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

[Jon R Jablonski]

pardon my vulgarity, but that's cool as heck!

-jon

Jon Jablonski                                                541-346-2871
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Richard Hill wrote:

> The Plenaries for the Annual Meeting will be:
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> 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.
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> and
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> 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."
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> 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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> Dick Hill
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