CONFERENCE REPORTS
SITES
The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
Coverage of the 2002 O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference in Tucson, Arizona; with weblogs, and coverage of Lincoln Stein's and Ewan Birney's keynotes.
PsyberSpace.NET Blogger
A blog ("weblog") providing links to, and searches of, articles and sites dealing with user interface and information architecture issues.
ARTICLES
A Summary of the W3C Web Services Workshop
A report from the W3C's discussion of developing standards for distributed web services. (4/26/2001 at IBM)
Advertising: An Agency Chairman Gives a Stern Assessment of the Dot-Com Era
Attendees at the annual management conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies were upbeat about Internet advertising, despite recent dot-com problems; they also considered whether ad agencies should shoulder blame for dot-com failures. (4/20/2001 at The New York Times)
The Biggest Lie I Heard at CES
A conference report from the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show. Intel, Microsoft, and Palm push their products as the center of future technology; MP3 players, personal TV recorders, Web appliances, wireless PDAs, and home gateways abound. (1/8/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Cash Bar and Grilled Cheese: SXSW Interactive 2001
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in 2001 was less glamorous, and less money-focused, than the 2000 conference; but still full of good high-end panels and worthwhile personal interaction. (4/6/2001 at Web Review)
Components in Tag Land
A report from the XML DevCon Spring 2001 conference, focusing on the use of component in web services. (4/26/2001 at IBM)
Consumer Electronics - CES
Reports on new consumer technology unveiled at the CES 2001 conference. Portable CD burners, wristwatches that receive email, and more. (1/9/2001 at CNET.com)
Cracks Happen; Protect Thyself
Speakers and attendees at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, acknowledging that determined hackers can break almost any system, discussed getting end-users to stop using pirated software and running unsafe applications. (4/11/2001 at Wired News)
Examining the Music Business
At a 2-day conference presented by the Future of Music Coalition, musicians and industry executives met and talked about how the Internet is changing things, for better and worse. (1/16/2001 at The New York Times)
Going to Extremes
A report from GCA's Extreme Markup Languages 2000 conference, concentrating on discussions about Topic Maps and RDF. (9/13/2000 at XML.com)
Growing Ideas at XML 2001
A look at some of the products on display at XML 2001: an XML editor from Topologi, an open-source Topic Map toolkit from GooseWorks, Word-to-XML converters, and technology from Curl. (12/19/2001 at XML.com)
Hackers in Suits? Gadzooks!
DefCon, "the annual computer underground party for hackers," is becoming more corporate: security guards check for badges, underage drinking is now discouraged, and there are daily press conferences; some attendees are protesting the changes. (7/14/2001 at Wired News)
Hail to Privacy at Confab
Due to poor weather conditions, a poor hotel, and poor management, th 2001 Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference started poorly; but, though the tutorials did not go as planned, the first day of the conference was still useful. (3/7/2001 at Wired News)
I-World Gets Down to E-Biz
The Los Angeles Internet World tradeshow was "mature" - there were fewer vendors than last year, but also fewer people in T-shirts and jeans. (3/16/2001 at Wired News)
Java's Hot, and Going Strong
20,000 people attended the JavaOne conference in San Francisco in June, 2001 - suggesting that despite the lack of press Java programming gets these days, the community is still growing. (6/5/2001 at Wired News)
Knowledge Technologies 2001: Conference Diary
A brief report from the first day of GCA's Knowledge Technologies 2001 conference, including information from artificial intelligence company Cycorp, lunchtime arguments, and thoughts on RDF. (3/7/2001 at XML.com)
Macworld 2001: Apple's Challenge
News and product reviews from the Macworld 2001 conference. Apple releases a Titanium PowerBook G4, uses faster PowerPC chips, and offers DVD-writing drives. (1/11/2001 at News.com)
Move Over, Gutenberg. Please.
Attendees at the Electronic Book 2000 conference played with new ebook hardware and talked about what's needed to make the electronic book industry take off. (9/27/2000 at The Washington Post)
New Devices Augur Decent Mobile User Experience
A report from the DEMOmobile 2000 conference, focusing on the usability of various handheld devices (wireless phones and PDAs). (9/17/2000 at UseIt)
Notes on the eCustomerExperience Conference
Summaries of, and reactions to, sessions at Good Experience's eCustomerExperience conference. (10/19/2000 at Good Experience)
Peer to Peer was Here
A recap of the O'Reilly P2P Conference. (2/20/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Peering Is Your Future
A recap of the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference: Clay Shirky's keynote, P2P security, and where it's all going. (3/5/2001 at builder.com)
The Relentless March of Computer Abstraction
A recap of major themes at XML DevCon London 2001, focusing on abstraction and metadata. (2/23/2001 at O'Reilly and Associates)
Security: 3 Confabs' Killer App
Three tech conferences held simultaneously in the Javitz Convention Center in New York - Internet World Wireless East, Pocket PC, and Seybold Seminars - focused a great deal of time on security and digital rights management. (2/21/2002 at Wired News)
Tech Future Is Still Bright at ACM Conference
At the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) conference "ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace," computer scientists and engineers focused on how technology can make life better decades from now, rather than the money tech companies are losing on the stock market (3/13/2001 at Siliconvalley.com)
Why Copyright Laws Hurt Culture
At the Darklight Digital Film Festival, Lawrence Lessig and John Perry Barlow warned attendees that they are in danger of losing their cultural heritage to the power of copyright-holding corporations. (11/27/2001 at Wired News)
XSLT UK 2001 Report
A report from the XSLT UK 2001 conference, dealing with design patterns, DocBook, databases, and more. (4/25/2001 at XML.com)
YAPC 2000: A Pictorial Review
Comments and pictures from Yet Another Perl Conference 2000. (9/15/2000 at WebReference.com)
YAPC::Europe -- A Whirlwind Weekend in London
A report from the Yet Another Perl Conference event held in London. (10/19/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
YAPC::Europe::London
A report from the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in London. (10/3/2000 at Perl.com)
You Can Hide From Prying Eyes
Researchers at the Information Hiding Workshop talked about the promise and perils of anonymous email, Java and JavaScript for compromising users' identities, and the Strong Eternity Service, an anonymous file-storage system. (4/27/2001 at Wired News)
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