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In article <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk
(Thomas Rodden) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a 
|> number of different departments in the university to cooperate using
|> some form of CSCW technology.  It was felt a good starting point might 
|> be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university.
|> Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our
|> UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable
|> but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial
|> systems.
|> 
|> 				With thanks in advance
|> 
|> 
|> 				Tom Rodden
|> 
|> 
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|> uucp:   ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!tam       Department of Computing
|> arpa:   tam%lancs.comp@ucl.cs          University of Lancaster
|> janet:  tam@uk.ac.lancs.comp           Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK


I do not have any personal experience with any of the following systems, but 
thought these leads might be helpful in your search--

Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES)
Computerized Conferencing and Communication Center
New Jersey Institute of Technology
323 High Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102

COM/PortaCOM
Stockholm University Computing Center
Box 27322
S-102 54 Stockholm, Sweden

CONFER II
Advertel Communication Systems, Inc.
2067 Ascot
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103

NotesFile
Notesfile Reference Manual
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2987

NOTEPAD
InfoMEDIA Corp.
801 Traeger Avenue, Suite 275
San Bruno, California 94066

Parti/Participate
Participation Systems, Inc.
50 Cross Street
Winchester, Mass. 01890

CAUCUS
Metasystems Design Group, Inc.
2000 North 15th Street, Suite 103
Arlington, Virginia 22201

CoSy
Contact Univ of Guelph
        Continuing Education Division
        Guelph, Ontatio, Canada N1G 2 W1
        (519) 824-4120 ext. 3956  
for information on who is marketing the software

And, I know that there was an experiment at Syrac use Univ. using Hypercard as
an interface on a VAX mainframe to create a conference to support a
literature class.

Good luck.  Let us know what you find out.

Cissy Yoes
Project Specialist
Information Technology Program
Baylor College of Medicine
cyoes@bcm.tmc.edu

cyoes@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Cissy Yoes) writes:

>In article <975@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, tam@comp.lancs.ac.uk
>(Thomas Rodden) writes:
>|> 
>|> 
>|> We are currently trying to establish a mechanism for allowing a 
>|> number of different departments in the university to cooperate using
>|> some form of CSCW technology.  It was felt a good starting point might 
>|> be to establish a computer conferencing facility within the university.
>|> Does anybody know of a conferencing system we can run on our
>|> UNIX systems. Obviously a public domain system would be preferable
>|> but we are also interested in peoples experiences with commercial
>|> systems.

>I do not have any personal experience with any of the following systems, but 
>thought these leads might be helpful in your search--

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You might also look into the BBN/Slate package, which runs on Sun
workstations, the new IBM RS workstations and the DecStation running
Ultrix.  It is available in both Sunview and X-WIndow versions.
BBN/Slate is a multimedia document communications and conferencing
system, designed to run over both local and wide-area networks. 
Conferencing can occur between any number of sites which have
TCP/IP connectivity.  Because the system is multimedia, you can
conference over text, graphics, images, spreadsheets, etc.  It is
a very exciting package, and I say so even though I've worked at BBN
the past three years on the system.

For more information, contact Scott Richardson at 617-873-8124, or send
mail to scott@bbn.com.

Herb Lison