In V4 N16 I mentioned the Oxford Dictionary of Familiar Quotations on info.rutgers.edu. 'Sorry, it's only available to Rutgers people -- they paid the license fee. [Dawn Cohen (dcohen@cs.pitt.edu), 4/23/94.] (It's also on CompuServe's Knowledge Index and on Dialog as File 175.)

Nick Arnett is helping to raise money for the bombed library in Sarajevo. He notes that the Interpedia project is building a library that can't be bombed. [nicka@mccmedia.com, Interpedia Digest, 4/24/94. net-hap.] (Nick is coordinating Internet services for a Global Tea Party on 6/26/94, including WWW events on http://198.92.133.3/.)

A senior research scientist in Russia's Academy of Sciences is paid about $50/month. No one is supporting scientific projects. Several CSc holders (Candidatus Scientarium, equivalent to a PhD) from Moscow State University are looking for AI/Lisp/C++/Pascal work in knowledge elicitation, hypertext management, and information navigation. Gennady L. Andrienko (simonov@adm.pgu.serpukhov.su). [comp.ai, 4/19/94. David Joslin.]

Intermedia's CD-ROM version of Lovejoy's College Guide (with campus video clips) cost less than $70K. Four programmers in Bombay did the work in 6 months, at $1K/month each. [Forbes, 4/11/94. EDUPAGE.]

New World Headquarters (NWHQ) is a new WWW hypermedia arts magazine for artists and writers, from The Digital Co-op (Vancouver). Connect to http://www.wimsey.com/~jmax/index.html. Questions to nwhq@wimsey.com. [Dave Watson (davew@wimsey.com), net-hap, 3/27/94.]

Global Network Navigator (GNN) is restructuring. GNN News is now GNN NetNews, denoting its Internet focus. Special-interest magazines will replace GNN Magazine. Travel and the Internet are the first two such "metacenters," each with features, columns, and a guide to Internet resources. A GNN Arcade area includes Dilbert comics and other entertainments. The new WWW access point is http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn.html. [Dale Dougherty, gnnlist@ora.com, 4/2/94.]

UC Irvine's academic bookstore now has a WWW server for book reviews, book/CD stock listings, and multimedia exhibitions. (The first is a display of Ansel Adams photographs.) Access http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/ or gopher://gopher.cwis.uci.edu/11/departments/books/. [Jonathan K. Cohen (jkcohen@uci.edu), comp.infosystems.www, 4/4/94. net-hap.]

The Electronic Newsstand now carries 85 titles and serves 35K customers per day from 18 countries. The Newsstand will enter US residents in a vacation sweepstakes if they supply name and address, sex, age, occupation, education, favorite magazine, and household income. The addresses and demographics will not be used for mailed or emailed solicitations. Gopher to gopher.enews.com or telnet to enews.com with login "enews.". [Lisa Losito (lisa@access.digex.net), net-hap, 3/31/94.]

Mosaic is catching on as a universal graphic interface technology. An idea popped up on PACS-L for a Z39.50 bibliographic server with HTML output for WWW access. Journal indexes and other databases should also be put on WWW. [Kate Weber (kweber@netcom.com) and Dan Barkey (d-barkey@nwu.edu), PACS-L, 4/1/94.] (It would help if Mosaic accepted external "modules" that could add capabilities. Or perhaps Magic Cap will take over, since that's the kind of flexibility offered by its software agents.)

Iain O'Cain has prepared a FAQ on creating WWW HTML documents, http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~ec/www/html_faq.html. Comments to ec@umcc.umich.edu. [comp.infosystems.www, 4/15/94. net-hap.] A reference page for HTML document developers is on HTTP://oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html. Hypertext Markup Language is the basis of WWW links. [Charles W. Cooper II (ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com), halcyon.biz, 4/5/94. net-hap.]

