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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.