[256] in Information Retrieval
Apple Awards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ganderso@MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 30 09:01:12 1994
From: ganderso@MIT.EDU
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU, dlicc@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 09:00:40 EDT
Thought some of you might be interested in this new
Apple award program.
Greg
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For Immediate Release
Contact
Betty Taylor
Apple Computer, Inc.
(408) 974-3983
betty.t@applelink.apple.com
Apple Announces "Cool Tools" Awards for Internet Programming Efforts
CUPERTINO, California--September 30, 1994--The Advanced Technology
Group of Apple Computer, Inc. announced today that it has awarded
eleven individuals and organizations with "Cool Tools" awards. This
special award is designed to recognize programmers and their
contributions of a wide variety of tools to allow Macintosh users to
navigate the Internet.
During the past several years, the Internet has evolved from a research
and education-oriented network, once accessible only by researchers and
scientists, into a worldwide network connecting more than 75 countries
and millions of users in small businesses, libraries, schools, homes, and
government offices.
"Access to the Internet has been made simpler by the efforts of many
programmersQmany of them working with little monetary reward--to
design and distribute a wide variety of tools to navigate the millions of
files and thousands of networks that comprise the Internet," said Rick
LeFaivre, vice president of Apple's Advanced Technology Group, the
group within Apple chartered with driving long-term technology
research and development advancements. "Through the creation of these
"Cool Tools" awards, our goal was to recognize the work of some of these
unsung heroes who have made very significant contributions in making
it easier to navigate the Internet."
"Consistent with the charter of the Apple's Advanced Technology Group
to develop new hardware and software technologies, we hope this
recognition encourages the continued development and evolution of the
wonderful resources available on the Internet," LeFaivre added.
In addition to a certificate of recognition, the Cool Tools awardees will
receive an Apple (r) Power Macintosh(tm) 7100 from Apple.
The Macintosh Cool Tools Internet Award recipients and their projects
are:
- -The Internet Society, Reston, Virginia, for its efforts to foster a global
environment conducive to the easy exchange of information and the
rapid development of standards and new software. Internet Society, 12020
Sunrise Valley Dr. Suite 270, Reston VA 22091 USA Telephone: (703) 648
9888 fax: (703) 648 9887 Email: amr@isoc.org.
- -Steve Dorner of QUALCOMM Incorporated in San Diego, California, for
Eudora, an electronic mail client for Internet users. Telephone (800)
2-EUDORA. Email: sdorner@qualcomm.com
- -Chuck Shotton, Houston, Texas, for MacHTTP, a World Wide Web
server for the Macintosh. Telephone: (713) 794-5650. Email:
shotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
- -Peter Lewis, Perth, Western Australia, for FTPd, an anonymous file
transfer server, and Anarchie, an FTP client to search for and retrieve
public files on the Internet. Email: peter.lewis@info.curtin.au.edu
- -University of Michigan -Weather Underground, University of
Michigan, for Blue-Skies, a gopher client for browsing, viewing and
reporting real time weather and environmental information in an
interactive graphic and text format. Key contributors include students
Alan Steremberg, Derek Price, Chris Schwerzler, and Michael Kamprath.
The Weather Underground is directed by Prof. Perry Samson with
technical direction from Jeff Ferguson. Telephone: (313) 936-0491. Email:
blueskies@umich.edu.
- -John Hardin of EINet, Austin, Texas, for MacWeb, a hypermedia World
Wide Web client for the Macintosh. Telephone: ( 800) 844-4638. Email:
macweb@einet.net.
- -National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Urbana, Illinois, for
Mosaic for the Macintosh, the crossover application that has helped to
spur interest in the Internet for many commercial and non-commerical
users. Telephone: (217)244-3473. Email: mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
- -Aaron Giles of Cornell University Medical College, New York, New
York, for JPEGView, a graphic utility that allows the user to view
compressed images on the World Wide Web, Gopher or those retrieved
from anonymous FTP servers on the Net. Telephone: (212) 410-2781.
Email: giles@med.cornell.edu.
- -John Norstad of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, for
Newswatcher, a Usenet new reader. Email: j-norstad@nwu.edu
- -Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for CU-SeeMe, a conferencing tool
that is being used by elementary schools, individuals, and other
organizations around the world for low-cost video communications.
Telephone: (607) 255-7566 Email: r.cogger@cornell.edu. Files may be ftp'ed
at gated.cornell.edu in the /pub/video directory.
- -University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for the TurboGopher client
and GopherSurfer server. Internet Gopher is a distributed system for
campus and world information which includes local information as well
as links to other Gopher servers. Telephone: (612) 625 1300. Fax: (612) 625
6817.
All of these programs above began as free software or shareware,
although some have become commercial products.
Apple commissioned a panel of Apple employees to seek out and critique
currently available tools for Macintosh on the Internet, to determine
awardees. Programmers who would like more information about Apple
and the Internet may contact Steve Cisler at sac@apple.com.
Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the
information industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use
personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and
personal digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple
(NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets
products, technologies and services for the business, education, consumer,
scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.
For Apple press releases by fax, call (800) AAPL FAX (800 227-5329) and
enter I.D. number 6172.
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Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of; and
Power Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in
the US and other countries. All other trademarks are of their respective
companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
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