Excalibur is a BBS system with an impressive scalable graphic interface. It offers quality images, ease of use, and many, many other features. Both the server and host are multitasking, so you can read online journals while downloading and uploading files. Only the .60 beta version has been released, but trade magazines and 700 BBSs are using it. An Internet linkup is planned. You can get an autodownload of the host software from (918) 496-8113 (8-N-1). Excalibur Communications, Inc. (Tulsa, OK), (918) 496-7881. [Sean Alexander (asp10337@vax1.utulsa.edu), online-news, 4/1/94.] (BBS environments with Internet gateways include TeamMate, CocoNet, and First Class.)

Curt Stevens' UColorado PhD thesis was on filtering of Internet news articles. FTP it and related articles from /pub/cs/misc/stevens on ftp.cs.colorado.edu. A "help" message to netnews@db.stanford.edu will get you started with one such service. A newsreader in which you can set up filters is strn- 0.9.2.tar.gz from /news/trn/strn on ftp.uu.net. For more info, see the 12/92 CACM or proceedings of the Bellcore workshop on information filtering, 11/91. [Mike McElligott (mike@csws2.ucc.ie), comp.ai, 4/17/94. David Joslin and Chuck Morefield.]

Many discussion lists maintain searchable archives. NCSU's LISTGopher can help you search LISTSERV archives. You can also use it in real-time to reduce your reading volume. Access gopher://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library/disciplines/library/list gopher. [David.Riggins@tpoint.com, gopherjewels, 3/1/94. net- hap.] (Archives might only go back for one year.)

Eudora is a great POPmail client with the ability to file messages in multiple folders and mailboxes. It requires a SLIP or PPP connection to the Internet, but minimizes connection time by downloading your message file for processing on your home computer. The shareware version is in info-mac and other archives. [Kevin Cooke (cooke@rosebud.berkeley.edu), 4/13/94.] (Automated filtering is available in the commercial version.)

Journalist is a program that downloads filtered news and formats it as a newspaper. The Compuserve version is about $79, Prodigy $39. Unfortunately, downloading six pages at 14,400 bps can take 40 minutes (on Compuserve). [David E. Carlson (gigabit@nerix.nerdc.ufl.edu), CARR-L, 3/30/94.]

AppleSearch text retrieval software will soon be able to access WAIS, wire services, CD ROMs, and other server-based or Internet text sources. LAN server/client software is currently $1800 for five users and $500 for each additional 10 users. The search engine is from Personal Library Software, but Apple is eager to work with universities (and other companies) on extensions. A $299 AppleSearch Client Developer's Kit is available from APDA. (408) 862-3385 for information. [dot.COM, 4/94.]

Willow -- the UWashington Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows -- is an information retrieval tool for WWW/Mosaic and Z39.50 bibliographic database access. Unix source and binaries are free from "willow" on ftp.cac.washington.edu. Demos and color screen shots can be viewed on http://www.cac.washington.edu/willow/home.html. [Matthew Freedman (mattf@cac.washington.edu), comp.infosystems, 4/14/94. net-hap.]

Britton-Lee Inc. offers a semantic-network DBMS and a high- level information-manipulation language. For information, FTP the gzipped PostScript files in pub/lynn on ftp.netcom.com. [Lynn Wheeler (lynn@netcom.com), comp.ai, 4/11/94. David Joslin.]

Columnist Lawrence Magid likes the new Syntactica indexing and retrieval system from Iconovex Corp. (Bloomington, MN). It can index 100 pages/minute, with good "concept" and phrase content instead of the usual word-based indexing. Magid found this an easy way to browse and understand the Health Security Act and North American Free Trade Agreement on CD ROM. $149 for Windows versions that work with WordPerfect, Word, and PageMaker formats, from 74064.440@compuserve.com, (612) 943-0292. [SJM, 4/17/94.]

