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- Computer underground Digest Wed Aug 31, 1994 Volume 6 : Issue 78
- ISSN 1004-042X
-
- Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
- Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
- Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
- Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
- Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
- Ian Dickinson
- Copylate Editor: John Holmes Shrudlu
-
- CONTENTS, #6.78 (Wed, Aug 31, 1994)
-
- File 1--General Information About Electronic Frontiers Italy (ALCEI)
- File 2--Good, bad, etc. (Response by Jerry Leichter)
- File 3--Florida obscenity trial - implication for artists
- File 4--"Top Secret Data Encryption Techniques" by Held
- File 5--CPSR Conference/Event Calendar
- File 6--GovAccess.046: NASA funds public-access projects
- File 7--Cu Digest Header Information (unchanged)
-
- CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
- THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 08:27:53 -0700
- From: Bernardo Parrella <berny@WELL.SF.CA.US>
- Subject: File 1--General Information About Electronic Frontiers Italy (ALCEI)
-
- General Information About Electronic Frontiers Italy (ALCEI)
-
- Associazione per la Liberta' nella Comunicazione Elettronica
- Interattiva (Association for Freedom in Electronic Interactive
- Communications)
-
- ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy is an association of people
- dedicated to affirm and protect constitutional rights for "electronic
- citizens" as new communications technologies emerge.
-
- ALCEI is focused on the safeguard of freedom of expression and
- personal privacy for any person using electronic communication
- systems for personal, social, cultural, professional activities.
-
- ALCEI was founded in Milan at the end of July 1994 and is inspired by
- the principles and goals of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
-
- The main objectives of ALCEI - EF Italy are:
-
- - To ensure the protection of Constitutional rights for citizens using
- computer-based communication systems, researching and advising on
- current and future laws to ensure those rights;
-
- - To monitor, disclose and oppose any behavior intended to put
- restriction, censorship or suppression of free circulation of
- electronic communications and exchange of information and ideas, no
- matter how controversial.
-
- - To support, encourage and promote the development and use of
- electronic communications, in order to enable all citizens to have a
- voice in the information age.
-
- - To inform and educate the community at large about computer-based
- communication systems, emphasizing their responsible use and their
- positive consequences for our society.
-
- The activities of ALCEI - EF Italy include:
-
- - Organization of electronic mailing lists and public online
- conferences distributed throughout Italian systems for discussion on
- the above mentioned topics and related activities.
-
- - Research of current Italian and International laws regarding
- bulletin board systems and other online information services to set
- up guide-lines for providers of the these services, detailing their
- rights and responsibilities.
-
- - Production and distribution of information in different formats,
- including newsletters of various types for local media, general
- public and the digital community at large.
-
- - Establishment of public meetings and programs focused on the use of
- computer-based communications, in collaboration with local groups and
- individuals.
-
- - Regular exchange of information and experiences with similar
- International organizations and online communities.
-
-
- ALCEI - EF Italy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. It is
- not tied to any political party or financial corporation. It does
- not accept any government grant. Its activities are completely
- supported by membership and personal contributions; its board and
- other active members are volunteers and receive no compensation.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- MEMBERSHIP IN ALCEI - EF Italy
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Annual Membership Fees:
-
- Regular: 50.000 ItLira, US $ 30;
-
- Low-income/Student: 20.000 ItLira, US $ 15;
-
- Supporting, Groups, Organizations: 300.000 ItLira, US $ 200
-
- (Memberships paid during 1994 will be effective until December 31, 1995)
-
- Donations of any amount are well accepted :-)))
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Information, membership form, ecc: <alcei@mailbox.iunet.it>
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 09:56:55 EDT
- From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@LRW.COM>
- Subject: File 2--Good, bad, etc. (Response by Jerry Leichter)
-
- I found Charles Perkins's reply to my earlier article refreshing. While he
- and I may disagree on some issues, his article is at least reasoned and
- provides a basis for further discussion. I'll respond because I think doing
- so can help to further clarify the issues.
-
- Jerry Leichter knocks down a straw man
-
- Perhaps - but it wasn't *my* straw man; it was Brock Meeks who raised the
- arguments to which I was responding.
