http://donald.phast.umass.edu/misc/boston.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
Boston Area Map of WWW Resources
Boston Area Map of WWW Resources
Welcome to Boston, USA!
Massachusetts WWW Providers: Please see below for modifications to this map.
The map below is an interactive map showing the locations of the known
World Wide Web servers for the Boston Area. Select
a listed name or the symbol near the site's location to link to the
relevant WWW server.
A text listing of the same location follows:
Boston Area Inset Map
- Boston Area Events Online
- First Night Boston
- First Night Boston comes to you via the World Wide Web to provide
on-line information about the largest New Year's Eve celebration in
North America. With 55 locations around the city and 228 performances
by 1000 artists, you may easily see only the events in which you are
interested, create your own custom itinerary, and print it at any time.
First Night is produced by First Night,
Inc., a cultural service organization that is privately funded. This
interactive service was designed and developed for First Night, Inc. by
Terry Swack and Karen Houldin of
Terry Swack Design Associates,
in collaboration with Kee Hinckley of
Utopia Inc., a Web Site engineering firm.
- Boston College
- Boston College
- This is the home page for Boston College which is growing at a rapid pace.
- Boston University
- Boston University
- the Official WWW Home Page for the university.
- Boston University
- includes information on scientific computing and the computational
science groups at B.U.
- Boston University Department of Physics
- Most of the page is still under construction. It will eventually
include an hypertext guide to experiments at the department, and hopefully,
floorplans of our buildings with profiles of professors and researchers.
- Brandeis University
- Brandeis University U
nofficial Home Page
- Brandeis University Home Page provided by the computer science department.
The Definitive List of Brandeis Web Servers.
- Brandeis University Computer Science
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- Brandeis University Computer Science Department.
- Brandeis University, Rosenstiel Cent
er
- Research in Structural Biology, Immunology and Molecular Biology.
- Commercial WWW Sites
- AJS Company
- AJS.COM is a home system which provides WWW access to information
which Aaron Sherman deems interesting. The the moment this includes
Boston Area Babylon 5 information (WSBK TV38 schedules, etc.) and
Magic: The Gathering info.
- Atria Software
- Atria was profiled in the Emerging Technology column in the Boston
Globe on March 15. Ron Rosenberg called the company one of the big
stock-market winners in Massachuestts high tech. (We went public
in May 1994 at 11; the stock hit a high of 52 this week and has settled back into the high 40's.)
- Apple Computers
- Their lab creates developer tools, i.e. compilers
and development environments for object-oriented dynamic languages
(OODLs). Their main products are Dylan and MCL.
The main Apple page is at http://www.info.apple.com.
- BBN - Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
- They are the regional Internet provider for New England. Check out their web site.
- Belmont Research
- A recent winner of a NIST ATP Award on healthcare information
infrastructure, Belmont Research is a 4-year-old software development
company focused on applications in biomedical computing. Areas of
expertise include: object- oriented software technology (the Belmont
Toolkit), clinical data management, scientific data visualization, and
bio-informatics.
- Boston Online
- This is basically a Web server for and about the Hub(see below), with links
to everything from tourist information to job listings.
- Cayman Systems
- The Cayman Systems home page.
- CLAM Associates
- CLAM Associates is an IBM Business Partner specializing in commercial
AIX and high availability. Their web server includes information on
HACMP/6000, CA-Unicenter, geographic clustering and the Cluster File
System.
- Computer Express!
- Computer Express is an online superstore offering
thousands of Mac and PC products at deep discounts. Lots
of fun to browse.
- Downtown Anywhere
- They are a "Virtual city, with a real economy"
- Eastgate Systems, Inc.
- Eastgate Systems, Inc. is the premier publisher of electronic fictions
and the sole publisher and distributor of Storyspace,
the only hypertext authoring system that represents your hypertextual
structure graphically and effortlessly exports your hypertext to HTML.
Eastgate's web site lets you sample two of its interactive
fictions, provides a serious
bibliography on hypertext, and much more.
- The Faxon Company Inc.
- The Faxon Company is a serial publication subscription agency.
Faxon's WWW server is an electronic link to useful information about
the serials industry, including pricing projections and analyses, new
publications, links to publishers and library-related sites, and resources
related to EDI and other industry standards.
- FTP Software, Inc.
- FTP Software, the pioneering leader in connecting people to the Internet for
over seven years, has expanded its on-line services by adding a WWW server
to the Internet to give customers and prospects quick access to the latest
information on technical issues, sales questions and new service offerings.
- Funk Software, Inc.
- Funk Software, based in Cambridge, provides networking utility applications
for Novell NetWare LANs using IPX or IP. They supply programs for remote
access, software usage metering, server-based compression and network remote
control.
- Genesis Public
Access Unix
- Genesis is a free public access Internet and Unix system located in
North Reading, Massachusetts.
- Hale and Dorr
- Hale and Dorr, one of the largest law firms in New England,
introduces a Home Page with background information on the
firm and its attorneys. The Hale and Dorr Home Page also
contains pointers to other useful legal resources on the
Internet.
- Horizon Research Inc.
