From rhill at asis.org Tue Mar 2 10:22:02 2004 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:22:02 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] LIST WARNING and CHANGE Message-ID: <4114-2200432215222330@dickxp> As quickly as I can I will be adding code to ALL LISTS that prohibits html and other styled messages. I ahve seen several instances of "spoofed" addresses sending spam which likely includes a virus. I am hoping the prohibition on styled postings will stop the problem Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Wed Mar 24 15:45:45 2004 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:45:45 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Berners Lee and JC Herz at ASIST Annual Message-ID: <4114-220043324204545335@dickxp> The Plenaries for the Annual Meeting will be: Tom Berners Lee, Monday, November 15 Tim invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, real-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England. He is a graduate of Oxford University. More... Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. and JC Herz (yet to be scheduled) J.C. HERZ is the author of Joystick Nation : How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds and Surfing on the Internet, which was described by William Gibson as "post-geographical travel writing." She was the New York Times' first computer game critic and is now producing a documentary on the history of videogames for PBS. J.C. serves on the National Research Council's committee on Creativity and Information Technology. Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900