- Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratories
- Where Sandy Stone plays.
- Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
- Developing "intelligent communications systems, cross-language global communication systems, ideal human-machine interfaces and networks extending from outer space to each individual" Also, Tom Ray works there.
- American National Standards Institute
- The ANSI Web site "provides information about standards and conformity
- assessment information that is of interest to the US standards development community." Whew.
- Association for Computing Machinery - Gopher
- Association for Computing Machinery - WWW
- The ACM lays claim to the title of the first computing society.
- Bandwidth Conservation Society
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Info on topics ranging from the Clipper Chip to the National Information Infrastructure,
- to privacy and civil liberties, to related conferences and publications. Including an archive.
- Educom
- A consortium that believes education and information technology (IT) 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.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- "A non-profit 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. Josh
- Quittner covered the EFF in " The Merry Pranksters Go to Washington," Wired 2.06.
- Federal Communications Committee
- Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- IBM's lab for research in physical sciences, computer sciences,
- systems technology, mathematics and information services, applications and solutions.
- IEEE
- IEEE Computer Society
- Information Infrastructure Sourcebook
- "The Sourcebook contains reference articles on efforts to define and develop
- policy for a national information infrastructure. It includes historical policy
- documents, private sector vision statements and position papers, program and
- project descriptions, landmark reports and pending legislation."
- Information Infrastructure Task Force
- Speeches, Testimony & Documents from the National Information Infrastructure
- Advisory Council, a Web servers directory, and telecommunications and
- information related Web site lists. Also, the NII Virtual Library.
- Information Sciences Institute
- USC's ISI is a policy making Internet body that rules over international top
- level domain (iTLD) assignments.
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- The IETF is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet.
- Internet Society
- The operational management of the Internet standards process is handled by
- members of the IETF under the auspices of the Internet Society.
- InterNIC Directory and Database Services Home Page
- InterNIC's white pages, public databases, Internet resource information, NSF
- info, IETF documentation, and directories (provided by AT&T). Enter a domain name for a
- Whois search to see who has registered it with the InterNIC.
- Libertarian Party
- Matrix Information and Directory Services
- MIDS publishes Net demographics and weather reports (maps of daily Net
- traffic and speed analysis).
- Media Lab
- MIT's Media Laboratory. Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, Pattie Maes - the
- whole team. Fred Hapgood visited the Lab in "
- The Media Lab at 10," Wired 3.11.
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- The University of Illinois center where Marc Andreessen helped
- develop Mosaic, which spawned into
Netscape's Navigator.
- National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications
- Just try to name your governmental arm with as much moxie.
- Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet
- OSF Home Page
- SGML Open
- 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.
- The Computer Museum
- The Boston museum's ode to our digital history. John Schwartz visited the museum in "
- Key Memories," in Wired 4.06.
- The Global Information Infrastructure Commission
- This private organization works with worldwide industry honchos on, well,
- global information infrastructure issues.
- The Human Interface Technology Lab
- The HIT Lab is a pioneering, market-driven virtual environment developer at
- the University of Washington.
- 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.
- Tool User Comics' World Wide Web Comics Project
- UniForum WWW Server Home Page
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3)
- This is where the Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee and pals.
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