Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

Technical Program

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Presentation

The Technical Program is put together by the Technical Program Committee. It includes:

Plenary Sessions

Plenary sessions feature keynote speakers within the opening session on Tuesday 7 May, the closing session on Thursday 9 May and an intermediate session on Wednesday 8 May.

Invited Speakers

Invited speakers are world-class visionaries and business figures delivering their views on key Web topics.

Paper Sessions

Paper sessions address novel, challenging and innovative ideas, concepts or systems, reports on real uses with concrete and quantitative results.

Panel Sessions

Panel sessions are in an area that is controversial or new and where various paths for progress are still open.

W3C Sessions

W3C sessions give a comprehensive view of activities and developments led by the World Wide Web Consortium, for all Web topics.

Industrial Sessions

Industrial sessions present visions, corporate or product strategies of Web industrial leaders.

Poster Presentations

Presentations and Demonstrations of work in progress with the opportunity to meet the authors.

Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs)

BOFs are impromptu gatherings organized by anyone who contacts the Conference Organisers with a request for a Birds Of a Feather session during the conference.

Program

TUESDAY 7 MAY - Technical Program
ROOM	LEONARD DE VINCI	GOETHE	AMBROISIE	DOPPLER	DONATELLO	DIDEROT
9:30-11:00	OPENING SESSION Welcome Address: Jean-François Abramatic, INRIA Conference Introduction: Bob Hopgood, RAL Keynote Presentations: Jean-Jacques Damlamian, France Télécom John R. Patrick, IBM
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-13:00	Invited Presentations 1 Stu Weibel, OCLC Bob Scheifler, X Consortium	Industrial Session 1 IBM	W3C Session 1 A Comprehensive View of WWW Standards part 1	Paper Session 1 Caching	Paper Session 2 Distributed Applications	Panel Session 1 Cooperative Work and the Web
		Industrial Session 2 Microsoft
13:00-14:30	Lunch (Hall Albinoni 1 & Espace Brillat-Savarin)
14:30-16:00	Paper Session 3 Web Characteristics	Industrial Session 3 Informix/Illustra	W3C Session 2 A Comprehensive View of WWW Standards part 2	Paper Session 4 Linking	Paper Session 5 Support for Cooperation	Panel Session 2 Distributed Objects and the Web
		Industrial Session 4 Illustra
16:00-16:30	Break
16:30-18:00	Panel Session 3 Multicasting & Real-time Applications and the Future of the Web: A Network-Distributed Panel	Industrial Session 5 France Telecom	Panel Session 4 The Future of Java Development	Paper Session 6 Document Structures	Paper Session 8 Database / Web Gateways	Paper Session 7 Servers
		Industrial Session 6 Digital
20:00	SPECIAL EVENT AT LE LOUVRE

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY - Technical Program
ROOM	LEONARD DE VINCI	GOETHE	AMBROISIE	DOPPLER	DONATELLO	DIDEROT
9:00-10:30	Paper Session 9 Commercial Use	Industrial Session 7 Hewlett Packard	W3C Session 3 Overview of W3C Activities	Paper Session 10 Courses and Tours: Creating Pathways	Paper Session 11 Objects	Panel Session 5 Uniform Resource Characteristics: Metadata for the Masses
		Industrial Session 8 Nokia	W3C Session 4 HTML & Cascading Style Sheets
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Keynote Speakers Tim Berners Lee, W3C Rob Glaser, Progressive Networks
12:30-14:30	Lunch (Hall Albinoni 1)
14:30-16:00	Invited Presentations 2 James Gosling, Sun Microsytems Mark Pesce, BigBook Inc.	Industrial Session 9 Bellcore	W3C Session 5 PEP & PICS	Paper Session 12 Authoring	Paper Session 13 Browsings Aids	Panel Session 6 Global Cryptography
		Industrial Session 10 Sun	W3C Session 6 Payment & Security
16:00-16:30	Break
16:30-18:00	Panel Session 7 Electronic Payment Standards	Industrial Session 11 Netscape	W3C Session 7 W3C Software: Library, Server, Client	Paper Session 14 Mobile Code	Paper Session 15 Caching Systems	Paper Session 16 Optimizing WEB Use of Network Resources
		Industrial Session 12 Adobe

THURSDAY 9 MAY - Technical Program
ROOM	LEONARD DE VINCI	GOETHE	DIDEROT	AMBROISIE	DONATELLO	DOPPLER
9:00-11:00	PLENARY SESSION Opening of "Business on the Web" European Commission Address: Director General Von Moltke, DGXXIII-SMEs Bernard Vergnes, Microsoft Invited Presentations 3 Steve Fink, Digital Equipment Steven McGeady, Intel
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-13:00	Paper Session 17 Marketing on the Web	Panel Session 8 Data Protection and Respect of Privacy on the Internet	Panel Session 9 Good and Sensible Design is Crucial to the Success of the Web!	Panel Session 10 Efficiency of Internet Indexing	Paper Session 18 Cooperation	Paper Session 19 Seamless Multimedia Integration
13:00-14:30	Lunch (Hall Albinoni 1 & Espace Brillat-Savarin)
14:30-16:30	CLOSING SESSION Awards Ceremony: Robert Cailliau, CERN Isabelle de Kerviler, Mairie de Paris Keynote Presentation: James H. Clark, Netscape Communications IW3C2 Address: Ira Goldstein, OSF WWW6 Announcement: Christine Quinn, Stanford University Bebo White, SLAC

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