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Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratories
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Where Sandy Stone, who was profiled in "Sex and Death among the Cyborgs," Wired 4.05, plays.
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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, whose work was profiled in "Viruses Are Good for You," Wired 3.02, works there.
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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.
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Computer Emergency Response Team
CERT is the Carnegie Mellon computer security group. Their emergency 24-hour hotline for system administrators in distress is +1 (412) 268 7090.
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Info on topics like the Clipper Chip, the National Information Infrastructure, privacy and civil liberties, and related conferences and publications. Includes an archive.
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.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
"A nonprofit 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.
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Educom
A consortium that believes education and information technology 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.
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Federal Communications Commission
Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Stop by and say hi to Reed Hundt and friends. They've overstocked with wireless! Everything must go!
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The Global Information Infrastructure Commission
This private organization works with worldwide industry honchos on, well, global information infrastructure issues.
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The Human Interface Technology Lab
The HIT Lab is a pioneering, market-driven virtual environment developer at the University of Washington.
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IEEE Computer Society
The world's largest professional computing organization. Runs conferences, journals, technical committees, and standards boards.
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Information Infrastructure Task Force
Speeches, testimony, and documents from the president's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, a two-year committee that ended in February '96. Also contains telecommunications-related Web site lists and the NII Virtual Library.
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Information Sciences Institute
USC's ISI is a policymaking Internet body that rules over international top-level domain (iTLD) assignments.
International Telecommunications Union
The 131-year-old, Geneva, Switzerland-based ITU serves governments and the private sector by coordinating global telecommunication networks, standards, and services. One of the only groups with the big picture in mind.
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Internet Engineering Task Force
The IETF is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet.
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Internet Society
Manages the Internet standards process, along with a workgroup of members of the IETF.
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InterNIC Directory and Database Services Homepage
InterNIC, the agency that registers domain names in the United States, maintains links to its White Pages, public databases, Internet resource information, NSF info, IETF documentation, and directories (provided by AT&T). A challenge to the InterNIC was covered in "Dueling Domains," Wired 4.08.
The List
Mechler Media's comprehensive list of Internet Service Providers all over the world. Of course the national ISPs are listed, but The List is most helpful to find the small players, so browse by state, area code, or country. Updated and maintained frequently.
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Matrix Information and Directory Services
MIDS publishes Internet demographics and weather reports (maps of daily Net traffic and speed analysis).
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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.
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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.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The University of Illinois center where Marc Andreessen helped develop Mosaic, which spawned Netscape's Navigator. Gary Wolf wrote about Mosaic in "The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun" in Wired 2.10.
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National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications
Just try to name another governmental arm with as much moxie.
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National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Run by the US Department of Commerce, this agency advises the president on telecommunications policy. Surprise - the page's hokey bitmap looks like a superhighway.
Netline
An online digest published by BRP Publications, which sells telecommunications reports and tracks policy and economic factors. BRP's free content site has daily headlines and the FCC Auction Tracking Service, so you can keep up to date on how much spectrum has been sold to wireless services.
Telecommunications Associations
The World Wide Web Virtual Library has collected this no-frills list of online trade groups.
Telecommunications and Technology Studies - The Cato Institute
Telecom deregulation is, of course, at the top of the list for this libertarian think tank based in Washington.
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United States Telephone Association
Has taken a stand against national wiretapping plans and the Clinton administration's too-restrictive policy on online copyright.
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Voters Telecommunications Watch
A free speech, privacy, copyright, and encryption-related site, VTW is the group behind the famous "Paint the Web black" campaign against Net censorship. Current news items on telecom policy top the page, and you can subscribe to their mailing list for updates. Read about them in "Town Criers for the Net," Wired 4.05.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3)
This is where the Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee and pals.
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