
Offering Services on the Web
New Server Technologies for the Web
New Navigational Tools for the Web
Integration of Web Applications and Services
Country Specific Developments
The Web and Distance Education
Net-based Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
Computer-Human Interface (CHI) Issues
New Graphic Interfaces for the Web
The Web and 3D
Virtual Reality on the Web
Intelligent Agents on the Web
Directory Services on the Web
Network Software for Large Data Bases
Security and Privacy on the Web
Charging Mechanisms for the Web
Legal and Societal Aspects of the Web
Courseware development for the Web
Building Knowledge Bases on the Web
Care and Feeding of Web Servers
Educational Multimedia on the Web
Browsers,Searchers and Other Tools
Feedback Mechanisms on the Web
Information for Presenters
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Details of presentation formats are given on the following pages.
The general principles applying to all are:
o All communication will be with the principal presenter who is
responsible for communicating with co-presenters of that session.
o The conference will attempt to secure all equipment needed for
presenters. However, where special equipment is needed, presenters may
need to provide their own.
o All presenters must pay the registration fee. Early registration fee
will be approximately $350 (US) with a $30 (US) reduction for Web
Society members.
Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be published by the Web Society in the WebNet-96
proceedings book and CD-ROM. These publications will serve as major
sources of information for the Web community, indicating the current
state of the art, new trends and new opportunities. In addition,
selected papers will be invited for publication in Journals cooperating
with the Web Society, particularly JUCS, the Journal of Universal Computer
Science (see http://www.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/Cjucs_root).
Conference Background
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WebNet is the annual conference of the WebSociety that was founded in 1995
out of a concern that an organisation addressing the application aspects of
the Web and representing a lobby for Web users independent of specific
platforms and without the domination of commercial organisations was needed.
The WebSociety complements existing other bodies such as the Internet
Society and W3C. The former is, by definition, more concerned with
providing global Internet services than anything else and the latter is
specifically oriented towards one particular system WWW. The Web Society
and hence WebNet takes a more general view, dealing with a variety of
modern Internet tools and their integration including services such as
Gopher, WWW, Hyper-G, WAIS, directory services, FTP, email and cooperative
applications and novel approaches from Hot Java to VRML, from Web compatible
teaching modules to 3D interfaces.
For more details on the Web Society, see http://info.WebSoc.org
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WebNet Committees
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Web Society Board
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Jean-Francois Abramatic; INRIA (France)
Robert Cailliau; CERN (Switzerland)
Hermann Maurer; Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria)
Mark McCahill; Univ.of Minnesota (USA)
1996 Program Committee
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Philip Barker; Univ. of Teesside (UK)
Dines Bjoerner; UNU/IIST (Macao)
Meera Blattner; Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (USA)
Peter Brusilovsky; Int'l Center of Sci. and Tech. Info. (Russia)
Bruno Buchberger; RISC Linz (Austria)
John Buford; Univ. of Massachusetts (USA)
Robert Cailliau; CERN (Switzerland)
Gordon Davies; Open Univ. (UK)
Roger Debreceny; Southern Cross University (Australia)
Alain Derycke; Univ. de Lille (France)
Prasun Dewan; Univ. of North Carolina (USA)
Dieter Fellner (Tutorial/Workshop Chair); Univ. of Bonn (Germany)
Laura Fillmore; Online Bookstore (USA)
Brian Gaines, Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
Jan Gecsei; Univ. de Montreal (Canada)
Anders Gillner; KTH, Stockholm (Sweden)
Zahran Halim; Univ. of Malaysia, (Malaysia)
Joseph Hardin; Univ. of Illinois (USA)
Michael Harrison; Univ. of California (USA)
Colin Hensley; European Commission, Inform.Soc.Project Office (Belgium)
Guenter Koch; European Software Institute, Bilbao (Spain)
Rainer Kuhlen; Univ. of Konstanz (Germany)
John Leggett; Texas A&M Univ. (USA)
Jennifer Lennon; University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Slawomir Lobodzinski; California State Univ. (USA)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann; Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
Gerald Maguire; Royal Technical Univ. (Sweden)
Filia Makedon; Dartmouth College (USA)
Gary Marchionini; Univ. of Maryland (USA)
Hermann Maurer (Program Chair); Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria)
Mark McCahill (Demo/Poster Chair); University of Minnesota (USA)
Maria Teresa Molfino; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
Max Muehlhaeuser; Univ. of Linz (Austria)
Michael Nadeau; Connell Communications/IDG (USA)
Erich Neuhold; GMD-IPSI (Germany)
Douglas Norrie; Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
Andrews Odlyzko; AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA)
Henk Olivie; Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
Thomas Ottmann; Univ. of Freiburg (Germany)
Reinhard Posch; Graz Univ.of Technology (Austria)
Raghu Ramakrishnan; Univ. of Wisconsin (USA)
Nick Scherbakov; Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria)
Wolfgang Schinagl; WIFI-IIC (Austria)
Gunter Schlageter; Univ. of Hagen (Germany)
John Schnase; Washington Univ. (USA)
Mildred Shaw; Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
Manolis Skordalakis; National Technical Univ.of Athens (Greece)
John Tiffin; Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
Ivan Tomek (Panel Chair); Acadia Univ. (Canada)
Ian Witten; Univ. of Waikato (New Zealand)
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful
activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.