-
- in his argument that free
- market concerns (about cryptograpy and the clipper chip) should not
- take precedence over public interest and safety. He correctly argues
- that we have regulations for our safety. However, his article assumes
- that the proposed regulations will safeguard citizens' safety and
- interests in a manner similar to current automotive and industrial
- regulations. I do not share this assumption. In fact, I am afraid
- that these proposals will reduce my safety and compromise my own
- interests.
-
- This is a disagreement on issues of fact. Unfortunately, it's difficult to
- know what the actual facts are. I'll be the first to admit that the FBI has
- done an incompetent job of arguing *its* facts. (In fact, I'm rather upset
- with the general incompetence my government has shown in arguing the facts of
- almost anything of late. If we've become a nation of special interest groups
- spouting propaganda as "facts," then unfortunately our government has become
- just another of those groups. It's been said that institutions come to
- resemble their opponents. All too true.)
-
- Absent facts, one has to reason. My reasoning is based on a couple of related
- points:
-
- - If you look at white-color crime prosecutions, you will quickly come
- to the conclusion that success requires that the prosecution get their
- hands on records and communications. Often, the basis of the prosecu-
- tion case is testimony from participants who've been "turned" as a
- result of deals offered to them; but it's the records and intercepted
- communications that clinch the case. Personally, I think that's a
- good thing: I'd rather not see a system in which people are regularly
- convicted solely on the basis of testimony "bought" from their part-
- ners in crime.
-
- - Everyone talks about the fact that we are moving into "the informa-
- tion age," where wealth and power will be in information, not in
- manufactured objects. But consider what this implies for crime: If
- wealth is in information, it is information that will be the object
- of crime. I hate to use drug traffickers as an example, since "drug
- lords" are so over-used as bogey men; but it happens that on this
- front the drug criminals are among the leaders. High-level drug
- criminals deal in information, not drugs. They need never come near
- their products. What they do is arrange shipments, deals, payoffs,
- what have you, from a distance. An attack against them must be made
- against the center of their business - their communications - not
- against the margins (say, individual "drug mules", carrying a few
- pounds of whatever across the border).
-
- - It's much easier and cheaper to build features into a large system
- than to add them later. That's why the argument "well, we haven't
- seen a problem with getting taps yet, so let's wait" is so dangerous.
- It's like the famous joke of the man who falls off a 50-story building
- and is heard to say, as he passes the 5th floor, "Everything's fine
- so far." One need only look at the nature of the networks and ser-
- vices that are being built to know that traditional techniques are
- rapidly becoming obsolete, and that without technical help from the
- network designers, nothing can reasonably replace them.
-
- By the way, I find the complaints from the telephone companies that
- $500 million won't be enough to upgrade their equipment (a) evidence
- of this problem (if you believe it's $500 million or more now, what
- would it cost 10 years from now?) (b) absurdly high, and probably
- made by the same people who estimated that an E911 document cost
- $75,000, or whatever that wonderful number was.
-
- Consider also the following quote from EPIC's statement, which appeared in the
- same issue of CuD:
-
- Indeed, the telecommunications industry has consistently maintained
- that it is unaware of any instances in which a communications carrier
- has been unable to comply with law enforcement's requirements.
-
- As I read the FBI Wiretap Bill currently under discussion, this statement
- shows that the current system provides the required facilities. Cost of
- compliance: $0.00! What are the telco's complaining about, then? Do they
- perhaps realize that it won't be so simple to comply in the future?
-
- I am not concerned about the ethical use of the powers of observation
- that would be created by the digital telephony proposals. I AM
- concerned about the unethical uses. The unethical uses by government
- officials
-
- We've dealt with unethical behavior by government officials through laws and
- checks and balances. The current bill - much improved over previous versions
- in this regard - contains additional safeguards of this sort. Procedural
- safeguards can never be perfect; nothing devised by human beings ever is. But
- to blind oneself to the cost of alternatives in the search for perfection does
- more harm than good.
-
- or criminals (anyone using these avenues without authority
- but with the technical ability and illicit knowlege.)
