AusWeb96, 2nd Australian Web Conference - Call For Posters

[Roger Debreceny]

                   AUSWEB96 - CALL FOR POSTERS
    AUSWEB96 IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND NORNET

AusWeb96 is the Second Australian Web Conference, hosted by Southern Cross
University and is sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Nornet. It will be held
at Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from 7-9 July with workshops
(full details below) being held on the 6th and 7th and the post-conference
Higher Education Staff Development Seminar on Wednesday 10 July.

All aspects of the Web will be covered at AusWeb96, which is organised
around four themes - Business Opportunities, Education and Learning,
Technical Futures and Media, Cultural and Community Issues.

At AusWeb96 there will be keynote addresses (full details below), refereed
papers, poster sessions, Special Interest Group meetings, physical and
virtual conference exhibitions and the Virtual Edition which will report on
conference activities.

The home page for AusWeb96 is:

        http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96

POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT AUSWEB96
The closing date for submission of posters is coming soon, on 1 May. A
poster is an excellent vehicle for reporting progress on a project, to
demonstrate an innovative site or to float some ideas which will make their
way into a formal paper at a later stage. A summary of the poster will be
published in the conference proceedings and on the Web. Presenters will be
provided with a Sun Microsystems computer system and a Web connection to
show their project to the conference attendees.

Full details on the submission of posters is at:

    http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/postersubmissionausweb.html

Please email your 500 word abstract to the theme editors by 1 May:

o   Business Opportunities: Adrian Vanzyl & Peter Gilmour aw96bus at scu.edu.au
o   Education and Learning: Michael Nott aw96edu at scu.edu.au
o   Technical Futures: Paul Thistlewaite & Helen Ashman aw96tech at scu.edu.au
o   Media, Cultural and Community Issues: Keng Chua aw96cals at scu.edu.au

Just as for presenters of full refereed papers, poster presenters may
register for AusWeb96 at the early bird rate, no matter when they register.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT AUSWEB96
The AusWeb96 team has built a group of world class keynote speakers which
will attract all constituencies in the Web community.

*       Bill Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Washington, DC
        "Information provision, digital libraries and the World Wide Web"
*       Nick Arnett, Verity, Inc., Mountain View, California  "Massively
        Parallel Wetware"
*       Evan Arthur, Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra
        "The Education Network Australia Initiative - Progress to date"
*       Earl Hinson, IBM Corporation, "Organising Global Networks"
*       Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria  "On Second
        Generation WWW Systems"
*       Jim Miller, W3 Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   "The
        World Wide Web Consortium: Helping the Web Move Forward"
*       Nancy Rhine, Director of Womens Programming for America OnLine and
        Founder,  Women's Wire "Building Communities of Women on the Web"
*       Arie Segev, University of California at Berkeley "The impact of the
        World Wide Web WWW on Electronic Commerce"
*       Danny Shader, Netscape Corporation, "The Internet and Intranet - A
        Netscape Perspective"

There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with the keynote speakers
at the conference with follow-up sessions following their addresses and our
"Walk on the Beach with a Keynote Speaker" programme.

WORKSHOPS
AusWeb96 has a range of workshops on most aspects of the Web. Here is a
full list showing the presenters:
Full Day Saturday

    K12 Education and the Web (Continues on Sunday) **
        Bill Taylor, Somerset College
    Using Hypertext Methods in Web Authoring ++
        Bebo White, Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre, Stanford University
    ISDN and the Web
        Alan Taylor, John Moores University, UK
    The Web, Enterprise and Regional Development
        Geoff Meredith, Southern Cross University
    Web Page Publishing in HTML **
        Bond University
    Advanced Java Programming **
        Bond University
    Interfacing the Web and Administrative Systems
        Chris McGovern, Griffith University

Half Day - Saturday Morning
   Interfacing Databases and the Web
        Adrian Vanzyl, Monash Medical
    Advanced Browsing with Netscape 2.0 **
        Bond University

Half Day - Saturday Afternoon
    Copyright and the Web
        Michael Lean, Queensland University of Technology
    Virtual Reality Markup Language
        Meagan Smith, InfoWeb
    Advanced Browsing with Netscape 2.0 **
        Bond University

Half Day - Sunday Morning
    Advanced Web Site Management
        Hermann Maurer, Graz University
    CGI programming in Perl **
        Bond University
    Searching the Net **
        Linda Rouse, Housley
    Overview of Java Programming ** ++
        Bond University

** Hands On ++ Only a few places left

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
During the conference there will be a number of Special Interest Group meetings:
*       Developing and managing interactive exhibitions, tours and seminars
        on the Web
*       Marketing on the Internet
*       //WWW.HOLD.THE.FRONTPAGE/

FOR MORE DETAILS ON AUSWEB96
The home page has full details on the conference including on-line
registration hosted by Nornet's secure server. The AusWeb96 team can be
reached by email <ausweb96 at scu.edu.au>, phone  +61 66 203 267 or 203 932
and fax +61 66 221 954 and by snailmail at PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480,
Australia. The AusWeb-L mailing list  carries the latest news on the
conference. Subscribe by sending an email to <listproc at scu.edu.au> with the
text <subscribe ausweb-l your_first_name your_surname>. Traffic will be a
couple of emails per month between now and the conference.

Roger Debreceny on behalf of the AusWeb96 team of Allan Ellis, Julie Burton
and Joanne McMurtry and our theme editors.