IP: 1st Annual Conference on Leveraging Cyberspace

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Sounds like a good conference. I am SHOCKED that only paper registration is
available  -- no leveraging of cyberspace djf (see you all there)




Dear IPers:


Sign up now for the 1st Annual Conference on Leveraging Cyberspace!


Sponsored by the White House National Economic Council, NIST, and
Xerox PARC.


When:  October 8-9, 1996


Where:  XEROX PARC, Palo Alto


Why:


The Internet is becoming a distributed, massively parallel supercomputer
that connects people, processors, information repositories, and
mobile code.  People with shared interests are using the Internet
to solve problems, accomplish tasks, and create resources that would be well
beyond the reach of any one person or organization.  The Internet is being used
to create virtual libraries, factor large numbers, organize massive volunteer
efforts, and filter information in a collaborative fashion.  The ability to
leverage the efforts of large numbers of networked users has important
economic social and political consequences.  This conference is designed to 
explore this phenomenon from both a technical and social science perspective.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:


=  Technologies that can support this kind of wide-area collaboration
-  Case studies of successful and unsuccessful efforts to leverage the
contributions of many networked users
-  Implications for business strategies
-  Proposals for "leveraging cyberspace"


To sign up, and for more information, check out:
http://nii.nist.gov/cyber/cyber_conf.html


A paper I wrote on "leveraging cyberspace" is at
http://nii.nist.gov/cyber/cyber.html


Tom Kalil
White House National Economic Council
kalil_t () a1 eop gov