Advanced
Communication Technologies Laboratories
We are a freewheeling
research facility for advanced work at the boundaries where technology,
art, and culture collide.
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Advanced
Telecommunications Research Institute International
For the sophisticated
information society of the 21st century which will be humanitarian, ATR
is conducting basic and creative telecommunications R&D with fresh
perspecitives and a strong bias towards humanistic considerations.
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American
National Standards Institute
American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) web site offers up-to-date resources on national
and international standards activities."
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Computer
Emergency Response Team
The CERT* Coordination
Center studies Internet security vulnerabilities, provides incident response
services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publishes a variety
of security alerts, researches security and survivability in wide-area-networked
computing, and develops information to help you improve security at your
site. Their emergency 24-hour hotline for system administrators in distress
is +1 (412) 268 7090.
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Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPSR's website
devoted to issues such as internet filters,encryption, digital signatures,
pics, filtering, ethics, nii,cpsr, privacy. I strongly recomend a good
look around this site. (Spider)
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The
Computing Research Association
The CRA is an
association of more than 150 North American academic departments of computer
science and computer engineering, industrial laboratories engaging in basic
computing research, and affiliated professional societies. Search for a
computer science/engineering department here:
Electronic
Frontier Foundation
"A nonprofit civil
liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy,
free expression, and access to online resources and information." Documents
and file archives, and links to related sites.
Educom
A consortium that
believes education and information technology will provide the most significant
enhancements for human capability over the coming decade. Also houses the
bimonthly Educom
Review and Edupage,
a three-times-a-week electronic newswire that summarizes developments in
information technology.
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Federal
Communications Commission
Regulates interstate
and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite,
and cable. Stop by and say hi to Reed Hundt and friends. They've overstocked
with wireless! Everything must go!
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The
Global Information Infrastructure Commission
This private organization
works with worldwide industry honchos on, well, global information infrastructure
issues.
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HTTP - separate multiple words with semicolons:
The
Human Interface Technology Lab
The HIT Lab is
a pioneering, market-driven virtual environment developer at the University
of Washington.
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IEEE
Computer Society
The world's largest
professional computing organization. Runs conferences, journals, technical
committees, and standards boards.
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Information
Infrastructure Task Force
Speeches, testimony,
and documents from the president's National Information Infrastructure
Advisory Council, a two-year committee that ended in February '96. Also
contains telecommunications-related Web site lists and the NII Virtual
Library.
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Information
Sciences Institute
USC's ISI is a
policymaking Internet body that rules over international top-level domain
(iTLD) assignments.
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International
Telecommunications Union
The 131-year-old,
Geneva, Switzerland-based ITU serves governments and the private sector
by coordinating global telecommunication networks, standards, and services.
One of the only groups with the big picture in mind.
Internet
Engineering Task Force
The IETF is the
protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet.
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Internet
Society
Manages the Internet
standards process, along with a workgroup of members of the IETF.
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InterNIC
Directory and Database Services Homepage
InterNIC, the
agency that registers domain names in the United States, maintains links
to its White Pages, public databases, Internet resource information, NSF
info, IETF documentation, and directories (provided by AT&T).
Enter a domain
name to see who's registered it or to check on availability (Punch in a
domain like "feed.com" or "spanq.com." When you enter a query, you don't
have to include the www prefix):
The
List
Mechler Media's
comprehensive list of Internet Service Providers all over the world. Of
course the national ISPs are listed, but The List is most helpful to find
the small players, so browse by state, area code, or country. Updated and
maintained frequently.
Matrix
Information and Directory Services
MIDS publishes
Internet demographics and weather reports (maps of daily Net traffic and
speed analysis).
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Media
Lab
MIT's Media Laboratory.
Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, Pattie Maes - the whole team.
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The
Media Research Lab
The Media Research
Laboratory is a division of New York University's Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences - dedicated exclusively to the research of emerging
media and communications technologies.
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National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
The University
of Illinois center where Marc Andreessen helped develop Mosaic, which spawned
Netscape's Navigator.
National
Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications
Just try to name
another governmental arm with as much moxie.
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National
Telecommunications & Information Administration
Run by the US
Department of Commerce, this agency advises the president on telecommunications
policy. Surprise - the page's hokey bitmap looks like a superhighway.
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Netline
An online digest
published by BRP Publications,
which sells telecommunications reports and tracks policy and economic factors.
BRP's free content site has daily headlines and the FCC
Auction Tracking Service, so you can keep up to date on how much spectrum
has been sold to wireless services.
Telecommunications
Associations
The World Wide
Web Virtual Library has collected this no-frills list of online trade groups.
Telecommunications
and Technology Studies - The Cato Institute
Telecom deregulation
is, of course, at the top of the list for this libertarian think tank based
in Washington.
United
States Telephone Association
Has taken a stand
against national wiretapping plans and the Clinton administration's too-restrictive
policy on online copyright.
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Voters
Telecommunications Watch
A free speech,
privacy, copyright, and encryption-related site, VTW is the group behind
the famous "Paint the Web black" campaign against Net censorship. Current
news items on telecom policy top the page, and you can subscribe to their
mailing list for updates.
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The
World Wide Web Consortium (W3)
This is where
the Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee and pals.
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