The George Washington University                                            
       SUMMER JOBS IN COMPUTERS AND POLICY                                   
                                                                             
 WASHINGTON D.C.                                                             
                                                                             
 TWO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS NEEDED                                           
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
       The Institute for Computer and Telecommunications Systems             
 Policy (ICTSP), established in October 1983, is a center for GW and         
 the Washington area for the analysis of policy problems which have a        
 significant technological component.  Research in the ICTSP is driven       
 by the changing nature of telecommunications delivery systems,              
 management information systems, computer networks, compensation for         
 (electronic) intellectual property, and ethics and values among users       
 of computer and communications networks.  These interdisciplinary           
issues are fundamental in the network building associated with the          
"information superhighway".                                                 
                                                                            
      In 1994-95, the Institute                                             
(http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/ictsp/) conducted project funded by the       
National Science Foundation (NSF), "Videotaped Seminar Series on            
Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Electronic Superhighway", which            
brought together experts on these topics to discuss these issues.  In       
1995-97, the Institute is expanding these efforts in a follow-up            
NSF-funded project "Videotaped Seminar Series II on Interdisciplinary       
Aspects of the Electronic Superhighway".  During Seminar Series II,         
we have initiated the use of many information resources available via       
the Internet and the World Wide Web                                         
(http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/ictsp/Seminars/).                             
                                                                            
      The growth of the World Wide Web over the past year has been          
met with the enhancement of both Web-related applications and               
programs.  The success of tools such as RealAudio and CUSeeMe have          
provided interactive tools to not only help the Web grow but to             
enhance its ability to be used as an educational tool.  New                 
applications such as Java and JavaScript promise to not only provide        
powerful new tools to Web developers, but may at the same time limit        
 the general population's ability to publish on the Web.  Over the           
 summer, we seek to research these new application tools, not only for       
 their use in Web authoring and publishing, but also to learn how            
 these tools may create a population of the "Java haves and have             
 nots".  The results of this research can then be tested during our          
 Web publishing in support of the 1996-97 Seminar Series.  We want to        
 see who we are reaching and who we are not, and try to get better           
 penetration to at least some of those who might come to the seminars,       
 if they only knew about them.                                               
                                                                             
       We are planning to hire this summer two undergraduate                 
 students for this project.  It is likely but not necessary that one         
 will be majoring in communications/journalism and one will be               
 majoring in computer science.  These undergraduate students will work       
 as a team in conjunction with Professor Lance J. Hoffman, director of       
 the Institute, and ICTSP graduate students, meeting formally once per       
 week and informally much more frequently. This experience will              
 provide ample opportunities for stellar undergraduates to begin to          
 work independently but as part of a greater team effort.                    
                                                                             
       Experience in HTML,  Perl, Java, C++, and/or multimedia scripting     
 languages is highly desirable, as is a desire to explore the                
intersection of  the two cultures of technology and public policy.      
Students will be paid approximately $2,000 per month for two months     
work (from approximately June 1 to July 31, 1996) and will, in          
addition, be paid travel expenses to/from Washington, D. C.  We plan    
to select the students by approximately May 7, 1996.                    
                                                                        
      To apply, send a letter of application with a resume by April     
20, 1996 to Prof. Lance J. Hoffman, Director, Institute for Computer    
and Telecommunications Systems Policy, The George Washington            
University, T624F Phillips Hall, Washington, DC 20052.  Direct          
questions to Prof. Hoffman at hoffman@seas.gwu.edu or (202) 994-4955.   
 If you will be in Washington or at the Sixth Conference on             
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in Cambridge or at The Internet:        
Beyond the Year 2000 in Toronto, please contact Professor Hoffman in    
advance to arrange for a personal interview.