Apple Announces "Cool Tools" Awards for Internet Programming Efforts

CUPERTINO, California--September 30, 1994--The Advanced Technology Group of
Apple Computer, Inc. announced today that it has awarded eleven
individuals and organizations with "Cool Tools" awards. This special award
is designed to recognize programmers and their contributions of a wide
variety of tools to allow Macintosh users to navigate the Internet.

During the past several years, the Internet has evolved from a research and
education-oriented network, once accessible only by researchers and
scientists, into a worldwide network connecting more than 75 countries and
millions of users in small businesses, libraries, schools, homes, and
government offices.

"Access to the Internet has been made simpler by the efforts of many
programmers--many of them working with little monetary reward--to design
and distribute a wide variety of tools to navigate the millions of files
and thousands of networks that comprise the Internet," said Rick LeFaivre,
vice president of Apple's Advanced Technology Group, the group within
Apple chartered with driving long-term technology research and development
advancements. "Through the creation of these 'Cool Tools' awards, our goal
was to recognize the work of some of these unsung heroes who have made
very significant contributions in making it easier to navigate the
Internet."

"Consistent with the charter of the Apple's Advanced Technology Group to
develop new hardware and software technologies, we hope this recognition
encourages the continued development and evolution of the wonderful
resources available on the Internet," LeFaivre added.

In addition to a certificate of recognition, the Cool Tools awardees will
receive an Apple Power Macintosh 7100 from Apple.

The Macintosh Cool Tools Internet Award recipients and their projects are:

-The Internet Society, Reston, Virginia, for its efforts to foster a global
environment conducive to the easy exchange of information and the rapid
development of standards and new software. Internet Society, 12020 Sunrise
Valley Dr. Suite 270, Reston VA 22091 USA Telephone: (703) 648 9888 fax: 
(703) 648 9887,  Email: amr@isoc.org.

-Steve Dorner of QUALCOMM Incorporated in San Diego, California, for
Eudora, an electronic mail client for Internet users. Telephone  (800)
2-EUDORA. Email: sdorner@qualcomm.com

-Chuck Shotton, Houston, Texas, for MacHTTP, a World Wide Web server for
the Macintosh. Telephone: (713) 794-5650. Email:
shotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu

-Peter Lewis, Perth, Western Australia, for FTPd, an anonymous file
transfer server, and Anarchie, an FTP client to search for and retrieve
public files on the Internet. Email: peter.lewis@info.curtin.au.edu

-University of Michigan -Weather Underground, University of Michigan, for
Blue-Skies, a gopher client for browsing, viewing and reporting real time
weather and environmental information in an interactive graphic and text
format.  Key contributors include students Alan Steremberg, Derek Price,
Chris Schwerzler, and Michael Kamprath. The Weather Underground is
directed by Prof. Perry Samson with technical direction from Jeff
Ferguson. Telephone: (313) 936-0491. Email: blueskies@umich.edu.

-John Hardin of EINet, Austin, Texas, for MacWeb, a hypermedia World Wide
Web client for the Macintosh.  Telephone: ( 800) 844- 4638. Email:
macweb@einet.net.

-National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Urbana, Illinois, for
Mosaic for the Macintosh, the crossover application that  has helped to
spur interest in the Internet for many commercial and non-commerical
users. Telephone: (217) 244-3473. Email: mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

-Aaron Giles of Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, for
JPEGView, a graphic utility that allows the user to view compressed images
on the World Wide Web, Gopher or those retrieved from anonymous FTP
servers on the Net. Telephone: (212) 410-2781. Email:
giles@med.cornell.edu.

-John Norstad of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, for
Newswatcher, a Usenet new reader. Email: j-norstad@nwu.edu

-Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for CU-SeeMe, a conferencing tool
that is being used by elementary schools, individuals, and other
organizations around the world for low-cost video communications.
Telephone: (607) 255-7566 Email: r.cogger@cornell.edu. Files may be ftped
at gated.cornell.edu in the /pub/video directory.

-University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for the TurboGopher client and
GopherSurfer server. Internet Gopher is a distributed system for campus
and world information which includes local information as well as links to
other Gopher servers. Telephone: (612) 625 1300. Fax: (612) 625 6817.

All of these programs above began as free software or shareware, although
some have become ommercial products.

Apple commissioned a panel of Apple employees to seek out and critique
currently available tools for Macintosh on the Internet, to determine
awardees. Programmers who would like more information about Apple and the
Internet may contact Steve Cisler at sac@apple.com.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information
industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy to use personal
computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal
digital assistants.  Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple
(NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products,
technologies and services for the business, education, consumer,
scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

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