These include keynote and invited talks, full and short paper
presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions, tutorials, workshops, and
panel discussions.
Papers (25 minutes)
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Papers present reports of significant work or integrative reviews in
research, development, and applications and societal issues related to
all aspects of the Internet.
All presented papers will be considered by the Program Committee for Best
Paper Awards. There will also be an award for Best Student Paper. Awarded
papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Universal Computer
Science (Springer), see http://www.iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/Cjucs_root.
Submissions: Papers should include a cover page and an extended abstract of
at least 2500 words or should be submitted as full paper of not over 4500
words (4-8 pages). The cover page should include the title of the paper
with names of each author, their affiliations, complete addresses, phone
numbers, E-mail address of principal presenter, and suggested conference
topic area(s). Please indicate if primary author is a full-time student.
Papers may be submitted in either hard copy (send 5 copies) or in
electronic form. Electronic proposals are preferred and MUST BE pure ASCII
text. Final versions of accepted papers must be submitted in photo-
reproducible form according to specifications available upon acceptance and
will have a length of 4-8 pages. Final papers also submitted as ASCII, HTML,
LaTeX, RTF or PostScript files will also be published on a CD-ROM.
Each full paper will be presented in a 25-minute session. This includes 5
minutes for discussion. Each submission must state what AV equipment is
needed.
Submit to:
Hermann Maurer
c/o WebNet-96/AACE
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu; Phone: 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449
Short Papers (15 minutes)
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Short papers are brief, more condensed presentations and will be published
as 1 page in the conference proceedings volume. Use above Full Paper
submission guidelines except submission length should be 2-6 pages.
Panels (1.5 hours)
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A panel offers an opportunity for 3-5 people to present their views or
results on a common theme, issue, or question. Panels should cover timely
topics related to the conference areas of interest. Panel selection will be
based on the importance, originality, focus and timeliness of the topic;
expertise of proposed panelists; as well as the potential for informative
(and even controversial) discussion. Panels should have no more than 5
members, including the chair. A panel summary and position statements will
be included in the proceedings.
Submissions: Panel proposals should include:
- A description of the panel topic, including why this topic is important
to WebNet Conference attendees; no more than 1 page.
- A brief position statement and qualifications of each panelist; no more
than 1 page each.
A cover sheet should include the panel title, panelists' names and
affiliations, and the panel organizer's name, affiliation, address, e-mail
address and phone number. Electronic proposals are preferred and
must be in ASCII format.
Submit to:
Ivan Tomek
c/o WebNet-96/AACE
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu; Phone: 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449
Demonstrations/Posters (2 hours)
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Demonstration/Poster sessions enable researchers and non-commercial
developers to demonstrate and discuss their latest results and development
in progress in order to gain feedback and to establish contact with similar
projects. Demonstration/Poster sessions do not involve a formal
presentation and are not included in the proceedings.
Submissions: Demonstration/Poster proposals should include a 2-3 page
written description of the planned demonstration/poster and should
emphasize the problem; what was done, and why the work is important. The
proposal should make clear the advantages of presenting the material in the
form of a demonstration/poster rather than a paper. The cover page should
include the session title with presenter names, affiliations, complete
addresses, phone numbers, and E-mail address of the principal presenter.
Electronic proposals are preferred and must be in ASCII format.
