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A1: Multimedia

• VRML2.0/Moving Worlds: Adding Behaviors and Multiuser to VRML
  Mitra, Yasuaki Honda, Kouichi Matsuda, Gavin Bell, Chris Marrin, Chee Yu
• Interfacing DAVIC with the Internet to Implement a Real-Time Information Infrastructure
  Hiroyuki Yamada, Tsuyoshi Hanamura, Takao Kasahara, Shingo Ueda, Harutaka Fukutome, Hiroshi Fujiwara
• Delivering Music Notation over the Internet: Syntax, Parser, Viewer, and GUI Input System
  Kartik Narayan, Leong Yong, Peter Chiam Yih Wei

A2: Resource Description

• The Future of Search on the Internet
  Chris Weider
• A Metalanguage for Describing Internet Resources Using the Dublin Core Element Set
  Jean Godby, Eric Miller
• An Information Communication Assistance System
  Louis-Claude Paquin
• The Authors Catalogue Their Documents for a Light Web Indexing
  Davide Musella, Marco Padula
• Designing Virtual Social Memory Organizers: Online and Offline Perspectives for Historical Earthquake Data Organization and Dissemination
  G. Rubbia Rinaldi, P. Albini, M. Padula

A3: Health

• Cyberspace Hospital
  K. C. Lun, E. Loke, Y. N. Lee, T. W. Tan, F. K. Chan
• SatelLife: Pioneering the Path for Electronic Communication and Health Information in the Developing World
  John Mullaney
• InterMed: An Internet-Based Medical Collaboratory
  Edward H. Shortliffe, Octo Barnett, James Cimino, Robert A. Greenes, Vimla L. Patel

A4: URL: Location and Caching

• Introduction to Persistent Uniform Resource Locators
  Erik Jul, Jon Fausey
• Intelligent Agents and the Internet Information Infrastructure
  Leslie L. Daigle, Sima Newell
• A Smart Internet Caching System
  Gihan V. Dias, Graham Cope, Ravi Wijayaratne.

A5: Multilanguage Support

• Multilanguage and Multicharset Web Server
  Konstantin V. Chuguev
• Multiple Language Support over the World Wide Web
  Leong Kok Yong, Tan Tin Wee, Naa Govindasamy, Lee Teck Chee
• Languages on the Internet
  Jean Bourbonnais, François Yergeau

A6: Mobile Computing Standards

• The Design and Implementation of the Geographical Location Information System
  Yasuhito Watanabe, Atsushi Shionozaki, Fumio Teraoka, Jun Murai
• Communication Method with Data Compression and Encryption for Mobile Computing Environment
  Yasuhiro Takahashi, Susumu Matsui, Yukio Nakata, Takeshi Kondo
• Middleware for a New Generation of Mobile Networks: The ACTS OnTheMove Project
  Hans-Georg Baumgarten, Lothar Borrmann,Torsten Köhler, Stephen Pink, Gerard Lacoste, Frank Reichert

A7: Collaboration and Organization

• Design of Internet-Based News Delivery Systems and Its Impact on Society
  Yuri Quintana
• The Human VOICE: Computer Conferencing Systems for Global and Organizational Consensus-Building
  Gregory Searle

B1: Electronic Payment

• Possible Economic Consequences of Digital Cash
  Tatsuo Tanaka

B2: The Internet Within Business Organizations

• Internet: Information Revolution in a Fortune 1000 Company
  Sterling Yee, Philip Mow
• The WWW Immersion Process of a Big Corporation: The CFE Case
  Graciela Valencia, Horacio González-Vélez, Juan-Carlos Belair
• Intranets: Internet Technologies Deployed Behind the Firewall for Corporate Productivity
  Lee Levitt
• Alignment: How to Do Business on the Internet
  Margaret Logan, Robert K. Logan

B3: The Internet and the Mass Media

• Electronic Newspapers and Their Impacts on the Newspaper Industry in Taiwan
  Chung-Chuan Yang
• Multimedia Broadcasting and the Internet
  Richard V. Ducey
• Canadian Review of Materials: A Periodical's Transition
  Duncan Thornton, Peter Tittenberger
• Rights Management Through Enhanced Attribution
  John S. Erickson

B4: Developing Business Communities

• The Scottish Internet Business Association as a Virtual Trade Body
  Glen Collie, Gordon Howell
• Using the Internet to Amplify and Support Microenterprise Development
  Amy Borgstrom, June Holley
• Internet Competitive Advantage and the Global Economy
  Puneet Kapur
• A New Vision of Community and Economic Development: A Multidimensional Convergence of Government, Business, and the Social Sectors with the Internet
  Stan Skrzeszewski, Maureen Cubberley

