Hello Listers,
Following is a press release from Stanford University detailing some
aspects of the upcoming World Wide Web conference. This is the first time
in many years that this foremost Web conference will be held in the US.
It would be most helpful to the access battle if many of us could find
time to attend this conference. Hope to see you there.
--Bryan Bashin
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Stanford News
3/11/97
CONTACT: Lisa Trei, News Service (415) 725-0224
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Stanford, SLAC to host Sixth International World Wide Web Conference
Web browsers tired of Silicon Valley hype but eager to find out the
latest in technology should be interested in the Sixth International
World Wide Web Conference taking place in Santa Clara April 7-11.
At the academic gathering hosted by Stanford University and Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center, world experts will present refereed papers
that will later be published as proceedings, says co-organizer
Christine Quinn.
"This is not a big trade show," she says. "These [people] are the
trendsetters. What goes on at this conference will affect the future."
Bebo White, scientific programmer at SLAC, is working alongside Quinn.
Michael Genesereth, Stanford associate professor of computer science,
is chair of the program committee responsible for technical content.
"The World Wide Web is transforming the world, Genesereth says, "And
this is the foremost computer conference for the Web. The world [has
become] aware of the Web much faster than other technical innovations.
It touches everything."
Quinn, Stanford's WWW coordinator, says the conference will stress
accessibility with a theme of "Everyone Everything Connected." The
event is expected to attract 3,000 people, with about one-third of
delegates from abroad. Those who can't attend in person can take part
in a "virtual conference" that will be held in conjunction with
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) in Berlin, Germany, and
Hypertext 97 in Southampton, England.
Based at Santa Clara Convention Center, WWW6 will offer tutorials
where participants can meet Web experts and learn how they do their
jobs. Workshops with people who are pushing Web standards will be held
to discuss new developments and there will be a meeting place for
users groups called SuperBOFS (short for "birds of a feather") that
will allow for group interaction. An exhibition will highlight the
latest in Web technology.
Three days will be devoted to presenting papers and holding panel
discussions. The last day, called Developer's Day, will highlight
advances in standards and protocols concerning the Web, Quinn says.
"What's different about this conference is that a lot is available
through ICE [interactive conference environment]," she says. "Everyone
who signs up gets a home page that has a messaging component." This
will allow people with similar interests to locate one another easily
via these instant home pages.
The technical part of the conference that focuses on the "everyone"
theme features keynote speaker Thomas Kalil, a senior director
responsible for science and technology at the National Economic
Council, a White House organization created to coordinate economic
policy. Stanford alumna Mae Jemison, a former astronaut and now
director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in
Developing Countries at Dartmouth College, will discuss accessibility
for disabled people and those with low incomes.
The conference's "everything" component includes Raj Reddy, dean of
the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a
former assistant professor at Stanford. Michael L. Dertouzos, director
of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, will discuss the future
of information access.
The "connected" theme features Howard Rheingold, founding editor of
HotWired, the online version of Wired magazine. He will discuss how
new technologies will promote what he calls the "social Web," enabling
solitary Websurfing to evolve into group interaction.
On the final day, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and
now director of the World Wide Web Consortium, will discuss the
history of what he launched in 1990.
For further details and registration information, refer to
http://www6conf.slac.stanford.edu/.
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By Lisa Trei
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