More Y2K computer help available
The Software Library (TSL) at Washington University has set up a web page to help members of the University community deal with potential Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problems.
Located at http://wugate.wustl.edu/~tsl/y2k.html, the site is made up of links to web pages with a variety of Y2K information. Sources include:
- General sources with information that applies to more than one vendor, along with guidelines issued by the University and other institutions.
- Web sites specific to individual computer brands and operating systems, such as Microsoft, Apple, Sun and the like. These sites cover topics related to hardware and the operating systems that make the hardware run.
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Ernst K. Zinner, Ph.D., a pioneer in the analysis
of stellar dust grains in primitive meteorites,
shows an Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC)
film crew member a sample from the Murchison
meteorite. ABC, which is producing a one-hour
documentary on the sun, was at the University's
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences last
week interviewing Zinner. Below is a close-up
view of the meteorite, which fell in Australia in
1969. Zinner is a research professor of physics
and of earth and planetary sciences and a fellow
of the McDonnell Center, all in Arts and Sciences.
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Scholar 'Crossing the Arts' in seminar
Herbert S. Lindenberger, the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities in Comparative Literature and English at Stanford University, will present the second annual William H. Matheson Seminar in Comparative Arts at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Room 300 North Brookings Hall.
Lindenberger, who was the 1997 president of the Modern Language Association, will speak on "Crossing the Arts: Interchange, Encroachment, Union." The lecture is sponsored by the Committee on Comparative Literature in Arts and Sciences.
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