From rickr@scripps.edu Thu Apr 8 23:48:20 1993 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 06:48:20 PDT From: rickr@scripps.edu (Rick Ross-PPG CNR) Message-Id: <9304091348.AA05780@ppg.Scripps.EDU> To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: CALLFORPAPERS CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Poster Session 25th Central Regional Meeting American Chemical Society Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Poster session will be held on Monday evening, October 4, 1993 Poster papers are requested in all areas of fundamental and applied theoretical and computational chemistry. The Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Poster Session will follow a Theoretical Chemistry Symposium on the afternoon of October 4, 1993 and will precede a symposium on Theoretical Organic Chemistry on October 5, 1993. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAY 17, 1993 Four copies of an abstract, with the original on a standard ACS form, must be submitted by May 17, 1993 to the program chairman: Dr. Steven H. Peterson Westinghouse Science and Technology Center 1310 Beulah Road Pittsburgh PA 15235 When submitting abstracts to the program chairman above, please note that you would like to present the poster in The Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Poster Session. This session has been arranged by the Pittsburgh and Northeastern Ohio Modeling Interest Groups. For further general information please contact Dr. Rick Ross, PPG Industries, P.O Box 9, Allison Park, PA 15101. e-mail: rickr@ppg.scripps.edu. FAX: (412) 492-5509. Phone: (412) 492-5359. From rossi@watson.ibm.com Fri Apr 9 05:05:08 1993 Message-Id: <9304091405.AA39841@sandcastle.watson.ibm.com> To: UDIM018%FRORS31.BITNET@sandcastle.watson.ibm.com Subject: Re: RS/6000 window version of Xmol Date: Fri, 09 Apr 93 10:05:08 -0500 From: "Angelo R. Rossi (914-945-2834)" Earl: You and I have the same question about Xmol. I have sent several messages to these people. As far as I can discern there is no IBM RS/6K version of Xmol. These people give extremely terse one- word answers. Like "no" and that's all. They are very difficult to communicate with .. especially when it's all one way. You can try klemm@msc.edu (Stefan Klemm), but I don't know if that's the official place to send messages. Also try xmol@msc.edu. Please let me know what you find out. Best regards, Angelo From topper@haydn.chm.uri.edu Fri Apr 9 06:24:11 1993 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 10:24:11 -0400 From: topper@haydn.chm.uri.edu (Robert Q. Topper) Message-Id: <9304091424.AA04559@haydn.chm.uri.edu> To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net Subject: thesis archives Dear Netters, I've received a number of comments regarding the concept of having dissertations online (i.e., available in postscript form on an ftp site), and so I thought I would make a summary of them. Be warned that it is slightly long.... Overall, it seems that there currently is no such system in place, which makes me wonder whether it is time for universities to reconsider the way that dissertations are handled. Perhaps each library at each institution would consider making electronic archives of its dissertations in addition to hardcopies.... this would be a lot more effective than microfilm. Then there is the matter of protecting copyrights....personally, though, I'm no lawyer and would rather my thesis was free and available to the public, since my thesis work was subsidized by public funds. It seems to me that online dissertations could be protected by copyright and by an attached statement which was similar to those attached to some of the freeware and sharewar agreements, amounting to not allowing the material to be redistributed. After being put online, copyrighted dissertations would enjoy wider circulation than they do currently, and virtually everyone would benefit. -Robert ******************************** * Robert Q. Topper, Ph.D. * * Department of Chemistry * * University of Rhode Island * * Kingston, RI 02881 USA * ******************************** * topper@haydn.chm.uri.edu * * (401) 792-2597 [office] * * (401) 792-5072 [FAX] * ******************************** ********************************************************************** > From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu Tue Apr 6 20:50:01 1993 > From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN) > > I had suggested this to both UMI and British Dissertation Abstracts > International last year but did not receive any reply. I believe that > currently they supply the material on CD-ROM in addition to hard copy. > In addition, I heard that MIT had its own plans of creating a > "Dissertation Archive" sometime this year. ********************************************************************** > Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 21:19:12 EDT > From: landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Joe Landman) > > and how would the universities then recover the cost of the thesis > storage? > Please let me know of any information which turns up. ********************************************************************** > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 10:38:42 EST > From: (Dr.) Dave Winkler > > I would also like to support the idea of making theses available by FTP. What > would the average size of a compressed PS thesis be? I recently downloaded a > compressed SNNS manual of 225 pages or so and it was about 6MB. > > The easiest way to do this would be for libraries to acquire the PS version of > theses published in their institition (it is a requirement of most instititions > to lodge at least one copy of a new thesis with the library anyway). As most > libraries have online catalogs, maybe they could set up FTP archives too. One > of the larger institutions in each area/state/country could also act as a > central archive, if setting up FTP archives at each library was too hard. > ********************************************************************** I think federal and/or state funds should be made available for each Ph.D.