Human-Nets-Request@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles McGrew, The Moderator) (01/24/86)
HUMAN-NETS Digest Thursday, 23 Jan 1986 Volume 9 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Computers and Poeple - "Enemy" Students,
Computer Security - Password Generator Protocol,
Information - OIS-86 paper submission deadline &
MC.LCS.MIT.EDU and MIT-MC
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 86 10:52:35 PST
From: ihnp4!druhi!ctl@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
1/13/86
To William Daul and William R. Soley,
Braille printers and programs:
1. There is a program called 'BRAILLE-EDIT', copyrighted 1984, David
Holladay, produced by Raised Dot Computing Inc that will translate
an ASCII text file into Braille.
Address of said company:
Raised Dot Computing Inc
408 South Baldwin St.
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: General Business: (608) 257-9595
Technical Helpline: (608) 257-8833
2. This program runs on Apple 2e, Apple 2c, Apple 2 Plus.
3. The braille version of the translated text file can be printed on a
Thiel printer. This printer is from Industrie-Electronic, GmBH &
Co., KG (if that means anything to you!). It costs roughly
$7000.00. (or did a couple of years ago).
4. The Red Cross in your area should have info on this sort of
question. Or try your local public library. The above info is from
the Boulder Public Library which has one of the few publically
accessible Thiel printers in the region.
Catherine Lo
AT&T Information Systems
Denver North Room 9Z225
12110 North Pecos
Denver, CO 80234
druhi!ctl
PS: I'm not sure how to reach William R. Soley so this is being posted
hoping it will reach the net or someone who can pass on the
information.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 86 05:31:55 PST
From: hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.ARPA (John Gilmore)
Subject: Re: "enemy" students raping our high tech universities
> both the Soviet Union and the Chinese have a national technical
> policy to send their "students" to American technical institutions
> where they work with the latest and greatest....
> On the other hand almost NO American is studying anything but soviet
> history or literature in the USSR or chinese
> language/literature/history in the PRC. There institutions are
> closed by policy.
That last sentence says it all. The difference is that we are an open
society. We do it this way because we think it works better. If we
choose to close our society to keep the [real or imagined] nasties at
bay, then our "grand experiment" in open society will have failed.
And I for one would probably end up looking for another open society
to take my time and energy to.
Happily I don't think this will happen soon. There's lots of
encroachment by our very own nasties like Reagan, requiring attention
to keep us open. (Did you know the "Electronic Communications Privacy
Act" introduced by Sen. Leahy [Vermont] happens to legalize the use of
electronic tracking devices, e.g. bugs planted on your person, car,
books, etc, at the same time it makes it illegal to wiretap computer
data? Fun stuff.) But there are 200 million of us watching, and
*some* of us still care.
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Date: Mon 20 Jan 86 14:03:15-PST
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Password Generator Protocol
Since there was an extended discussion of password approaches on
Human-Nets, readers may be interested in this official notice.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: 14 Jan 1986 10:32:36 PST
Subject: RFC972 Now Available
A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network
Information Center in the online library at SRI-NIC.ARPA.
RFC 972:
Title: Password Generator Protocol
Author: F. Wancho
Mailbox: Wancho@SIMTEL20.ARPA
Pages: 2
Characters: 3890
pathname: RFC:RFC972.TXT
This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. The
Password Generator Service (PWDGEN) provides a set of six randomly
generated eight-character "words" with a reasonable level of
pronounceability, using a multi-level algorithm. Hosts on the ARPA
Internet that choose to implement a password generator service are
expected to adopt and implement this standard. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Public access files may be copied from the <RFC> directory at
SRI-NIC.ARPA via FTP with username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST.
...
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 86 19:11 EST
From: Hewitt@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: Postponement in OIS-86 paper submission deadline
Because of the delay in the distribution of the call for papers for
OIS-86 in the Newsletter, we have decided to postpone the deadline for
paper submission from February 1 to March 1, 1986 in order to satisfy
the requirements for broad distribution of the call.
Enclosed please find the updated call for papers which reflects this
change:
******************* C A L L F O R P A P E R S
* * ----------------------------------------------
* * Third ACM Conference On
* * OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
* OIS-86 *
* * October 6-8, 1986
* * Biltmore Plaza Hotel
* * Providence, RI
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General Chair: Carl Hewitt, Topics appropriate for this
MIT conference include (but are not
restricted to) the following as
Program Chair: Stanley Zdonik, they relate to OIS:
Brown University
Technologies including Display,
Treasurer: Gerald Barber, Voice, Telecommunications, Print,
Gold Hill Computers etc.
Human Interfaces
Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra,
Brown University Deployment and Evaluation
An interdisciplinary conference on System Design and
issues relating to office Construction
information systems (OIS) sponsored Goals and Values
by ACM/SIGOIS in cooperation with
Brown University and the MIT Distributed Services and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Applications
Submissions from the following Knowledge Bases and Reasoning
fields are solicited:
Distributed Services and
Applications
Anthropology
Artificial Intelligence Indicators and Models
Cognitive Science
Computer Science Needs and Organizational
Economics Factors
Management Science Impact of Computer Integrated
Psychology Manufacturing
Sociology
The program committee includes:
Bob Allen Ray Panko
Bellcore University of Hawaii
Guiseppe Attardi Robert Rosin
University of Pisa Syntrex
James Bair Erik Sandewall
Hewlett Packard Linkoping University
Gerald Barber Walt Scacci
Gold Hill Computers USC
Peter de Jong Andrea Skarra
MIT Brown University
Irene Greif Susan Leigh Star
MIT Tremont Research Institute
Sidney Harris Luc Steels
Georgia State University University of Brussels
Carl Hewitt Sigfried Treu
MIT University of Pittsburgh
Heinz Klein Dionysis Tsichritzis
SUNY University of Geneva
Fred Lochovsky Eleanor Wynn
University of Toronto Brandon Interscience
Fanya Montalvo Aki Yonezawa
MIT Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naja Naffah Stanley Zdonik
Bull Transac Brown University
Margrethe Olson
NYU
Professor J.C.R. Licklider of MIT will be the keynote speaker.
Unpublished papers of up to 5000 words (20 double-spaced pages) are
sought. The first page of each paper must include the following
information: title, the author's name, affiliations, complete mailing
address, telephone number and electronic mail address where
applicable, a maximum 150-word abstract of the paper, and up to five
keywords (important for the correct classification of the paper). If
there are multiple authors, please indicate who will present the paper
at OIS-86 if the paper is accepted. Proceeedings will be distributed
at the conference and will later be available from ACM. Selected
papers will be published in the ACM Transactions on Office Information
Systems.
Please send eight (8) copies of the paper (which must arrive by March
1, 1986) to:
Prof. Stan Zdonik
OIS-86 Program Chair
Computer Science Department
Brown University
P.O. Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912
DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: Margaret H. Franchi (401) 863-1839.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Paper Submission (postponed 1 mo.) March 1, 1986
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1986
Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy: July 1, 1986
Conference Dates: October 6-8,1986
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From: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins%XX@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
Many rumors have been spreading about MC.LCS.MIT.EDU. The following
are the facts:
* The maintenance contract on the machine will be discontinued at the
end of March.
* MIT will continue to support the mail and mailing list activities
that have run historically on MC. After the end of March this
service will reside on other hardware that will be named
MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.
* The KL-10 will not evaporate immediately, although its name and
possibly internet address will change.
Karen R. Sollins
Director of Computing Resources
MIT/Laboratory for Computer Scinece
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