============================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA EDUPAGE ============================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded by Gleason Sackman, net-happenings moderator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: E D U P A G E 06-03-93 ----------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )---------------------------------------- EDUPAGE. This is EDUPAGE, a summary of some of the week's news items on information technology, provided as a service by EDUCOM. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see the instructions at the end of this digest. THE (E)VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. President Clinton may now be reached by email at president@whitehouse.gov. Vice President Gore can be reached by sending email to vice.president@whitehouse.gov. The response you receive from the White House Director of Correspondence will say: "Your message has been read, and we are keeping careful track of all the mail we are receiving electronically. We will be trying out a number of response-based systems shortly, and I ask for your patience as we move forward to integrate electronic mail from the public into the White House." FORMULA FOR SUCCESS. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said: "There seems to be this thing that business success must have come because somebody's aggressive or there must be some dark secret. That's certainly not my experience in business. Usually, it's because you take a big risk, you bet on something early, like Windows in our case. Everybody else doesn't believe in it, they don't invest, and we have this incredible success because we were right." (Atlanta Constitution 6/1/93 D4) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. A Los Angeles-based astrophysicist and musician has produced recordings of radiowave transmissions from a galaxy 180 million light-years from earth. The sounds were electronically transferred onto CDs and are commercially available as "Music from the Galaxies." (Wall Street Journal 5/28/93 B1) SPECTRUM BILL REPORTED OUT. Legislation authorizing the FCC to auction off 200 megahertz of government spectrum was reported out of committee May 25. The measure is intended to raise $7.2 billion in general revenues over the next five years through competitive bidding for FCC licenses. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) predicts much higher revenues, noting that with new technologies in compressing and sharing spectrum, licenses will be worth "a great deal more than anyone envisioned." (BNA Daily Report for Executives 5/26/93 A16) DISTANCE LEARNING BOOM FOR PACIFIC-RIM. Group chief executive Brent Harmon of Television New Zealand Ltd. predicts a surge of satellite-delivered education for providing job training to the "200 million new entrants into the labor force during the 1990s" in the Asia-Pacific region. Harmon anticipates upwards of 2,000 channels by the year 2000, and sees education as a powerful niche market for satellite interests. Peter Drucker recently noted that higher education may well prove America's largest "export" to the People's Republic of China. (Satellite News 5/31/93 p.5) HDTV STUDY PREDICTS COMPUTER JOBS. A study conducted by the Economic Strategy Institute indicates that an innovative, interoperable HDTV system would produce 300,000 to 500,000 U.S. jobs over a 10-year period, with at least 80 to 90 percent in the computer and semiconductor industries. (BNA Daily Report for Executives 5/28/93 A24) LC CATALOG NOW ON THE INTERNET. Computer users can now tap into LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System, to peruse the Library's catalog system from home or work. The e-mail address for LOCIS is 140.147.254.3 or locis.loc.gov and can be reached using the "telnet" function. (Chronicle of Higher Education 6/2/93 A16) APPLE SUIT DISMISSED. Apple Computer's long-running copyright lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft ended Tuesday when a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed the suit's two remaining elements. The $5.5-billion legal action was filed in 1988. Apple has said it will appeal the decisions. (Multiple sources) LISTS OF LISTSERVS. The third edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists is now available from the Association of Research Libraries -- (202) 296-2296. The directory compiles 1,152 listservs and 240 electronic journals. (Chronicle of Higher Education 6/2/93 A15) AT&T AND IBM DEVELOP RIVAL VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS. Industry giants AT&T and IBM have come up with rival systems to offer home viewers movies-on-demand with just the click of a remote control button. Both systems enable viewers to pause, rewind or fast-forward their selection. IBM will debut its system at the cable industry show next week in San Francisco. AT&T's recently announced an alliance with Viacom International to market test its system in California next year. (Multiple sources) IBM AND E-SYSTEMS TO MARKET MASS STORAGE SYSTEMS. IBM and E- Systems Inc., a Dallas-based military electronics firm, will combine technologies to market a workstation capable of storing up to 10,000 trillion bytes of data, using a robot to file and retrieve data cartridges. The system will sell for a base price of $1.5 million, about half the price of a basic supercomputer. (New York Times 5/28/93 C3) MOTOROLA INTRODUCES SPEEDY MODEM. Motorola Inc. has developed a high-speed modem that is more than twice as fast as the fastest existing Motorola modem and more than four times as fast as competitors' models when processing large amounts of complex data. The modem operates over standard telephone lines at speeds of 56 to 72 kilobits per second. (Wall Street Journal 6/1/93 B6) COMMUNICATIONS BATTLE. British Telecommunications has acquired 20% of MCI as part of a global communications alliance, presenting a new challenge for AT&T. The new alliance and others that will compete with it "will bring one-stop shopping for transmission links and the ability to truly globalize a corporate network." (Wall Street Journal 6/3/93) ********************************************************************* NEW FROM EDUCOM CORPORATE ASSOCIATES The remaining items are announcements from EDUCOM Corporate Associates. 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