Ingebretsen honored
Robert B. Ingebretsen, mentioned in last week's profile of Thomas G. Stockham Jr. as sharing a technical academy award with Stockham, is a resident of Salt Lake City.Ingebretsen, 50, works in the office of Gov. Mike Leavitt on a project involving an Internet site, said his daughter Alyson I. King. Ingebretsen was one of the top students in the University of Utah Computer Science Department shortly after Stockham helped found the department.
He also worked with Stockham in Soundstream, the company Stockham began. While Stockham is acclaimed as the father of digital sound, Ingebretsen is also recognized as making important contributions to digital audio editing.
"He and Tom worked together years and years ago on this digital thing," said King. "I know Tom had the idea and kind of worked it out with my dad."
The family is excited and proud, she said. "It's really neat for him to finally get recognized for it."
Stockham and Ingebretsen will be honored Feb. 27 for "pioneering work in the areas of waveform editing, crossfades and cut-and-paste techniques for digital audio editing." The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' scientific and technical awards dinner will be at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Computer center
A new "Neighborhood Network" computer center in the 203-unit Wasatch Manor apartment complex in downtown Salt Lake City will provide computer and Internet access for its residents, most of whom are elderly or handicapped.
"Our residents are really eager to learn about computers. It will be a new adventure for many," said David Hargreaves, project director at Wasatch Manor. "Some of these folks are hoping it will assist them in their job searches. They know computer skills are essential today."
The center was developed with the help of a number of corporate sponsors and the University of Utah.
Migration.com
Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, marks the annual kick-off of a project called Journey North, which engages students in grades K through 12 in tracking on the Internet the spring migration of a dozen species.
At http://www.learner.org/jnorth, students in more than 4,000 schools from Mexico to Canada post messages reporting on spring indicators like rising temperatures, the blossoming of tulips and the leafing out of trees in their hometowns. They track the northward migration of bald eagles, hummingbirds, loons, manatees, monarch butterflies, orioles, robins, gray whales, humpback whales, right whales and whooping cranes.
"We've designed Journey North to help students understand migration as the survival story it truly is," said program director Elizabeth Howard. "We've had spectacular success in tracking the monarch butterfly . . . a student favorite. This couldn't have happened before the Internet because there wa no practical or affordable way for students to collect this decentralized information."
Proverbs for the millennium
These new twists on some old cliches were sent to the Deseret News -- appropriately by e-mail:
1. Home is where you hang your @
2. The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
3. A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
4. You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
5. Great groups from little icons grow.
6. Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.
7. C: is the root of all directories.
8. Don't put all your hypes in one home page.
9. Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.
10. The modem is the message.
11. Too many clicks spoil the browse.
12. The geek shall inherit the Earth.
13. A chat has nine lives.
14. Don't byte off more than you can view.
15. Fax is stranger than fiction.
16. What boots up must come down.
17. Windows will never cease.
18. In Gates we trust (and our tender is legal).
19. Virtual reality is its own reward.
20. Modulation in all things.
21. A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
22. There's no place like http://www.home.com.
23. Know what to expect before you connect.
24. Oh, what a tangled Web site we weave when first we practice.
25. Speed thrills.
26. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
-- Complied by Steve Fidel and Joe Bauman