Tim Crawford of King's College, London, would like to know of any work on musical similarity -- harmony, rhythm, melody, motif, etc. -- for information retrieval. His music department is currently using the Unix-based HUMDRUM package for analysis of symbolic music. [, comp.music.research, 11/13/96.]

Project Gutenberg is in need of contributions, to continue its mission of bringing public-domain literature to the net. U. Illinois and Benedictine U. were previously supporting the effort. . [Susan Klopfer , inet-news, 11/22/96.]

CMU is adding new MS and PhD programs in Language Technologies, in their CS Language Technologies Institute. Specialties include computational linguistics, machine translation, speech understanding, and information retrieval. Apply by 2/1/97. , . [Jennifer S. Potter , comp.ai, 11/22/96. David Joslin.]

Claris Emailer 1.1 for the Mac is currently free (ERP $49.95) at , until version 2.0 becomes available early in 1997. [Idealist, 11/18/96.]

Retrieve It! 2.0 for Mac searches files and disks for keyword strings. $20 + shipping (regularly $40) from , with free upgrade to version 2.5 when released. (2.5 will be able to search Internet sources also.) Matt Pallakoff , 1-800-856-9800 (ask for part# 22277). [Idealist, 11/18/96.]

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