From siggen Wed Jan 19 11:07:55 +0200 1994 To: siggen-members Subject: Siggen 94/1 Date: 19 Jan 1994 ----------------- ====================================================================== TOPICS: 1. IGW7 (International Generation Workshop) Papers due Feb 15th! 2. Free E-Mag on Intelligent Computing (HOTT) ====================================================================== ====================================================================== subject line: IGW7 papers are due soon IGW7 --- February 15th --- IGW7 --- February 15th --- IGW7 What with the cold and snow that are making our lives gloomy now (at least in North America) just think of what it would be like to be on the seacoast of Maine this June: brilliant sunny skies, salt air, waves breaking against the rocks, an enormous bright sandy beach. All this, as well as stimulating ideas and good colleagues, can be yours at the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, to be held as you know in at the Nonantum Inn in Kennebunkport Maine this June 21st to 24th. But since attendance will be limited to the capacity of the Inn (over a hundred), the best way to ensure your place is to submit a paper, and the papers are due in just under a month --- by February 15th. Since the meeting will have presentations of all sizes, including poster sessions, you can write papers of any length up to eight thousand words. (A paper intended just as a poster should be long enough to communicate its point.) The papers of greatest interest will present new and inovative ideas, with a focus on ongoing work that the community can learn from. To repeat from the call for papers: authors should send four copies of a full paper in hard copy to the address below. An additional electronic copy, in plain ascii, should be sent by email. The title page should include complete addresses including email and fax, word length, subject keywords, and a short summary. Papers with several authors should indicate who is to handle correspondence. Send submissions to: Mail: David McDonald, 14 Brantwood Road Arlington, MA 02174-8004, USA Email: mcdonald@cs.brandeis.edu Happy writing! David McDonald ====================================================================== Subject: FREE E-Mag on Intelligent Computing Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 14:31:32 -0800 (PST) * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * B R I E F R E L E A S E FREE MAGAZINE Free, electronic magazine features article summaries on new generation computer and communications technologies from over 100 trade magazines and research journals; key U.S. & international daily newspapers, news weeklies, and business magazines; and, over 100 Internet mailing lists & USENET groups. Each issue (10/year) includes listings of forthcoming & recently published technical books and forthcoming shows & conferences. Bonus: Exclusive interviews with technology pioneers. E-mail subscription requests to: listserv@ucsd.edu (Leave the "Subject" line blank.) In the body of the message, type: SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST (do not include first or last names) * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * G E N E R A L R E L E A S E HOTT -- Hot Off The Tree -- is a FREE monthly (10/year) electronic magazine featuring the latest advances in computer, communications, and electronics technologies. Each issue provides article summaries on new & emerging technologies, including VR (virtual reality), neural networks, PDAs (personal digital assistants), GUIs (graphical user interfaces), intelligent agents, ubiquitous computing, genetic & evolutionary programming, wireless networks, smart cards, video phones, set-top boxes, nanotechnology, and massively parallel processing. Summaries are provided from the following sources: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Financial Times (London) ... Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report ... Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist (London), Nikkei Weekly (Tokyo), Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) ... over 50 trade magazines, including Computerworld, InfoWorld, Datamation, Computer Retail Week, Dr. Dobb's Journal, LAN Times, Communications Week, PC World, New Media, VAR Business, Midrange Systems, Byte ... over 50 research journals, including ** ALL ** publications of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, plus technical journals published by AT&T, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu, Sharp, NTT, Siemens, Philips, GEC ... over 100 Internet mailing lists & USENET discussion groups ... plus ... * listings of forthcoming & recently published technical books; * listings of forthcoming trade shows & technical conferences; and, * company advertorials, including CEO perspectives, tips & techniques, and new product announcements BONUS: Exclusive interviews with technology pioneers ... the first issues feature interviews with Mark Weiser (head of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Lab) on ubiquitous computing, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg on the information society, and MCC CEO (and former DARPA director) Craig Fields on the future of computing TO REQUEST A FREE SUBSCRIPTION, CAREFULLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW Send subscription requests to: listserv@ucsd.edu Leave the "Subject" line blank In the body of the message input: SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST If at any time you choose to cancel your subscription input: UNSUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST Note: Do *not* include first or last names following "SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST" or "UNSUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST" The HOTT mailing list is automatically maintained by a computer located at the University of California at San Diego. The system automatically responds to the sender's return path. Hence, it is necessary to send subscription requests and cancellations directly to the listserv at UCSD. (I cannot make modifications to the list ... nor do I have access to the list.) For your privacy, please note that the list will not be rented. If you have problems and require human intervention, contact: hott@ucsd.edu The next issue of the reinvented HOTT e-magazine is scheduled for transmission in February. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues, and post to your favorite bulletin boards. Our objective is to disseminate the highest quality and largest circulation periodical on the Information Superhighway. I look forward to serving you as HOTT's new editor. Thank you. H O T T U P D A T E I've received a steady stream of superb suggestions over the past weeks regarding the WWW and cross-posting. In response, I plan to launch a WWW/Postscript version of HOTT by 4Q 94. Also, I'll be attempting to launch a gated version to a USENET group. We'll probably call it: bit.listserv.hott or bit.magazines.computing I'm targeting the first issue for a gated USENET group. Further details will be provided in a late January update and the first issue of the e-mail edition. For the protection of your privacy, the HOTT mailing list will NEVER be rented. However, it has become necessary to seek corporate sponsors to help defray costs for subscriptions, reprint permissions, and related expenses (e.g., a new host site -- we're pushing UCSD to its limits!). But we can't get sponsors unless we have at least 100,000+ subscribers. Once we launch a USENET group, we'll be recommending that our Internet subscribers switch to the moderated (and closed) USENET group. Converting most of our Internet subscribers to a USENET will pose much less of a strain on our host system, especially when we exceed 250,000 subscribers. Besides, it's actually easier to read a magazine on a newsreader than it is by e-mail, but it's a lot harder for me to get accurate readership numbers. I'll keep you posted (no pun intended). BTW, we'll continue to offer an e-mail subscription option for those without (or with limited) access to USENET. NEW FEATURES (Consider the following to be a ** very ** preliminary announcement of new features I plan to add to HOTT ... but I can't until we get several sustaining sponsors.) There are numerous features that I plan to add over the next year. First, I want to expand trade magazine coverage to over 200 sources, including at least 30 British trade publications. Also, I want to provide summaries of U.S. and U.K. national news programs, i.e., ABC, CBS, NBC, and BBC. I'd like to transmit selected full-text features from The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The (London) Financial Times, and a Japanese English-language daily (plus article summaries from a few other Japanese English-language dailies; there are a half- dozen English-language dailies published in Japan). Eventually, I'd like to add The New York Times (if I can negotiate a reasonable rate), The San Jose Mercury News, and The Boston Globe. And maybe even Newsbytes and the Japanese English-language equivalent to Newsbytes. I'm currently negotiating with The Los Angeles Times Syndicate for Michael Schrage's "Innovation" column (Michael is willing to comp HOTT on an experimental basis) and I'd like to add a few other syndicated columns. And I have several other surprises! Wish us luck! BTW, information on HOTT archives will be provided in the first issue. ====================================================================== eof