B5: Sales and Marketing

• Using the Internet to Build Customer Relationships: Case Study of Virtual Businesses in Taiwan
  Chung-Chuan Yang
• Daiichi/AT&T Strategic Internet Business
  Yoshitaka Senoo, Tommy Matsumoto, Jiro Mase
• The Strategic Impact of the Internet in a Given Industry
  Javier Solá
• Providing a Mass-Market Internet Service: Challenges and Solutions
  Tom Manley

C1: The Internet in the Classroom: Questions and Perspectives

• Internet Education: Reform or False Panacea?
  Sherwood A. Dowling
• Telecommunications in Our Classroom: Boondoggle or a Powerful Teaching Tool?
  Boris Berenfeld
• Is Equal Computer Time Fair for Girls? Potential Internet Inequities
  Corina Koch, Rena Upitis
• Evaluating the Value and Effectiveness of Internet-Based Learning
  Yuri Quintana

C2: Classroom Access to the Net: Who Will Build It?

• From Nothing to the Net: Experiences of an Inner City School
  Fay Hartland
• Who Will Build the Global Schoolhouse?
  David A. Thomas
• Educational Networking Challenges
  Carol Richardson

C3: Learning Diversity and Difference: Culture on the Net

• "How 2B dIFfeReNT: Helping Teens Cope": A Secondary School Web Project
  Stephen MacKinnon
• Virtual Language and Virtual Culture: The Next Best Thing to Being There
  Michael T. Dabrowski
• Cooperative Learning, Interaction, and Creation in a Networked Educational Environment: Organization and Access for Multiple-Cultural Users
  Christopher Zegers, M. Sam Cronk

C4: Changing Educational Paradigms

• Online Learning and Teaching in an Information-Rich Context
  Philippe Duchastel, Sylvie Turcotte
• Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners in Developing Courses for the Internet
  Linda Stilborne, Lindy Williams

C5: The Net as a New Teaching Medium

• Online Learning via Real-Time Discussion of Web-Based Case Materials
  Mable B. Kinzie, Valerie A. Larsen, Todd W. Kent
• Learning Through the Internet: Lessons from the GNA-VSNS Biocomputing Course
  Francisco M. De La Vega
• The World Wide Web as a New Learning Tool: A Longitudinal Study of Web-Assisted Instruction in Enhancing Teaching Effectiveness
  Chung-Chuan Yang
• Facilitation of the CMC Learning Collaboration in K-12 Education
  Mike Emerson, Larry Hunter

C6: Panel: National Initiatives and Experiences

• SchoolNet: A Catalyst for Transforming Education in Ghana
  William Anim Dankwa
• China Education and Research Network: A Continuous Report
  Xing Li, Jianping Wu, Youneng Liang
• The Internet as a Learning Tool: Planning Perspectives (the Singapore Experience)
  Jeremy Tan, Sam Wong
• TANet: Taiwan Academic Network
  S. S. Tseng, Lung-Sheng Su, En-Huei Chao
• Models of Grassroots Empowerment in Educational Telecommunications
  Doug Walker, Lisa McPhail, Duncan Bailey

C7: Students as Partners in the Learning Process

• Writing and Peer Tutoring Students Create an Interactive Syllabus
  Gail F. Wood, William J. Portilla
• The Moldy Oldies: Life Stories of Mathematicians by and for Kids
  Kathy Heller
• Assessing Course Assignments Submitted as Web Pages
  Robert S. McLean

C8: Panel: Partnership, Collaboration, and Cooperation

• How Two Universities Crossed the Border
  Lois Spargo, Barbara Kelsey
• Design, Realization, and Delivery of Pedagogical Events for Telelearning in a French Context
  Claude Ricciardi Rigault, Lauraine André, Jacques Guidon
• The Internet and Bilingual Bicultural Exchange: The Human Side of Multiculturalism and Technology
  Margie Spaeth
• Implementing a Math Course on the Internet: A Live Experiment
  Martine Chomienne, Claude Potvin, Chantal d'Halluin, Bruno Vanhille

C9: Panel: Training and Professional Development

• Making the Most of WWW Technologies in Education, Training, and Outreach Programs
  Craig Bozzelli, Laura Ruffin
• Training the Internet Trainer: Toward a Systematic Approach
  John Makulowich
• Teaching Internet Skills to Information Professionals
  Paula Mochida, Ralf Neufang
• Training Teachers with Hypertext: Using HTML and Internet Tools as Didactic Resources
  Merce Gisbert, Jordi Adell, Robert Rallo
• Preparing Teachers for Effective and Wise Use of the Internet in Schools
  William J. Egnatoff

D1: Character Sets for Internet Services

• Europe and the International Character Sets: Strategy of Implementation and Development of the Networked Services
  Borka Jerman-Blazic
• IAB Character Sets Workshop Report
  Chris Weider
• Business Solutions in Multilingual Databases and Internet Services
  Michael G. McKenna

D2: Directory Services: The Internet Directory--Where the Heck Is It?

