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In article <1992Apr2.160434.1774@fcom.cc.utah.edu> alex@fff.chem.utah.edu (Alex  
Dommasch) writes:
> In article <z=jj42d@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)  
writes:
> > What exactly is the thurst of this newsgroup.
> 
> I'd post the charter if I still had it.  Unfortunately, it didn't survive my  
> latest disk cleanup.  (If someone out there has a copy, could they post it?)
> [...]

From <1992Mar13.191353.29752@uunet.uu.net>, posted by tale@uunet.uu.net (David  
C Lawrence):

NAME:	sci.comp-aided

STATUS:	unmoderated
		
CHARTER:  To discuss and share information about:
	General use of computers in science:
	. Data acquisition.
	. Planning experiments and predicting outcomes.
	. Controlling laboratory devices.
	. Standards for analytical instrument interfaces.
	. Networked laboratory systems.
	. LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems)
	. Analyzing scientific data.
	. Visualizing scientific data.
	. Presenting scientific data.
	. Modelling physical processes.
	. Simulation of physical processes.
	. Numerical analysis of scientific data.
	. Algorithms for scientific computing.
	. Standards for scientific data formats.

RATIONALE: 

Many scientists routinely use computers in the course of their
research.  This use ranges from using a spreadsheet to do simple
calculations, to using computers to control apparatus, to using a
supercomputer to do molecular modelling, and everything in between.

Some scientists have rigged up their own systems; others use
commercial products; many more use some combination of the two.

The various aspects of this subject are touched upon by various
existing groups (general computer systems, electronics, realtime
systems, software, numerical analysis, etc., etc.), but nowhere is it
all brought together.

Also, there is a wide variety of software and hardware on the market
for scientific computing, but most of it is vendor specific, and there
is an appalling lack of standards for this stuff.

As the subject of this group would concern using computers to aid in
scientific research, the proposed name for the group is
"sci.comp-aided".

--
Dr. Gerardo Cisneros		|Depto. de Aplicacion de Microcomputadoras
gerardo@uapnx1.dgsca.unam.mx	|Instituto de Ciencias, UAP, Puebla
CISNEROS@UNAMVM1  (BITNET)	|91-92: on sabbatical at DGSCA/UNAM, Mexico