SMUG(Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh User Group) will hold its next regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 5 at the Roche Bioscience Auditorium (formerly Syntex Conference Center), 3401 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto. Meeting will begin at 7PM. Info: 415-856-3113.

SMUG is pleased to have a demonstration by Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld of Magic Cap and Telescript on Sony Magic Link communicators. Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld were the founders of General Magic, and are original Apple fellows. General Magic software goals are to make computers do what we want. Intelligent agents are just the beginning of General Magic's hat full of tricks.

SMUG(Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh User Group) will hold its next regular monthly meeting on Monday, July 10 at the Roche Bioscience Auditorium(formerly Syntex Conference Center), 3401 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto. Meeting will begin at 7PM. Info 415-856-3113.

SMUG is pleased to have Jim Warren give a talk on how computers and modems are opening the doors to government ... and the government is using them to open the doors to citizens and businesses. Expected topics will include (1) current policy and legislative issues regarding computer-aided public access to local, state and federal legislative, executive and judicial records and decision-makers, (2) personal privacy protection and covert and overt government oversight of citizens and businesses, and (3) using computers to facilitate irresistable grassroots political action - effective participation in the process of our own governance.

Jim Warren is the "futures" columnist for MicroTimes, public-access columnist for Government Technology and government-access columnist for BoardWatch. He led the successful advocacy to make California legislative records freely available online without state fees and has received many awards for his acheivements. Prospective new members are welcome and encouraged to attend.