The Financial Economics Network for economic scholars is developing several lists for individual investors: AFA-CORPORATE, AFA-INVESTMENTS, AFA-INTERNATIONAL, AFA-BANKING, AFA-DERIVATIVES, AFA-SMALL-INVESTOR, AFA-LAW-ECONOMICS, and AFA-REAL-ESTATE. Apply to Prof. Wayne Marr (marrm@clemson.clemson.edu), (803) 656-0796, (803) 653-5516 Fax. [net-hap, 1/14/94.]

INTCON (Intelligent Control) is a new SIG covering neuro- control, fuzzy control, reinforcement learning, etc. Contact Mohammad Bahrami (bahrami@cse.unsw.edu.au). [connectionists, 1/7/94.]

A new Int. Institute for General Systems Studies (IIGSS) has been established. Contact Hiroshi Deguchi (deguchi@glocom.ac.jp) or Yonghao Ma (ym01@academia.swt.edu). [CYBSYS-L, 1/7/94.]

There is an e-mail list for people interested in computational studies of emotion and motivation. Contact T.M.Read@cs.bham.ac.uk. Several papers on emotions for intelligent agents can be FTP's from pub/dist/papers/cog_affect on ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk; check the 0-INDEX file for a description. [Luc Beaudoin (l.p.beaudoin@cs.bham.ac.uk), comp.ai, 1/12/94. David Joslin.]

CREA-CPS@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl is the list for Creativity and Creative Problem Solving in psychology. [Christopher Allen (consensus@netcom.com), ANN-LOTS, 1/17/94.] Send a "sub crea-cps your name" message to listserv@nic.surfnet.nl.

comp.infosystems.announce is a new moderated Usenet newsgroup for announcing new information services. Announcements should be sent to infosys@msu.edu, other messages to infosys-request @msu.edu. [Richard W. Wiggins (rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu), net-hap, 1/15/94.]

Other new Usenet newsgroups are comp.std.lisp and comp.org.lisp-users. The former is for discussing DEFSYSTEM, Foreign Function Interface, multiprocessing, and other standards that won't make it into ANSI Common Lisp. The latter is for announcements from the Assoc. of Lisp Users (ALU). Technical matters should be discussed on comp.lang.lisp. [1/18/94.]