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ON-LINE PROCEEDINGS: SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR III
National Library of Medicine (12 November 1993)
Simulcast live over the Lister Hill Center audiovisual channel
and the Internet-based MBONE multicasting system
Presentations
- 9:00-9:20
- R. P. C. Rodgers (Lister Hill Center, NLM)
- What this Meeting is About:
An Introduction, Outline, & Acknowledgments
- 9:20-9:30
- Questions and Discussion
- 9:30-10:00
- Jim Fullton (CNIDR)
- A Network Distributed Image Database
- 10:00-10:10
- Questions and Discussion
- 10:10-10:30
- MORNING BREAK
- 10:30-10:50
- Dan Masys (Lister Hill Center, NLM)
-
Visualizing the Virtual Library: Technology Development in
Progress at the National Library of Medicine
- 10:50-11:00
- Questions and Discussion
- 11:00-11:50
- Marc Andreesen (NCSA)
- NCSA Mosaic 2.0: It's Loose!
- Joseph Hardin (NCSA)
- NCSA Mosaic: Past, Present and Future
- 11:50-12:00
- Questions and Discussion
- 12:00-12:10
- Meeting Business
- 12:10-13:40
- LUNCH BREAK
- 13:40-14:00
- D. A. B. Lindberg (NLM, HPCC)
- The Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program
- 14:00-14:10
- Questions and Discussion
- 14:10-14:40
- Paul Jones (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
-
Publishing Information Using Multiple Information Servers
(Gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web)
- 14:40-14:50
- Questions and Discussion
- 14:50-15:20
- Eliot Christian (USGS)
-
The Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
- 15:20-15:30
- Questions and Discussion
- 15:30-15:40
- AFTERNOON BREAK
- 15:40-16:10
- Archie Warnock (NASA)
- Integrating Information Services for NASA
- 16:10-16:20
- Questions and Discussion
- 16:20-16:50
- Pushpendra Mohta (CERFnet)
- So, How Do I Get Onto the Internet?
- 16:50-17:00
- Questions and Discussion
Acknowledgments
Presenter Biographies
Demonstrations
(To continue throughout the day in the Lister Hill lobby)
- Showing in the NLM Visitor's Center Mini-Theatre (except for 13:00-14:00):
USGS "Introduction to WAIS" video tape
- WAIS, Inc.
- US Geological Survey
- Anders Arlo, University of Lund
(Experiment with Automatic Classification of WAIS Databases)
- Francois Schiettecatte, FS Consulting
(WAIS Picture Browser, WAIS Book)
NLM (12 November 1993)