[Sigvis-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=20
Tim invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the Europea=
n Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland=2E He wrote the first=
 WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW se=
rver along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP a=
nd HTML=2E Prior to his work at CERN, Tim was a founding director of Image=
 Computer Systems, a consultant in hardware and software system design, re=
al-time communications graphics and text processing, and a principal engin=
eer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, England=2E He is a graduate =
of Oxford University=2E More=2E=2E=2E=20
Tim is now the overall Director of the W3C=2E He is a Senior Research Scie=
ntist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science=2E=20

and

JC Herz (yet to be scheduled)
J=2EC=2E HERZ is the author of Joystick Nation : How Videogames Ate Our Qu=
arters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds and Surfing on the Internet,=
 which was described by William Gibson as "post-geographical travel writin=
g=2E"=20

She was the New York Times' first computer game critic and is now producin=
g a documentary on the history of videogames for PBS=2E J=2EC=2E serves on=
 the National Research Council's committee on Creativity and Information T=
echnology=2E=20


Dick Hill

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