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WWW'96 PARIS will feature top-level speakers and workshop sessions to address
current and future Web issues in detail. Another distinctive component of this
conference will be important announcements from participating companies. These
will take place both in conference sessions and in press conferences held in
parallel.
One key event will bring together Digital Equipment's Bob Palmer, President
and CEO, and Ilene Lang, Internet Software Business Unit Vice-President, to
announce Digital's ISBU and new products based on Digital's AltaVista
technology. This worldwide announcement, originating from the US using a
real-time video link, will take place during the industrial sessions of the
conference on Tuesday, May 7, from 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm. Further news is also
expected from the PICS consortium (Platform for Internet Content Selection) on
its response to recent government legislation (for example, in the US and
Germany) implementing flexible content control on Internet.
Those physically unable to attend will be able to follow the main sessions via
videoconference on Internet using Mbone (Multicast Backbone). In addition and
for the first time, a "distributed round table" made up of widely distributed
participants from many countries, virtually assembled on Mbone, will discuss
the future of teleconferencing on Internet.
More than 50 countries are represented among the 2,000 or so delegates
expected, with over 80 percent coming from outside France, making WWW'96 a
truly international event.
Entry to the professional exhibition is free with an invitation or upon
presentation of a business card. It will host some 50 exhibitors in 5,000
square metres (about 50,000 sq ft) of floor space. These include Bellcore,
France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Illustra/Informix, Microsoft, Silicon
Graphics, Sun Microsystems, among many others.
http://www5conf.inria.fr (European site)
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The World Wide Web moves to Paris
for the week of 6-10 May 1996
WWW'96 conference and exhibition organized by INRIA
takes place at CNIT Paris-La Défense
Paris, 25 April 1996-The premier international Web conference and exhibition of 1996, WWW'96 PARIS, will bring together more than 150 speakers of international standing. They include:
"The breadth and quality of the conference makes it the one rendezvous of the
year for those involved in the Web. With the international scope of the
attendees, we anticipate exciting exchanges will take place during this
gathering," says Jean-François Abramatic, chairman of WWW'96 PARIS.
Note for journalists
Accredited journalists are invited to a press conference on Monday 6 May where
the organizers will give an overview of the event together with last minute
information.
Reminder
Detailed information on the programme and registration procedures are
available on the Web sites and from the conference secretariat.
http://www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/WWW5 (American site)
WWW'96 Secretariat PARIS: Email: www5-secr@inria.fr Fax: +33 1 39 54 38 50
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:
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Created: 25 April 1996