From: rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting)
Newsgroups: comp.research.japan
Subject: Monthly Message for comp.research.japan
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:52:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: optima.15002


      Monthly Message for comp.research.japan   (last revised: Feb 2, 1992)
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Welcome to comp.research.japan, a newsgroup devoted to Japanese 
research developments in computing and computer science.  This posting 
is intended to outline the purpose of the group, as well as to provide 
directions on how to submit articles, and other (hopefully) useful 
information.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The basic purpose of this newsgroup is to increase the awareness of 
Japanese computing and CS by providing a forum for publicizing this 
work and for subsequent discussions.  For example, articles of the 
following type are appropriate for this newsgroup:

       -- Information about CS research papers published in Japan, 
          including titles, authors, and (where feasible) abstracts.
          This includes papers in both English and Japanese.

       -- Descriptions of current Japanese computing and CS activities,
          trip reports to Japanese universities and companies, etc.

       -- Announcements related to computing and CS in Japan, including 
          those related to conferences held in Japan, research opportunities 
          in Japan, etc.

       -- Queries related to computing and CS research underway in Japan.

       -- General discussions on computing and CS in Japan, both academic 
          and industrial.

Articles related to the Japanese language should be submitted to 
sci.lang.japan, while more general articles on Japanese life and
culture should be submitted to soc.culture.japan.

comp.research.japan is a moderated newsgroup, which means that
articles first go to me as moderator before being posted to the
newsgroup.  The role of the moderator here is to avoid duplicate
postings, redirect articles more appropriately submitted elsewhere,
actively solicit articles, etc. 

SUBMISSIONS:

Articles can be submitted by the normal posting mechanism in
most news reading programs; the software will then mail them 
to the moderator for posting.  Articles for posting can also
be submitted by email to address "japan@cs.arizona.edu".
Comments, questions, etc. that are not intended for posting
can be submitted to me directly at "rick@cs.arizona.edu."

INFORMATION AVAILABLE BY FTP:

The following collections of past articles from comp.research.japan
are available for retrieval by anonymous FTP from site cs.arizona.edu
[192.12.69.5], directory japan.

  (1) David Kahaner's reports on computing in Japan and elsewhere in Asia
        (directory kahaner.reports.)
  (2) Rick Schlichting's trip reports from various universities and 
        laboratories in Japan (directory rick.reports)
  (3) Table of Contents from the Transactions of the Electronics, Information
        and Communication Engineers (IEICE), English edition (directory 
        table.contents/ieice.TOC.)
  (4) Table of Contents from the Journal of Information Processing, a
        journal published by the Information Processing Society
        of Japan (IPSJ) in English (directory table.contents/ipsj.TOC.) 
  (5) Table of Contents from Advances in Software Science and Technology,
        a yearly journal published by the Japan Society for Software
        Science and Technology (JSSST) in English (directory
        table.contents/jssst.TOC.)
  (6) Table of Contents from the Scientific Information Bulletin, a 
        journal published by the U.S. Office of Naval Research - Asia
        (directory table.contents/onrsib.TOC.)
  (7) Table of Contents of various conferences held in Japan (directory 
         table.contents/confs.TOC.)
  (8) Information on Japanese <-> English translators and related matters
        (file japanese/translator.info.)
  (9) Texts of NSF announcements related to Japan (directory nsf.)
 (10) Current list of active domains in Japan, useful for inferring
      email addresses (file email.domains.)

Numbers (3) and (4) are also available for anonymous FTP in Japan from 
site miki.cs.titech.ac.jp, directory JAPAN/research.

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Rick Schlichting, Associate Professor           (rick@cs.arizona.edu) 
Dept of Computer Science,  The University of Arizona
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