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In article <MAS.92Oct14080435@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov> mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>Do they actually serve food there, or do they use
>the work "cafe" in a metaphorical sense?  What's the place like?
>What's its premise?
>
>--Marc

the electronic cafe is in the tradition of "get a cup
of coffee and stay for a while."  They usually have
a selection of some brownies or other snacks
to accompany your coffee.  I've been there twice --
both times for special topic meetings.  The basic
premise of the cafe is that we can use current
technology to hook the world together in interactive
electronic sessions.  They have the hardware/software
setup to show it's possible and have occasional interactive
sessions with other such cafes throughout the country
(e.g., a poetry reading interactively with an e. cafe in
San Francisco and New York, ...).

if nothing else, it's an interesting place to stop by
and look around.

Brad Perry
bjperry@cs.ucla.edu