cross@wsu.CSNET (George Cross) (05/13/86)
[Ken - I think this may be of interest to some portion of the AI community.
It was on the Weizmann Bulletin Board]
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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - UNIVERSITY PARK
4800 CALHOUN BOULEVARD
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77004
For More Information:
Norman Kagan, Ph.D. or
Distinguished Professor
Robert Morecock, M.A.
Graduate Assistant
713-749-7621
EPSYNET@UHUPVM1.BITNET
March 21, 1986
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Selected professional papers scheduled for presentation at the
August APA convention soon will be available worldwide via
PSYCHNET, the new electronic bulletin board and mail machine at
the University of Houston.
Dr. Norman Kagan, distinguished professor and chair of the
Educational Psychology Department there said, "PSYCHNET will
enable psychologists to arrive with papers in hand, having read
and processed the presenters' ideas months in advance of the
convention. They will be ready to discuss these ideas rather than
just assimilate them at our annual meeting."
PSYCHNET, which will eventually serve the psychological
community in a number of ways, is distributed by BITNET, the
electronic mail network that links much of the academic world.
"This year PSYCHNET will be sending out papers for Divisions
12, 16, 17 and 38 to anyone on the BITNET system who requests
them. Next year we hope that even more divisions will
participate," continued Dr. Kagan, "and we are already encouraging
people to contact us via BITNET because PSYCHNET is up and
running."
"Most requests for papers will be automatically acknowledged
within five seconds," said Dr. Kagan. Actual arrival time of
requested papers will vary from five seconds to twenty minutes,
depending on how busy the mail system is. "We are hoping people
will go ahead and give PSYCHNET a try now, rather than wait till
the last minute."
For most computer sites with VM operating systems the command
TELL UH-INFO AT UHUPVM1 PSYCHNET HELP will start the process of
requesting PSYCHNET papers. Many VAX sites (JNET) will find the
command
SEND UH-INFO@UHUPVM1 PSYCHNET HELP
will obtain the same information. Others should consult
their local computer center regarding sending the message PSYCHNET
HELP to userid UH-INFO at node UHUPVM1.
Via leased lines BITNET makes PSYCHNET available at some 1203
nodes or university computer sites in the free world. Locations
range from Israel in the Middle East, to Europe, the United States
and Canada, then west as far as Tokyo in Japan.
Users of VM (BITNET) systems can obtain the psychnet
exec, which vastly simplifies using psychnet. Just give the command
TELL UH-INFO AT UHUPVM1 PSYCHNET SENDME PSYCHNET EXEC
When it arrives move it from your reader to your file area and then
give the command PSYCHNET. Your PSYCHNET use will now be automatic