-
- If there's little evidence for widespread problems by law enforcement in its
- use of the current system, there's even less for this. In any case, one of
- the important changes between earlier versions of the bill and this one are
- the removal of requirements that the government initiate the taps itself.
- Under the current proposal, as in the current system, the telco's are to do it
- at government request. Besides being yet another check and balance, and
- another place where records that might demonstrate abuses will be stored, this
- eliminates the (perhaps not so far-fetched) fear of the super-hacker who gains
- access to the government-controlled remote tapping equipment. Certainly, even
- in such a system, criminals can bribe or pressure telco employees - but anyone
- who thinks the telco itself cannot gain access to the data it carries is
- kidding himself. Whether for billing or network management purposes, the
- telco's will have this capability, even if it's in a form that may not be
- particularly useful for a government tap. (That, by the way, is one reason I
- find the telco cost estimates so absurdly high.)
-
- In any case, the traditional telephone system was a triviality for anyone with
- minimal technical knowledge and a few dollars of equipment to tap into. If
- tapping by criminals wasn't a big concern for that system, why the worry now?
-
- I also am
- concerned about the precedent this would set. I would like to think
- that I have a right to privacy in my communications with others.
-
- You do. The Constitution guarantees "The right of the people to be secure in
- their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
- seizures...." But the same Fourth Amendment goes on to describe how a legiti-
- mate warrant, under which searches and seizures are permissible, is to be
- issued. Law isn't a set of abstractions; it's the practical basis for civil
- society. "Both rich and poor have the right to sleep under bridges." A law
- has to be implementable, or it's just words on paper.
-
- The Constitution, and any codification of laws, is a tradeoff between the
- liberties of individuals and other individuals, and between individuals and
- the common polity. Not even the rights to life (in the sense of the Declara-
- tion of Independence!) and liberty are absolute - criminals can be jailed or
- even executed, and anyone can be drafted in time of war or other emergency.
- Why should a right to privacy in communications be more important than life
- or liberty?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 18:23 EDT
- From: anonymous <tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu>
- Subject: File 3--Florida obscenity trial - implication for artists
-
- The following item is reproduced from Reason magazine. It may be
- of interest, as I see a chilling resemblance to the recent
- Tennessee prosecution of a California bulletin board operator.
-
- ==================================================================
- COMIC INJUSTICE
- A Florida obscenity trial may have wide implications for artists
-
- By Nick Gillespie
- "Reason" (ISSN 0048-6906) Sept/Oct 1994
-
- When 24-year-old artist Michael Diana sold two copies of his
- self-published comic book "Boiled Angel" to undercover deputy
- sheriffs in Florida's Pinellas County, he didn't exactly profit
- from the sale. Instead, Diana was arrested and charged with
- publishing, advertising and distributing obscene materials.
-
- At his trial last April, Diana's jury agreed with witnesses for
- the prosecution who testified that "Boiled Angel" had no literary
- or artistic merit and that it appealed only to "deviant groups"
- and "those who have a libertine bent in their thinking." Diana,
- who faced a possible prison stay of three years, was sentenced to
- three years' probation and fined $3,000.
-
- Under the terms of his probation, he must perform eight hours of
- community service a week, attend and pay for a course in
- journalistic ethics, and submit to periodic searches to confirm
- he is no longer producing obscene material. And because Diana
- must also refrain from all contact with anyone younger than 18,
- he has lost his job as a clerk at his father's convenience store.
-
- Ironically, the copies bought by undercover policemen were
- Diana's only local sales. Diana sent "Boiled Angels", which sold
- about 300 copies per issue, through the mail only to subscribers
- in the United States, France, Australia and Africa. The comic
- consists of illustrated stories and poems attacking Christianity
- and depicting serial murders, satanic rituals, sexual assaults,
- and cannibalism. Diana testified in court that he intended his
- work to be "a mirror to our society, to show its problems." But
- after his sentencing, Diana said, "I won't do anything that might
- be considered obscene."
-
- Seth Friedman, the publisher of "Factsheet Five", a San
- Francisco-based review of underground comics, says he believes
- Diana's conviction will "absolutely" have a chilling effect on
- artistic expression, even outside the comic-book community.
