MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

MIT EECS Department World-Wide Web pages become available

September 16, 1994

September 16, 1994, 2:57 PM

From: Paul Penfield, Jr.

To: EECS Faculty and Staff

Subject: EECS World Wide Web Pages

I am pleased to report that the department now has a series of pages on the Internet, available for browsing by any client program that follows the WWW (World-Wide Web) protocols. The best known program of this sort is Mosaic.

If you have access to a computer running Mosaic, you can see the EECS pages by opening the Universal Resource Locator (URL) http://www-eecs.mit.edu/ for the home page. You can then retrieve other pages linked to it. For your interest a copy of the home page is attached.

In case you are unfamiliar with the web, the basic idea is that a page, typically including text but possibly also images, can be stored as a file in a computer on the network, and then retrieved by your client program and displayed on your screen. Imbedded in this page, and shown underlined, are phrases that, if you click on them, display another page, which itself can have imbedded links. The various pages need not reside on the same computer; indeed they can be from all over the world. The superior human interface of Mosaic and other browsing tools has made discovering and retrieving resources on the Internet very easy.

Most universities, including MIT, and many individual departments, here and elsewhere, have information available for browsing (we are not the first department at MIT to appear on the web). In fact, many individuals, both at MIT and elsewhere, have their own personal home pages mounted.

Two of the EECS pages contain lists of faculty and staff. We would like these pages to contain links to personal home pages of those faculty and staff who have them. If you are one of these, please send an e-mail message giving your URL to me or to Ed Moriarty (mory@mit.edu).

Other pages list department announcements and upcoming events, complete with abstracts where available. If you have contributions to make to these pages, there are easy-to-use forms available at a click.

We would welcome your suggestions as to what information would be useful to put on these pages, how they should be organized, and so on.