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George Edw. Seymour, Ph.D.

Retired from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center--San Diego
Currently Adjunct Professor at Alliant International University
Course: Social Psychology of Work Organizations


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  blue dot   COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
  blue dot   COMPUTERS
  blue dot   DIGITAL BEACON
  blue dot   GOVERNMENT
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  blue dot   K-12 EDUCATION
  blue dot   MISCELLANEOUS
  blue dot   NEWS
  blue dot   QUALITY
  blue dot   QUOTES
  blue dot   SEARCH ENGINES
  blue dot   VOYAGER
  blue dot   What time is it?

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This page was created on September 24, 1995.           Reload this page.             Vitá
Section revised: Wednesday January 15, 2008.

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COLLABORATIVE   TECHNOLOGIES:

"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe."   *

star   CMC INFORMATION SOURCES: John December's well managed and uniquely organized resource site.

green dot   COLLABORATION, KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION and AUTOMATABILITY: CERN's recommended starting place.

green dot   CSM: Collaborative Technologies at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

green dot   Middenheap: Wikis go mainstream.

green dot   MIT: Project Oxygen.

green dot   Robin Good: The State of Collaboration Technologies.

green dot   WWW Collaboration Projects: List of resources about collaboration technologies and WWW projects.

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."    *

This Collaborative Technologies section was checked and revised on Thursday, July 1, 2004.

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COMPUTER   LINKS

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."    *

green dot   AMBIT: A good variety of computer resources.

green dot   dmoz: The Open Directory Project's fine list of computer topics.

green dot   IEEE: Computer Timeline.

green dot   NCSA'S STARTING POINTS: Gateways and links to a wide variety of historical resources.

star   SHAREWARE: Jumbo's huge site of software programs, apparently now owned by internet.com.

green dot   W3C World Wide Web CONSORTIUM: A good variety of computer topics.

star   Top 500 Supercomputer Sites: For viewing or downloading
This Computer section was revised on Thursday, July 1, 2004.

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GOVERNMENT   LINKS

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."    *

CHIPS MAGAZINE: The Navy's premier computer periodical.

FEDWORLD: Thinks "outside the box to offer multiple distribution channels to disseminate information to the public."

INFOMINE: UC Riverside's comprehensive Government links: Search by subject, keyword, or title.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Exhibits, digital publications, and state government pointers.

NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION: The library holdings should be mandatory reading.

NAVAL SAFETY CENTER: Their photos of the week should be required viewing.

SPAWAR: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command provides information technology and space systems for today's Navy and Defense Department.

SSC: SAN DIEGO: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center provides C4ISR--Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance--to the Navy and DoD.

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: Zip codes, stamps, and current postal events.

U. S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES PAGE: Federal agency pointers in structural format from LSU.

This Government section was tested and revised on Thursday, July 1, 2004.
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INTERNET   LINKS

"I live in a strictly rural community, and people here speak of «TheRadio» in the large sense, with an overmeaning.  When they say «TheRadio» they don't mean a cabinet, an electrical phenomenon, or a man in a studio, they refer to a pervading and somewhat godlike presence which has come into their lives and homes.  It is a might attractive idol."    *


green dot   ASK DR. INTERNET: Great starting place for beginners, plus advanced pointers.

green dot   CABLE MODEM RESOURCES: Looking for on-line information on digital cable communication systems?

green dot   CERN: The World Wide Web's birthplace, but documents now maintained by the W3 CONSORTIUM

green dot   EXPLORING INTERNET RESOURCES WORLDWIDE: Exceptional resources for the InterNet.

green dot   HISTORICAL ARCHIVES: providing documents by year.

green dot   HIT LAB and Toni Emerson's "virtual" Knowledge Base Project

star   HOBBES: An Internet Timeline

green dot   IEEE InterNet Computing Online: Volume 1, Number 1 was February, 1997. Includes archives and forums.

green dot   WWW VIEWER TEST PAGE: From the University of Wisconson.

"The internet--like rock 'n' roll, hollywood, and the atomic bomb--was born in the U.S.A."    *

This InterNet section was tested and revised on Thursday, July 1, 2004.
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K-12   EDUCATION   LINKS

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."    *

B.E.S.S.T. TEAM: The Washington social studies site now has a new look.

BLUE WEB'N: Pacific Bell's worthy Application Table for teachers.

CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH: Writing tutorials and teacher writing resources from The Johns Hopkins University.

CHILDREN'S SOFTWARE REVIEW: a newsletter to evaluate children's software (ages 2 to 14)

DEBBIE'S LINKS FOR KIDs: Wide variety a entertaining links.

FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SCIENCE MUSEUM: Exhibits, publications, and demonstrations 24 hours a day.

INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY: Text/audio stories for young children.

NETDAY: Wiring our schools. Are you prepared for the next NetDay.

SAN DIEGO SCIENCE ALLIANCE: A valuable local resource.

SIR EDUCATION RESOURCES: The ideal K-12+ portal for education links.

THE LEARNING STUDIO: Exhibits and resources for "hands on" learning at San Francisco's Exploratorium.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Extensive Resource.


This K-12 Education section was revised on Tuesday, July 31, 2001, and all sites were revised recently.

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MISCELLANEOUS   LINKS

"Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection."    *

green dot  32.71 N   117.25 W: Where In The World is 32.42N 117.14W?

green dot  CHRIS' ShockZone: Formerly Chris's World for Images and backgrounds.

star   DESKTOP REFERENCES: Look here first.

green dot  THE GALLUP ORGANIZATION: public releases from Gallup poll results.

green dot  LYCOS 50: The 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week.

star   THE UNITED STATES NAVY: THEN AND NOW: An incredible resource for HSI and the U.S. Navy.

green dot  THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Significant dates and links for the current date.

green dot  UNIVERSITIES: MIT's comprehensive list of universities (dated but useful).

green dot  VULTURE'S ROW: Naval aviation resource.

green dot  WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: World facts and statistics.

This Miscellaneous section was tested and revised on Friday, July 23, 2004.
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NEWS   LINKS

    "The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way....In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on."    *

green dot   ANANOVA The world's first virtual newscaster, this site carries all the live news and information.

star   CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Current articles and strong searchable archive from a respectable source.

star   CNN: Fourteen categories plus video. Search CNN capability.

green dot   DET NEWS Was Detroit News including local and National coverage, pictures, or browse by date.

star   FUSED NEWS Seeking the ideal news combination of push, pull, and commentary (needs update).

star   LOS ANGELES TIMES: Good coverage, but archive search no longer free. Slow.

green dot   MERCURY CENTER Browse seven-day story archive by section and day or enter the word or phrase for free.

green dot   NEW YORK TIMES: Comprehensive and respected. Free, but registration is required.

green dot   USA TODAY Wide variety of categories plus snapshots and archives.

star   WASHINGTON POST: Well designed, plus the top 20 E-mailed articles.

"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."    *

This News section was tested and revised on Friday, July 23, 2004.
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QUALITY

"Believe me, the trend toward outsourcing has very little to do with economizing and a great deal to do with quality."    *

COURSE SYLLABUS: University of Minnesota IEOR 5445 syllabus with an excellent 1993 reading list.

CQI SERVER: Clemson University's Continuous Quality Improvement page of files, discussions, and links.

MANAGEMENT OF TOTAL QUALITY: A quality perspective from Singapore.

QUALITY LINKS: Fourteen Air Force recommended links to quality.

QUALITY TECHNOLOGY: NASA's links to quality topics.

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Defines QFD as the seventh stage of quality.

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: A resource guide on the InterNet, with a link to ethics.

TQM BBS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE AREA: An exceptionally useful set of ASCII and executable-zipped files.


This Quality page was tested and revised on Friday, May 02, 1997.
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SEARCH   ENGINES   LINKS

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions--especially selfish ones."    *

All 4 One Meta Search uses up to 8 of the World's best search tools.

AllTHEWEB provides a pure and uncluttered search interface for news, pictures, video and audio.

ALTAVISTA SEARCH: Another simple interface for Images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory, and News. Used by several other search systems.

DOGPILE: A newer and versatile Web meta search tool uses several other indices. It's goal was to best MetaCrawler.

FAST Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) now supports enterprise search

GOOGLE uses mathematical analysis to return high-quality search results based on estimated quality and importance.

INTERNET SEARCH ZONE: The ideal place to start for beginners and advanced searching, provides guidance for when to use more than 200 search tools.

IXQUICK Meta search that features a star rating system based on the top ten major search engines..

PODSCOPE Search for any word(s) in podcast.

PROFUSION This parallel search tool built at the University of Kansas uses AI technology and is leading the personalization effort.

WEB CRAWLER: Uses Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, and FindWhat search tools.

YAHOO: A complete search tool that has gone commercial.

ZABAsearch Specializes in finding people.

This Search Engine section was tested and revised on Tuesday, May 3, 2005.
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VOYAGER   LINKS

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."    *

VOYAGER PROJECT INFORMATION: "The last two spacecraft of NASA's Mariner series, Voyager 1 and 2 were the first in that series to be sent to explore the outer solar system." Here is the Voyager Project Homepage. Certainly this is one of the most undervalued expeditions in our history.
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QUOTES

Collaborative Technologies
"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; evey man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." John Dunne in "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions XVII." Meditations, 1624.

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in other our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), Author. Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939.

Computers
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), U.S. President. Speech, May 21, 1963.

Education
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." John Locke (1632-1704), Philosopher. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693.

Government
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I." Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. President. Speech, September 9, 1902.

InterNet
"I live in a strictly rural community, and people here speak of «The Radio» in the large sense, with an overmeaning.  When they say «The Radio» they don't mean a cabinet, an electrical phenomenon, or a man in a studio, they refer to a pervading and somewhat godlike presence which has come into their lives and homes.  It is a mighty attractive idol." E. B. White (1899-1985), Author. Sabbath Morn (February, 1939). Reprinted in "One Man's Essay," 1942.

"The internet--like rock 'n' roll, hollywood, and the atomic bomb--was born in the U.S.A." Alix Christie, Montieth Illingworth, & Larry Lange, One World. Information Week, Oct. 2, 1995.

Miscellaneous
" Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection." Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-), Influential social historian and educator known for his 3 volumes on American civilization called "The Americans." The Image, 1961.

News
"The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way....In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on." James Reston (1909 - ). U.S. journalist. The Artillery of the Press, The Tug of History, 1966.

"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised." Carl Bernstein (1944 - ). U.S. journalist. Guardian (London), June 3, 1992.

Quality
"Believe me, the [recent] trend toward outsourcing has very little to do with economizing and a great deal to do with quality." Peter Drucker (1909 - ), Distinguished management professor. Managing in a Time of Great Change, 1995.

Search Engines
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions--especially selfish ones." Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-), Novelist. Peace and Violence, 1973.

Voyager
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." A. J. Toynbee (1889-1975), Historian. Readers Digest, October, 1958.
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Many of the quotes in this document derive from the Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, 1993
Parts of this webpage were revised on Tuesday, May 3, 2005.