At M.I.T.

Whilst at MIT I was the guest of Karen Sollins, who works at the Lab for Computer Science.

A number of activities at MIT turned out to be particularly relevant to W3:-

Information Mesh: Karen Sollins' project has a lot in common with W3 in scope, although being a more research oriented project.
Library 2000: Jerry Saltzer's project for library systems using the technology we can expect in 10 year's time;
MIT TechInfo: A practical CWIS actually in use at MIT and other sites;
OVAL: "Objects, Views, Agents and Links". A tool for coordiantion of projects, from Tom Malone at the Sloan School of Management, allowing user creation of new objects and types.
Cybermaps: Peter Gloor uses lots of CPU time and full-text profile matching to find related documents and build a web of links where none existed before.

I also took the opportunity of meeting various people from this side of the continent with relevant projects.

Brewster Kahle: Thinking Machines Corporation's charismatic project leader of the WAIS project.
CWISP people: A meeting with people who had been in the CWIS Protocol group, about U. Penn's "Argo" (not "argot") project, collaboration with W3, address formats etc etc.
Dale Dougherty: I met Dale of O'Reilly Associates, who supports Pei Wei's Viola browser.
John Howard, MERC: Mistubishi Electric's new Research Center, MERC, is just behind MIT/LCS.