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Apple Computer, Inc.
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     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: [phone] fax:  [phone] Email:
[e-mail].
     -Steve Dorner of QUALCOMM Incorporated in San Diego, California,
for Eudora, an electronic mail client for Internet users.
Telephone  (800) 2-EUDORA. Email: [e-mail]
     -Chuck Shotton, Houston, Texas, for MacHTTP, a World Wide Web
server for the Macintosh. Telephone: [phone]. Email:
[e-mail]
     -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:
[e-mail]
     -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: [phone].
Email: [e-mail].
     -John Hardin of EINet, Austin, Texas, for MacWeb, a hypermedia
World Wide Web client for the Macintosh.  Telephone: ( 800) 844-
4638. Email: [e-mail].
     -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: [phone].
Email: [e-mail].
     -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: [phone].
Email: [e-mail].
     -John Norstad of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, for
Newswatcher, a Usenet new reader. Email: [e-mail]
     -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: [phone] Email:
[e-mail]. Files may be ftp’ed 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:
[phone]. Fax: [phone].
     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
[e-mail].
     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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