Conference At-A-Glance

The Wednesday and Thursday conference events include parallel sessions consisting of refereed paper presentations, panel discussions, talks by invited industry speakers, and a W3C track covering current standardization work being carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium. The parallel sessions will be preceeded and followed by plenary sessions with keynote speakers and awards presentations. Poster Papers and a History Wall commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Web will be on display both days, with a Posters reception held on Wednesday evening. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday evenings. 

Tuesday May 11

6:00 pm -

8:00 pm

Welcome Reception:* "A Taste of Toronto"

Wednesday May 12

8:30 am -	10:00 am	Opening Plenary
10:00 am -	8:00 pm	Posters and History Wall
10:30 am -	12:00 pm
	A1	The Electronic Marketplace
	B1	Multimedia and User Interaction
	C1	XML
	P1	Finding Anything in the Billion Page Web:
		Are Algorithms the Key? (panel)
	IN1	Language on Trial (panel)
	WC1	Introduction to the W3C Track, World Wide
		Web Access
12:00 pm -	1:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm -	2:30 pm
	A2	Web Server Performance
	B2	Customizing Web Sites
	C2	Searching and Discovery
	P2	Mobile Computing and Accessibility (panel)
	IN2	Invited Presentations
	WC2	XML: From Markup to Meaning
3:00 pm -	4:30 pm
	A3	Searching and Querying
	B3	Web Document Management
	C3	Hypermedia and Video
	P3	Web-based Everything: Are HTTP, DAV and
		XML Enough? (panel)
	IN3	WWW8 Workshop Summary Reports
	WC3	Technologies Serving Society
4:45 pm -	6:00 pm	Plenary
6:00 pm -	8:00 pm	Posters Reception
7:00 pm -		Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

 

Thursday May 13
 

8:30 am -	10:00 am	Plenary
10:00 am -	3:30 pm	Posters and History Wall
10:30 am -	12:00 pm
	A4	Searching and Mining the Web
	B4	Links
	C4	Server Performance
	D4	Electronic Commerce, Security, and Applications
	IN4	Town Meeting - Successful Web Design
	WC4	Multimedia Models and Management
12:00 pm -	1:30 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm -	3:00 pm
	A5	Searching and Querying
	B5	Hypertext and Hypermedia
	C5	Protocols and Performance
	P5	Agents vs Direct Manipulation:
		What's Best to Disentangle the Web?
	IN5	The Web as an Application Platform
	WC5	Community Contributions and Participation
3:30 pm -	5:00 pm	Closing Plenary
6:00 pm -		Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

* Additional Tuesday Reception tickets may be purchased on-site for CAD 50

 Updated: May 4, 1999

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