Electronic bulletin board, networking

Electronic Bulletin Board Networking Teachers. Teachers are often isolated, both geographically and intellectually. The chemistry teacher is frequently the sole exponent of that discipline in the school, or possibly the district, and professional stimulation is obtained only at an occasional meeting. Teachers need a network, not only to reduce their sense of isolation, but to allow them to access information, trade ideas with their peers and, in general, to participate in the fraternity of professionals in their discipline. 

Location of and access to chemical and technical information other than journal articles is avadable through computerized information networks. Electronic bulletin board systems (BBS) provide a telecommunications tool to anyone who has a computer and a modem. Questions can be posted and read by thousands of bulletin board users worldwide, and files and software are easdy transferred from virtually anywhere to one s computer. 

In many chapters of Keys to Infinity I quote colleagues from around the world who have responded to my questions, and I thank them for permission to reproduce excerpts from their comments. My questions were sent through electronic mail and often posted to electronic bulletin boards. Two common sources for such information exchange were rec.puzzles and sci.math, which are electronic bulletin boards (or newsgroups ) that are part of a laige, worldwide network of interconnected computers called Usenet. (The computers exchange news articles with each other on a voluntary basis.) ... 

The construction of such a network is underway with the support of a grant from the NSF. An Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB), housed in the Chemistry Department at Washington State University, has been designed to serve the teachers of chemistry within the State with options to extend the service to other regions, and to other science disciplines, in the future. 

Central Neural System BBS has an electronic bulletin board containing 26 Mbytes of files related to artifidal neural networks including simulation packages, d aos, source code, tutorials and other text. Most is suited to IBM PC compatible... 

Web technologies and electronic networks have created an environment where communications between partners are extremely easy and fast. The use of message-based systems such as email, fax, instant messaging, and bulletin board... 

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