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The Stanford University U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center Program Guide
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:05:44 -0500
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 01:00:52 -0800 From: Michael Bayle <macmike () leland stanford edu> Message-Id: <199403160900.BAA26350 () elaine9 Stanford EDU> Stanford University Releases New Internet Web Japan Information System The Stanford University U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center is pleased to announce its release of the Internet X-Guide to Japan Information Exchange System (Version 1.0) at the Library of Congress on March 18. This prototype system incorporates audio, color graphics and text information, and is now immediately available to Internet-linked JITMT centers and universities, industry, and government organizations in the United States and elsewhere. Users with Macintosh, Windows or Unix platforms can access the Stanford site at no cost via the NCSA Mosaic freeware; fee-based access for future features is under discussion. Stanford is also releasing the U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center Homepage, covering U.S.-Japan activities, events and programs in Silicon Valley and at Stanford University. The JITMT Centers Program Guide (prototype) is also now available on the Internet at the Stanford Japan Web site. Interested JITMT Centers may wish to have themselves listed and linked into this Web page, which is placed on the Web for JITMT community comment and suggestions. WHAT IS THE STANFORD X-GUIDE TO JAPAN INFORMATION? The Internet X-Guide to Japan Information Exchange (Version 1.0) represents a first cut at organizing the widely divergent information and data sources about Japan currently available over the Internet. It is organized towards the future when an increasing number of Japanese and U.S. corporations, government agencies, and universities will make science, technology, business and economic information available over the Internet's World Wide Web (WWW). Major categories of Japan information currently incorporated in the X-Guide include the major subject areas shown below: o Japanese Science and Technology Information o Technology and R&D Organizations: Corporate, Government, University o Japanese Business, Economic and Financial Information o U.S.-Japan Relations and Policy o Working, Studying, Traveling and Living in Japan o Japanese Language Computing o Teaching Japanese and About Japan o Internship Opportunities in Japan o JITMT Centers: Program Guide o Kahaner reports Important new Japan references, now made available through the Stanford system, include information on: o Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) Program o Real World Computing (RWC) Program o Japan Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC) report titles To our knowledge, the Stanford Web site maintains the most comprehensive lists of Internet-connected organizations in Japan today. Stanford's system brings together in one reference location pointers to most other major Internet-based sources of Japan information, including the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Web site, university and corporate sites in Japan, important U.S. universities, and other Internet sites. For example, the X-Guide provides easy-to-use (one button press) links to ftp sites maintained at the University of Arizona and the University of Washington, to the MIT Japan Program gopher site, to the MCC ILO Homepage, and to White House ftp archives. The Mosaic mouse-activiated menu-driven format allows quick access to documents, graphics, software, audio files, indexes and other information archived on-line at those sites. Stanford's X-Guide system does not duplicate archives at these and other sites, but instead improves their public accessibility. The X-Guide is entirely complementary to other organizations' efforts to establish distributed specialized Japan information sites. WHAT IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)? The World Wide Web project, led by Europe's CERN laboratory in Geneva, merges information retrieval and hypertext techniques to create a powerful global information system. Today, many Japanese universities and corporations have taken the opportunity to connect to the Internet via Web, gopher and ftp sites, and make text, image and audio information available to the Internet community. Relatively few government organizations in Japan, however, are connected. ACCESSING THE X-GUIDE TO JAPAN INFORMATION To access the Stanford X-Guide, the potential user must have a direct TCP/IP connection to the Internet; at present, modem-based communications with the Stanford site are not possible. Next, install NCSA Mosaic freeware on your system by downloading the most current version for the Macintosh, Windows or Unix from the NCSA ftp site (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic). Stanford Internet X-Guide to Japan Information Exchange: http://fuji.stanford.edu/japan_information/japan_information_guide.html Stanford U.S.-Japan Center Homepage Address: http://fuji.stanford.edu JITMT Centers Program Guide Address: http://fuji.stanford.edu/JIMT/jimt_master.html Finally, once you are in Mosaic, enter the X-Guide Web address (see above) after opening the URL (universal resource locator) window. To access the Stanford U.S.-Japan Center Homepage, or the JITMT Centers Program Guide, enter the appropriate addresses above. STANFORD SEEKS COLLABORATIONS The Stanford U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center is open to partnering with JITMT Centers and other organizations to make the X-Guide to Japan Information Exchange as useful as possible to the Internet community. We particularly look forward to working with partner institutions in Japan, the United States and elsewhere to develop additional sources of Japan information at new Internet sites inside and outside Japan. We also look forward to your comments and suggestions about how to improve the X-Guide and JITMT Guide format and structure. ABOUT THE X-GUIDE DESIGNERS Graduate engineering students Burton Lee and Michael Bayle authored the X-Guide to Japan Information Exchange System. As Project Manager, Mr. Lee conceived, designed, and managed the system implementation. Michael Bayle authored major portions of the X-Guide homepages, and was instrumental in getting the graphics up and on-line. For further information about accessing Stanford's Internet World Wide Web site, or on installation of Web servers and the Mosaic browser, contact Burton Lee or Mike Bayle (japanguide () fuji stanford edu, 415-725-9969), or your local Internet guru.
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