bokonon@elaine27.stanford.edu (jeffrey wishnie) (01/23/91)
Thanks to all who responded to my previous posting requesting information for the Winter 1991 issue of NeXT on Campus. We received more than 50 project descriptions and were able to put together a great listing of NeXT Academic Projects. The issue is now being printed and will be distributed nationwide during the first week of February. It will also be available at the public archives (from the sonata.cc.purdue.edu archive) shortly after publication. For those of you new to the NeXT world, NeXT on Campus is a journal produced by the Higher Education Group at NeXT. The purpose of the publication is to highlight uses of NeXT computers in higher education (both teaching and research), to foster communication among educational users of NeXT technology, and to provide useful resources to educational users. The journal is published three times a year (January, April, and August) and is distributed to approximately 40,000 people and the public archive sites. We are currently compiling the Academic Projects list for the Spring 1991 issue of NeXT on Campus. If you are working on a project you feel will be of interest to others in the NeXT community and would like it to be listed in NeXT on Campus, please fill out the attached information request form and return it via e-mail to: next_on_campus@next.com An "academic project" is any work you are doing that involves a NeXT computer. Projects listed in previous issues of NeXT on Campus include: The Genome Machine, a genetic information access and analysis tool. A video-tape training seminar. MidasPlus, an interactive molecular design and simulation system. A music composition laboratory. Bessie, an interactive tutorial for teaching FM music synthesis. A series of modules to teach history and geography. DBA, a database management research project. Here is a sample listing from the Fall90 issue: > Text Search Engine for the Humanities--A client application that > allows quick and powerful searches through massive texts stored > using the PAT text search engine. > George Drapeau > Workstation Environments Specialist > Academic Information Resources > Stanford University > drapeau@jessica.stanford.edu IMPORTANT: In order to include your project in the Spring issue, we need to receive your response by Friday, February 15. If you do not have any project information to report but would like a free subscription to NeXT on Campus, fill out the request form and return it to: next_on_campus@next.com Thank you, Jeff Wishnie Technical Editor, NeXT on Campus ------------------------ Information Request Form ------------------------ Full Name: Title: Institution/Organization: Department: Address, phone, and e-mail address: Which contact information you would like listed (i.e. e-mail only)? Number of NeXT computers in department: Project title and discipline: Project status (i.e. completed, being coded, prototyped, proposed): Briefly describe your project: Would you like a free subscription to NeXT on Campus?