- Our server contains pages for HRI, it's employees and also for our
parent company Mitsubishi Electric America and the MEA Foundation; it's
charitable arm.
- Integrated Computer Solutions
- ICS offers a number of tools and services for software developers
working with OSF/Motif.
Their pages offer information about each of their products and services,
an informative newsletter for Motif developers (GUInfo), and current
employment opportunities at ICS.
- The Internet Access Company
- An Internet Service Provider for central and eastern Mass.
- Internet eXchange, Ltd
- An exciting new company in the heart of MetroWest whose mission
is to provide quality Internet access and connectivity to the
thriving MetroWest community. IXL believes that the bountiful
resources of Internet and the wonder of the World Wide Web be
readily available to all. IXL encourages its use by elementary,
middle, and high schools, businesses large and small alike, and
especially families at home.
- IS Robotics
- IS Robotics is a micro-robotics
product and engineering services company founded in
1990 by individuals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and
NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
to develop and market the technology for small mobile robots. Exciting
new software concepts developed by one of the founders,
Prof. Rodney
Brooks, Associate Director of the
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
have been used successfully to create autonomous operation and
intelligent behavior in robots.
- Knowledge-Based Technologies, Inc.
- KBT is a full service Internet consulting, training and
implementation firm, located in Canton, MA.
- Lateiner Dataspace
- Contains official information covering the research performed at
Lateiner Dataspace. Topics include stereoscopic volume visualization,
physical simulation, distributed computing, and other three-dimensional
computing technologies.
- MathSoft, Inc.
- MathSoft, Inc., a purveyor of cool and useful software calculation
tools for engineers, educators, and students, is pleased to announce
that its Web server is now available. In addition to providing information
about MathSoft products -- including Mathcad, the Mathcad Library of
Electronic Books, S-PLUS interactive data analysis software, and related
third-party products -- the MathSoft server provides technical support
information, neat mathematical images, pointers to research papers on
wavelets, application files ready for downloading, and links to related,
interesting sites on the Web.
- The MathWorks, Inc.
- You'll find a product tour for MATLAB, SIMULINK, and
all the Application Toolboxes, information on the network services
provided by The MathWorks, and much more.
- MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories conducts basic
research in computers and their uses.
From their Welcome page you can reach an overview, biographies of the
technical staff, addresses, and a map and directions for visiting the
Cambridge lab.
- The Monster Board
- The most effective way to search for jobs with America's hottest companies.
Exciting graphics lead you through a user-friendly search for the career
opportunities that best suit you. Once you've found a position, just
fill out the online resume and it will automatically be forwarded to
the company. Although, the Monster Board primarily lists technical jobs,
it extends across all industries. The Monster Board is provided by
ADION, Inc. a leader in information and communications services.
- North Shore Access
- North Shore Access provides low-cost Internet service and a commercial Web
server. Go to our home page to find out about Internet access and putting
your commercial storefront on the World-Wide Web.
- Open Environment Corporation
- The Open Environment Corporation WWW Page
- Open Software Foundation
- OSF is a not-for-profit research and development organization whose
goal is to provide a software solution that enables computers from multiple
vendors to work together in an open systems computing environment.
- SilverPlatter World
- SilverPlatter World is the official web server of SilverPlatter
Information. SilverPlatter Information provides a range of products,
programs, and services that enable people to participate in the
electronic information industry in many different ways.
The goal of SilverPlatter World is to offer interested parties
comprehensive information about SilverPlatter and what SilverPlatter
is doing to help facilitate the growth of the electronic information
industry.
- Software Tool & Die
- Software Tool and Die is a local internet service provider.
Also on our page is a useful guide to the Boston area.
- Thinking Machines Corporation
- Thinking Machines now has a WWW server.
- Utopia, Inc.
- Utopia provides Web Site design, construction and placement for companies
and individuals who wish to have a presence on the internet. Although we can
carry client Web Sites directly on our servers, our primary focus is on
designing the ideal Web Site for a client's needs. In traditional terms, we view
ourselves as the internet design and public relations firm. We design a site
which best fits the client's image and requirements; then we handle placement
and publicity to match their budget and desires.
- Vertical Research - Usability Services
- Vertical Research, Inc. is a software user interface design and
usability services company. We provide these services: UI
specifications, designs, and style-guides,
product inspections, user surveys, user profiles, task analyses,
prototype building, and usability testing. See examples of our
work, view our client list, or
browse our references on
usability.
- WBCN 104.1 Boston
- "The Rock of Boston" now has a WWW page.
- WBRS 100.1 FM Waltham, MA
- WBRS is a noncommercial, all genre, co-operative station, operating
from Brandeis University. On the air 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year, with a variety of programming for every interest, including
ethnic specialties and free live music all year round.
- WLYN Radio
- 1360 AM WLYN - Lynn, MA
Specializing in regional events, featuring news, stocks, contests,
and links to various WWW sites around the world. Also features reviews
on computer hardware/software products
- WZLX Radio
- 100.7 WZLX - Boston's Classic Rock
the first Boston-area media outlet on the web. DJ bios and pictures,
concert and event info, CD release information, trivia tests, contest
details, and the WZLX Rock & Roll Diary (your daily fix of Classic Rock history)
- it's all there, and it doesn't interrupt the music.