- "Especially if you live in a non-urban part of the country," says
- Friedman, "you realize you have to be very, very careful if your
- work deals with sexuality or religion." Friedman, who testified
- on Diana's behalf, doubts the comic-book artist would have been
- convicted -- or even tried -- in a more cosmopolitan setting.
-
- But he notes that small-town successes will likely encourage
- prosecutors in bugger cities to try similar cases. "This sort of
- censorship will lead to larger things if it's not snuffed out at
- the source," says Friedman.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 11:52:53 -0600 (MDT)
- From: "Rob Slade, Ed. DECrypt & ComNet, VARUG rep, 604-984-4067"
- Subject: File 4--"Top Secret Data Encryption Techniques" by Held
-
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- 76350.3014@compuserve.com
- "Top Secret Data Encryption Techniques", Held, 1993, 0-672-30293-4,
- U$24.95/C$31.95
-
- This book is a lot of fun, and may even be of some use. A number of
- ciphering techniques are outlined, and the interested hobbyist can
- undoubtedly come up with many variations on the themes. The included
- source code, in BASIC, is simple and straightforward, and can easily
- be modified to suit new ideas.
-
- Fun, and possibly useful, but definitely *not* top secret. Of the
- five chapters that actually deal with encipherment, three deal
- strictly with mono-alphabetic substitution. Regardless of how complex
- the substitution, a one-to-one correspondence is susceptible to either
- character frequency analysis or brute force cracking. The remaining
- two chapters deal with poly-alphabetic substitutions that are still,
- because of the fact of substitution, subject to brute force attacks.
- (The one exception is the generation of a "one time" pad.)
-
- Advanced encryption is currently the province of higher mathematics.
- Explanations and sample code for these would require more
- sophistication than the current book demands. Still, it would not
- have been impossible to include them, and it might have improved the
- scope of the book.
-
- Simple, and subject to attack, or not, the techniques in the book can
- be used for some measure of privacy and security. As stated in the
- preface, even crackable codes may raise the expense of getting at the
- data beyond its worth.
-
- rot13 this message after reading.
-
- copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKTSDET.RVW 940712
-
- ======================
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- Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" (Sept. '94) Springer-Verlag
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 15:37:05 -0700
- From: email list server <listserv@SUNNYSIDE.COM>
- Subject: File 5--CPSR Conference/Event Calendar
-
- CPSR Members,
- If you are planning to attend a conference, please contact CPSR at
- cpsr@cpsr.org or (415) 322-3778 for easy ways for you to be a presence for
- CPSR.
-
-
- CONFERENCE /EVENT SCHEDULE
-
- VRST '94 (Virtual Reality Software and Technology), SINGAPORE, Aug 23-26.
- Contact: gsingh@iss.nus.sg
-
- Technologies of Surveillance; Technologies of Privacy. The Hague, The
- NETHERLANDS, Sept. 5. Sponsored by Privacy International and EPIC.
- Contact: Simon Davies davies@privint.demon.co.uk
-
- 16th International Conference on Data Protection. The Hague, The
- NETHERLANDS, Sept. 6-8. Contact B. Crouwers 31 70 3190190 (tel)
- 31 70 3940460 (fax)
-
- Breaking the Barriers to the National Information Infrastructure, ANA Hotel,
- Washington, DC, Sept. 7-8.
- Contact: 908 885-6758 for automated fax information and delivery system.
-
- Seybold San Francisco, Moscone Center, Sept. 13-16. Contact: 800 488-2883
-
- MHVR '94 (Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality), Moscow, RUSSIA,
- Sept. 14-16. Contact: plb@plb.icsti.su
-
- Networks Expo / Communications '94 /Windows World '94, Dallas, TX Sept. 20-22.
-
- Contact: 800 829-3976.
-
- Executive Summit Meeting of the Central and East European Computer
- Industry, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, Sept. 25-28.
- Contact: 0005113705@mcimail.com, 212 924-8800 (phone) 212 924-0240 (fax)
-
- Information Superhighway Summit, San Jose, CA, Sept. 26-28. A Comnet
- Conference. Contact: 800-225-4698 (US) or 505 879-6700
-
- Legal and Business Aspects of the Internet and Online Services, New York City,
- Sept. 29-30. Contact: 800 888-8300 ext. 6111 or 212 545-6111.
-
- "Manging the Privacy Revolution," Washington, DC, Oct. 4-5 .
- Contact: 201 996-1154 201 996-1883 (fax)
-
- National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists "Legal, Ethical and
- Technological Aspects of Computer and Network Use and Abuse" Maryland,
- October 7-9. Contact: 202 326-6600 202 289-4950 (fax) drunkle@aaas.org
-
- "Organizing for Access, " CPSR Annual Meeting, Price Center, University of
- California - San Diego, San Diego, CA, Oct. 8-9. Contact: cpsr-annmtg@cpsr.org
-
- People, Networks, and Communication '94, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 11-14.
- Contact: Dr. Ernest Kho, Jr. 808 933-3383 ekho@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
-
- 4th Beijing International Symposium on Computer-Based Information
- Management (BISCIM '94), Beijing, CHINA, Oct. 14-18.
- Contact: tian@asiainfo.com 214 351-5008 (tel) 214 351-4861 (fax)
-
- Symposium: An Arts and Humanities Policy for the National Information
- Infrastructure. Boston, Mass. October 14-16, 1994. Sponsored by the
- Center for Art Research in Boston. Contact: Jay Jaroslav
- (jaroslav@artdata.win.net).
-
- American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA
- Oct. 17-20. Contact: 301 495-0900 (ph) 301 495-0810 (fax) asis@cni.org
-
- "Access 2001: Sharing Strategies for an Evolving Community Media,"
- Hyatt Ricky's, Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 20-22. Contact: 415 949-7616.
-
- "People & Technology in Harmony," Nashville, TN, Oct. 24-28.
- Contact: 310 394-1811 310 394-2410(fax)
-
- Third Biennial Conference on Participatory Design, Chapel Hill, North
- Carolina, October 27-28, 1994. Sponsored by CPSR.
- Contact suchman@ncsu.edu 919 942-9773
- http://cpsr.org/cpsr./conferences/pdc94/pdc94.html
- ftp.cpsr.org /cpsr/conferences/pdc94 directory.
-
- Information Systems Education Conference, Sponsored by Education
- Foundation of the DPMA, Louisville, Kentucky, October 28-30
- Contact: cohene@email.enmu.edu
-
- ALCTS Institute on the Electronic Library, San Antonio, TX October 29-30.
- Contact 513 873-2380 513 873-4109(fax) ahirshon@desire.wright.edu
-
- ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA,
- October 31-Nov.1 Contact: glinert@cs.washington.edu
-
- 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax, VA,
- Nov. 2-4. Contact: gong@csl.sri.com
-
- Ethics in the Computer Age, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, November 11-13.
- Contact: Dreese@cs.msstate.edu
-
- 21st Annual Computer Security Conference & Exhibition, Washington, DC,
- Nov. 14-16. Contact: 415 905-2626 415 905-2218 (fax)
-
- Open Systems World, Washington Convention Center, DC, Nov. 28-Dec. 2.
- Contact: 301 953-9600 (phone) 301 953-2213 (fax)
-
- The Technology for Information Security Conference '94 (TISC '94),
- Galveston, TX, Dec. 5-8.
- Contact: John D'Agostino dagostin@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov
-
- North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, San Antonio, TX,
- Dec. 18-21. Contact: nafips94@cs.tamu.edu
-
- Second International Conference on Information Warfare: "Chaos on the
- Electronic Superhighway," Montreal, CA, Jan. 18-19. .
- Contact: Mich Kabay, 75300.3232@compuserve.com
-
- ETHICOMP95: An international conference on the ethical issues of using
- Information Technology, DeMontfort University, Leicester, ENGLAND,
- March 28-30, 1995. Contact: Simon Rogerson srog@dmu.ac.uk
- 44 533 577475 (phone) 44 533 541891 (Fax).
- Paper and Workshop Submissions -deadline for notification of intention to
- submit 8/31/94.
-
- ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI'95), Denver, CO,
- May 7-11.
- Contact 410 263-5382 chi95@sigchi.acm.org
- http://info.sigchi.acm.org/sigchi/chi95.html
-
- IDT 95 12th Congress - Information Markets and Industries, Paris, FRANCE,
- June 13-15. Organized by ADBS (Society of information professionals), ANRT
- (National Association of Technological Research), and GFII (French association
- of information industries). Contact: 33 1 43 72 25 25 (ph) 33 1 43 72 30 41
- (fax)
-
- Key Players in the Introduction of Information Technology: Their Social
- Responsibility and Professional Training, BELGIUM, July 5-7, 1995.
- Contact: nolod@ccr.jussieu.fr clobet@info.fundp.ac.be
- Paper submissions by Nov. 2, 1994
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 03:47:21 -0700
- From: Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.SF.CA.US>
- Subject: File 6--GovAccess.046: NASA funds public-access projects
-
- [excerpts from a Smart Valley announcement]
-
- From michaelm@svi.org Mon Aug 29 18:43:57 1994
- To: Smart Valley Mail List <svp@smart1.svi.org>
-
- (Permission to cross-post this release was granted by NASA
- Headquarters, 8/25/94)
-
- ------------------BEGIN NASA PRESS RELEASE------------------------
-
- August 24, 1994
- NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
-
- RELEASE: 94-138
-
- NASA AWARDS INTERNET GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
-
- NASA today selected 15 organizations to receive a total of
- $20 million to help develop applications and technologies as a
- part of the Agency's efforts to provide public use of Earth and
- space science data over the Internet. Some of the projects are
- joint ventures that also will receive funding through other
- sources.
-
- The remote sensing database (RSDB) applications will make
- the information more accessible to a wider audience than in the
- past. The digital library technology (DLT ) projects will
- advance the technologies in use by digital libraries and offer
- new paths for the libraries of tomorrow.
-
- These selections closely follow the Remote Sensing Public
- Access Center award announced Aug. 8, 1994. Additional RSDB
- application and DLT awards will be made in the near future.
-
- ...
-
- The projects are part of the Information Infrastructure
- Technology and Applications program administered from NASA
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C., with technical management
- provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-
- -end-
-
- A complete list of the grants and agreements follows.
-
- RSDB AND DLT GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS
-
- A total of nine projects to develop RSDB applications are
- receiving funding have agreements or grants. They are:
-
- Athena: Curriculum Development, Implementation and Support
- on the Internet, -- a $900,000 cooperative agreement between NASA
- and Science Applications International Corp., Seattle.
- Associates include Northshore School District, Bothell, Wash.;
- Seattle Public Schools; Lake Washington School District,
- Kirkland, Wash.; Bellevue (Wash.) Public Schools; and
- the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia,
- Wash. The project will develop curriculum materials integrating
- ocean, weather, land and space data for grades K-12.
-
- Bay Area Digital GeoResource (BADGER): A Model for
- Public/Private Shared Access to Earth Science Data Over the
- Internet -- a $3 million cooperative agreement between NASA and
- Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Research and Development
- Division, Palo Alto, Calif. Associates include NASA
- Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; International
- Geomarketing Corp., Redwood City, Calif.; and the City of
- Mountain View, Calif. BADGER will enable local governments,
- utilities, businesses and the public to find, use and share data
- sets referenced by geological features that help them manage
- current responsibilities and improve the quality of their
- products and services.
-
- Earth System Science Community Curriculum Testbed -- a $1.1
- million cooperative agreement between NASA and ECOlogic Corp.,
- Washington, D.C. Gonzaga High School, Washington, D.C., is an
- associate in this project. The effort will develop Internet
- access and curriculum materials for investigation-based science
- instruction by high school and college students.
-
- Enhanced Access for Forest Management Planning -- a $600,000
- grant to the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Department
- of Natural Resources, Grand Rapids, will cooperate in this
- endeavor to use LANDSAT imagery, digitized aerial photography and
- ground-based forest databases aiding in the management of forest
- resources.
-
- Enhancing the Teaching of Science in Elementary Education
- Through the Application of NASA Remote Sensing Data Bases and
- Internet Technology -- a $200,000 cooperative agreement between
- NASA and The Analytic Sciences Corp., Arlington, Va., with
- support from Franconia, Va., Elementary School and the
- Fairfax, Va., County School district. This project will develop
- weather-based curriculum for grades K-6.
