The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture __________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 July 29, 1993 Volume 1 Issue 5 EJVCV1N5 CONTENTS This entire issue is available as EJVCV1N5 PACKAGE Table of Contents _______________________ Special Feature =============== "The Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences: The First Three Years" by Diane Kovacs (dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) (Part 1 available as KOVACS1 V1N5 lines) (Part 2 available as KOVACS2 V1N5 lines) The VIRTUAL SQUARE ================== edited by Diane Kovacs (dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) and James Shimabukuro (jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu) The Virtual Square is devoted to non-refereed opinion columns and essays. "Mime and the Future of Internet Journals: An essay written for the _Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture_" Columnist Stuart Weibel (weibel@oclc.org) (available as SQARV1N5 WEIBEL 408 lines) "Building a School Without Buildings" Columnist Ken Blystone (blystone@tenet.edu) (available as SQARV1N5 BLYSTONE 331 lines) "Stereographic Lithography" Columnist Michael Hart (hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu) (available as SQARV1N5 HART 378 lines) The CYBERSPACE MONITOR ====================== edited by Algirdas Pakstas (Algirdas.Pakstas@idt.unit.no) (available as EJVCV1N5 MONITOR 2,144 lines) ONLINE INTERVIEWS: - BIG SKY TELEGRAPH AND A VISION OF VIRTUAL CULTURE: AN INTERVIEW OF FRANK ODASZ BY ERMEL STEPP HUMOR: - "HUMOR AND THE INTERNET" BY BOB ZENHAUSERN MEDIA REVIEWS BOOKS: - THE INTERNET PASSPORT: NORTHWESTNET'S GUIDE TO OUR WORLD ONLINE THESES: - NEURAL NETWORKS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL NETWARE REVIEWS (systems/hw/sw/services) SERVICES: - STUDENT GUIDE TO VAX/VMS ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS PROJECTS: - CMC RESEARCH PROJECT - IDEAS FESTIVAL, TELLURIDE, COLORADO, USA, JULY 23-25, 1993 - "GLOBAL LECTURE HALL", TRONDHEIM, NORWAY, AUGUST 21, 1993 - FUTURE PROSPECT OF VIDEOCONFERENCING VIA INTERNET - TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND VIRTUAL REALITY STUDIO FOR CREATIVE INQUIRY, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: - HYPERTEXT'93: CALL FOR POSTERS - CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND INFORMATICS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF EJVC: COMPUTERIZED TOOLS AS INTERMEDIARIES IN THE COMMUNICATION OF MENTAL MAPS - EP94: THE CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, DOCUMENT MANIPULATION, AND TYPOGRAPHY - COLING '94 _____ Articles and Sections of this issue of the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ may be retrieved via anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu or via e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (instructions below) Papers may be submitted at anytime by email or send/file to: Ermel Stepp - Editor-in-Chief, _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ M034050@MARSHALL.WVNET.EDU _________________________________ *Copyright Declaration* Copyright of articles published by Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture is held by the author of a given article. If an article is re-published elsewhere it must include a statement that it was originally published by Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. _________________________________ _THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON VIRTUAL CULTURE_ EDITORIAL BORAD EJVC Founders/Arachnet Moderators Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief M034050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University, Consulting Editor PAPAKHI@@IUBVM Editor, _The Cyberspace Monitor_ Algirdas Pakstas, The University of Trondheim, Norway Algirdas.Pakstas@idt.unit.no Editors, _Virtual Square_ Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu James Shimabukuro, University of Hawaii jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Consulting Editors Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology ab45@prism.gatech.edu Patrick (Pat) Conner, West Virginia University u47c2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Skip Coppola, Applied Technology, Inc. skip%aptech@bagend.atl.ga.us Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason University cfuchs@gmuvax.bitnet Stevan Harnad, Princeton University harnad@Princeton.EDU Edward M. 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