The reporters on CARR-L like to squirrel away ASCII messages and then retrieve them by keyword. They particularly like AskSam (or askSam), which functions almost like hypertext. The DOS version is small, runs on anything, can be customized, and offers great power through its command/programming language, but has a high learning curve. The Windows version is nearly as powerful and much easier to use, and can display an index of documents meeting your search criteria. There's also a DOS network edition. The company has forums on CompuServe and a BBS, and an ASKSAM-L list lets users help each other. Technical support is good, the company is friendly, and the cost is as low as $99 ($395 list). AskSam Systems (Perry, FL), 800-800-1997. [Jack Lail (jdlail@mamaclaus.opup.org), Jim Brown (jbrown @gutenberg.iupui.edu), and Robin Rowland (eridani@io.org); CARR-L, 9/24/93 and 3/3/94.] Educators can get askSam for $99, and students can get the previous release for about the same price. A Professional Developer's Edition is available for OEM applications.[Dean Tudor (dtudor@acs.ryerson.ca), CARR-L, 4/14/94.] Tiger Software now offers a Windows version for $69. A demo version of DOS AskSam is available in various code archives. [Tom Boyer (boyer@infi.net).]

Information Please is a terrific shareware program for around $50, but can't handle massive data files. It does let you add a title and keywords to saved text. Texqasoft, P.O. Box 1169, Cedar Hill, TX 75104. Instant Recall is another common shareware program. [Tom Boyer (boyer@wyvern.com), CARR-L, 9/24/93 and 10/11/93.] Lotus Magellan can search large files without converting them to its own format (as AskSam does). [Steve Doig (0005038929@mcimail.com), 9/24/93.] ZyIndex/ZySearch is not easy to set up, but searches very quickly and flexibly. It makes an index that is as large as the original file. [Bart Gellman (bart.gellman@his.com), 9/24/93.] AskSam's report formatting/output options are very arcane, but it's good at quick search and retrieval. Gofer 2.0 is available for Mac and MS DOS (as a TSR), but is no longer being upgraded. It can do Boolean and proximity searches through text, spreadsheets, databases, etc., but formats since 1989 are not supported. The Mac version is very slow (and incompatible with cached memory). Unlike Magellan -- now unsupported by Lotus? -- it doesn't make a separate index file. Microlytics, 716/248-9150; $29.95. [Bill Lutholtz (lutholtz@gutenberg.iupui.edu), 9/24/93 and 2/1/94.]

Pro-Cite is a bibliographic program that lets you add a subject, keywords, descriptors, etc. Send a "subscribe pro-cite your name" message to listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu, or read the culist.pro-cite newsgroup. Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., (313) 996-1580, (313) 996-4672 Fax. [Nadia Diakun-Thibault (ab341@freenet.carleton.ca), CARR-L, 10/11/93.] Eclipse Find handles a 12,000-document text archive at the AP Washington Bureau. It's fast at locating documents, but indexing is slow. $50 from Phoenix Technologies Ltd., 312-541-0260. [Tim Bovee (tbovee@netcom.com), 2/1/94.] InfoSelect is great for Windows or DOS, but weak on reporting capabilities. Dayflo Tracker is also good for freeform and structured text, but a disk hog and too expensive. [Robin Rowland (eridani@io.org), 2/1/94.] Orbis is an index-driven search and retrieval engine that works within XyWrite. The Technology Group, 410-576-2040. [Art Campbell (artc@world.std.com), 3/25/94.] If you use WordPerfect, the QuickFinder program (bundled with V 5.1 and later?) is convenient for indexing and retrieving text in archive files. [Chris Feola (75460.2226@compuserve.com, 4/12/94.]

For note taking, Idealist from Blackwell Scientific Publishers offers a full text database that can import common word processor and database formats. Bitmaps, faxes, and other images can also be stored. Versions exist for Mac, DOS, Windows, and NT, and OS/2 lets you cut and paste from MS Word. [Lode Goukens (ps890866 @fpsw.ufsia.ac.be), CARR-L, 10/14/93.] The $80 Memory Mate DOS TSR from Broderbund is simple and cheap, but obsolescent. InfoSelect for Windows has a lot of nice bells and whistles for manipulating notes. See the 4/93 issue of Home Office Computing on using MM to write a book. [Robin Rowland (eridani@io.org), 10/19/93.]

