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Michael Noga
The SIAM News Calendar is now available online. It includes the email addresses of conference organizers and links to any World Wide Web (WWW) sites that relate to the conferences.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College (Atlanta) have created a web site on biographies of women in mathematics. The web site currently includes many brief comments on women mathematicians, some biographies, and some photographs. The goal of the project is to complete more of the biographies.
American Mathematical Society (AMS) electronic journals
Journals from the American Mathematical Society are available on the WWW. A signed Subscription Agreement must be mailed or faxed to AMS Customer Services to activate an electronic subscription. The Subscription Agreement is available on the web.
IDEAL
Academic Press has created an electronic journal library called IDEAL. This
service includes articles from 178 of the publisher's journals. Guest users
can browse tables of contents and search abstracts. Authorized users (sites
where libraries have subscriptions and have submitted a license) have access
to full text journal articles. 25 mathematics journals are included on
IDEAL, though none have full text access yet. More information is available
at the three IDEAL sites: (http://www.idealibrary.com), (http://www.janet.idealibrary.com/), or (http://www.europe.idealibrary.com).
Fermat's Last Theorem
Charles Daney has a home page on the mathematics of Fermat's Last Theorem.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Program on alleviating Internet bottlenecks
A March 14 press release, "Traffic Jams on the Internet," announces that the National Science Foundation has added a new aspect to its connections grant program "to spur the development of switches and routers to help alleviate bottlenecks of information." Mark Luker, manager of the connections program, notes: 'There is no single solution. We hope this grant program will stimulate the development of a technological option for the Internet, to introduce prioritization and provide a new style of connection that gives a guaranteed level of service at a national level.' Two possible solutions mentioned in the press release are prioritization of traffic on the Internet, and diversion of specially coded traffic to high performance, special use networks such as NSF's very high speed Backbone Network (vBNS).