- X Consortium
- The primary purpose of the X Consortium is to develop, evolve and
maintain the X Window System, a vendor-neutral, system-architecture
neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standard,
and to perform other related research and experimentation in, and
implementation of, open systems standards and technology.
- Xensei Corporation
- This company provides "Affordable SLIP/PPP Internet Access - Boston South Shore"
- Xylogics, Inc.
- We make terminal and communications servers -- the Remote Annex 2000
and 4000, the Annex 3 and the Micro Annex.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts Government Pages
- Commonwealth
Government Information
- Senator
Kennedy's Web Site
- This is the official WWW page for the Senator and his offices.
- Massachusetts Department of Education
- A Web Page from Mass. Dept. of Education.
- Mass Ed Online LearnNet
- Mass Education Online LearnNet.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cities and Towns
- Cambridge - the city - now has a homepage
- This page will link to as much information about Cambridge as possible.
- Hanscom Schools
- Site: Hanscom Schools (part of the Lincoln school system) are now
offering the Offical home page for the Hanscom School system. Contains
home pages of the Hanscom Middle and Primary schools, with links to
various projects and work done by the students. Also contains a link
to the school's gopher server.
- Maria Hastings School Server
Lexington Public Schools, Lexington, MA
- This site represents activities relating to the Lexington Public
Schools, expecially the Maria Hastings School.
Visit Cookie Castle, the fourth-grade cookie store that is
awaiting their first order from the WWW.
Read our town's Educational Technology Plan.
Learn Lexington's Colonial History from the elementary school perspective.
- Newton, MA - The Town
- Newton - the Town - is now providing local information via the Web.
- Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College
- Emannuel College Web Pages.
- Harvard - Smithsonian
- The ADS Abstract Service
- It provides access to
currently about 160,000 Astronomy and Astrophysics abstracts with a
sophisticated searching system.
- Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
- The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College
Observatory to pursue studies in astronomy and astrophysics.
- Harvard University
- Harvard University
- A top level page providing a listing of most sites at Harvard.
-
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Flow Cytometry
- They are a Harvard affiliate, and this server is at a facility at DFCI
which specializes in Flow Cytometry. They are generating specific experimental
protocols which are accessed from the home page, as well as providing
links to other DFCI information.
- The Harvard Medical School
- New WWW page for Harvard Medical School.
- Harvard University Physics Department
- It has mostly items of local interest, but there are pointers to a few
documents which may be useful to a wider community.
- Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- containing information about the school as well as pointers to
a wealth of educational-related resources.
- The Hub
- The Hub
- The Hub is an Internetworked resource for mathematics and science education
funded by the Eisenhower Regional Consortia and operated by TERC on behalf of
the Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education Reform.
Our goal is to transform the technological potential of recent developments
in telecommunications into services of value to policy-makers, educators,
administrators, and students in the Northeast and Islands.
The Hub provides services that can help you to publish reports, curricula,
projects in progress, requests for proposals and pointers to network services
you are maintaining: nearly anything of interest the educational community.
We are still under construction, and are daily adding new information and
services.
- Lincoln Lab
- Lincoln Laboratory
- Lincoln Laboratory is located at Hanscom field, outside of Route 128,
near boston. This home page points to the various sub-groups working
at the lab.
- Weather Sensing Group
- Web Server for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln
Laboratory, Weather Sensing Group. Descriptions of ongoing projects,
weather related information, visualization related information. Also
pages concerning Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the Cape Cod National
Seashore.
- MIT
- MIT Home Page
- the official home page for the institution.
- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- An index to pages and demos provided by research groups at the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science.
- MIT SIPB
- Student Information processing Board, gatewaying AFS, the Discuss
bulletin board system, the Geographic Nameserver, US National Weather
information, Amateur Radio Callsign database.
- MIT AI Lab
- The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, including a
searchable index of the AI Lab publications bibliography.
- MIT-LNS
- MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- The Tech
- "MIT's oldest and largest newspaper."
- NCHPC
- National Consortium for High Performance Computing. The server
is operating experimentally.
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Earthwatch
- Earthwatch is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. Our mission is to
improve human understanding of the planet, the diversity of its inhabitants,
and the processes that effect life on Earth. Earthwatch does this by funding
scientists around the globe through expeditions.
- Northeastern University
- College of Computer Science
- College of CS at Northeastern University.
- Northeastern Home Page
- Northeastern University Web Index Page.
- Tufts University
- Tufts University Home Page
- This is the Tufts University main server.
- Tufts Computer Science Department
- The computer science department of Tufts has their WWW Home Page set up
and growing.
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- Fletcher School Web Pages.
- Wellesley College
- Wellesley College
- This is the college campus information server.
Attention all Massachusetts WWW providers:
If you would like to modify your entry, add to, or delete a service
from this list, please send email to the address below. I am
unofficially providing this service for the Commonwealth, so let me
know of any changes you would like made.
wiz@donald.phast.umass.edu
Last Update: January 23rd, 1995