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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Computer and Information Services Newsletter Information Services Volume 2, Number 8 February 1993 Information and Technical Coordinators T Features Conference '93 Information and Technical Coordinators Conference '93 ........................................... 169 NSF Network Milestone ...................................... 170 On March 3, 1993, the University will hold its first EDUCOM Awards: (February 26 Deadline) ............ 171 Information and Technical Coordinators Conference. List Servers (LISTSERV) ..................................... 172 Try Your Hand at A.D.A.M ................................... 174 Electronic Mail News: New Version of Pine .......... 175 This meeting will provide an opportunity for faculty, Ethernet Cards and Network Applications ............ 176 University departments, and vendors to exchange informa Ethernet Connections ........................................ 177 tion about computer resources. While the conference Copying Software .............................................. 178 focuses on networking among the University's information Statistics Software Reviews on Gopher ............... 179 and technical coordinators, the theme is of universal High Speed, High Quality Printing Service ............ 180 interest: the role of technology in higher education and Central System News: how high-tech can be used to provide the best education UZ: Ultrix Service ........................................ 182 Mathematica Version 2.1 on UZ .................. 183 and service to students. SAS 6.07 Available ..................................... 184 SELECT Command for VMS .......................... 186 The morning portion of the conference targets technical Free E-Mail Accounts and Training ...................... 186 and information coordinators and attendance is by invita Bargains: tion only. At l :00 the conference opens to the public and POPMail PC 3.1 .......................................... 192 the entire University community is invited to learn about Exchanging Documents with System 6.x ....... 193 exciting applications of information technology in the Scheme for IBMs and Macs ......................... 193 Word for Windows Patches .......................... 193 University setting. Faculty members will demonstrate And Books, Too ................................................. 192 interesting ways to use computers in the curriculum, and Public Computer Facilities: Winter 1993 ............. 194 representatives of many departments will tell us more about their information processing needs and solutions. T Book Center News Top hardware and software vendors, who will be present ing throughout the day, will tell us about how their New Apple printers and more beginning on .......... 187 products fit into the academic environment and let us in on some upcoming products. Printed on recycled paper; mailed with Addressing and Mailing's Cheshire recyclable labels. • continued on next page Page 170 February 1993 Computer and ... ,----------------- NSF Network Milestone 1 Wednesday, March 3, 1993 l 1 Coffman Union I Don Riley, Acting Associate Provost I I T Section I, By Invitation Only In December the National Science Foundation Network 9-10:00 On-Site Registration in Great Hall (NSFNET) completely switched to a much faster back bone. Since the NSF contributes roughly half of the cost 10:00 Welcome oflnternet access for educational institutions like ours this Introductions is good news for over 700 colleges and universities and the 10:15 Policy & Planning Team Reports more than one million computers that connect to the 10:45 Q & A Session with a Panel Internet. It is also particularly important for the University of Minnesota since, as ofJanuary 1, we had 13,033 12:15 President Nils Hasselmo assigned IP (internet protocol) addresses (Internet nodes). Box Lunch Note that this makes us one of the largest networks in the country- we have a little more than 1% of the registered T Section II, Open to the Public Internet addresses. 10-1:00 Vendor Presentations in Theater (no registration required) Below are excerpts from an article that appeared in CRTNET, an electronic publication. Many who use the 1-4:00 Exhibits in Great Hall Internet to communicate with other people and gather Faculty and Departmental information are unaware of its past and its potential Presentations in Great Hall growth. These excerpts will help fill that information void. Network Presentations in Theater L-----------------~ A New Networking Era " ... the T -1 NSFNET passed into history today when the All technical and information coordinators, deans, directors last router was moved to connect to the T-3 backbone and department heads are invited to pre-register by E-mail. service. As of 12:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 2, Simply send your name, department, phone number and the T -1 NSFNET backbone is no more-its circuits are E-mail address to: turned off-marking the beginning of a new networking era. [email protected] T-3: 45 Megabits Per Second Admittance is free! Attendance is limited to 200, so "When first implemented just over four years ago, the T -1 register early. (1.5 Mbps) NSFNET backbone was state-of-the-art for the Internet, deploying new levels of speed and management. While the morning portion of the conference is reserved With improvements in routing technology, the Internet for the above groups only, the public is invited to attend all moved from an experimental service to a production afternoon presentations and exhibits at no cost. commodity. Demands for higher speed services and increasing backbone traffic led to the T -3 ( 45 Mbps) Many vendors and departments are sponsoring this first backbone service implemented over the Advanced Network time event, including Administrative Information Services & Services, Inc. Network (ANSnet) that has replaced the Computer and Information Services, Human Resources, ' older T-1 NSFNET technology. The growth ofNSFNET the Minnesota Book Center, Student Affairs, University promoted a global internetworking industry estimated as Libraries, and University Relations. The conference will be generating billions of dollars in annual revenues .... Today held in the Great Hall at Coffman Memorial Union from the network's backbone service carries data at the equiva 10:00 to 4:00. Read the Minnesota Daily for more lent of 1,400 pages of single-spaced, typed text per second. information about this special event. Come and see what This means the information in a 20-volume encyclopedia your colleagues are doing with computing! can be sent across the network in under 23 seconds! ••• Information Services February 1993 Page 171 deployed the T -1 network on schedule in July 1988, and began the T-3 network service implemented over ANSnet With over 1,000 public and private in late 1990. research and education institutions, "'The T-1 NSFNET project has been a remarkable adven NSFNET links an estimated ture,' said Stephen S. Wolff, director of the National 10 million users. Science Foundation's Division of Networking and Com munications Research and Infrastructure (DNCRI). 'Because of this program, it's now conceivable that the U.S. can implement a network connecting every student and teacher in the country-from kindergarten to post college-before the end of the century, revolutionizing education and research. Five years ago, this seemed only a The NSFNET Connection very distant dream.'" "Today every major research, graduate, and four-year university is tied together through NSFNET, along with private and federal research institutions and industries. CRTNET Over 700 colleges and universities are connected represent CRTNET is the Communication Research and Theory ing 80 percent of the nation's student population and 90 NETwork. It discusses all aspects of human communica percent of the nation's federally sponsored research. tion and is moderated by Tom Benson, Penn State Univer Further, NSFNET provides access to hundreds of high sity. University internet users can subscribe to CRTNET schools, libraries, community colleges, and smaller educa by sending E-mail to tional institutions. With over 1,000 public and private research and education institutions, NSFNET links an [email protected] estimated 10 million users. As the commercial Internet has grown, links are expanding between education and busi and including following command ness communities which are promoted through expanding connectivity .... SUBSCRIBE CRTNET Your Name "During November, the network reached its first billion If you are unfamiliar with LISTSERV, read the List Seners packet-a-day mark. Network growth increases an average of article elsewhere in this newsletter. 11 percent per month. The total number of connected networks grew from fewer than 200 to over 7,500, of which one-third are outside the United States. Today NSFNET makes it possible to reach educators and re searchers in over 75 countries around the world. Recent surveys show over a million host computers are connected to the Internet, with an even greater number of individual users accessing those computers. A Revolution "Meeting the challenges of building the central infrastruc ture for this high -speed data communications network has Because of this program, it's now been the focus of a joint government, academic, and conceivable that the U.S. can industrial pannership for the past five years. Merit Net work, Inc., in association with Advanced Network & implement a network connecting Services, Inc. (ANS), IBM, MCI,