Perspective on AusWeb96
Web Software Developer
There is much at AusWeb96 for the Web Software Developer. We'd like to bring
to your attention key elements of AusWeb96 from your perspective.
All of the nine keynotes are of interest to the developer community but
the following are of direct relevance:
Danny Shader is Director of International Marketing at Netscape Corporation
in Mountain View, California. His keynote is titled: The Future of the
Internet and Intranet - A Netscape
Perspective. Danny leads Netscape's international product, electronic,
and corporate marketing efforts. He joined the company following Netscape's
acquisition of collaborative computing vendor Collabra Software, Inc., where,
as Vice President of OEM Sales and Business Development, he initiated the
company's partnerships with Novell, Banyan Systems, and others. Mr. Shader
joined Collabra from pen-computing pioneer GO Corporation, where he established
the company's Japanese presence and led its international licensing efforts
as Director of Business Development.
Jim Miller, W3 Consortium, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology The World Wide Web
Consortium: Helping the Web Move Forward "The World Wide Web Consortium,
located at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and INRIA, works to help
the Web reach its full potential. Our work includes evolution of the HTML
and HTTP standards, definition of security and electronic payment protocols,
development of new applications and uses of the Web."
Earl Hinson of IBM Corporation has responsibility for the IBM Global
Network marketing strategy. His keynote is titled: Organising Global
Networks. Earl says that the Internet, WEB browsers, Home Pages and
content have become major components of our marketplace. Our market place
is high speed TCP/IP leased and dial access services for large corporations
and public sector organisations". In the followup session, Earl will
demonstrate the IBM Global Network's capability.
Hermann Maurer, Graz University
of Technology, Graz, Austria On Second
Generation WWW Systems "In this talk we will discuss why most current
WWW systems tend to be great for small amounts of data but create headaches
when large amounts of data have to be maintained. We show in particular
that it is necessary (i) to keep links separate form the documents and assure
that they are bi-directional (this is to assure that atuomatic link maintainance
is possible to avoid the dreaded "dangling link" syndrome) , that
(ii) HTML documents have to be provided with "metadata" such as
author, date of creation, expiration date,etc and that (iii) some structuring
mechanism beyond links is necessary. We will also argue that WWW systems
should not seen as just information systems but also as communication systems.
It is not a coincidence that forms are considered one of the most important
feature of WWW. However, forms are just a beginning: other communciational
and cooperational features are needed as well."
As a service to the developer community and with the co-operation of Microsoft
and Netscape we are providing two Developers
Forums.
There are more than 20 technical papers and posters.
Here are a few, selected at random:
Building an Internet SDK Library for Hybrid Multimedia Databases
Author : Kien Fatt Chan
email : kokhoon@iti.gov.sg
Software Distribution and User Authentication
on the Web
Author : Kent Fitch
email : Kent.Fitch@its.csiro.au
Wide Area Network Monitoring using Java and
the Web
Author : Kent Fitch
email : Kent.Fitch@its.csiro.au
The Web in your Briefcase, or, experiences with
a portable Web
Author : Ken Yap
email : ken@syd.dit.csiro.au
There is a brief overview of the paper
and the author
Exploiting the Full Web User Interface Spectrum
Author : Michael Rees
email : rees@bond.edu.au
Towards Providing Software Component Interoperability
Information on the WWW
Author : Daniel Scherer, Tobias Murer, Andy Wurtz
email : scherer@tik.ee.ethz.ch
There is a brief overview of the
paper and the author.
Agent Technology In Electronic Commerce and Information Retrieval on
the Internet
Author : Bassam (Sam) Aoun
email : sam@picasso.ece.curtin.edu.au
OR saounb@cc.curtin.edu.au
Securing Internet and Intranet Web Servers
Author : Rex di Bona
email : rex@comsmiths.com.au
Applying Bifocal Displays to Enhance WWW Navigation
Author : Chris Pilgrim and Ying Leung
email : chris@saturn.csse.swin.edu.au
Internet as a Legacy Computer System Application
Interface
Author : Michael Hinchliffe and Anthony Symons
email : a.symons@citr.uq.oz.au
There is a brief overview of the paper
and the author.
Cooperative Automatic Web Navigation with Hierarchical Filtering
Author: M. Angelaccio, L. Zamburru, D. Genovese
email : angelac@russell.ce.utovrm.it
Web meets FRANK: Tightly Integrating Web and Network Video Functionality
Author : Bill Simpson-Young
email : bill@syd.dit.csiro.au
There are many workshops of direct relevance but we point out the following:
The following are hands-on workshops presented by Bond University:
Both the introductory and advanced Java workshops are sold out.
There is a full conference exhibition with companies such as Microsoft,
FastAccess Networks, Nornet,
Sausage Software, Squirrel
Software, Access One, Australian Software Innovations,
National Library of Australia and
Co-op Books.
The Marketing SIG is of direct relevance.
If you have any questions about AusWeb96 please don't hesitate to email
the team at ausweb96@scu.edu.au
or call Julie Burton or Joanne McMurtry, Norsearch Conference Services at
Southern Cross University in Lismore. Phone (066) 20 3000 (From outside
Australia +61 66 20 3000).
AusWeb96 - The Second
Australian World Wide Web Conference, 7th to 9th of July 1996, at the Conrad
Jupiters Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia. Contact: Ms Julie Burton, Norsearch
Conference Services at Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW
2480, Australia. Phone (066) 20 3000 (From outside Australia +61 66 20 3000)
Fax: (066) 22 1954 (From outside Australia +61 66 22 1954). Email:
ausweb96@scu.edu.au.
Updated on
3 June 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au