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 ======================================================================== 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." End of Notice 08/27/91 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ================================================================== 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 __________________________________________________________________ June 5, 1991 No. 6 __________________________________________________________________ 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 ===================================================================== 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