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OSF Electronic Flash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (OSF Corporate Communications)
Wed Sep 14 19:35:51 1994
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 15:54:07 -0400
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Open Software Foundation
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail news flash for OSF Members from
the Open Software Foundation
September 14, 1994
CONTACT: Jane Smeloff
Open Software Foundation
(617) 621-8997
Second World-Wide Web Conference Sells Out
CAMBRIDGE, MA September 14, 1994 -- The Open Software
Foundation Research Institute (OSF RI) announced today
that the Second International World-Wide Web (WWW)
Conference: Mosaic and the Web, planned for October 17-
20, 1994, in Chicago, sold out eight weeks following the
July announcement of the event. New registrations are
still being accepted for placement on a waiting list.
According to Dr. Ira Goldstein, vice president research
and advance development, OSF RI, "The World-Wide Web
Conference Fall '94 is the most comprehensive program on
the Web and Mosaic available today. Registration far
exceeded our expectation. Our statistical analysis
showed that during the eight weeks before we halted
registration, the OSF server listing
WWW registration information was referenced by more than
10,000 interested individuals. Conference participation
for this fall's event will more than triple last May's
attendance in CERN, Switzerland."
The four-day program begins October 17, with intense
tutorial sessions on useful techniques for IS
organizations and technology implementors looking for
help in navigating the maze of information about
Internet, World-Wide Web and "net surfing" software
tools. The tutorial day is followed by multi-track
conference sessions on October 18 and 19. The final day
of the program, October 20, is devoted to programmers.
Fast-paced sessions include essential developer
information, what's in store, an advanced developer
questions and answer session, and discussions with the
NCSA Mosaic development team.
The Second International World-Wide Web Conference
enjoys the sponsorship of today's most prominent
industry pioneers, gurus and visionaries including:
* CERN (Centre European pour la Recherche Nucleaire),
the Web's original designers;
* NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer
Applications in Champaign, Ill) Software
Development Group, developers of Mosaic;
* NSF (National Science Foundation); and
* OSF Research Institute, research providers for the
next generation of open systems technology.
As part of its ongoing research projects in the Internet
and Mosaic, OSF RI used the conference information and
registration process to better understand the direct and
indirect costs of the Internet and the World-Wide Web
for business. Registrants accessing information on the
Web could read about the conference, register using an
interactive format, and receive an immediate email
confirmation.
"Barriers to commercial use of the Internet and the Web
have fallen and today the focus is on commercial
opportunities," commented OSF RI's Jackie Stewart, Human
Computer Interaction (HCI) Program Manager. "Our
experience proves that expensive hard copy direct mail
and trade magazine advertising can be significantly
reduced by substituting electronic services such as
email and newsgroups on the Internet and providing
information via the Web."
Complete information about the upcoming conference can
be viewed on the Web. The access URL is:
http://riwww.osf.org:8001/ri/announcements/WWW_Conf_F94.
html
or send email to: www94@osf.org
To stay up-to-date on the WWW and Mosaic programs at OSF
RI, send an e-mail note with complete contact
information to: internet-program-request@osf.org
The Open Software Foundation delivers open systems
technology with the objective of enabling people to
exploit information technology to improve the way they
do business. OSF supplies software to make information
technology easier to learn and easier to use, while
enabling various vendors' equipment to work together,
sharing applications and information across distributed
open computing environments. OSF has created a coalition
of vendors and users who work together to provide the
best available open systems technologies. Headquartered
in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Brussels, Grenoble and
Tokyo, OSF has more than 400 members worldwide.
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