-granting institution to set up an electronic library archive for all of its doctoral dissertations. Dissertations need to be archived by the library anyway; putting them online would save a lot of shelf space and make them available over the high-speed electronic superhighways of the future. This would make it possible for scientists in industry, government, and at other academic institutions to gain easy access to research at academic institutions. In the current funding climate this may not be feasable though... -rqt ********************************************************************** > From william@chemres.tn.cornell.edu Tue Apr 6 23:09:07 1993 > From: William Shirley > > Thesis like books are most often copy righted. I think that > postscript distribution would defeat the point... > > Unless this presents a problem in terms of control of the > material it sounds like an excellant idea to maintain an > archive. Hopefully it would be much cheaper than the > gready publishers are charging now... ********************************************************************** > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 10:00:13 -0400 > From: markm@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Mark Alan Matties) > > i'm glad to see that others have been actively wondering about > having dissertations available via anonymous ftp. i've recently > inquired of my advisor about setting up an anonymous ftp > server with the dissertations from our department. this is > still in the kicking it around stage of discussion, but if there > were enough interest, he would might want to expand it to > also include computational type dissertations. i don't think > he reads this list regularly, but he does read the neomig list. > > i will be VERY interested in discussing this further with any > who care to do so. > ********************************************************************** END OF NOTE From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu Fri Apr 9 08:48:17 1993 From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN) Message-Id: <9304091848.AA16247@bioc01.uthscsa.edu> Subject: xmol To: chemistry@ccl.net Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 13:48:17 -0500 (CDT) So far there have been 2 enquiries concerning the availability of Xmol for the RISC/6000 machines: Recently, I have been testing a program that is quite similar to Xmol in most of its features, called Xpdb. Currently it is known to work on SUN workstations, but, depending on demand, the author may be interested in porting it to oter architechtures. I personally found Xpdb to be superior to Xmol and if anyone is interested I can provide additional information. Also, Xmol is looking towards commercialising the software and come this May, it may not be available for downloading from MSC. -- C.S.Raman raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu - Internet UNIX Programming & Administration 70412.2354@compuserve.com - CIS SPARC & SGI Systems raman@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu - CHPC Department of Biochemistry craman@launchpad.unc.edu 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. (210) 567-6623 [Tel] San Antonio, TX 78284-7760 (210) 567-6595 [Fax] ****************************************************************************** All Science is either Physics or stamp collecting -E.Rutherford ****************************************************************************** From GERSON@DFWVM04.VNET.IBM.COM Fri Apr 9 11:47:26 1993 Message-Id: <199304091948.AA17279@oscsunb.ccl.net> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 93 15:47:26 EDT From: GERSON@dfwvm04.vnet.ibm.com To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: Symposium at Spring 1994 ACS Meeting, San Diego From: Dennis J. Gerson, Ph.D. Consulting Scientist Engineering/Research and Quality Managment Practice --------------------------------------------------- Subject: Symposium at Spring 1994 ACS Meeting, San Diego I have been asked by the Computers in Chemistry Section of ACS to organize a session on "Network Computing and Chemistry". This would be a followup session to the one held at the ACS Meeting in Fall of 1992. For those of you who did not attend that meeting, the topics covered included Basic Networking, Future of the INTERNET and NSFnet, Workgroup Computing at IBM, Cluter Computing at CAS and Computational Simulation on Workstation Clusters. I am interested in your opinions on topics for this meeting. Please respond directly to me via fax (214-280-1486) or via INTERNET (gerson%dfwvm04 @ vnet.ibm.com) rather than to this bulletin board. I will post a summary of comments received within 90 days. Regards, Dennis Gerson --------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Technology Consulting & Services|Tele:(214)280-1425 Fax:1486 1507 LBJ Freeway MS/160601 |IBMLINK: USIBM9YA @ IBMMAIL Dallas TX 75234 USA |Email: gerson%dfwvm04@vnet.ibm.com From ryszard@MSI.COM Fri Apr 9 11:56:45 1993 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 15:56:45 -0400 From: ryszard@msi.com (Ryszard Czerminski X 285) Message-Id: <9304091956.AA13095@hogan.MSI.COM> To: chemistry@ccl.net, rickr@scripps.edu Subject: Re: CALLFORPAPERS I would like to get more information about this poster session. Ryszard Czerminski Molecular Simulations, Inc.