From honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!sanddab.cs.washington.edu!sitaram Wed Sep 8 21:32:56 EDT 1993 Article: 12174 of comp.ai.neural-nets Xref: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.neural-nets:12174 comp.graphics:43891 comp.human-factors:6002 Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.graphics,comp.human-factors Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!sanddab.cs.washington.edu!sitaram From: sitaram@sanddab.cs.washington.edu (Sitaram C. V. Raju) Subject: Hypertext '93 Conference Announcement Message-ID: <1993Sep7.205849.22212@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington Computer Science Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 20:58:49 GMT Lines: 209 I am posting this on behalf of Muru Palaniappan who doesn't have access to these newsgroups. Please contact Muru at muru.palaniappan@aldus.com for more details. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext '93 Conference Advanced Program Announcement Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Dates: November 14 - 18, 1993 Hypertext is a central part of online documents, multimedia applications, educational programs, museum guides, and computer games. Today's Hypertext research will be the foundation for future systems that support authoring, managing, and accessing large multimedia information spaces. COURSES Hypertext '93 begins with two days of introductory and advanced courses that emphasize the practical applications of hypertext in documentation, education, training, and publishing. These courses address hypertext design, standards, evaluation, deployment, legal issues, and many other topics. The courses offered are: 1 Educational Uses of Hypermedia: From Design to the Classroom 2 The HyTime Interchange Standard 3 Introduction to Hypertext and Hypermedia 4 Putting Documents Online: A Manager's Guide 5 Becoming a CD-ROM Publisher 6 SGML for Writers: An Introduction to Document Structure and Analysis 7 Automatic Information Retrieval and Text Utilization 8 Designing Electronic Publications: How We Do It 9 Visual Languages: Analyzing the Emerging New Language Combining Words, Images, and Shapes 10 Interactive Learning Environments: Where They've Come From & Where They're Going 11 Hypermedia Documents for Regulatory and ISO 9000 Compliance 12 Forging the Business of Hypertext Publishing 13 Text to Hypertext Conversion: A Practical Engineering Approach 14 Hypermedia in Museums 15 Introduction to Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces 16 Evaluating Hypermedia Usability 17 Hypertext in Legal Education and Law Practice 18 Metaphor Design in Hypertext Systems: Managing Expectation and Surprise 19 Cooperative Hypermedia20 SGML for Implementers 21 Intellectual Property Protection 22JPresenting Information Visually: Graphic-Design Principles for Use-Oriented Designers 23 Resource-Based Hypermedia for Education and Training 24 Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals and the Content Data Model COMMERCIAL SYMPOSIUM On Monday, in parallel with the second day of courses, leading vendors will participate in a commercial symposium explaining how their hypertext products solve real-world problems. The commercial symposium is a new event that offers a straight-talk, moderated setting for practical advice on real hypertext applications. The sessions are: %JMultimedia Authoring and Viewing Tools % Corporate-wide Hypertext Systems % Hypertext Writing and Publishing % Corporate Conversion Strategies and Methodologies % Building Embedded Hypertext Applications % SGML Authoring and Viewing Tools % Converting Legacy Data to SGML % Minimum Platform Hypertext Tools for Technical Publications PLENARY TALKS % Irene Grief, Lotus Development Corporation - Title to be determined % George Landow, Brown University - Writing Toward the Future: What Avant-Garde Writing Has to Tell Hypertext Designers % Rob Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, Inc. - Reengineering the Field: Hypertext in the 21st Century TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program begins with a reception honoring Ted Nelson, the father of hypertext. At the end of the reception, he will offer his views on the future of the field. The technical program includes three days of papers, panels, posters, demonstrations, technical briefings, and videos. Papers present advances in theory, implementations, or experience with hypertext. Technical briefings offer in-depth analyses and demonstrations of hypertext systems or applications. Panels provide a forum for exploring the art and business of hypertext. The video program will be available in hotel guest rooms and run continuosly in a video theatre. Everyone is welcome to bring videos of their own to show in the video theatre. Demonstrations of recent advances or prototype systems enable conference participants to view systems in action, as well as discuss the systems with the people who created them. Posters promote in-depth interaction between presenters and participants. This format also provides an opportunity for the exploration and discussion of late-breaking developments, work-in-progress, and emerging concepts. HOTEL RESERVATIONS The Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers is the conference hotel. To reserve a room, phone the hotel, ask for the ACM/Hypertext conference rate, and provide your credit card number. The hotelUs phone number is +1 206-621-9000. The conference rates are only available when contacting the hotel directly. Registration Information For a complete Advanced Program and Registration information, call Sarah Amendola at 206-292-9198, fax to 206-292-0559, e-mail ht93@atc.boeing.com or write: Hypertext '93 (CSNW) Tower Building, Suite 1200 1809 Seventh Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 You may register by printing the registration form below, completing the form, and faxing or mailing it to the addresses listed above. Payment must be included. Registration is NOT available by electronic mail. The conference registration fee includes 2.5 days of technical sessions, conference proceedings, demonstrations, video program, posters, and conference banquet and receptions. Note for courses: Course numbers were indicated above. Course 1, 2, 15, and 16 are 2 units each. Couses 1 and 2 are offered for the full day on Sunday (Nov 14) while courses 15 and 16 are offered for the full day on Monday (Nov 15). All other courses are 1 units each. Courses 3 through 6 are offered on Sunday morning, courses 7 through 14 are offered on Sunday afternoon, courses 17 through 20 on Monday morning, and courses 21 through 24 on Monday afternoon.You should not register for more than 2 units on each day, and you should not register for any units on Monday if you register for the Commercial Symposium. Hypertext '93 Registration Form Name(First, MI, Last) : Company: Mailing Address: E-mail address: Phone Number: Fax Number: Name and affiliation on badge (if different from above): Are you an ACM or AICA-GLIT or STC member? If yes, affiliation/membership number: Are you a student? If yes, university and student id number: Do you require special services as disabled attendee? 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