There will be Best Demonstration/Poster awards for the most successful
submissions in this category.
Demonstration/Poster presenters will be required to arrange for their own
systems software and hardware. A table, poster board and electricity will
be supplied.
Submit to:
Mark McCahill
c/o WebNet-96/AACE
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu; Phone: 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449
Tutorials & Workshops (3 or 6 hours)
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Tutorials and Workshops are intended to enhance the skills and broaden the
perspective of their attendees. They should be designed to introduce a
rigorous framework for learning a new area or to provide advanced technical
training in an area. Submissions will be selected on the basis of the
instructors' qualifications for teaching the proposed tutorial or workshop
and their contribution to the overall conference program. Workshops differ
from tutorials in as much as they involve hands-on experience with
hardware/software provided.
Submissions: Proposals should include a clear description of the
objectives, the intended audience, the length (3 hours or 6 hours), a 200-
word abstract, a 1-page topical outline of the content, and a description
of the instructor's qualifications for teaching the proposed tutorial or
workshop. Each proposal must state what AV equipment is needed. The cover
page should include the session title with instructor names, affiliations,
complete addresses, phone numbers, and E-mail address of the principal
instructor. Electronic proposals are preferred and must be in ASCII format.
Submit to:
Dieter Fellner
c/o WebNet-96/AACE
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu; Phone: 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449
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San Francisco: The International "City by the Bay"
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This world-class city is the ideal location for the debut of the
WebNet conference. Perched on a peninsula, surrounded on three sides
by San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, and connected to the mainland
by the famous Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco is renowned for its beauty,
its international flair, and its eclectic combination of sophistication
and friendliness.
The WebNet conference in the heart of the city and directly on the
California Cable Car line. Nearby is a stunning array of restaurants
and shopping, entertainment, cultural and recreational opportunities,
not to mention many of the city's famous landmarks.
Within a short drive of San Francisco lies some of the most scenic
countryside in all of the U.S.--Muir Woods National Monument and its
old growth huge, old redwood trees; Reyes National Seashore, one of
the most stunning oceanfront parks in the world; California's wine
country where vineyard tours, wine tasting opportunities, and scenic
vistas abound; and the beautiful Carmel/Monterey/Big Sur area.
NOTE: The WebNet-96 conference will be sponsoring sightseeing tours
and group entertainment to take advantage of all that San Francisco
has to offer.
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| WebNet-96 Deadlines |
| |
| Submissions Due: March 1, 1996 |
| Authors Notified: June 1, 1996 |
| Camera Ready Copy Due: August 1, 1996 |
| Early Registration Deadline: September 3, 1996 |
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The Web Society
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The Web Society is an international, non-profit organization with
offices in Austria and the USA. The current Society Executive Council
consists of four persons representing major non-profit Web developers:
- CERN and INRIA for WWW
- Univ. of Minnesota for Gopher
- Graz University of Technology for Hyper-G
The Web Society has been founded out of a concern that the world wide
computer network Internet is growing at a rate that requires accompanying
measures to be addressed.
A detailed list of aims, actions and membership information
is included at http://info.WebSoc.org
Members of the Web Society:
1. have access to all information on the Society's server; they have
reduced registration fee at a variety of conferences, including the
annual WebNet, ED-MEDIA and others;
2. receive one issue of the AACE member periodical, Educational Technology
Review, and free access to the electronic version of all future issues.
Also, receive discounts on all journals of AACE. Discounts for other
journals are under negotiation;
3. receive technical help to an extent as large as possible;
4. can subscribe to a "News Profile." They automatically are informed of
news items on the Society's server that are of particular interest to them;
5. can make information available about themselves;
6. will have their own private "home collections" (only accessible to them)
on the Web Society's server.
The Web Society has individual and corporate members with an annual
membership fee of $20 (three years $50) and $200, respectively.
For further information, see: http://info.WebSoc.org
or contact:
Web Society/AACE
PO Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: aace@virginia.edu
Fax: 804-978-7449
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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AACE (established in 1981) is a non-profit, international organization
whose purpose is to advance the knowledge and quality of learning and
teaching at all levels through the encouragement of scholarly inquiry
related to information technology and education and the dissemination of
research results, developments, and their applications through publications
and conferences for its members.
