CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Papers * Panels * Posters * Demonstrations * Tutorials
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
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# May 30 -- June 2, 1995 #
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Conference home page: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dags/homepage.html
"Bringing together the diverse communities
that make up electronic publishing."
The DAGS'95 Conference on Electronic Publishing and the Information
Superhighway will bring together a broad variety of people to discuss the
issues, applications, and underlying technologies for electronic publishing.
Potential participants include:
o Computer scientists, who provide the technology for electronic
publishing
o Publishers, who provide the needs and organizational structure for
electronic publishing
o Librarians, who are and will be providing increasingly sophisticated
access to electronic publications
o Authors, who have created or are creating electronic books
o Commentators, who describe the role of electronic publishing in society
o Policy makers, who will help determine the environment for electronic
publishing
The Conference will cover a broad variety of topics including technical
issues, business concerns, social issues, and applications.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Tim Berners-Lee (MIT and CERN, creator of WWW)
World Wide Web: The Consortium, and Plans for the Future
Gregory Crane (Tufts University)
Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Inquiry: Historical Perspectives
on the Interaction of Form and Content
Peter Denning (George Mason University, Chair of ACM Publications Board)
The ACM Electronic Publishing Plan
Joseph Henderson (Dartmouth Medical School Interactive Media Lab)
New (Old) Models for Network-Based Learning
Brewster Kahle (President, WAIS Inc.)
The Web and Beyond: Agent-Based Publishing on the Internet
Tim Lenoir and Sha Xin Wei (Stanford University)
MMDD: A Framework for Composing Multimedia Simulations
Edward Murphy (President, PWS Publishers)
Publishing New Media for Higher Education
Alex Pentland (MIT Media Laboratory)
Image and Video Semantics
T.V. Raman (DEC, creator of Aster audio formatting system)
AsTeR -- Towards Display-Independent Electronic Documents
Barbara Simons (IBM, Chair of ACM USACM US Public Policy Committee)
Where Are We Going on the Information Superhighway: Electronic
Democracy or Electronic Tranquilizer?
James Storer (Brandeis University)
High Performance Adaptive Data Compression
Andries van Dam (Brown University)
Electronic Books: Past, Present and Future
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Program Chair:
Fillia Makedon (Dartmouth College)
Panels Chair:
Donald Kreider (Dartmouth College)
Posters Chair:
John Buford (U. Mass-Lowell)
Tutorials and Workshops Chair:
Panagiotis Metaxas (Wellesley College)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Fillia Makedon (chair), Scot Drysdale, Lawrence Levine, Panagiotis
Metaxas, Samuel Rebelsky
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fillia Makedon(Dartmouth/CS), Chair.
Samuel A. Rebelsky (Dartmouth/CS), Co-Chair.
Bob Allen (Bellcore); Jon Appleton (Dartmouth/Music); John Buford
(U. Mass-Lowell); John Crowcroft (U. College London-England); Steve
Cunningham (CSUS, SIGGRAPH); George Cybenko (Dartmouth/Engineering);
John Danskin (Dartmouth/CS); Chip Elliott (BB&N); Domenico Ferrari
(U.C. Berkeley); K.E. Foelsche (Dartmouth/ Language Resource Center);
Ed Fox (Virginia Tech); Peter Gloor (UBS-Switzerland); Michael
Goodrich (Johns Hopkins); Carey Heckman (Stanford Law); Joseph
Henderson (Dartmouth/Medicine); Albert Henning (Dartmouth/Engineering);
David Karger (Bell Labs; MIT); Tom Leighton (MIT); Thomas Little
(Boston U.); Hermann Maurer (Graz U. of Tech.-Austria); P. Takis
Metaxas (Wellesley); Michael O'Donnell (U. Chicago); Andrew Odlyzko
(Bell Labs); Maria C. Pantelia (U.N.H.); Grammati Pantziou (U. Central
Florida); Paolo Paolini (Milano-Italy); Ian Parberry (U. North Texas);
Steven Pemberton (CWI-Amsterdam); Larry Polansky (Dartmouth/Music);
Daniel Richards (Dartmouth/Medical Libraries); Isidore Rigoutsos
(IBM); Daniela Rus (Dartmouth/CS); David Sherman (U. Bordeaux-France);
Janos Simon (U. Chicago); Randall Stewart (U. Utah; Hermes Pub.);
James Storer (Brandeis); David Tennenhouse (MIT); Constantino Thanos
(CNR-Italy); Chris Welty (Vassar); Mark J. Williams (Dartmouth/Film)
ADVISORY BOARD
Bob Allen (Bellcore); Jane Bassick (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Visual Media);
Bryce Bastian (Olympus); James Breeden (Tucker Foundation); Terry
Ehling (MIT Press); Charles Fenton (Renaissance Digital Publishing);
Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic U., J. MM Tools and Applications); Jay
Heinrichs (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine); Peter Hirshberg (Fusion Group);
Bruce Judson (Time Inc.); Donald Kreider (MAA, Dartmouth/Math);
Jonathan Newcomb (Simon & Schuster); Peter Prichard (USA Today);
Robert Prior (MIT Press); Barbara Simons (IBM); William Stahl (AI
Systems); Michael Sugarman (PWS Publishers); Tay Vaughan (Timestream);
Jeffrey Weitzman (Lexis Counsel Connect), Allan Wylde
(TELOS/Springer-Verlag)
Note: Conference management provided by Danieli & O'Keefe Associates, Inc.
For information on sponsorships, exhibiting, and registration, send email
to DAGS.DOK@notes.compuserve.com. Or, call 508-443-3330; dial extention
1227 for sponsorships or exhibiting, or dial extension 1230 for
registration.
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Fillia Makedon
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, room 109
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
(603)646-3048
(603)646-2206-dept.
(603) 646-1672 FAX
email makedon@dartmouth.edu
Currently on sabbatical at MIT:
(617) 232-7397 (home phone and fax)
(617) 253-6182 (Lab for Computer Science room 340-MIT)
