PLUGGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS: So much for coloring in the lines and curling up for nap time on the carpet. Kindergarten students can now log on the computer and take a cyberspace field trip with the big kids - college students at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . Thanks to Berkeley's new Interactive University project - funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Oakland and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden school districts, Pacific Bell and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) - elementary and high schools in designated Oakland and San Francisco neighborhoods now have Internet access See how to access the Internet. to the students, professors and resources at UC-Berkeley. The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded a $650,000 grant to the $5 million project Tuesday. Officials said they hoped the program would become a prototype for other universities and neighboring communities across the country. POWER CHIP: IBM's Power2 Super Chip contains 15 million transistors, the most ever in a single microprocessor. Engineers developed the chip in less than nine months while combining the functions previously carried out by eight separate chips into one. The chip serves as the ``brains'' in several new IBM RS/6000 servers. WEB LINKS MIND-SET: ``All right, just settle back. Take a deep breath,'' the computer commands in unctuous unc·tu·ous adj. Containing or composed of oil or fat. unctuous greasy or oily. tones. The screen shows a circular green disk under which are some other imperatives: ``Look deeply into the disk. If it seems to move, you may be in a trance. If it doesn't move . . . you may be deeper than you think.'' That is the World Wide Web site (http://www.hypnosis.com) from Relaxation Co. There are Web sites to help ``you think your way to excellent life'' (http://www.mindtools.com/index.html) and ``release the power of your mind'' (http://www.mindman.com). Some sites are high-technology versions of Norman Vincent Peale's prescription for positive thinking. One, titled the Good Mood Page, offers the advice: ``treat yourself well for the rest of your life'' (http://www.wam.umd.edu/janeeyre/goodmood/intro.html), the Universal Resource Locator Universal Resource Locator - Uniform Resource Locator address peculiarly including an allusion to the 19th century novel that is not ordinarily associated with unadorned happiness. RANDOM ACCESS THE MACINTOSH ARENA: Corel(http://www.corel.com), best known for its CorelDraw application for PC compatibles, plans to make a big push into the Macintosh arena with its new CorelDraw 6 Suite for the Power Macintosh See Power Mac. (computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. . In case you didn't know, Corel is the company that bought WordPerfect, which makes one of the most popular word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and programs for the PC. It will cost a whopping $595.If you were to buy all of the applications, utilities and bonus goodies separately, you could spend even more - and you wouldn't get a lot of the interaction abilities. Here's what you get: CorelDraw 6, Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. 3.5,CorelDream 3D,CorelTexture andCorelArtisan.Corel also throws in over 25,000 clip art images, more than 1,000 photographs, over 1,700 Type 1 and TrueType fonts, over 750 3D models, plus utilities like Multimedia Manager and MasterJuggler, which let you view and handle all those images and fonts.CorelDraw 6 Suite requires a Power Macintosh with 24 megabytes of memory. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) No caption (IBM's Power2 Super Chip) |
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