A hitchhiker's guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, Email and The Internet
Abstract
The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, and Modems are all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully, it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the telecommunication experts. These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office, down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity, we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later, connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Microscopy Society of America and Microbeam Analysis Society Joint Meeting
- Pub Date:
- March 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994mas..meet.....Z
- Keywords:
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- Computer Programs;
- Electronic Bulletin Boards;
- Electronic Mail;
- Information Dissemination;
- Information Retrieval;
- Information Systems;
- Internets;
- On-Line Systems;
- Information Transfer;
- Modems;
- Telephones;
- Communications and Radar