Network Services Conference, London, November (pt.2 of 3) Stevan Harnad 19 Sep 1994 06:03 UTC
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 22:28:24 IST From: David Sitman <A79@il.ac.tau.taunivm> Subject: NSC'94 - Conference Announcement Announcement / Preliminary Program / Registration Form <Part 2 of 3: Preliminary Program> The Network Services Conference 1994 NSC'94 Great Western Royal Hotel London, England, 28-30 November 1994 Sessions and Presentations Note: exact titles and speakers to be confirmed Monday, November 28 9:00-10:30 Plenary Session Keynote Talk Steve Cisler, Apple 11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions Session A1 - Delivering Information over the Net George Brett Overview of Information Delivery Projects and Tools Alan Emtage Identifying Resources in the Global Information Infrastructure Session B1 - Quality of Network Services Miriam Farber The Quality of Information on the Internet Manfred A. Bogen Handling of QoS Characteristics Hans-Ludwig Hausen Rainer Worst 12:30 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions Session A2 - Scholarly Electronic Publishing Stevan Harnad Universal FTP archives for esoteric science and scholarship: a subversive proposal Hermann Maurer J.UCS - The Next Generation in Klaus Schmaranz Electronic Journal Publishing Session B2 - Multimedia Communications I Anne M. Mumford Supporting Multimedia Across the Network in UK Higher Education 26 3,6b Davide Caramella Multimedia Communication in Radiology: Enzo Dalle Mese the experience of the Tuscany MAN Massimo Del Sarto Stefano Giordano Franco Russo 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions Session A3 - Information Services in the former Soviet bloc Alexei P. Platonov RELARN Project: the Support of Telecommunications for Research & Education in Russia Magdalena Smolenova The reasons and goals of using Directory Services at the Slovak Academic Network Session B3 - Network Services for Special Interest Communities Reinhard Doelz Mastering the Challenge: Network Resources in Biology Joachim Luegger New Perspectives of a Distributed Electronic Information System for Mathematics 18:00 Panel discussions, Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) Panel discussions are planned on law and ethics in electronic publishing and building the networking infrastucture in the former Soviet bloc. Birds of a Feather sessions may be convened at the request of any delegate to discuss a specific product, problem or concern. Other delegates, either with the same concern or who can provide a solution are invited to sign up for attendance. Tuesday, November 29 9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions Session A4 - The Past and Future of Networking Klaus Birkenbihl With Bureaucrats and Freaks Ake Gronlund Public computer systems: a challenge for organizational learning Session B4 - Multimedia Communications II Pierre Ageron Images Data-Base Management System Patrick Desfarges on Local Network and on Internet Francois Besson Carlo Gaibisso Multimedia Conferencing on Packet Giorgio Gambosi Switched Networks: Testing and Maurizio Lancia Evaluation Maurizio Vitale 11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions Session A5 - Commercial Network Services David Chaum Effective rules in cyberspace: what we may wish to do and what we can do Alan Emtage Publishers on the Net Session B5 - Beyond E-mail Susan Thomas A Model for Thinking about E-mail Systems Serge Desaranno Coordinating group communication Ferdi Put Dimitri Dimitroyannis Virtual Classroom: A case Study 12:30 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions Session A6 - Libraries and Networking Andrew Colleran Aims Objectives and Practical Aspects of Project LIRN Christopher Doutney IBSS Online Terry Morrow Supporting a Networked Bibliographic Data Service - Hits and (a few) Misses Session B6 - Network Information Technology Louis Perrochon Translation Servers: Gateways Between Stateless and State-Oriented Information Systems Tomaz Klobucar An Application for User Support Denis Trcek in Using Global Security Services Borka Jerman-Blazic Franc Bracun 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions Session A7 - Networking non-HighTech Communities Miklos Pasztor Delivering information for Istvan Tetenyi the "poor" Anthea Tillyer International Teacher Training by LISTSERV Christian de Local Community Networks and Larrinaga Development Programmes - the key to sustainable development in the 21st century Session B7 - Scholarly Electronic Publishing II Mary Keeler A New Approach to Digital Resource Christian Kloesel Development (A New Method for Susan Lewis Marketing Digital Technology) Toby Paff Robert Rosenberg Rich Giordano The Text Encoding Initiative - Using the TEI Header 19:30 Banquet - Royal Cafe Wednesday, November 30 9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions Session A8 - Networking in Schools Janet Ward Schofield The Internet in School: Lessons Gail Clark Futoran Learned from the First Year of a Rebecca Eurich-Fulcer National Testbed Oleg Smertin The Past, Present and Future of Rimas Janusauskas Lithuanian Networking for Schools Session B8 - Navigating the Web Tom Baker What's a Web without pages? Inke Bruening Lothar Klein Michael Lenz Jon Crowcroft Touring and Navigating a Global Learning Environment 11:00-12:30 Plenary Session Keynote Talk George Brett, CNIDR 12:30 Closing Cocktail Conference Venue We invite you to browse the information on London available from the EARN World-Wide Web server at: http://www.earn.net/nsc94/venue.html (and if you don't know about the World-Wide Web, then you MUST attend this conference!). The conference will be held at the Great Western Royal Hotel, near the Paddington railway station. The Great Western is one of the best 3 star conference venues in London, and very easy to get to, as it is situated on 4 underground lines, a railway station and is on a main road into central London. Great Western Royal Hotel Praed Street Paddington London W2 1HE UK Phone: +44 71 723 8064 Fax: +44 71 723 1739 Organizing Secretariat NSC'94 Conference Secretariat Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton Didcot OX11 0QX UK Phone: +44 235 44 6750 Fax: +44 235 44 6665 Internet: nsc94@rl.ac.uk EARN/BITNET: nsc94@ukacrl.bitnet Posters, Connectivity and Demonstrations Poster boards will be available to participants for the display of their posters and projects. Proposals for posters should be sent to: NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET (or NSC94@EARNCC.BITNET). A terminal room with connectivity to the Internet will be available to delegates. Space will be available for workstations and PCs to be used for demonstrations. An Ethernet connected to the Internet will be available in this room. People interested in setting up demonstrations may send their proposals to NSC94@EARNCC.EARN.NET (or NSC94@EARNCC.BITNET) by 16 September 1994.