The Stanford University U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center Program Guide

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

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.