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National Institutes of Health
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DCRT Director David Rodbard Retires, Joins AAMC
Dr. David Rodbard is leaving after more than five years as Director of the Division of Computer Research and Technology at the National Institutes of Health. After 30 years at NIH, he will join the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC, as its Director of Information Resources Outreach and Liaison Activities.

DCRT 1995 Director's Report
Read this summary of the Division's achievements during the last fiscal year on the World Wide Web.

"Year 2000"—Challenge of the Century
Have you given any thought to the havoc "the year 2000" will cause on computer systems? Minimize your problems by beginning your preparations now. The "year 2000" is fewer than 1000 working days away.

An NIH-Wide Automatic Backup/Recovery Service
A new, automatic backup and recovery service for servers, PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix workstations will become production on an NIH-wide basis on October 1, 1996-and can be tried now at no charge. We encourage users on LANs connected to the NIHnet to plan to take advantage of this service to protect their important data. The service, offered by the Computing Facilities Branch (CFB), is convenient, secure, and inexpensive.

Seminar on New Backup/Recovery Service for Server and Desktop Data
To learn more about CFB's automatic backup service for distributed data, sign up for the seminar and hands-on workshop to be held on June 7, 1996.

Help Evaluate Database Products—It's Not Too Late!
If you store or access data on a centrally maintained and supported server, join other users in evaluating several new client/server products. You will be working with us to provide the best possible, centrally-maintained database environment with your needs in mind.

Changes in Microfiche Service—Update
Outsourcing microfiche production, originally scheduled for March 31, 1996, has been postponed until June 30, 1996.

New Database Information Mailing List—DBTECH
Share ideas with your colleagues and learn from each other about new database technologies and activities at NIH. Join the DBTECH listserv mailing list.

Anyone Interested in New Debugging Software?
CODE/370, a new debugging facility available for applications running on MVS systems, offers good value-it will support several languages. The Computing Facilities Branch will schedule a demonstration and acquire the product, if there is sufficient user interest.

Read INTERFACE on the World Wide Web
INTERFACE has its own Web site. You can now read issues online, beginning with the December 15, 1995 issue (Number 193). This provides users with a fast way to learn of important upgrades or changes in policy that will affect their applications.

Help Us Design the DCRT Home Page—For You!
This is an opportunity for users to suggest ways to improve the DCRT home page and make it more user-friendly.

What's New on the Web? Customer Services Branch!
DCRT's Customer Services Branch joins the growing number of home pages at NIH. You will be able to establish a new account, sign up for a training class, order (or read) DCRT publications, and link up with TASC's help desk.

Paperless Transfer of Business Data Coming to NIH
DCRT is about to test a new automatic system for purchasing commercial goods and services—the first phase in implementing electronic commerce. Ultimately, the system is expected to expedite the delivery of goods, increase the level of competition, and decrease prices.

Transforming Data into Information
A NIH-wide committee is creating the NIH Data Warehouse—a unique database that will store business information in an easily accessible way. When the first phase is completed later this year, NIH staff at their desktop computers will easily be able to access the information from several NIH legacy information systems.

LISTSERV Gets a Power Boost
The DCRT LISTSERVer is among the 30 busiest in the world-and, as a result, DCRT will be adding a more powerful, efficient server sometime in the second quarter. The transition to the new server will be transparent for most list subscribers and owners.

ISDN Telephone and OCTEL Voice Mail Training
Learn to use your ISDN telephone and/or OCTEL voice mail services more effectively-in one-hour seminars given in the Natcher Conference Center through April 24.

Spring Training Underway at DCRT
DCRT's spring computer training program runs through June. On the schedule are seventy-two courses in client/server computing, networking, Unix, security, and data analysis, as well as a variety of seminars on the scientific uses of computing.

DCRT Spring Training Calendar
The complete schedule of courses for April, May, and June.

Technical Notes

Multi-Platform

MVS