Final Advice on AusWeb96 - 2nd Australian Web Conference, 7/9 July

Sat Jun 22 00:39:21 EDT 1996

          AUSWEB96 - SECOND AUSTRALIAN WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE

  -- Our apologies for the cross posting of this final advice on AusWeb96 --
AusWeb96 is the Second Australian Web Conference, hosted by Southern Cross
University. It will be held at Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from
7-9 July with workshops 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, 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

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
The following keynotes addresses will be presented at AusWeb96:
o   Nancy Rhine, Director of Womens Programming for America OnLine
    "Building Communities of Women on the Web"
o   Danny Shader, Director of International Marketing, Netscape Corporation
    "The Internet and Intranet - A Netscape Perspective"
o   Jim Miller, W3 Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "The World Wide Web Consortium: Helping the Web Move Forward"
o   Bill Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Washington, DC
    "Information provision, digital libraries and the World Wide Web"
o   Nick Arnett, Verity, Inc., Mountain View, California
    "Massively Parallel Wetware"
o   Evan Arthur, Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra
    "The Education Network Australia Initiative - Progress to date"
o   Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
    "On Second Generation WWW Systems"
o   Arie Segev, University of California at Berkeley
    "The Impact of the World Wide Web WWW on Electronic Commerce"
o   David Spenhoff, Javasoft, Mountain View, California
	"Java"
o   Earl Hinson, IBM Corporation
    "Organising Global Networks "

PAPERS AND POSTERS
A total of 66 refereed papers and 36 posters will be presented in four
themes. The papers and posters and details of authors are at:
o   Techical Futures            http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/tech
o   Business Opportunities      http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/business
o   Education and Learning      http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/educn
o   Media, Community, Cultural  http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/cultural

WORKSHOPS
The following pre-conference workshops have places available - a number of
workshops have already sold out. They are held on Saturday 6 and Sunday
morning 7 July at locations at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel and Bond
University:

o   Copyright and the Web
o   K12 Web Issues and Practice
o   Advanced Web Site Management  (limited places)
o   ISDN and the Web
o   Interfacing Databases and the Web (limited places)
o   Higher Education Staff Development Seminar (Wednesday)
o   Virtual Reality Markup Language
o   University Administrative Systems and the Web-Towards Intranets
o   Searching the Net
o   Advanced Web Browsing with Netscape 2.0

The workshops are presented by recognised experts in their field. Full
details on each workshop is at <http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/workshops>.
If you would like to reserve a registration at these workshops, please
either immediately register via our on-line secure server
<http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/registration.html> or contact the AusWeb96
team to be placed on a waiting list for other workshops.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
The following Special Interest Group meetings will be held during AusWeb96:
o   Developing and managing interactive exhibitions, tours and seminars
    on the Web
o   Marketing on the Internet
o   //WWW.HOLD.THE.FRONTPAGE/
o   "Maidens of the Universe" - Women and the Internet
o   The Web: A Medium for Active and Interactive Learning, Teaching & Training

There is no separate registration and no charge for attendance at the SIGs.
Further details are available at <http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/sigs>

DEVELOPERS FORUM
There will be two Developers Forums held as part of AusWeb96. A
Netscape/Java developers forum will be held by Netscape on Monday from
6-8pm. It will feature Danny Shader and Netscape Australasia manager, Clive
Mayhew-Begg. An "Internet Development with ActiveX Technologies" developers
forum will be held by Microsoft on Sunday from 11am-1pm. There will be no
separate charge or registration for these two forums.

PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE EXHIBITION
There will be an AusWeb96 exhibition which will be held both at the
conference venue and "virtually" on the Web.

BUSINESS UPDATE
A business opportunities update will be held on Monday afternoon. It will
feature Adrian Vanzyl and Peter Gilmour and speakers from Microsoft
Australia, Sequent Computing and the ABC.

SPONSORS
AusWeb96 is generously sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Microsoft Australia
and Nornet. Telecommunications support is also provided by Telstra and
technology support has been provided by Cisco and Cabletron.

VIRTUAL EDITION
Throughout the conference full reports will be carried on activities at
AusWeb96 by the Virtual Edition team from Southern Cross University's
Centre for Media Communications under the editorship of the Head of the
Centre, Keng Chua. Check out
<http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/virtual_edition/> from Sunday evening
onwards.

OTHER INFORMATION
The home page <http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/> has information on the
complete conference program, Conrad Jupiters hotel, Gold Coast and the
AusWeb96 "Kids Club".

REGISTRATION
Registration for AusWeb96 includes printed proceedings, conference dinner,
morning and afternoon teas, conference bag and Special Interest Group
meetings as well as admission to the Conference Exhibition. Registration
for AusWeb96 is $1,050 including two nights accommodation at the five star
Conrad Jupiters hotel or $800 without accommodation. You can register using
our Netscape secure server at
<http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/registration.html> or contact the AusWeb96
team for alternative methods of registration.

AUSWEB-L MAILING LIST FOR CONFERENCE UPDATES
The AusWeb96 team provides bi-monthly updates by email via an email mailing
list. To receive these updates and, later, information on AusWeb97, send an
email to:
        listproc at scu.edu.au
with the text
        subscribe ausweb-l firstname lastname

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND CD-ROM
The printed conference proceedings and a CD-ROM containing all papers and
the Virtual Edition will be available for purchase after the conference.
Email <ausweb96 at scu.edu.au> for ordering information.

AUSWEB96 TEAM
AusWeb96 is managed by Norsearch Conference Services and you may ring
Joanne McMurtry or Julie Burton from Norsearch at (066) 203 267 or 203 932
(+61 66 203 267 from outside Australia) or Fax: (066) 221 954 (+61 66 221
954). AusWeb96 is co-organised by Allan Ellis <aellis at scu.edu.au> and Roger
Debreceny <rdebrece at scu.edu.au>. Please do not hesitate to email the
conference team at <ausweb96 at scu.edu.au> for any information.

Roger Debreceny

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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,      | 7-9 July '96, Gold Coast, Queensland
PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480   | See => http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb96/
Australia                       | Phone: +61 66 20 3837
AusWeb96 is sponsored by Sun Microsystems <http://www.sun.com.au>,
Microsoft Australia <http://www.microsoft.com.au> and Nornet, Internet
Content Provider <http://www.nor.com.au>