(DBWORLD) IEEE ADL '97 - Call for Participation

Richard Holowczak (holowcza@pegasus.rutgers.edu)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:48:29 -0500 (CDT)

IEEE International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries
IEEE ADL '97: May 7 - 9, 1997, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl97/adlcall.html

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, CESDIS, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, The National Library of Medicine, and The Library of Congress.

In Cooperation with: Columbia Univ., George Washington Univ.,
Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity,
The Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore County, and The Univ. of Texas at Austin.

Advance Program - as of 2/21/97

Wednesday, May 7, 1997

9:00 a.m. Keynote 1: Robert Harriss, Director of Science Division, NASA
``Mission to Planet Earth,'' Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University

10:15 a.m. Forum Discussion 1: Very Large Digital Libraries
Chair: Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1:15 p.m. Keynote 2 : Peter House, Smithsonian Institution
Chair: Burt Edelson, George Washington University

2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 1: Images in Digital Libraries
Chair: Terry Smith

4:00 p.m. Forum Discussion 2: Digital Libraries in Europe
Chair: Rudolf Bayer, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany

Thursday, May 8, 1997

9:00 a.m. Keynote 3: Jay Sanders, M.D., President and CEO
Global Telecommunications Group, and American Telemedicine Association
"Future Health," Chair: Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine

10:15 to 12:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 2: Digital Library Projects
Chair: Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

1:15 p.m. Keynote 4: Bruce Lehman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
"Intellectual Property in the Digital Age," Chair: Milton Halem, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Contributed Papers, Session 3: Technology for Digital
Libraries, Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Darmstady, Germany

4:00 Forum Discussion 3: Content for the Digital Library:
What the Professional Societies Are Doing, Chair: Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford
University

7:00 Banquet Invited Speaker: Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for "Communications and Information"

Friday, May 9, 1997

9:00 Keynote 5: Deanna Marcum, President, Research Library Associaton
and National Digital Library Federation
"The Current Agenda and Further Directions of the National Digital Library
Federation," Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University

10:15 Forum Discussion 4: Digital Libraries, Electronic Commerce, and Law
Chair: Judith Klavans, Columbia University

11:15 Forum Discussion 5: Making the Internet Safe for Electronic Commerce
Chair: Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore

12:45 Forum Wrap-up Discussion
Chair: Alfred Aho, Columbia University.

1:00 Adjourn

Any questions can be directed to Georgia Flanagan - georgia@cesdis.usra.edu.

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