LOOKNET at Indian Institute of Science
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LOOKNET
* Looking Around Cyber Space *
An initiative of the Students group of the I.I.Sc
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Scientists at the end of the twentieth century are facing a new
milleu - the existance of cybernet and global networking around
has made scientific advancements more concerted than ever. The
right to information is accepted everywhere, breaking the barri-
ers among countries, varsities or centers of academic excel-
lence. Desk-top computer terminals are witnesses to this silent
revolution in the information broadway!
LOOKING AROUND, the students group for interdisciplinary interac-
tion at the Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, INDIA while
propagating the wave of interdisciplinary communication for the
last four years of its existance has promptly realized that much
of its success now dwells on its adaptation to this new world.
The facilities of exchanging idea and information with any group
of scientists, anywhere in the world, using electronic network-
ing, would enhance our activity exponentially.
The immediate objective of LOOKNET, a mutant of `Looking Around'
will be to organize scientists interested in interdisciplinary
communication from national and international institutes through
the Website of LOOKNET. Activities parallel to Looking Around 'll
be gradually started in the network. This includes `Regular
Newsletter' on scientific activities in and outside the campus,
organizing `Discussion Groups' in various subjects of interdisci-
plinary interest, `Meeting the Eminents' in Science and Technolo-
gy from all around the world and building LOOKNET's own directory
collecting information on activities in different science insti-
tutes. We will also generate replicas of the present LOOKNET in
other interested institutes, network all the nodes and finally
create a Global LOOKNET.
Thus, the multifacade-activities of Looking Around to develop a
culture of interdisciplinary interest is ushered in a wider world
through LOOKNET. The various earlier activities of LOOKING AROUND
can be accessed thru the URL : http://www.iisc.ernet.in/~looknet/
If you are interested to be a member of the planning committee to
contribute to the structure and development of LOOKNET or sub-
scribe LOOKNET please contact:
manoj@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
aguha@physics.iisc.ernet.in
akpurwar@physics.iisc.ernet.in
bishakh@aero.iisc.ernet.in
uma@mbu.iisc.ernet.in
ganesh@biochem.iisc.ernet.in
raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
rmahesh@sscu.iisc.ernet.in
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