AACE Conferences include:
- ICCE 95--International Conference on Computers in Education
(Asia-Pacific Chapter) (Singapore; December 5-8, 1995)
- ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
ED-TELECOM--World Conference on Educational Telecommunications
(Boston, MA, USA; June 17-22, 1996)
- SITE--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Ed. Int'l Conference
(Phoenix, AZ, USA; March 13-16, 1996)
- ICLS--International Conference on the Learning Sciences
(Evanston/Chicago, IL, USA; July 24-27, 1996)
- WebNet--World Conference of the Web Society
(San Francisco, CA, USA; October 16-19, 1996)
- AI-ED--World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
(Kobe, Japan; August 1997)
AACE publishes the following journals:
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia in Education
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching
- Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
- Journal of Computing in Childhood Education
- International Journal of Educational Telecommunications
- Educational Technology Review
International Headquarters:
AACE, P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu, 804-973-3987, FAX: 804-978-7449
http://AACE.virginia.edu/AACE
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Date: 24 Oct 1995 18:09:48 GMT
From: Lisa Schiff <lschiff@INFO.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: File 2--UC Berkeley Ethics of the Internet Conference
This is an announcement regarding a one day conference on the Ethics of
the Internet to be held on the UC Berkeley Campus, Saturday Nov. 18th
(agenda outlined below). The conference is cosponsored by the UC Berkeley
Division of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies, the UC Berkeley
School of Information Management and Systems, and UC Berkeley Extension.
Funding is provided by the Steven V. White Endowment for the Teaching of
Ethics. Please feel free to repost this announcement.
The conference is open to the public ($35) and is free to UC Berkeley
Students and Staff who pre-register with a UC ID. There is limited
attendance, so if you are interested in attending, pre-registration is
recommended. Please call UC Berkeley Extension at (510) 642-4111
(reference number EDP 391938). For more information go to the Web page
for
the conference: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences or send email to
RKR@unx.berkeley.edu.
Hope to see you there.
Lisa Schiff
doctoral student
School of Information Management and Systems
UC Berkeley
lschiff@info.berkeley.edu
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Ethics of the Internet
Saturday November 18
145 Dwinelle
UC Berkeley Campus
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Welcome
Dr. Hal R. Varian
Dean, UCB School of Information Management and Systems
Setting the Stage: Ethics of the Internet
Dr. Yale Braunstein
Associate Professor, UCB School of Information Management and Systems
Morning: Perspectives on Access and Democracy
Access as an Ethics Issue: How Access to the Internet Affects Children
Cynthia Samuels
founding executive producer of Channel One; former planning producer of
Today
Universal Access: Social and Political Implications.
Karen Coyle
Technical Specialist, University of California Library Automation
Unit; Internet instructor; chair of the Berkeley chapter of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
Free Expression, Copyright, and Democracy.
Steve Arbuss
attorney and unofficial legal advisor to the Internal Interactive
Communications Society (IICS); expert on privacy and authors' rights
in cyberspace.
Panel of all 3 morning speakers answers remarks from student
responders and questions from audience
Afternoon: Freedoms, Rights, and Crimes
Authenticity, Ownership, and Commercialism of Digital Images.
Howard Besser
Visiting Associate Professor, School of Information and
Library Studies, University of Michigan; expert on image databases and
the impact of multimedia and new information technologies.
Surveillance and Censorship on the Internet.
Jim Warren
MicroTimes columnist; founder of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Conferences
and InfoWorld Magazine; pioneer in computer-assisted political action
and civil liberties advocacy.
Controlling Criminal Contamination of the NET.
Don Ingraham
Assistant District Attorney, Alameda County; head of the High Tech
Crime Team; international consultant on computer crime and its
prosecution.
Panel of all 3 afternoon speakers answers remarks from student
responders and questions from audience.
Wrap-up and conclusion - Panel of all 6 speakers.
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:26:58 -0700
From: Christina Silveira <cms@ora.com>
Subject: File 3--"Computer User's Survival Guide" from O'Reilly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 1995
PRESS--FOR REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT:
Christina Silveira
cms@ora.com
707/829-0515
O'REILLY RELEASES "COMPUTER USER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE"
SEBASTOPOL, CA--Joan Stigliani traveled the world for four years in
search of information that would help computer users stay healthy. She
interviewed practitioners of conventional and alternative
medicine--physical, occupational, and massage therapists,
psychologists, ergonomics researchers, research scientists, equipment
developers, and computer users. Stigliani's findings are presented in
her breakthrough guide to healthy computing, "The Computer User's
Survival Guide: Staying Healthy in a High Tech World," just released by
O'Reilly & Associates. The most comprehensive computer health manual,
it is also the first to incorporate a holistic approach to dealing with
computer users' complex, interrelated, and proliferating ailments.
