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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-path: <ihnp4!druhi!ctl@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> 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. ------------------------------ Return-path: <hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.ARPA> 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. ------------------------------ Return-path: <LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA> 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 --------------- 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. ... ------------------------------ Return-path: <@MIT-REAGAN.ARPA:Hewitt@MIT-MC.ARPA> 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 ******************* ------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ Return-path: <Arpanet-BBoards-Request%MIT-MC@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> 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 ------------------------------ End of HUMAN-NETS Digest ************************