Electronic Conferences and Workshops
Here are some real life examples of Electronic Conferences and
Workshops:
ChemConf'93 is available at the URL gopher://info.umd.edu:901/11/inforM/Educational_Resources/Faculty_Resources_and_Support/ChemConference
NASA High Alpha Conference IV (high angle of attack) is available at the URL http://www.dfrf.nasa.gov/Workshop/HighAlphaIV/highalpha.html
The HIDEC Electronic Conference (the F-15 Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control program) is available at the URL http://mosaic.dfrf.nasa.gov/Workshop/HIDEC/Conf.DIRS/.htmllinks/ConfWeb.html
DL94:Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries is available at the URL http://atg1.wustl.edu/DL94
On-Line Proceedings of ACL-94 (Association of Computational Linguistics) is available at the URL http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/ACL-94-proceedings.html
...and its post-conference workshops is available at the URL http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/ACL-94-post.html
1st Electronic Conference in Computational Chemistry (ECCC) is available
at the URL
http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu:70/0/ECCCinformation.html
Reviews of Electronic Conferences
A discussion of the pros and cons of this type of online gathering,
written by the ChemConf'93 organizer Dr. Tom O'Haver, is available at the URL
gopher://info.umd.edu:901/00/inforM/Educational_Resources/Faculty_Resources_and_Support/ChemConference/BackgroundReading/OnlineConferencin.txt
And as a wonderful example of self-referencing, a la Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, and Bach, see the URL http://www.automatrix.com/conferences
An example of an "after-the-fact" online conference is available at the URL
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/igarss/
TaTTOO '95
TaTTOO '95 (Teaching and Training in The Technology of Objects) On-Line
used state-of-the-art technology combining
interactive multi-user virtual environments with the World-Wide Web to bring an
International Conference and Trade Exhibition to the desktop. In the virtual
conference objects such as delegates, rooms, personal business cards and
leaflets could all be browsed on the Web. A virtual exhibition took place in
TaTTOO/MOO, a virtual environment. The MOO was extended to make the objects in
it Web-aware, so it was possible to browse the system using a Web client.
TaTTOO '95 is available at the URL
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/OTG/Online/live-announce.html