CFP-AusWeb96, 2nd Australian Web Conference, Gold Coast 7/96 - Papers due soon!

[Roger Debreceny]

  Call for Papers - AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference
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AUSWEB96
AusWeb96 is the Second Australian World Wide Web conference, and will be
held at Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the beautiful Gold Coast from 7-9 July
1996. The conference is organised by Southern Cross University and is the
premier Australian Web conference of the year. Full details on keynote
speakers, workshops, special interest group meetings, physical and virtual
exhibitions, Virtual Edition, social activities, the conference hotel and
the Gold Coast as well as guidelines on the preparation of papers and
posters and pointers to the more than 50 papers presented at AusWeb95 are
at the home page:

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

PAPERS AND POSTERS - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FAST APPROACHING!!
AusWeb96 has been designed to be inclusive of *all* strands of thought and
development within the Web community. It will address four major themes:

            o  Business Opportunities
            o  Education and Learning
            o  Technical Futures
            o  Media, Cultural and Community Issues

Within each theme there are full refereed papers which will be published in
the conference proceedings, on CD-ROM and on the Web and poster
presentations. Full papers or extended abstracts are due on **1 MARCH**,
although we'll be accepting late submissions until mid-March. The deadline
for submission of posters is 1 May. Each of the themes has its own theme
editor(s) who guide the production of papers and posters and who are happy
to chat with you by email about your paper or poster. Again, full details
on submission of papers are at the home page.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
AusWeb96 features a team of seven world class keynote speakers. Bill Arms
of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives in Washington DC will
be speaking on digital libraries and information provision; Nick Arnett of
Verity Corporation in California on Massively Parallel Wetware; Evan Arthur
of DEET in Canberra will provide an update on the EDNA network; Hermann
Maurer of Graz University will talk about second generation Web systems;
Jim Miller of MIT and the W3  Consortium will give us an insight into the
work of the Consortium; Nancy Rhine, Director of Womens Programming at
America OnLine and founder of Women's Wire will discuss Building
Communities of Women on the Web and Arie Segev of the Walter A Haas School
of Business at the University of California at Berkeley will address issues
of electronic commerce.

WORKSHOPS
AusWeb96 has *seventeen* pre-conference workshops brought to you by the
best presenters in the Web world in Australia and overseas. Just some of
the issues you can learn about at an AusWeb96 workshop include copyright,
web page design, VRML, the Web and K12 education, interfacing databases
with the Web .. and our friends at Bond University will be presenting
hands-on workshops on Netscape, Java, CGI Programming and Web page
publishing.

OTHER FEATURES OF AUSWEB96
Check out the home page for details on our Special Interest Group Meetings,
the conference exhibition, Virtual Edition and our "Competitions and
Prizes" programme.

To receive regular email updates on AusWeb96, please send an email to:
        listproc at scu.edu.au
with the text:
        subscribe ausweb-l yourfirstname yourlastname

Please do not hesitate to email the conference team at
<ausweb96 at scu.edu.au> for any further information or to receive a copy of
the conference brochure.

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


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Roger Debreceny,                | Email: rdebrece at scu.edu.au
Director, ANet, Intl Acctg N'wrk| AusWeb96, 2nd Australian Web Conference
Southern Cross University, Aust | 7-9 July '96, Gold Coast, Queensland
On sabbatical at Haas School of | See => http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/
Business, UC Berkeley, CA 94720 | Phone: (510) 526 7218