We are proud to announce the introduction of the SMT CHARACTERS
(L to R) Shemp, Mimi, and Twinkie. The SMT characters will help guide you
through the SMT world in the same way Sun's Duke
character guides you through the world of Java.
SMT Computing Society
Mission Statement
SMT is a unique independent group of computer programming and software
development professionals, multimedia artists, internet gurus, and experts
in hypertext development and distribution. The SMT, a program of AS220,
was formed to harness the natural synergy of art and technology for the
benefit of the People of Rhode Island. SMT recognizes the following goals:
- To increase the visibility of Rhode Island and its arts community via
the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), both of which allow instantaneous
international dissemination of information.
- To create and extend state of the art technology through the development
of new electronic standards and paradigms. These cutting edge software
tools and resources will, whenever possible, be freely distributed without
copyright for the good of the electronic community.
- To encourage communication within the Rhode Island community by creating
a linked hypertext database of events, places, and resources.
- To empower the citizens of Rhode Island by providing low cost internet
education.
Voting
members of SMT are:
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What does 'SMT' stand for?
Several months ago it was suggested that the 'technology group of AS220'
name itself. The first (instantaneous) suggestion was the "Situationist
Mime Troupe." The name was immediately approved and accepted, and
everyone moved on to more important matters. The name was later acronymed
to SMT. SMT does not actually stand for anything, however; it is more of
a comment on the Computing Culture's penchant for acronyms (IBM, NCR, TMRC,
PMRC, JPL, ETC). Alternately, SMT could stand for Simple-Minded Technocrats.
Why should AS220, an unjuried center for the
arts, have a technology program?
Many people express themselves creatively through computers. We feel
that the Computing Culture is home to many people who are artists who would
not define themselves as "artists."
When does SMT meet?
SMT meetings used to take place every week, but, for the past year or so, the SMT has not had regular meetings. Most SMT activity happens on the SMT Mailing List. To join the SMT List, send an email with the word
"subscribe" in the body to:
smt-request@as220.blackdown.org
How do I become a member of SMT?
Sign up for the Mailing List and introduce yourself. Boom! You're a member. To actually become involved in the SMT, respond intelligently to the odd mail that will appear in your In box. If you volunteer to help out with any of the projects that are constantly bouncing around, you might actually meet another SMT member in person, especially if you have a truck to transport.
SMT Web Page of the Day
These resources have been nominated for greatness by subscribers to the SMT Mailing List on the basis of their usefulness and/or ground-breaking design.
Don't be a fool!
The SMT Site of the Day feature brings you to the furthest reaches of the Web, where information pops in and out of existance like subatomic particles. If you're not on the SMT mailing list, one look at this list should show you what you've been missing; eight of these sites have already been snuffed out of existence, and countless others have been "updated" into tedium.
Technical Resources
- Shempsphere: A resource for those interested
in the Shemp standard.
- Java(tm) Home Page: Java(tm) is
a simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral,
portable, high-performance, multithreaded, dynamic, buzzword-compliant,
general-purpose programming language. Java supports programming for the
Internet in the form of platform-independent Java applets.
- Perl: The central Perl site at www.perl.com.
- Catalog
of Free Compilers and Interpreters: This list catalogues freely available
software for language tools, which includes the following: compilers, compiler
generators, interpreters, translators, important libraries, assemblers,
etc. -- things whose user interface is a language.
- Unix Guru Universe:
The Official Home Page for Unix System Administrators.
- WWW Personal Computing
and Emulation Homepage: contains history, characteristics, links to
information sources and emulators for the various computer systems.
- Emulation Software R&D
WWW Page:
- Digital Nostalgia:
Created as a sort of high-tech memory lane; a moment of digital nostalgia.
Help yourself, and enjoy.
- Linux International: Here
you will find a complete introduction to Linux, what it can do for you,
where you can obtain it, hardware and software products available for it,
important announcements, details of user-groups, information on Linux International,
and much more.
- BCS
Linux & Unix Group: Boston Computer Society group.
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C): W3C works with the global community to produce specifications
and reference software. The Consortium is run by MIT LCS and by INRIA,
in collaboration with CERN where the web originated.
- ACM: The Association for Computing
Machinery.
- Macintosh
HTML Editors: Verbose reviews and ftp links to Macintosh HTML Editors.
SMT has not yet found an editor for the Mac worth endorsing.
SMT Product Endorsements
Links to Information about Computing History
- The Charles Babbage
Institute: CBI is a research center at the University of Minnesota
dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information
processing.
- The Cornell Computer
Club: The Classic Computer Club is a group at Cornell University dedicated
to the collecting, preserving, sharing, hacking, and enjoying of classic
and antique computers.
- The Retrocomputing
Museum: The Retrocomputing Museum is dedicated to programs that induce
sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea.
- The Language List:
Collected information on about 2350 computer languages, past and present.
- Jargon File: This
page collects together all the resources associated with the Jargon File.
From here, you can browse or download the File in a number of different
forms.
- CHAC History Pages:
The Computer History Association of California was founded out of conviction
that not enough was being done to safeguard and organize the history of
electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally.
- GNU Manifesto: written by Richard Stallman
at the beginning of the GNU project, to ask for participation and support.
This page contains many features
only viewable in the standards-setting Shempscape browser.
Go to the AS220 Home
Page.
