Perspective on AusWeb96
Information Systems Manager
We'd like to bring to your attention key elements of AusWeb96 from your
perspective.
We have a total of nine keynote speakers at AusWeb96. Five speakers of direct
relevance to the IS manager are:
Earl Hinson of IBM Corporation has responsibility for the IBM Global
Network marketing strategy and will be talking on 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". Earl is providing a high level strategy
overview.
Danny Shader is Director of International Marketing at Netscape
Corporation in Mountain View, California. 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.
Danny will speak on The Future of the Internet and Intranet - A Netscape
Perspective. Given Netscape's importance to the industry, this will
be a very important address. Danny will also be participating in our developers
programme.
Jim Miller, W3 Consortium, and a
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology speaks on 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.
Hermann Maurer, Graz University
of Technology, Graz, Austria On Second
Generation WWW Systems
Hermann is well known as the developer of Hyper-G, a new generation of Web
servers. Hermann says "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 from 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."
Arie Segev, Director of the Fisher
Center for Information Technology & Management (CITM) at the Haas
School of Business at the University
of California at Berkeley speaks on the
impact of the World Wide Web on Electronic Commerce. The Haas School
has recently been ranked as one of the top business schools in the USA.
And given Berkeley's geographic proximity
the heart of network developments in the US, Arie is particuarly well qualified
to speak on electronic commerce. Arie says: "In this presentation,
the impact of the World Wide Web on Electronic Commerce is explored. Arie
look at a number of examples and models of electronic commerce and look
to the future of the Web and Commerce. We draw on research conducted by
the Fisher Center and on the many examples of commercial developments in
the Bay area."
There are a number of papers and posters in the Technical
Futures theme which are directly relevant to the work of an IS manager.
Some selected papers include:
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
Using WWW as a Desktop Manager
Author : Zafar ul Islam Singhera
email : F60C015%SAKSU00.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU
There is a brief overview of the paper
and the author.
Web Interfaces: The benefits and challenges
encountered in developing Web-based interfaces
Author : Bill Rosener
email : rosener@cs.utk.edu
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.
Building an Intranet: Theory and Practice
Author : Andrew Arch & Jan Whitaker
email : ARCHA@dofa.agvic.gov.au
There is a brief overview of the
paper and the author.
Issues in Supporting Real-Time Retrieval, Transmission and Presentation
of Multiple Media Streams in the WWW
Author : Guojun Lu
email : guojunl@fcit.monash.edu.au
Automatic Creation of Hyperlinks in WWW Documents
Author : Zafar ul Islam Singhera
email : F60C015%SAKSU00.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU
There is a brief overview of the paper
and the author.
In addition there are 13 papers and posters in the Business
Opportunities theme. Some which are of direct interest include:
Living the Dream - Practical Web Applications
Hoylen Sue hoylen@dstc.edu.au
An Intranet Checklist
David Wood dwood@plugged.net.au
There is a brief overview of the paper
and the author.
Developing Intranets - A Financial Industry Case Study
Bernadette Hyland bhyland@plugged.net.au
Intranets
Andrew Bishop andrewb@infoweb.com.au
Cyber-presence Strategies for Business Executives
Elaine Lawrence elaine@socs.uts.edu.au,
Jeanette Murry jmurry@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
and Alan Tidwell atidwell@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
There is a brief overview of the
paper and the author.
Now we know that the title says University
Administrative Systems and the Web- Towards Intranets but it really
is about Intranets. Chris McGovern of Griffith
University (C.McGovern@its.gu.edu.au)
and Gene Kraybill (g.kraybill@cosmos.curtin.edu.au)
of Curtin University of Technology
will be running a workshop on using the Web for administrative purposes.
Universities are at the leading edge in developing intranets and these presentations
are from the leaders in the pack.
Full day, Saturday, 6 July
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.
A topic of perennial interest is how to Market on the Internet. The
team at Sausage Software is
organising a Special Interest Group on Marketing on the Internet. The SIG
will be lead by Steve Outtrim, the founder and CEO of Sausage Software.
Steve Outtrim is the 23 year old behind his brain-child "Sausage Software."
Steve wrote the "HotDog web editor" in June last year. Sausage
Software is now one of the success stories of Australian software exporting
and employs over 50 Australians.
The SIG will be discussing marketing issues on the Internet - how traditional
streams and channels are no longer relevant and how to develop your own
- what works in cyberspace. There will be plenty of opportunity to discuss
all the various possibilities for marketing your product on the Internet.
The contact for this special interest group is Cam Watson <spankk@sausage.com.au>
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