If encryption is a concern, the SHEZ menu-based program works very well with PKZIP. Notes and working text are automatically rezipped and re-encrypted when you finish. [John M. Moran (john195@delphi.com), CARR-L, 10/11/93.] The PC-Secure utility with PC Tools offers DoD-level security. PC Tools also has a good file finder, notepad, database, calculator, and telecom module [Bill Lutholtz (lutholtz@gutenberg.iupui.edu), 10/12/93.] PC Tools and Norton Utilities both offer DES encryption for DOS and Windows. Choose a password with at least five random letters and one character. WordPerfect 5.1 encryption is easily defeated. Removable storage media can offer added security. [Daniel J. Yurman (djy@inel.gov).]

LNK Corporation (Riverdale, MD), Applied AI Group, needs an MS research scientist in Sun/X C/C++ image classification, NN, fuzzy logic, and parallel processing. US citizenship. Srini Raghavan (raghavan@tove.cs.umd.edu), (301) 927-7193 Fax. [Shridhar Srinivasan (shridhar@cfar.umd.edu), m.j.o, 4/22/94.]

Ciba Corning Diagnostics (Medfield, MA) needs an experienced BS knowledge engineer to work with expert systems for medical diagnostic instruments. No relocation. Joe Mostika (jmostika@world.std.com), (508) 359-3484, (508) 359-3614 Fax. [comp.ai, 4/22/94. David Joslin.]

The MIT/Whitehead Genome Center at the Whitehead Inst. for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, MA), Informatics Group, is seeking an MS/PhD senior software engineer or research scientist for OODBMS query optimization, clustering, and recursive query language development. Steve Rozen (steve@genome.wi.mit.edu), (617) 252-1923, (617) 252-1902 Fax. [dbworld, 4/21/94.]

Arris Pharmaceutical Corp. (South San Francisco, CA) needs a BS/MS software engineer for its Computational Drug Discovery Group. May involve documentation and improvement of conformational analysis software, molecular mechanics, force field computations, graphical display of multidimensional field models of ligand-receptor interactions, user interface code, and code for measuring local properties of molecules, in Common Lisp and C. David Chapman (zvona@arris.com). [bionet.jobs and ba.j.o, 4/25/94. Georg Fuellen.]

BioCAD Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) is looking for an experienced MS/PhD algorithm developer to help chemists discover new pharmaceuticals. May involve databases, graph algorithms, CAD, pattern recognition, nonlinear optimization, etc. resume@biocad.com; 555 Oakmead Parkway, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. [biocad!debka.biocad.com!greene@sgi.com, ba.j.o, 4/21/94.]

Victina Systems Int. (Austin) needs an experienced expert systems designer for Unix/Windows C/C++ development of rule-based systems. Contract position #0409. victina@oak.zilker.net, (512) 327-1669, (512) 327-1651 Fax. [m.j.o, 4/22/94.]

The Neuro-Engineering Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA) needs a programmer/analyst for its Space Station Centrifuge Neural Engineering Project. Neural/fuzzy techniques interfaced with Matlab and C environments will be used for centrifuge sensing and control. Also needed is a programmer/analyst in spectral analysis for NASA's Bayesian Model-Based Learning Group, Optical Plume Anomaly Detection System Project. Stephen A. Lesh (lesh@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov). [Will Edgington (wedgingt@kronos.arc.nasa.gov), ba.j.o, 4/22/94.]

The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn) needs an RA in statistical properties of neural networks and adaptive algorithms for its Adaptive Systems group. Apply by 5/8/94 to Dr. Joerg Kindermann (joerg@nathan.gmd.de), +49 02241 142437. [connectionists, 4/20/94.]

UGlasgow (UK) needs a CS RA in retrieval of multimedia information. Formal logic and probability theory helpful. See http://www.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/fermi/ for Project FERMI details. Contact Prof. C.J. van Rijsbergen (anne@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk), 041 330 4463, by 5/6/94. [keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk, IRLIST, 4/18/94.]

Worcester College of Higher Education is offering a 3-year PhD studentship in neural network simulations or the psychology of memory and attention. Dr. E.P. Fulcher. Send an SASE before 5/9 to Director of Personnel, WCHE, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK. [l.n.kalia@ic.ac.uk, Neuron Digest, 4/22/94.]

The Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (UQueensland, Brisbane) needs 3-year R&D software engineers to build tech-transfer prototypes using distributed systems technology. It also needs to research associates in multimedia information networking. Apply by 5/10/94 to Lois Fordham (lois@dstc.edu.au), +61(7)365-4310, +61(7)365-4311 Fax. [David A. Conran (lucifer@dstc.edu.au), m.j.o, 4/18/94.]

The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics is a new, refereed journal of discrete mathematics. Use Mosaic to open http://ejc.math.gatech.edu:8080/Journal/journalhome.html for free browsing or downloading -- or for instructions for authors. You can also register for emailed abstracts. [Carol Hutchins (hutchins@acf4.nyu.edu), NEWJOUR-L, 4/23/94.] (One of the papers is by Donald Knuth.)

Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) is a new peer-reviewed quarterly journal from John Wiley & Sons (sstraub@jwiley.com). $60/$170 in the US and Canada, $80/$210 elsewhere; free sample available. Submit papers to Karl Lieberherr (lieber@ccs.neu.edu) or Roberto Zicari (zicari@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de). You can join the TAPOS mailing list with a "subscribe tapos" message to majordomo@ccs.neu.edu; problems to domomaster@ccs.neu.edu. [dbworld, 4/11/94.]

The Bellwood Research Center Journal of Artificial Neural Systems covers theoretical and practical advances. Quarterly; $192/year, or $64 for contributors. Bellwood Research Center, 17 Briston Private, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1G 5R5. [J.C. Murray (aq859@freenet.carleton.ca), Neuron Digest, 4/19/94.]

The Journal of Veterinary Informatics and Computing (JVIC) is a new peer-reviewed ejournal. All issues will be archived and searchable. Submit articles to Ronald D. Smith (rd-smith @uiuc.edu), (217) 333-2449, (217) 333-4628 Fax. [NEWJOUR-L, 4/23/94.]

PRESENCE magazine has a new FORUM subsection for VR/telepresence lab reviews. Articles on networked virtual environments are also sought, by 4/30/94. Contact Michael Zyda (zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil), the "aggressive associate editor." General submission information can be found on file://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/PRESENCE_MOSAIC/presence_mosaic. html. [infobahn@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil, 4/7/94.]

Internaut is a new multimedia magazine for Mosaic browsers. Premier articles include a history of the Internet and an introduction to CU-SeeMe video conferencing. FTP internt1.zip from pub/mailcom/internaut on ftp.netcom.com. [Michael Strangelove (mstrange@fonorola.net), net-hap, 4/7/94.]

Multimedia information systems; "Information Systems: The Int. Journal." Stavros Christodoulakis (stavros@ced.tuc.gr), by 7/30/94. [dbworld, 4/26/94.]

Networked virtual realities (MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs, etc.) and communication; The Electronic Journal of Communication. Contact Stephen Doheny-Farina (sdf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu), 315-268-6484 Fax, by 5/15/94, with proposals due 6/6/94 and papers due 1/15/95. For subscriptions, send a "sub ejcrec your name" message to comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu. [Alijandra L. Mogilner (amogilner@electriciti.com), CARR-L, 4/20/94.]

Real-world virtual environments; IEEE Computer, 7/95. Send abstract by 6/1/94 to Michael J. Zyda (zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil), (408) 656-2814 Fax. Potential referees should contact Ted Lewis (lewis@cs.nps.navy.mil). [infobahn@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil, 4/21/94.]

Building lexicons for machine translation; J. of Machine Translation. Bonnie J. Dorr (bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu) and Judith L. Klavans (klavans@cs.columbia.edu), 914-478-1802 Fax, 7/15/94. [ELSNET, 4/23/94.]

The SUSANNE Corpus comprises 130,000 words of American English text from the Brown University Corpus, "to exemplify a set of annotation standards which attempt to specify an explicit notation for all aspects of the surface and logical grammar of real-life English in sufficient detail that analysts independently applying the standards to the same text must produce identical annotations." Release 3 of the Corpus may be FTP'd from ota/susanne on black.ox.ac.uk. Several thousand inconsistencies have been corrected during the preparation of "English for the Computer," to be published by Oxford University Press late this year. [Geoffrey Sampson. Nancy M. Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), HUMANIST, 4/13/94.]

