SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR III
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
National Library of Medicine (12 November 1993)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The following NLM personnel played key roles in preparing this meeting:
Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director, NLM
Dan R. Masys, Director, Lister Hill Center
Betsy Humphries, Project Officer, Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Project

Computer Science Branch

Lawrence Kingland III, Branch Chief (logistical support)
R. P. C. Rodgers (SIGNIDR III Principal Meeting Organizer)
Jules Aronson (SIGNIDR III MBONE Coordinator, networking support)
Saundra Greenberg (meeting logistics)
Judy Matlock (networking assistance)
Patsy Jones (demonstration logistics)
Suresh Srinivasan (hypertext and software assistance)

Educational Technology Branch

Alexa T. McCray, Branch Chief (hypertext preparation)
Jeff Bridgers (hypertext preparation)

Audiovisual Production Development Branch

James Main, Branch Chief (logistical support)
Mike Detweiler (SIGNIDR III Director)
Bill Boyd (SIGNIDR III Assistant Director)
Steve Spiroch (SIGNIDR III Technical Director)
Susy Horowitz (SIGNIDR III Technical Coordinator)
Jim Kirkley (SIGNIDR III Technical Assistant)
Fred Doering (SIGNIDR III Technical Assistant)
Mike KatterJohn (SIGNIDR III Technical Assistant)
Becky Cagle (graphics)
Others We also wish to thank Eliot Christian (US Geological Survey) and Virginia Sorkin (Library of Congress), the organizers of SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR I & II, respectively. Jim Fullton and his colleagues at the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval (CNIDR) were helpful in meeting planning. Stephen Casner of ISI, a principal figure in the MBONE multicasting community, was generous with his advice and assisted during the setup and testing of our MBONE multicast. We thank Van Jacobson of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and all of the other members of the MBONE community for sharing their splendid free software with us. The NLM contractor AAC provided assistance with network cabling; Steve Chasles and Anthony Pinkney of Ideas, Inc. helped with network wiring and equipment logistics. Capitol Consulting Corp. handled meeting registration, miscellaneous preparations, and non-AV setup.

NLM (12 November 1993)