Free math-related Windows software from Phillips Exeter Academy.

Nutmeg: commercial Smalltalk-style class libraries for Java.

DOS/Windows software demos for NLP, reference, language learning, and English-Russian machine translation, from Good Language Software.

PILS: free Windows programming environment to supplant Lisp.

Abuse: source code for a Lisp game.

FreeWalk: VR "meeting room" or "party" environment where participants can see and hear what other participants are viewing and saying.

SciPlot: cartesian and polar plotting widget.

Expert Systems Design and Development: book by John Durkin.

Adaption and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems: book edited by Weiss and Sen.

Intelligent Agents II: book edited by Wooldridge, Mueller, and Tambe.

Bibliography of automatic text summarization, from Marcos Casa.

NSF has a new brochure on Information for Graduate Research Fellows (NSF 96-42). FTP nsf9642.txt from stis.nsf.gov. [grants, 3/25/96.]

stu-serv-jshop is a UK list about helping students gain part-time employment. Send a "join stu-serv-jshop your name" message to . [, new-list, 3/14/96.]

1st Steps in the Hunt is a daily newsletter for job hunters. See , which also lists job-hunting resources on the Web. [, net-hap, 3/4/96.]

4WORK lists US job opportunities, internships, and volunteer positions throughout the US. You can ask for email notification when a suitable job is posted. . [, net-hap, 4/4/96.]

On Usenet, the national/international jobs listings are misc.jobs.offered and misc.jobs.contract. You might also try posting to misc.jobs.resumes.

Resume Robot is a Winsock application that finds and parses resumes on the Web. Its database can be used by job seekers and recruiters. . [James Stakelum, AgentNews, 3/12/96.]

The Job Seeker's Resource Center is . [Network News, 2/10/96.]

Another info site for job seekers is . [, net-hap, 3/4/96.]

The Job Search Links page at offers job listings, recruiters, company profiles, a resume distribution services, and a salary recalculator. [Mike Goodson , net-hap, 1/31/96.]

JobExpress job postings are listed on . [<72341.456@compuserve.com>, 3/7/96.]

The Job-Link mailing list is for job announcements of any kind. Send a "subscribe" subject line to . Resumes may be posted at , and job ads should be sent to . [Charles Boesel , NEW-LIST, 3/15/96.]

Shawn's Internet Resume Center (SIRC) offers members a home page and other job services. . [WEBster, 3/19/96.]

IS Opportunities Magazine lists career opportunities around the world. . [<101350.3541@compuserve.com>, newjour, 2/3/96.]

ELSNET Job Placement Service covers NL and speech research, primarily for the European communities. Send job ads or short CVs (with dates of availability), preferably in English, to . You can browse job ads at , CVs at , or search by subject, location, etc., at . [Dawn Griesbach , ELSNET, 3/19/96. Joe Raben.]

The National Assoc. of Programmers (NAP) serves programmers, developers, consultants, and students. See for benefits. [, net-hap, 1/28/96.]

The National Assoc. of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB) has a job board and resume bank for computer consultants. or . [, net-hap, 3/23/96.]

The National Home Workers Assoc. (NHWA) lists more than 76K work-from- home job openings in North America, including many kinds of computer work. . [, net-hap, 2/13/96.]

North Carolina has a career, jobs, and resume service at . [, net-hap, 2/2/96.]

Georgia's High Tech Job Bank (and resume database) is . [, net-hap, 3/21/96.]

Texas Job Reports offers employment listings and career opportunities at . [, net-hap, 2/3/96.]

Riccione On-Line CompuSearch lists jobs for software developers and hardware engineers, plus info on Texas computer user groups. . [, net-hap, 3/21/96.]

TOPjobs USA currently has 13K "professional" job listings in CA, 6K in TX; 2.2K in CO; 2K in AZ; 1.8K in Utah; 700 in New Mexico; and almost 600 in NV. Other states are also listed, for 32K total. . [D. Williams , net-hap, 3/22/96.]

(Use WWW search engines to check for other states, countries, or specialties.)

Prodigy now offers searching of 17M messages from the past 18 months, by subject, sender, receiver, or keywords. [St. Petersburg Times, 3/11/96, p. 9. EDUPAGE.] (Privacy advocates are concerned about the ease with which a contributor's participation can be reviewed. Your postings may someday be your biography, or evidence in a libel case.)

("Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries." -- Chistopher Morley, "The Haunted Bookshop." [Keith Bostic , QOTD, 12/15/95.])

Andersen Consulting's webpage describes several projects that monitor newsgroups and other online sources, finding articles of interest, contact names, and best prices for offered services. . [AgentNews, 3/12/96.]

Dynamic Mapping is a technique for displaying search hits from an online database. . [, net-hap, 3/4/96.]

