From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9402100009.AA11591@alfredo.MIT.EDU>
To: e-club@MIT.EDU
Subject: new e-club list & reminder: JIR at Bookcellar Cafe, tonight 7:30pm ...
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 19:09:58 EST


(send subscription requests to <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu> and mention
 the new list "e-club-review" in the subject line.  please do not send
 requests to the list "e-club" or to "e-club-request".  thanks!  - r)
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to:	all readers of the list "e-club";

re:	new list to be created:  "e-club-review", and purpose;
	(_jir_ reminder as example of announcement on new list)

de:	richard shyduroff, editor of the list "e-club";
	<rdshydur@athena.mit.edu>  617-253-2000

numerous readers of the mit e-club's announcements-and-occasional-newsletter
list "e-club", have indicated an interest in following the activities of
mit clubs, groups and affiliates of the mit community involved in new and
ongoing enterprises, ranging from no-tech to high-tech, around the institute,
(as well as more closely, the activities and weekly meetings of the e-club,
and reading of the club's own new projects and regular services).

some of these projects' inventors, developers and or inheritors have 
formed their ideas and developed their products and services in the
e-club "environment" (broadly interpreted, see note a) or they may have
brought their mit-affiliated activities' and spin-off new-enterprises'
current growth-and-development questions and concerns to the e-club
for a simple clinic-like consultation or some directed assistance.

such consulting and assistance ranges from the pretty fundamental
`let's-think-out-loud-about-this-together' type, to e-club and member
participation, and possibly collaboration, as it becomes evident that
a project really is interesting, fun, has utility, is do-able, fundable,
and of an interesting scale from a people-to-people or institution-
to-institution networking perspective, and has relevance to the goals
of the e-club's educational and start-up-assistance missions.

currently there's sufficient interaction and development to warrant
the creation of a separate list to keep all interested participants and
observers informed of start-up news and reviews on these topics.

the name of the new list shall be: "e-club-review" and it will cover
a wide range of such e-club and member projects, including past and the
current $10k student competition participants' own accounts of their
entry stories, first-hand, plus guest review pieces based on new idea
presentations at the e-club's regular weekly meetings, as well as news
of alum members' spin-off projects and new technology start-ups, with
some concentration on companies choosing to locate or stay in the
commonwealth, and of course with additional focus on cambridge-based
new businesses and related business start-up assistance programs.

invited writers will include, from-time-to-time, students, faculty,
staff and alum of mit and harvard, representing both universities
and their respective entrepreneurs clubs' activities and members'
projects and related support systems for entrepreneurs, as well as
members of the area's venture capital and legal communities already
formally involved with mit and harvard spin-offs and alum start-ups.

other guest writers will include mit and harvard e-club alum who 
work behind the scenes in local and state government agencies and
in legislative offices which would like to know more about how new
technology-based business enterprises are created, and what must
be done to make it easier for such spin-offs to get established
and stay in massachusetts.

nb:  there shall also be humor (see reminder announcement below).

the frequency of list publication is planned to be weekly, and 
will include short articles and a review of the new ideas presented
that week at the regular tuesday meeting of the e-club (provided
the presenters, on an individual basis, have agreed to allow the
publication of such a review of their presentation).

the best articles and reviews (to be determined by an editorial
board and a panel of advisors) appearing on the list during a
preceding quarter, shall be returned to the original authors
for further development and the results shall be included in the
proposed quarterly journal i've mentioned from time-to-time
here and on other lists, to be called _the e-club review_.

currently, _the e-club review_ is planned to be an electronic
quarterly journal, with minimum availability in ascii format via
the e-club's afs locker on mit's athena computing system, and
via the e-club's public ftp archive site at "lcs.mit.edu",
and to include occasional pieces and graphics in postscript.

anyone with internet access shall at the least be able to read
the journal, and beyond the ascii format, plans include a mosaic
home page, of course, and a cd-rom product for distribution to
other universities and schools, and k-12 schools and non-profit
agencies without network connections, at nominal cost.