"This is the most comprehensive, well thought-out and user-friendly
book I have read on RSI," said Ruth Lowengart, MD, MSOM, Assistant
Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School
of Medicine. "Joan Stigliani brings in information on the cutting edge
of what we are just beginning to understand about these disorders."
"The Computer User's Survival Guide" looks squarely at all the factors
that affect home and work computer users' health, including
positioning, equipment, work habits, lighting, stress, radiation, and
general health. Through this guide readers will learn:
> a continuum of neutral postures that they can utilize at different
work tasks
> how radiation drops off with distance and what electrical equipment
is responsible for most exposure
> how modern office lighting is better suited to working on paper than
on a screen, and what they can do to prevent glare
> simple breathing techniques and stretches to keep their body well
oxygenated and relaxed, even when they sit all day
> how reading from a screen puts unique strains on their eyes and what
kind of vision breaks will keep them most productive and rested
> whats going on "under the skin" when their hands and arms spend much
of the day mousing and typing, and how they can apply that knowledge to
prevent overuse injuries
This is not a book of gloom and doom. It is a user's guide to
protecting oneself against health risks from the computer, while
boosting effectiveness and enjoyment of work. It is a most practical
guide, as well. As Caroline Rose, editor of the RSI Network said, "A
single one of its many useful tips can make a world of difference in
the reader's physical and mental well-being."
# # #
The Computer User's Survival Guide
By Joan Stigliani
1st Edition October 1995
296 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-030-9, $21.95 US
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 20:57:20 0000
From: Benjamin Bratton <6500benb@UCSBUXA.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: File 4--SPEED: Call For Papers
Thought you might be interested in this, pass it around...
SPEED: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND SOCIETY
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http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
email: _speed_@alishaw.ucsb.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS, October 1995
_SPEED_ provides a forum for the critical investigation of
technology, mediaz and society. Our intention is to contribute toward
a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always
focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and
media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the
power of ideas to change those conditions. We feel that as media of
various kinds become more ubiquitous, what it means to live with
and talk about a "medium" changes and expands, and so do the
critical vocabularies of interpreting what those transformations
indicate. Our primary goal in that effort is to foster a cross-
fertilization of ideas between communities of people in the
"academy" and "industry" too often separated, not by interest or
common concern, but by artificially imposed disciplinary and
organizational boundaries. We think that _SPEED_ is a promising
step toward making these institutional boundaries more permeable,
and a critical politics of "mediated sociality" more powerful.
Upcoming issues for which we are currently reviewing abstracts and
submissions:
SPEED 1.3: AIRPORTS AND MALLS
Publicity, it seems, is always a matter of circulation. Likewise,
circulation finds itself as a matter of publicity. What then is the
circulation of publicity in a "private space," like a mall or airport?
Where is the social located, if at all? Is it completely a matter of
trajectory, velocity and disappearance; is it or is it not an even more
sinister militarization of what used to be called the "civilian sector?"
"Malls," whether near a highway off-ramp, or an "information
superhighway" off-ramp, are more than architectural generica, they
are nodes in the global circulation of commodities, culture and
community. Malls as "places," are where some people go to be
amongst the fruits of other people's invisible labor. "Airports" as
"places," are where some people go to be themselves circulated
amongst networks of global circulation, as the content of
transportation-as-medium. We are currently reviewing abstracts for
inclusion in a special transmission of _SPEED_ (non-fiction, fiction,
both; www-specific projects encouraged) that will help answer some
of these questions and conundrums.
SPEED 1.4: SPECIAL ISSUE: ON PAUL VIRILIO
We are currently reviewing abstracts and proposals for articles for a
future transmission of _SPEED_ (WWW-specific projects encouraged)
on the critical significance of the work of Paul Virilio. In extremely
diverse arenas Virilio's cybernetic systems theory of the social has
arranged the horizons of wildly unlikely moments of questioning.
