Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

21st March Press release

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Andrew Lloyd & Associates
+33 1 43 22 79 56 Sylvie Baranger
+44 1273 675100 Andrew Lloyd

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Paris to host 1996's most important international World Wide Web event in May

Paris, 21 March 1996--INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, announces WWW'96 PARIS, the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference to be held in CNIT Paris-La-Défense, 6-10 May, 1996. The conference is the latest in the series of international events that began in Geneva, the birthplace of the Web, in 1994. It has since taken place in Chicago, Darmstadt and Boston.

WWW'96 PARIS is the most important international event of the year dedicated to the World Wide Web, the universe of linked information driving the Internet explosion. The presence of key figures from the leading edge of industry, the comprehensive and targeted conference programme (including special sessions for small and medium enterprises), and the number of delegates expected make WWW'96 PARIS a rendezvous not to be passed over.

The event is dedicated to the very wide, fast-growing community of people who have to deal with the World Wide Web, either as developers or users. Some 3,000 delegates from business, technical, academic and media circles are expected to attend a carefully designed conference programme with 20,000 expected at the exhibition.

"Anyone to whom the World Wide Web is of any importance cannot afford to miss this opportunity to meet with the international Web community gathered in Paris,"
says Jean-François Abramatic, chairman of WWW'96 PARIS.
"We have designed the programme in such a way that conference delegates will experience a highly efficient and productive week, whether they are Web developers, users or industry watchers."

Delegates to the conference will include chief executive and strategic planners from all types of industry and service companies, CIOs and senior technical advisers, who have to adapt or build new generation information systems to take advantage of Web opportunities, and those involved in software and hardware research and development. The event will also be a unique opportunity for the world's media and analysts to meet the leading players from all over the world. Conference speakers include key figures from commercial product and service providers, researchers and developers, current and future users.

WWW'96 PARIS will run a wide-ranging programme of events to cater for each of the target categories:

The Tutorials on 6 May will get attendees up to speed with down-to-earth subjects such as "The Web and Lotus Notes in the Enterprise".
The Technical Program on 7, 8, 9 May will include reviewed paper presentations, industry presentations, State-of-the-Art reports, panels and keynote speeches from key figures among the developers, providers and users who are together writing the history of the World Wide Web. The latest Web research, offerings and strategies will be presented by such prominent visionaries as James Gosling, inventor of Sun's Java language.
The SME's Forum "Business on the Web" on 9, 10 May, sponsored by the European Commission, will give - in non-technical, business-oriented language - an overview of the market and technologies, and an understanding of how issues like cost, security, performance, and the laws on cross-border Internet are being tackled. This unique event, held for the first time on the occasion of WWW'96 PARIS, takes clear aim at helping Small and Medium Enterprises improve their business and activities thanks to the World Wide Web. It will in particular give attendees an insider view of how companies are already using the Web to achieve success.
The Developer's Day on 10 May will bring together international Web programmers to exchange views and experience on the latest Web programming paradigms.

In addition to the conference sessions, more than 5,000 m2 of Professional Exhibition on 8, 9, 10 May will be open at no cost to conference delegates and other professional visitors. The exhibition features the latest achievements in equipment, systems, software, services, applications, literature and other products of importance to the World Wide Web.

WWW'96 PARIS, the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, is organised by INRIA with the support of the European Commission, ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) and the World Wide Web Consortium.

Full information including the detailed programme and registration information can be obtained at the conference websites and secretariat:

http://www5conf.inria.fr (European site)
http://www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/WWW5 (American site)
WWW'96 PARIS Secretariat: Email: www5-secr@inria.fr Fax: +33 1 39 54 38 50

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About INRIA...

INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) is dedicated to basic and applied research in information technology. More than 1,500 people, including over 1,200 scientists, are employed in its five regional centres. These are located in Rocquencourt, near Paris, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Nancy and Grenoble. INRIA is committed to helping industry design better products and bring them to market fast. It has already worked on hundreds of projects with industry.

INRIA ensures that international standards of performance are achieved by constant cross-fertilization with R&D specialists from different countries. In 1995, more than 800 foreign researchers spent periods of up to 3 months on assignment at the institute.

INRIA covers four research areas:

Networks and Systems
Software engineering and symbolic computing
Man-machine interaction, images, data, knowledge
Simulation and optimization of complex systems

One of INRIA's key strategic choices is to encourage the setting up of spinoff companies. Since 1984, INRIA has contributed in various forms (including direct investment) to the creation of more than 20 companies covering a wide range of market segments. Significant examples include: object-oriented database management systems (O2 Technology), microkernel operating systems (Chorus Systems), object-oriented software components (ILOG), software engineering (Verilog), document management software (GRIF), robotics (Robosoft, Aleph Technology), image and vision (Noesis, Istar, Timeat), scientific computing (Simulog).

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Created: 19 March 1996
Last updated: 25 March 1996