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OSF Flash -- WWW Conference Press Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (OSF Corporate Communications)
Thu Oct 20 12:47:15 1994
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Date: October 20, 1994
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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
October 20, 1994
Contact: Chris Zollars
NCSA, Public Information Officer
(217) 244-3049
and Donna Esterling
Open Software Foundation
(617) 621-8779
WWW Conference Attendance Surges to Over 1300
CHICAGO, IL October 18, 1994 -- The explosive growth of
Mosaic and World Wide Web (WWW) usage is exemplified in
the sold out, standing room only, WWW conference held
this week in Chicago, Illinois. This is the second
International WWW conference, and brings together
participants from all over the world to present papers,
posters and demonstrations.
While WWW's first conference six months ago also sold
out at 382 attendees, this event more than tripled that
attendance with over 1300 attendees and turned away
hundreds more.
"This marks another major milestone in the growth of
interest in how business will be conducted in the
future," commented Ira Goldstein, Vice President of OSF
Research Institute and co-chair of the Second
International WWW Conference. "The Web has always been
an open space where people could come together."
"This conference reflects the diversity and richness of
the community producing a new global information
infrastructure and populating it with content," added
Joseph Hardin, Associate Director for the Software
Development Group at NCSA and co-chair of the
conference. "We've tried to provide as much
connectivity, and the greatest opportunity for people to
get together and show each other their work, as
possible."
The World Wide Web uses Mosaic and other Web tools, and
this very same software was used for the on-line
registration process which received, and processed, its
first registration from Hungary, demonstrating that
geographic distance is easily overcome on the Web.
This effort to promote and register interactively was a
successful experiment in a new way to conduct business.
Hyper links, placed in a variety of Mosaic Home Pages,
allow a diverse audience to access conference topics,
schedules, information and registration.
Another new addition to conference information, WEBster,
an electronic newsletter, is providing daily update,
interviews, and on-line discussions of conference topics
to a world wide audience of over two thousand interested
subscribers.
Due to the great interest, an on-line video network, the
MBone is providing live video over the net of selected
sessions at the conference.
Further information about this conference is available
on the web at
"http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/IT94Info.html.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, is a high-performance computing and
communications facility and research center, designed to
serve the U.S. computational science and engineering
community. NCSA is supported by the National Science
Foundation, other Federal Agencies, the State of
Illinois, the University of Illinois, and Corporate
Partners.
The Open Software Foundation is a not-for-profit
research and development organization with the objective
of enabling users of information technology to exploit
that technology to fundamentally change and improve the
way they do business. OSF has created a coalition of
vendors, users and researchers working together to find
and implement the best, most relevant technologies from
organizations throughout the world. Headquartered in
Cambridge, MA with offices in Tokyo, Brussels and
Grenoble, the OSF has over 400 members worldwide.
OSF and Open Software Foundation are trademarks of the
Open Software Foundation, Inc.
Mosaic and NCSA Mosaic are trademarks of the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications, at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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