INSTRUCTIONAL AND RESEARCH COMPUTING

http://www.utirc.utoronto.ca/ (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

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This is the University of Toronto Instructional and Research Computing Group (UTIRC) World Wide Web home page. If you become lost, try clicking on the ugly home icon (with UTIRC on the top): it will return you to this home page. For information about other UofT Web and gopher servers see the main UofT home page. We also have staff bio pages, for those interested in finding out more about us.

New Features (Updated Regularly)

HTML 2.0 IETF Draft * Distance Education Report * UTIRC Courses/Support * Fun Web Sites * Fractals!

UTIRC Services

UTIRC is one of seven departments of the Division of Computing and Communications at the University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario Canada. We provide services in the following areas:

consulting services in instructional technology and applications
support for multimedia and visualization techniques
access to and support for high performance computing
support for adaptive technology (aids for people with disabilities).
support for research tools and applications.

UTIRC Web Resources

UTIRC maintains a collection of of useful documentation on writing HTML, and pointers on obtaining WWW/HTML programs and resources for your own computer: These are found at:

HTML HTML documentation and Style Guides
HTML/WWW Tools for UNIX, Macintosh and PCs
HTTPD Servers and server tools (not yet fully operational)
- NCSA HTTPD Version 1.3 on-line documentation
Link to the WWW/HTML Developer's Jumpstation
Link to the World Wide Web FAQ (hypertext version). We also have a local copy.
Demonstration Web Collections
Tools for exploring the WWW -- a list of several useful starting points for WWW exploration, divided into:
- Lists of Lists | Library Resources | WWW Search Tools

Other On-line Services

Gopher server
Anonymous FTP server: containins locally used software packages and documentation. The directory /pub contains publicly available material (WWW documentation, Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) source codes, etc). See the README for more information. The University of Toronto also has site licences for various packages, some of which are distributed by UTIRC. The /ut directory describes these packages. Look at the README file for more information.