Keynote speaker :   Cathy Marshall  Xerox Parc  Keynote 1.30-2.20pm   Thursday 16th April 199  Keynote Title : A reader's-eye view of the Web: hypertext, annotation, collaboration, and the real world.  Keynote Abstract : Surfing. Browsing. Navigating. Clicking here, mousing there. Foraging and farming; pushing and pulling. The Web has peppered our vocabularies with new ways of talking about what people do when they use this complex, decentralized communication technology. Yet no one refers to our engagement with Web documents as reading, nor are there other people or other things in the picture: We surf alone, squinting into the glow of our monitors, in a Java-enabled sea of distributed electronic media. In this talk, I take up questions surrounding hypertext, reading, annotation, collaboration, and the real world. In particular, I'll take a reader's-eye view of tools and technologies for the Web, with an emphasis on place, space, and the cluttered world that lies beyond the edge of our screens.   Biography:  Cathy Marshall is a Member of the Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and an active participant in the international Hypertext Digital Libraries, and WWW research communities. She served as the program chair for Hypertext '96, and gave the keynote address at the Hypertext'97 conference in Southampton, UK.  She has served on program committees for the WWW, ACM Digital Libraries, and Hypertext conference series and served from '93-'97 as US Vice Chair of SIGLINK, the ACM special interest group on hypertext and hypermedia.  In her own research efforts, Cathy Marshall has led a series of projects in the areas of spatial hypertext, collaborative narrative, annotation, and metadata including two system development efforts, Aquanet (named after the super-hold hairspray) and VIKI.  Earlier, she was a member of the Xerox PARC NoteCards project, an early-80s implementation of hypertext.  She often lingers in the shadowy interstices between disciplines, working with ethnographers, designers, and artists, as well as her fellow computer  scientists.  Her recent efforts include "Forward Anywhere," a collaborative hypernarrative written with Judy Malloy.  She also retains a working affiliation with the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University, which is where her home page lives:  http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall