Abstract
Hot WEB Sites!
A global registry of scientists that provides information on researchers, patents, grant opportunities, government procurement, regulation and legal actions.
Links to web-accessible robots, web pages of organizations, businesses, research institutes, universities, newsgroups, ftp sites and more.
Links and information on technologies, standards, education, publications, events and vendors.
Coordinates European standardization activities in medical informatics.
Identifies and indexes over 4,000 clinically-oriented Web pages, organized by topic or type.
On-line information service designed for clinical laboratory professionals (fees, $59-$120 per year, 7-day free trial period).
Project to create detailed three-dimensional representations of the human body by collecting transverse CAT, MRI and cryosection images taken at one-millimeter intervals.
Creature Feature!!!
<http://www.lond-instac.uk/technosphere/index.html>
TechnoSphere is a virtual environment where visitors can choose from a palate of body parts to create their own virtual “beasties.” Creators receive electronic picture postcards of their animals, and e-mail progress reports as the creatures grow, mature, mate, reproduce and die. That is, if they survive the rigors of childhood in TechnoSphere. Our herbivore lasted only 12 hours before we received the following message: “With deepest digital sympathy we regret to inform you that your cyber beast was devoured by a predator. Your creature has fed a family of hungry carnivores.”
Next time, we'll try a carnivore!
Fun Sites on the WWW!
A shareware game (Macintosh only) in which you program robots, then turn them loose in the arena for animated combat to the death—features a complete programming environment for its unique language, RoboTalk, a hardware store, icon factory, and recording studio with which you can equip your robot and add pictures and sounds.
Send a friend an electronic picture postcard of your favorite volcano, earthquake, landslide or tsunami — comes complete with technical data on your chosen disaster from the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.