-
- Exploring the Environment -- a $1.8 million cooperative
- agreement with the NASA Classroom of the Future at Wheeling
- Jesuit College, Wheeling, W.Va. The project will develop
- computer software modules for use by high school students and
- teachers investigating Earth-science questions via extended
- inquiries over the Internet.
-
- NASA Digital Image Data Distribution for Education, Public
- Access and Tourism in Hawaii: A Model System -- a $900,000 grant
- to the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Associates are the NASA
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Maui Community
- College, Kahului, Hawaii; Leeward Community College, Pearl City,
- Hawaii; and Highlands Intermediate School, Pearl City. This
- effort will prepare and present current data and imagery of
- the Hawaiian Islands over the Internet for use by the tourism
- industry as well as education, television and researchers.
-
- VOLCANOWATCH: Bringing Volcano Remote Sensing Data to
- Classrooms and National Parks and Monuments -- awarded a $900,000
- grant to the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Other
- participants include Lincoln Elementary School, Grand Forks;
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu; Educational Services
- District 112, Vancouver, Wash.; Hawaii Volcanoes National Park;
- and Gifford Pinchot National Forest, USDA Forest Service,
- Vancouver, Wash. The project will present information over the
- Internet covering current and historical activity of terrestrial
- and planetary volcanoes. Targeted audiences include visitors to
- Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and Hawaii Volcanoes
- National Park as well as grade-school students.
-
- Public Access to Earth and Space Science Data Via
- Television, -- a $2.2 million cooperative agreement between NASA
- and WRC-TV, Washington, D.C. Partners in this endeavor include
- the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; NASA Stennis
- Space Center, Miss.; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
- Administration's National Weather Service, Washington, D.C. The
- project will develop visualizations of current Earth and space
- science data to be included as part of the daily weather and news
- reports for WRC-TV and other NBC affiliates. More importantly,
- the data also will be available over the Internet for use in
- science classes.
-
- Six DLT projects are receiving funding to help provide for
- the future technologies for our libraries and research
- information. They are:
-
- Compression and Progressive Transmission of Digital Images--
- a $500,000 grant to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the
- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore. This team will
- improve the rate at which large digital images can be transferred
- across the network.
-
- Creating the Public Connection: Interactive Experiences with
- Real-Time Earth and Space Science Data -- an $800,000 grant to
- Rice University, Houston, in collaboration with the Houston
- Museum of Natural Sciences. The work will advance kiosk
- technology, allowing touch navigation through multi-
- disciplinary science data, as well as making NASA data available
- to all who visit the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
-
- Retrieval of Digital Images by Means of Content Search -- a
- $2 million cooperative agreement with IBM Corp., Yorktown
- Heights, N.Y. The project focuses on content retrieval on
- compressed images. Test Applications and Digital Library
- Technologies in Support of Public Access to Earth and Space
- Science Data -- a $2.1 million cooperative agreement between NASA
- and the University of Illinois, National Center for
- Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign. The team will
- develop Mosaic file format enhancements, and a Space Science and
- Astronomy server. Mosaic is a popular software tool used to
- access information on the Internet.
-
- Useability and Interoperability: A Dual Strategy for
- Enabling Broader Public Use of NASA's Remote Sensing Data on
- Internet -- a $2.3 million cooperative agreement between NASA and
- Bellcore, Morristown, N.J., in collaboration with Camber Corp.,
- Huntsville, Ala.; Open GIS Foundation, Cambridge, Mass.; and
- the Goddard Space Flight Center. The team plans to develop a
- virtual geodata model to enable broader public use of
- remote-sensing data.
-
- "Reaching NASA from Home -- Internet Access via Cable TV" --
- a $700,000 cooperative agreement with Computer Sciences Corp.,
- Calverton, Md., in collaboration with Jones Intercable,
- Gambrills, Md.; Integral Systems, Lanham, Md.; and the Goddard
- Space Flight Center. The team will develop a system to provide
- Internet access to the general public using channels on a
- local cable television connection.
-
- ...
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- Michael C. McRay
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