Several concordance programs are available free. Conc 1.70 for the Mac handles interlinear text and custom searches and sorts. Free Text is a more limited program, with the index in all caps. TACT is a DOS text-retrieval and concordance application, available by FTP as /pub/cch/tact/tact2.1gamma on epas@utoronto.ca. Disks with an obsolete printed manual are about $22 from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (cch@epas.utoronto.ca), Robarts Library, Room 14297A, 4 Bancroft Ave., Toronto, ON CANADA, M5S 1A5; a new manual from MLA should be out later this year. Ask Ian Lancashire (ian@epas.utoronto.ca) about the TACT-L@utoronto.bitnet discussion group. [escatton@albnyvms.bitnet, LINGUIST, 4/7/94.]

C.X. Ling claims that an ID3-based general-purpose symbolic pattern associator works much better than artificial neural networks for predicting the past tense form of English verbs. For reasons why, see JAIR V1 (1994), pp. 209-229. The paper volume1/ling94a.ps (247K) and data file volume1/ling-appendix.Z (109K) may be FTP'd from /usr/jair/pub on p.gp.cs.cmu.edu, or downloaded from gopher/WWW at gopher://p.gp.cs.cmu.edu/. [Steve Minton (minton@kronos.arc.nasa.gov), comp.ai.neural-nets, 2/9/94.]

The Computation and Language Electronic Preprint Server offers FTP, WWW, and email access to archives in computational linguistics, NLP, speech processing, and related fields. For info, send "get announce.txt" and "help" subject lines to cmp-lg@xxx.lanl.gov. Subscribers will receive announcements of new papers. [Stuart Shieber (shieber@das.harvard.edu), LINGUIST, 4/11/94.]

The Institute for Language Technology and AI has a new WWW server at http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080:/itk/itkhome.html. [Arthur van Horck (horck@kub.nl), comp.infosystems.www, 3/7/94.]

Scholar is a Listserv newsletter for text analysis and NLP applications. Contact jqrqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu. [EDUCOM Update, 3/15/94. net-hap.] (A WAIS index is now available.)

Preliminary Common Lisp code for the 2nd edition of James Allen's NLP book is in pub/james/NLcode on ftp.cs.rochester.edu. It's greatly improved from the first edition. There is now a bottom-up chart parser for grammars using feature unification, and will soon be a probabilistic best-first parser and software for semantic interpretation. Suggestions to james@cs.rochester.edu. [David Traum (traum@cs.rochester.edu), comp.ai, 3/11/94. David Joslin.]

Madhura Nirkhe's 8/94 PhD in CE from UMaryland College Park will leave her looking for AI/OO/DB/HCI software development work. Her dissertation concerns fully deadline-coupled real-time planning and reasoning, allowing for planning time and changing conditions. Send any leads to madhura@cs.umd.edu, (407) 852 5854 (home). [4/20/94.]

Dr. Cindy Mason notes that there are still 6 spaces left for her AAAI Workshop on Environmental Applications. Contact eco@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov for details. [mason@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov, 4/21/94.]

Laurence Crown Rosenberg, 61, died of lung cancer on 4/17/94. He was the deputy director of NSF's CISE/IRIS, the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and had been with NSF since the early 1974 (after a decade as a Treasury Department senior economist and Customs Service planning and research director). Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Ruth (of Falls Church), three grown sons, and a brother. [Washington Post, 4/18/94. Maria Zemankova (mzemanko@ciis.mitre.org), 4/22/94.] (Larry was responsible for building the Information Technology and Organizations program (ITO), of which he was still the acting program director. He was an advocate of collaborative computing, and recently managed an initiative in that area. As CISE/IRIS Deputy Director, he fought for budget, tracked expenses, managed the office, and helped keep other IRIS programs running. Larry was often a great help to me when I was the program director for IRIS/RMI. I don't know how IRIS director YT Chien (ytchien@nsf.gov) will fill the vacancy.)

-- Ken