Now playing in limited release: Internet, the next generation

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The Very-High-Performance Backbone Network Service, which is being sponsored by the National Science Foundation and built by MCI Communications, is a new Internet with strictly limited access to approximately 100 US computer scientists. This alternative Internet uses MCI's fiber optic networks to link the country's five academic supercomputer centers distributed throughout the nation. Since Apr 1995, the Government has invested $50 million in its five-year agreement with MCI to develop the next-generation Internet. MCI, however, admits to investing 10 times that amount to build the network in the hopes of providing high-performance Internet services to future customers. MCI is enlisting advanced switches from Fore Systems and Northern Telecom, along with routers from Cisco Systems and Ascend Communications, to build the new Internet. The new network is primarily used by scientists who are helping to define the standards and software that will eventually allow guaranteed access over the high-performance lines.

Services, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Industrial research, Communications technology, Telecommunications, United States. National Science Foundation, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Research and Development

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Behind headlines on study, a couple married to their work

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Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas Novak have distinguished themselves in Internet marketing. The two scholars combine marriage and work specialization in the World Wide Web's market segmentation and commercialization. For nearly 20 years the couple has conducted research together and published papers jointly. Dr. Hoffman recently co-wrote an article in the journal Science, which documents that Internet access is far less likely among lower-income black Americans than for whites of similar economic status. Key collaborations include that 1994 founding of Project 2000, a program that has emerged as a top research center for studying electronic commerce. Drs. Hoffman and Novak in 1995 discredited undergraduate Marty Rimm's research arguing that the Internet was awash in pornography, as well as challenged a demographic report's methodology that led to inflated estimates of the number of Internet users.

Race relations, Mass media, User survey/user study, User surveys, Mass media and race relations

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Show me the mummy! Internet offers a home to archeology

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Internet surfers can search a growing number of interactive archeological Web sites worldwide to observe excavations in detail. The Theban Mapping Project's Web site (www.kv5.com) offers a montage of color photographs, as well as other features that include timelines of 3,500 years of Egyptian dynasties. Other Web sites allows users to study Mayan ruins in Belize (alishaw.sscf.ucsb.edu/~ford), computer renderings of a Maltese tomb from 2500 B.C. (www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Archaeology/html/research/comvis/insite.htm) and the excavation of Jamestown, Va. (www.apva.org). Some Web sites can help field workers bypass university presses and go on line almost immediately, and other sites let archeologists communicate with one another. Many sites are designed to inform and entertain the general public, including occasional fund-raising.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Noncommercial research organizations, Archeology, Telecommunications systems, Archaeology, Communication in science, Scientific communication, Technology in education, Scientific expeditions

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