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Sunday Oct. 3rd Conference Opening

Welcome Address - Rik Hall - Host WWWDEV Listserv and Co-Chair NAWeb99 - 2 pm

Official Opening - David Macneil - Director - Computing Services Department - UNB - 2:10 pm

Keynote address: WWW - "WWW: What We Want?" - Robert Cailliau - CERN - 2:30 - 3:30 pmpm
Having witnessed the entire scene of the human-web relationship, Robert will highlight the positive aspects of that "great change" but also point out some of the needs and issues that must be addressed at the beginning of the new century.

Robert originally trained as a mechanical & electrotechnical engineer. He became concerned with human-computer interaction while studying turbo machinery at the university of Ghent (Belgium) where he needed to make an IBM360/30 sit up and do his measurements analysis properly. After a spell at the hybrid computation lab, he left Belgium for CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics located near Geneva, were he has worked since 1974. There he began document handling in 1976, writing a markup-processor for internal reports, introducing mouse to man in 1984. Robert took over Office Computing Systems for the laboratory in 1987. In 1989, after unsuccessful attempts at making physicists study hypertext, he made his own proposal to introduce documentation systems with hypertexts. In 1990 he joined Tim Berners-Lee, and together they pioneered the Web inside the high-energy physics community.

Nutrition Break - 3:30

Keyhnote address: Webmasters - The True Spinners of the Web - Bebo White - Stanford - 4:00 - 5:00 pm

The explosive growth of the Web has forever changed the way we search for and retrieve information. Websites number in the millions(?) and provide every conceivable kind of information and service. Hidden behind the growth of the Web and often beyond the view of its users is the Webmaster. In Web lore the Webmasters are often portrayed as the techies who realizing the uniqueness of the first Web server applications curiously downloaded them from the Internet. In the corporate and academic structure of today, Webmasters often occupy a position in the management hierarchy alongside CIOs and Public Affairs Officers. Websites containing thousands of documents and complex interfaces to applications require a Webmaster capable of managing an organization of varied skill sets.

Bebo White was instrumental in setting up the first Website in the United States at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the high energy physics laboratory at Stanford University. Because of SLAC's collaboration with CERN (the birthplace of the Web), Bebo has been involved with the development of the Web since its conception. In his talk Bebo will anecdotally reflect upon Webmastering for the past eight years, how the Webmaster role has matured and how it will continue to evolve in the future. (Click here for more information)

Cash Bar in the Foyer of the Wu Centre - 5:00 pm


NBTel VIP Banquet and Gala evening - Chancellor's Room - 6:30 pm

NBTel VIP Banquet and Gala evening Sponsored by NBTel, the VIP Banquet and Gala evening features some New Brunswick traditions: Great Food Great Entertainmet More Great Food Atlantic Salmon, fiddleheads, maritime potatoes, and more . .. Gifts to you, courtesy of our contributors

East coast music by Mackinaw - 8:00 pm - Kent Auditorium


The Isle of Sin Desert Buffet - 9:15 pm - Foyer - Wu Conference Centre

Buses back to the Beaverbrook - 10:15 - The evening will wrap up around 10:00 pm with a shuttle bus taking delegates to the Lord Beaverbrook and the Country Inn and suites

Get a good night's sleep - we start with continental breakfast from 8:00 am - till 9:00 am.