World Wide Web Launcher offers links to every major search engine. . [, net-hap, 3/12/96.] Signpost Information Service also links to many of the WWW search engines. . [, net-hap, 3/4/96.] StoryNet Page has links to children's sites, teen sites, software, images, etc., plus many of the new search engines. . [Obe , net-hap, 3/22/96.]

Northwestern College SearchIt includes search engines for the Internet, gopher, WWW, Usenet newsgroups, daily news, and general reference services. . [Floyd Johnson , c.i.www.announce, 1/4/96. net-hap.]

The Virtual Search Engines page includes the most popular search engines and tools for searching the Web, newsgroups, Listserv, FTP, Gopher, email addresses, ZIP codes, etc. . [, net-hap, 2/1/96.]

Yahoo, , is probably the best human-organized directory indexing the entire Internet. The Whole Internet Catalog, , and Infomine , are also easy-to-use, but less comprehensive. Two of the best search engines are InfoSeek, , and Alta Vista, . [Fortune, 4/1/96, p. 147. Flash Information.]

MOO, Inc. is "the spot to visit if you're interested in Internet search engines, are an investor looking for the hottest technology, etc." . [, net-hap, 1/1/96.]

The WWW Megalist index/search engine is at . [, net-hap, 1/26/96.]

REX is another engine for searching a database of website descriptions. . [Thomas Kuegler Jr. , c.i.www.announce, 2/10/96. net-hap.]

BullsEye! is an off-line search tool, to save on communications costs. . [, net-hap, 2/6/96.] (I presume that it comes with a CD ROM.)

Eureka! is a simple but powerful Internet search engine. . [, net-hap, 1/30/96.]

UCB's fast Inktomi search engine offers relevance retrieval with MUST (+) and NOT (-) search terms. Over 2.8M documents are searched. . [Scout Report, 2/2/96.]

InfoScan is a network-based filtering tools for your own text and email databases. $35, but with a free demo version at . [Liz Tompkins , inet-news, 2/7/96. net-hap.]

topicSEARCH from Verity (Mountain View, CA) is a new text/HTML retrieval application for webmasters using the Microsoft Internet Information Server. "Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft's Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI)" to be four times faster than CGI, with built-in security and administration features. Distributed free with the Microsoft Internet Business Development Kit or from or . [WEBster, 2/20/96.]

CyberDewey accesses Internet resources by the Dewey Decimal Classification system. BUBL (Bulletin Board for Library Systems) does the same using the Universal Decimal Classification system. See the Scout Toolkit's Search Tools, Subject Catalog section, on . [Scout Report, 3/1/96.]

Home Team Advanced Search Site can search multiple databases on WWW. . [David Gaddis , c.i.www.announce, 1/26/96. net-hap.]

Mother Load is a searchable directory of other people's directories, lists, and web guides, plus a search engine that can invoke at least nine other search engines. Stored sections include Business, Computers, Government, Entertainment, Medical & Health, Sports & Rec, Travel, World Wide Web resources, and about 15 very good Mac sites. Other resource lists are solicited. [Matt Hulbert , MacWay, 2/28/96.]

Magellan is a searchable database of reviewed internet sites (rated * to ****). You can block sites that had "adult" content at the time of review. . [Elizabeth Wellburn , Network Nuggets, 3/5/96. net-hap.]

Infoseek Guide, a free search/browse service, returns both search hits and a list of topics related to your search terms. In-depth news coverage has also been added. . [Julian Stewart , 3/7/96. net-hap.]

Savvy Search can query nineteen search engines, including Alta Vista, Yahoo, FTPsearch95, the Virtual Software Library, Excite, Lycos, DejaNews, OKRA (email database), and the Internet Movie Database. Boolean and phrase searches are supported. . [Scout Report, 2/23/96.]

Metacrawler is a multithreaded Web searcher that queries Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, Inktomi, Alta Vista, Yahoo, and Galaxy. It then verifies that each URL is valid. . [Christine Chiu , LM_NET, 3/4/96. net-hap.]

SEARCH IT!!! offers a very simple interface to at least ten search engines. . [, c.i.www.browsers.misc, 3/14/96. net-hap.]

Prime Search is another search interface invoking Yahoo!, Lycos, Webcrawler, etc. . [<70614.635@compuserve.com>, net-hap, 3/23/96.]

SEARCH.COM from c|net helps you use over 250 search engines, including Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Alta Vista, and many single-topic databases about cars, movies, recipes, stocks, etc. You can even set up a personal page with just your favorite search engines. . [Maida Stupski , net-hap, 3/18/96.]

"RES-Links: The All-in-One Resource Page" is a categorized list of search engines and tools, catalogs, indexes, databases, locators, resources, guides, and reference materials. A description is given for each tool. "If you don't find what you're looking for, I will do the best I can to help you." . [Sylvain Provencher , c.i.www.announce, 3/7/96. net-hap.]

-- Ken