JCE: Software on the World Wide Web Our latest foray into cyberspace is our World Wide Web site (http:lijchemed.chem.wisc.edu).The World Wide Web (WWW) consists of sites on the internet that provide multimedia documents linked through hypertext. A WWW browser, such a s Mosaic, allows one to read hypertexts that include graphic images, motion video segments, animations, and sound or music. These multimedia components can be viewed or heard by clicking on hot words that are indicated by color or underlining. Selecting a hot link may also jump you to an entirely different document located on another computer half way around the world. You don't need to know where the documents you view are stored, nor do you need to know how to program or even how to word process. You find information you want simply by clicking a mouse on words that interest you. Of course a lot of background work goes into making a multimedia hypertext document of the sort found on the WWW. JCE: Software has done some of that work already and we plan more. We thank Neal Doran for getting abstracts of JCE: Software volumes 3 4 C (for the Macintosh), volumes 5-7B (for IBM DOS), volumes 1-2D (for Windows), and our Dynamic Publication, How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed, onto the WWW. If you have Mosaic or Netscape, look them over. You will also fmd the fall and winter 1994 issues of the CHED Newsletter of the ACS Division of Chemical Education on the J C E WWW site.
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Making connections and providing information to our readers are what this Journal i s all about. We are doing i t electronically a s well a s in print, and we invite you to participate John W. Moore, Editor, JCE: Software Universitv 01 Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
Volume 72 Number 3 March 1995
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