[Sigmed-l] Berners Lee and JC Herz at ASIST Annual

[Richard Hill]

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. 


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