future plans include a hard-copy version of the quarterly,
in traditional academic journal design and format.

a good and current example of an mit-affiliated group with which
the e-club is pleased to announce it is collaborating to help
develop ongoing and new activities and educational initiatives,
is the _journal of irreproducible results_, designers and producers
with the mit museum, of the annual ignobel awards project and ceremony
held each fall term at kresge auditorium at mit.

an example posting of an activity to the new list "e-club-review" follows:

to:	all geographically local members of the mit entrepreneurs club
	working on various aspects of new projects with the jir, and to
	those interested in knowing more about the jir and those looking
	for a good excuse to take a break from their work this evening;

re:	jir at the bookcellar cafe, tonight at 7:30pm;

(forwarded)

From: jir@MIT.EDU
Subject: JIR event at the Bookcellar Cafe * Wed Feb 9

===================================================== 
Please Forward This to Anyone Who Might Be Interested 
===================================================== 
 
Irreproducible Science Night:
JIR At the Bookcellar Cafe 
 
	Wednesday, February 9, 1994, 7:30-9 pm. 
	The Bookcellar Cafe 
	1971 Massachusetts Avenue, Porter Square, Cambridge 
	(617) 864-9625. 
 
The Bookcellar Cafe is presenting another evening of
Irreproducible Science, Literature, Music and Mayhem and slides
from The Journal of Irreproducible Results (JIR). 
This will become a quasi-regular series, with a new event approx. every
two months.
 
The evening will feature readings and performances of classic works 
from JIR , including many that appear in the new book, "Sex As a Heap 
of Malfunctioning Rubble (and further improbabilities): More of the 
Best of The Journal of Irreproducible Results." 
 
JIR is the world's oldest and largest science humor journal. The Boston 
Globe described it as "a MAD Magazine for the Stephen Hawking set." 
JIR is the co-sponsor, together with The MIT Museum, of the annual Ig 
Nobel Prize Ceremony honoring individuals whose achievements 
cannot or should not be reproduced. 
					* * * 
 
Individuals forced to take part are listed here. Some were unable
to present their research at the previous meeting due to limitations of
time, space, or inclination:
*
Marc Abrahams, editor, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, 
will read one or more illegible reports.
* 
Bruce Gellerman, WBUR, 
will report on the ongoing Mappeltree science/art controversy, in which 
a U.S. senator is attempting to ban the showing of so-called "erotic" 
photomicrographs collected by NIH archivist Roger Mappeltree. 
[Gellerman will attempt to show some of the slides in question.] 
* 
Yulia Govorushko, the reigning Queen of Swedish Meatballs, 
will deliver a brief lecture in Russian or English on a randomply chosen 
topic. 
*  
Alice Shirel Kaswell, columnist, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, 
will read from her popular column, "Elegant Results," presenting 
important but overlooked scientific discoveries gleaned from research 
journals such as "Cosmopolitan," "Vogue," "GQ," "Business Week." 
and "Martha Stewart Living." 
*  
Steve Nadis, science historian,
will read his little-understood work, "The Man Who Saved Pluto." In the
author's words, "This story is bigger than you or me; it's about an entire
planet."
* 
Eloise Pasachoff, Harvard University
will present her classic medical treatus, "Cakus Chocolatus and the
Treatment of Disease."
*
Dr. Robert Richard Smith, founder, Non-Extremists for Moderate 
Change (Finland), 
will make his first public appearance since the death sentence was 
pronounced upon him by a now-former head of state. 
* 
Dr. Staff, 
will present a paper on a topic To Be Announced. 
* 
David Weinberger, Interleaf, Inc.,
will discourse on his technical analysis of a document attributed to
James Joyce, in which Joyce is described as a stock analyst for an Albany-based
financial institution.
					* * * 
 
Coffee will be available for those who wish to remain awake. 
Lab coats or other appropirate attire is encouraged, but by no means 
required. 
 
For information, please call the Bookcellar Cafe: (617) 864-9625