IAE@CU.NIH.GOV ("Irene Anne Eckstrand") (06/12/91)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 08:59 EDT
From: KIDSNET MAILING LIST <KIDSNET@pittvms>
Subject: Polish connection to EARN (from PLEARN-L)
From: rcbudd@RHQVM19.VNET.IBM.COM (Richard Budd)
Subject: Polish connection to EARN
Newsgroups: bitnet.listserv.plearn-l
Greetings,
IBM-EMEA made the following announcement this morning:
Richard Budd Internet: rcbudd@rhqvm19.vnet.ibm.com
Bitnet : klub@maristb.bitnet
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IBM AND POLISH UNIVERSITIES CREATE COMPUTER-NETWORK
May 29, 1991
WARSAW, Poland -- The Polish Minister of National Education and
representatives from 14 of Poland's leading universities today signed a
cooperation agreement with IBM, launching a major initiative in university
computing in Poland.
The project is part of the IBM Eastern Europe Academic Initiative, which
was created in April 1990. It will bring advanced information technology to
researchers and students across Poland. A center at the University of
Warsaw will be equipped by IBM with state-of-the-art hardware and system
and application software appropriate to the needs of Poland's academic
community and the country's developing economy. IBM will also provide
training and education for the scientific staff of the center and will thus
help to increase the level of information technology skills, skills that
are vital for competitive economies.
Other Polish universities participating in the network are from Poznan,
Wroclaw, Krakow, Gliwice, Katowice, Szczecin, Torun, Lulin, Lodz and
Gdansk.
The equipment IBM is providing will form the backbone of a computer network
linking these universities with each other and with similar networks
created by IBM in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and western Europe, such as EARN
(European Academic Research Network). Through this advanced tool academics
and researchers in institutes of higher education will be able to exchange
information and improve cooperation across national boundaries. In the
long term, this will help Poland to build a viable infrastructure.
Poland's Minister of National Education, Professor Dr Robert Glebocki, and
Dilip Chandra, General Manager for IBM in Eastern and Central Europe,
together with representatives from the 14 universities, signed the
agreement in the Senate Room of the Kazimierzowski Palace - the office of
the Rector of the University of Warsaw - in Warsaw.
After a welcome by the Rector of the University of Warsaw, Professor Andzej
Wroblewski, Dilip Chandra outlined the benefits this IBM initiative is
bringing to Poland by the transfer of technology and management skills.
"Without education there can be no effective communication between people,
but it is surely also true that without communication there can be no
education, especially here in Europe. Today's agreement is an important
step towards a European academic community without borders."
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Date: 7 Jun 91 14:46:42 GMT
From: ZIELINSKI@NYUACF.BITNET (Marek Zielinski)
Subject: Pigulki #6 available
Newsgroups: bitnet.listserv.plearn-l
The next issue of PIGULKI is now available. The "network" section brings
three articles on building EARN and FIDONET networks in Poland, as seen
from Warsaw. There is also a postscript on Project Tempus, Jurek
Klimkowski's Travelogue, and regular departments:
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P I G U L K I an occasional electronic collection of news
analysis, press reviews, and humor from/about
Poland and the Polish community abroad
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June 5, 1991 No. 6
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In this issue:
Networks
ONE YEAR OF EARN NETWORKING
IN POLAND (Part I of II) by Andrzej Smereczynski
POLISH BITNET: HOW IT ALL STARTED by Jacek Gajewski
FIDONET IN POLAND by Jan Stozek
POLAND - ELECTRONIC CONTACTS
Polish Affairs
TEMPUS - a postscript by Jacek Ulanski
Chronicle by Dave Phillips
Back Page: Fisherman of Judea by Jurek Klimkowski
Notes on Contributors
About PIGULKI
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Reguests for single copies and subscriptions can be sent to any of the
distributors:
___Name_______ ___Service Area___ ____Net_Address_______
Dave Phillips - N.America - davep@acsu.buffalo.edu
Marek Zielinski - W.Europe/Poland - zielinsk@nyuacf.bitnet
Wojtek Chudoba - Sweden/Poland - d87-wch@nada.kth.se