Engineering Information Village wins IIA/Online Access SCI/Tech HotShots Award.HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1996--The Information Industry Association (IIA (1) (Information Industry Association, Washington, DC) In 1999, IIA merged with SPA (Software Publishers Association) to become the Software & Information Industry Association. See SIIA. ) has named Engineering Information Inc.s cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. information center, Engineering Information VillageTM, as IIA/Online Access Science/Technology HotShot Product of the Year. The announcement was made at a reception held during the annual IIA conference in Washington, DC earlier this month. The HotShot Awards, co-sponsored by IIA and Online Access, honor the industry's best and most innovative online and Internet products and services. Science/Technology was one of 16 categories identified for recognition. Engineering Information Village, initially released in mid-1995 and significantly enhanced in Release 2.0 in 1996, and with a new look and feel, integrates and brings to the desktop a wide variety of technical and technical/business information and community resources. Besides selecting, 14,000 Web sites for their substantiveness, relevance and reliability, providing guides to whats available within those sites, Editor's Choices, and an easy gateway, Ei also provides its residents with a number of exclusive features, such as a technical alert service, a current awareness service, a community of senior resident engineers, technical librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. , and access to information in 150 online databases, as well as the option of unlimited access to its own Ei Compendex(R) on the Web, the world's most comprehensive interdisciplinary in·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct. interdisciplinary Adjective engineering database, and ILI StandardsWeb. The service was developed to help technical professionals and managers solve problems and work more productively, while encouraging them to take more advantage of formal research tools. Accepting the award was Eric Wm. Johnson, Executive Vice President of Engineering Information Inc., who has managed the Ei Village project since its inception over two years ago. In commenting on IIA's selection of Ei Village for the HotShots honor, Mr. Johnson said, "It's always gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to have your peers determine that the chances your Company took in seeking innovative solutions for a market have led to successful results. At Ei, we believe Ei Village is emblematic em·blem·at·ic or em·blem·at·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or serving as an emblem; symbolic. [French emblématique, from Medieval Latin embl of a genre, in that managing cyberspace for business and industry will increasingly require creating such special-interest environments, where a wide variety of knowledge sources are integrated." Engineering Information Inc., a 112-year-old publisher of engineering information, also offers products distributed electronically online, through site licensing, on CDROM See CD-ROM. and via E-mail, as well as Engineering Index(R), the print counterpart counterpart n. in the law of contracts, a written paper which is one of several documents which constitute a contract, such as a written offer and a written acceptance. of Ei Compendex. Headquarters for the Company are at 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ 07030, tel. 800-221-1044 or 201-216-8500, fax 201-216-8532, e-mail: ei@ei.org. The address for its Home Page, through which visitors can access a tour of Engineering Information Village, is http://www.ei.org CONTACT: Marcia Kaufman 201-216-8524, Fax 201-216-8532 |
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