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From: LAWS@ai.sri.com (Ken Laws)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Tue 14 May 91 23:03:18-PDT
Subject: <mod-ki 0708> Computists International
Keywords: Publikationen, publications

mod-ki message 0708
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Hi! I'm Ken Laws. I'm back  from  two  years  at  the  National  Science
Foundation, where I was the program director for  Robotics  and  Machine
Intelligence. I moderated AIList for five years, and I miss it. Now  I'm
starting Computists International, a new  "networking"  association  for
computer and information scientists.

This  service  is  for  professionals  interested  in  information   and
knowledge,  databases,  algorithms,  and  doing  neat  new  things  with
software. It's an association  for  mutual  mentoring  about  grant  and
funding sources, information channels, applications, text  and  software
publishing, tenure, career  moves,  institutions,  consulting,  business
practices,  home  offices,  software  packages,  taxes,  entrepreneurial
concerns, and the sociology of work. In short, career issues. By helping
each other, we multiply the benefits of our experience.

Our main channel is The Computists'  Communique,  a  weekly  newsletter.
It's tightly edited, with condensed news about the information industry.
Content  depends  partly  on  members'  contributions,  but  I   filter,
summarize, and comment.  I  also  report  the  news,  suggest  lines  of
discussion, collect "common knowledge" about academia and industry,  and
help track people and projects. My goal is to  collect  the  information
you really need in a concise and entertaining form. As an active member,
I also give whatever behind-the-scenes career help I can.

Internet delivery of the Communique  is  free  to  all  members.  (Paper
copies are available if you pay postage.) There is a substantial fee for
membership in the association, but you get a full  money-back  guarantee
(excluding postage). Send me a reply to get  a  schedule  of  membership
options.
                                                   -- Ken
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