IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 26, 1995 Volume XII, Number 24 Issue 261 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Old Dominion University: Assistant University Librarian, Information Resources & Systems III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ARL Book on Electronic Publishing 2. Computational Linguistics Special Issue B. Meetings 1. Multimedia Computing and Networking 1996 C. Miscellaneous 1. Mac Common Lisp HTTP Server 1.2 beta (29.2) ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Frances McCraw Re: Old Dominion University: Assistant University Librarian, Information Resources & Systems OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS: Provides creative leadership for a division con- sisting of the departments of Bibliographic Services and Systems which are currently in the process of reorganization. Plans, develops, and administers resources and systems for acquisitions, serials, cataloging and systems functions to support research and instructional programs. Responsi- ble for the management of library collections and systems including the management of an III integrated library system and the personnel management of 4 librarians, 17 support staff and a systems librarian. Responsible for the development of internal and external electronic information resources and capabilities using a cross-functional team approach. QUALIFICATIONS: A.L.A.-accredited MLS. Minimum of 5 years progressively responsible managerial experience on the department head level or higher, preferably in a university with research orientation. Record of exploration and application of emerging information technologies; significant technical knowledge of information systems. Broad functional experience, including experience in an automated technical services environment. Evidence of success as a manager, leader and innovator; planning and program development skills; ability to work effectively in team environment; effective communication skills. Demonstrated strong service orientation. Evidence of serious commitment to librarianship through personal record of educational, scholarly, and professional achievement. COMPENSATION: $50,000 minimum plus fringe benefits, including group health insurance and choice of retirement programs. 12 month appointment; 24 days annual leave per year. Review of applications will begin on August 11, 1995 and continue until position is filled. For full consideration, send or email nominations or a letter of application addressing your abilities to meet the above qualifications, resume, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references to: Carole A. Buchanan, Search Committee Chair, Old Dominion University, 408A University Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256, (804) 683-4153, cab100f@Shakespeare.lib.odu.edu. Old Dominion University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and requires compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: ARL Book Publication ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES PRESS RELEASE June 15, 1995 Book Explores a Subversive Future for Scholarly Journals ARL's Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing announces the publication of Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing. This book captures an Internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future that took place on a number of electronic forums starting in June 1994 and peaking in the fall. Subsequent electronic conversations between the principals and interested parties continue until now (the last message captured in the book is dated March 21, 1995). Six principal discussants and about two dozen others advance radical and traditional views; they argue for overhaul of journal publication systems or advocate careful preservation of traditional values and roles. Will electronic technologies save us from the economic pressures of the current papyrocentric publishing system or will they be more expensive than we dreamed? Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads makes publishing history. It is the first time that a book derived from a series of wide-ranging Internet discussions on a scholarly topic recreates (insofar as possible) an e-mail experience for a general academic and publishing audience. In their Conclusion, Ann Okerson (ARL) and James O'Donnell (Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania), the editors of this 9-month long networked conversation write, "This is a book about hope and imagination in one corner of the emerging landscape of cyberspace. It embraces passionate discussion of an idea for taking to the Internet to revolutionize one piece of the world of publishing." The book includes a detailed table of contents, specially written introductory and concluding chapters by the co-editors, a "hyperlink" bibliography showing where materials in the book can be read on the Internet, and a glossary of terms used by the discussants. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. These programs include annual statistical publications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications, collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control. The Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing works to identify and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly and scientific information. The book is produced in 7 x 10 format, paperbound, in 250 pages. Its ISBN number is: 0-918006-26-0 The raw source files from which the Subversive Book is derived can be found on the Internet as follows: ftp to the site ftp.princeton.edu cd pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/Subversive.Proposal TO CONTACT THE EDITORS: Ann Okerson (ann@cni.org) James O'Donnell (jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) TO RECEIVE DETAILED ORDER INFORMATION BY E-MAIL: osap@cni.org ALL OTHER INQUIRIES: Patricia Brennan Information Services Coordinator Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 patricia@cni.org phone: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884 ********** III.A.2. Fr: Marilyn A. Walker Re: Computational Linguistics Special Issue: Empirical Studies in Discouurse Interpretation & Generation Call for Submissions Special Issue of Computational Linguistics on Empirical Studies in Discourse Interpretation and Generation Guest Editors: Johanna D. Moore and Marilyn A. Walker Computational theories of discourse interpretation and generation are an important basis for the design and implementation of many natural language applications. However, much work in computational theories of discourse to date has focused on specifying the mechanisms underlying a particular discourse phenomenon. It is often difficult to tell how prevalent that phenomenon is, whether it is related to other observed and studied phenomena, and what percentage of the cases a particular theory covers. Developing robust, broad coverage, theories of discourse requires an empirical basis, but there has been little effort to develop shared methods, tools or resources for the discourse community. However, recently there has been a groundswell of interest in developing both manual and automatic methods for analyzing discourse in order to inform computational models, e.g the AAAI Spring Symposium in March 1995 on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation. The goal of the special issue of Computational Linguistics on Empirical Studies in Discourse Interpretation and Generation is to bring together a collection of papers representing recent work illustrating different techniques in this area such as: discourse coding schemes and methods for assessing their reliability; automatic analysis techniques, their accuracy, and use for discourse processing; learning of discourse processing strategies from coded corpora; schemes for evaluation of discourse processing systems; and use of simulated discourse agents for discourse modeling. We seek papers that go beyond purely methodological issues; papers should exhibit different techniques with major emphasis on the results obtained. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is November 1st, 1995. For hard copy submission: Six double-spaced hard copies should be submitted, clearly marked as submissions to the Special Issue on Empirical Studies in Discourse Interpretation and Generation, to arrive on or before the deadline, to the following address: Julia Hirschberg, Editor Computational Linguistics 2C-409 AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill NJ 07974 USA email: acl@research.att.com tel: 908-582-7496 fax: 908-582-7550 Manuscripts may be submitted electronically; instructions are currently available by anonymous ftp from ftp.research.att.com:/dist/cl/elec.sub. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Martin Freeman Re: Multimedia Computing and Networking 1996 CALL FOR PAPERS MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND NETWORKING 1996 San Jose, California Jan 29 - 31, 1996 Conference Chairs: Martin Freeman, Philips Research; Paul Jardetzky, Philips Research; Harrick M. Vin, University of Texas at Austin. This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE 1996 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging to be held on Jan 28 - Feb 2, 1996. The object of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of multimedia computing and networking. The conference will serve as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementation of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions. Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to: *Multimedia Computing - hardware and software architectures - multimedia operating system services - real-time operating system services - data streaming and delivery mechanisms - media and user interaction *Multimedia Networking - network and transport protocols - quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms - bandwidth management strategies - synchronization mechanisms - mobile network architecture - community networking architecture. *Multimedia User Interfaces - video widgets - synthetic animation - intelligent information access - interactive navigation schemes. *Multimedia Authoring Systems - media capture and creation - scripting languages - authoring metaphors and editing techniques *Multimedia Applications - video-on-demand servers and services - set-top technologies and operating systems - multimedia conferencing and mail - education and training - digital libraries - medical applications - cyberspace communication, presentation, and interaction - electronic communities - entertainment and games. *Multimedia Standards, Documents, and Data Interchange. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Please submit an extended abstract for review. The submissions should not exceed 5 pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 points. Electronic submissions (in postscript format) are encouraged. To obtain detailed instructions for electronic submission, send a e-mail to: mmcn96@cs.utexas.edu. Only if electronic submission is not possible, please send 5 hard copies of your extended abstract to: Professor Harrick M. Vin Department of Computer Sciences Taylor Hall 2.124 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1188 Phone : (512) 471-9732 E-mail : mmcn96@cs.utexas.edu In addition to submitting an extended abstract, please also electronically submit a cover page to both mmcn96@cs.utexas.edu and abstracts@mom.spie.org. Each cover page should contain: 1. Title of paper 2. Author names and affiliations 3. Name and address (both postal and electronic) of contact author 4. Abstract (500 words) 5. Keywords 6. Submission area (from the list of relevant areas in the call for papers) Each extended abstract will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready manuscript (not exceeding 12 pages) that will appear in the conference proceedings. The Conference Chairs and Program Committee will also ask authors of the best papers to enhance their papers and make journal form submissions to the ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal. A special issue of the Multimedia Systems Journal will be devoted to the theme of the conference. Similarly, authors of selected papers will be asked to submit a tutorial style paper for IEEE Multimedia Magazine. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: July 10, 1995 Notification of acceptance: September 29, 1995 Camera-ready abstracts due: November 27, 1995 Camera-ready manuscripts due: January 1, 1996 TO GET UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT MMCN96 ACCESS WEB PAGE AT: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mmcn96 ********** III.C.1. Fr: John C. Mallery Re: Mac Common Lisp HTTP Server 1.2 beta (29.2) The Common Lisp Web Server is now available for MCL 3.0. You can now interface your Lisp Programs to the world show exactly what you can do better and faster in Lisp. The server is full-featured (http 1.0 and html 2.0) and comes complete with source code. It has been proven in major production systems (running on the lisp machine) and applied in a number of Artificial Intelligence systems. Key features include: * Computed URLs * HTML 2.0 generation. * Implements GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE HTTP methods. * Extensible, object-oriented architecture. * Advanced condition architecture. * Self-documentation. * Working examples to get you started. * Toolkit of web abstractions. * Rapid prototyping for research, products, or protocol development. * Disconnected operation on PowerBooks. * Complete source code. * Free. The server was described in a paper at the 1st WWW conference http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/server-abstract.html MAC and Lisp Machine versions are now available for FTP from: ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/jcma/cl-http/ Mac version 1.1 is included in the MCL 3.0 CD from Digitool (http://www.digitool.com/), which was cut yesterday and should be in user hands within about two weeks. The server also runs in MCL 2.0.1, but only in single threaded mode. A listserve to discuss Common Lisp based www servers, clients, and related design issues is available at www-cl@ai.mit.edu. You can join by sending an email message to www-cl-request@ai.mit.edu including in the message body subscribe www-cl Future releases will be announced to www-cl. Please report any interesting applications or server extensions to www-cl@ai.mit.edu Volunteers are sought for ports to LispWorks, Franz, Lucid, CMU Lisp or any other full-featured lisps running on PCs, UNIX machines, or other architectures. Given the Mac port, this reduces to deploying threads and interfacing to TCP. There will be a tutorial on this server and programming the Web at the 1995 Lisp Users and Vendors Conference in Cambridge in August, 1995. (Contact luv-organizer@ai.sri.com for further information). Information is sought on other uses of dynamic languages (e.g., Lisp, Scheme, Dylan) in world wide web applications. 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