As his vision of interpretation/accusation crosses the spectrum of
disciplinary knowledges (while being at "home" in none), we now
hear literary critics speaking of the military origins of the city-
state, newscasters phrasing a "Nintendo War," historians of science
commenting on the phenomenology of electronic banking,
architectural theorists conceiving "the velocity" of airport space,
and computer industry professionals discussing the political history
of the film projector. Certainly these peculiar arrangements are not to
be entirely credited to (blamed on?) Virilio, but they do suggest that
his vocabulary is significant beyond the relatively narrow concerns
of a "Virilio Studies." We hope, therefore, to both interrogate and
expand what it is possible to make "Virilio" say.
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** TO SUBSCRIBE TO _SPEED_, send e-mail to _SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu with
"subscribe" in the subject header. In addition to receiving all future
issues, you will be kept up to date on developments regarding the journal.
VERSION 1.2 "SCIENCE AND RE-ENCHANTMENT" INCLUDES:
BENJAMIN BRATTON (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICS
AND POETICS OF THE FANTASTIC IN AN AGE OF MACHINES
"TECHNO-PROSTHETICS AND EXTERIOR PRESENCE" A CONVERSATION WITH
ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE
AKIRA MIZUTA LIPPIT (U.N. LINCOLN) "THE DEAD EMPEROR'S NEW
CLOTHES: TELEVISION, JAPAN, AND THE SUBJECT OF MULTIPLICITY"
SHELI AYERS (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "VIRILE MAGIC: BATAILLE /
BAUDELAIRE / BALLARD"
GALEN MEURER (EMORY UNIVERSITY) "DN2K"
"SEX ON A SILVER PLATTER" A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE SAENZ
LAURA GRINDSTAFF AND ROBERT NIDEFFER (U.C. SANTA BARBARA) "CUMING
SOON ON CD-ROM: ON THE PROMISE AND THE PITFALLS OF 'VIRTUAL'
PORNOGRAPHY"
ADAM ZARETSKY (U. SALZBURG) "ENDOSYMBIOTIC FORMATION OF
ORGANELLES: THE SPIROCHETAL CASE"
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HOW TO GET _SPEED_
_SPEED_ can be accessed and/or downloaded several different
ways: 1) World-Wide-Web; 2) Anonymous ftp; or 3) Gopher.
1. To Get _SPEED_ via World-Wide-Web just open the following
URL from within your favorite Web-browser:
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~speed
2. To get _SPEED_ via Anonymous ftp just type the following at
your local prompt: ftp alishaw.ucsb.edu
--when asked for a login name type: anonymous
--when asked for a password type the first part of your e-mail
address. For
example: myname@nowhere.pcp
--change directories by typing: cd /pub/_SPEED_
--at the ftp> prompt you can type the normal "get" and "put"
commands. For example: get _SPEED_1.2 (or: mget* to get the whole
directory)
3. To get _SPEED_ via Gopher just type the following at your local
prompt: gopher alishaw.ucsb.edu (you can also type in the IP
address directly as follows: gopher 128.111.222.10)
Once there, you will see the familiar Gopher menu structure with
_SPEED_ being one of your options. At that point you can choose to
browse individual items, or mail them to yourself and/or others.
(You have to Gopher directly to us because the Social Science
Computing Facility at U.C.S.B. where _SPEED_ is archived is not a
registered Gopher server. That's why if you happen to be looking
for _SPEED_ over your regular Gopher server you won't have much
luck finding it. _SPEED_ uses roughly a 65-character line, so your
margins should be set accordingly. Set your font type to Courier, 9pt
if you want to retain formatting after downloading.)
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HOW TO CONTACT _SPEED_
e-mail:
Please send all submissions, criticisms, praise, suggestions, or
anything else you have on your mind to
_SPEED_@alishaw.ucsb.edu.
We want to hear from you!
snail-mail:
If for whatever reason you need to communicate with us via the U.S.
Postal Service, please send your correspondence to:
_SPEED_
c/o Robert Nideffer
Department of Art Studio
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA. 93106
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to the journal can be made by electronic mail
(preferred), on disk (please indicate the program and operating
system used), or by hard-copy (not preferred). No matter what form
your submission takes, please:
--do not use any special characters
--use endnotes instead of footnotes. To indicate an endnote in the
body of your text set it off like this: "blah, blah, blah."[1]
--use the MLA (Modern Language Association) format for references
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1995 22:51:01 CDT
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