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.