• Building a Working Directory Service with Whois++
  Patrik Falstrom
• The Internet Directory Is Not Primarily a Technology Issue
  D. W. Chadwick
• The Internet Directory: Where the Heck Is It?
  Tim Howes
• The Internet Directory Will Not Be Defined or Built by the Internet
  Tony Genovese

D3: Network Measurement and Metrics

• Backbone Performance Analysis Techniques
  Steve Corbató
• Diagnosing Internet Congestion with a Transport Layer Performance Tool
  Matt Mathis, Jamshid Mahdavi
• Toward a Framework for Defining Internet Performance Metrics
  Vern Paxson

D6: Integrated Services

• Design and Implementation of the Geographical Location Information System
  John Wroclawski
• Implementing Integrated Services in a Commercial Router
  John J. Krawczyk
• End-to-End QoS Support on a PC
  Raj Yavatkar

D7: Security and Cryptography Directions

• IP Security: Creating Secure Intranets over the Internet
  James P. Hughes
• A Socket-Based Key Management API (and Surrounding Infrastructure)
  Daniel L. McDonald, Bao G. Phan, Randall J. Atkinson

D8: IP and ATML Interworking Problems and Solutions

• IP Multicast over ATM
  Yakov Rekhter, Dino Farinacci
• The Internet Multimedia Conferencing Architecture
  Mark Handley, John Crowcroft
• "Classical" RSVP and IP over ATM
  Steven Berson

E1: Politics

• The Internet and the Transformation of the Political Process: MAPAM, a Case Study
  Amos Davidowitz
• Strategic Assessment: The Internet
  Charles Swett
• The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle
  Harry Cleaver

E2: Learning from Other Technologies

• Wired Words: Utopia, Revolution, and the History of Electronic Highways
  Mark Surman
• Public Access Television and Democratic Empowerment: Lessons for the Internet
  Hans Klein
• The Silencing of a Democratic Medium: Early Public Policy on Radio and the Regulation of the Internet
  John Stevenson

E3: Ideology and Critique

• The 1996 Internet Counterrevolution: Power, Information, and the Mass Media
  Chris Adams
• The Internet and the Ideology of Information Technology
  William F. Birdsall
• Supporting or Subverting the Public Interest: A Critical Look at the Agenda to Connect All Schools, Hospitals, and Libraries to the Information Highway
  Marita Moll
• Thinking Cyber-Subjectivity: Ideology and the Subject
  Erik Chia-yi Lee

E4: Global Transformation

• International Labor Communication by Computer: The Fifth International?
  Peter Waterman
• The Internet and a New Model of Global Social Revolution
  Steven Dorsey

E5: Communities and Networks

• Rhetoric and Reality in Canadian Community Networking
  Garth Graham, Leslie Regan Shade
• Effect of Information Technology Innovations on Outer Metropolitan Regions
  Roger R. Stough
• Extending Internet Access to Rural Areas and Small Communities in the Upper Midwestern United States
  John Clement, Paul Holbrook, Mike Staman

E6: Empowerment

• The Internet: What It Can and Can't Do for Activists
  Larry Lamar Yates
• The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The Usenet News Collective--The Man-Computer News Symbiosis
  Michael Hauben
• The Internet as a Liberating Technology: The Use of the Internet Among Gay Communities in Taiwan
  Chung-Chuan Yang
• Virtual Resistance: A Preliminary Analysis of the Struggle Against Racism via the Internet
  Colin A. Beckles

E7: Panel: Advocacy for Networks

• The InterMed Network: Changing Cultural Patterns with a Large-Scale Cooperative Internet Network in the Mediterranean
  Leandro Navarro, Gerard Rodríguez, Artur Serra
• The Internet and the Social Impact of Local Media
  Luc Sala
• Sharing Integrated Computer Communications Among Nonprofit Organizations: The Case of Ontario's Social Development Network
  Simon Mielniczuk, Andrew Clement
• Organizing Advocacy for Network Services in Maine: Political Background for a Successful Initiative
  Paul C. Schroeder

E8: Identities

• Ethnicity and the Internet in a Global Society
  Nils Zurawski
• Middle East Diasporas on the Internet
  Jon W. Anderson
• The Russian Orthodox Web Page: A Case Study in New Partnerships
  John F. Crow, John C. Patton

E9: Democratic Processes

• History of the Minnesota Electronic Democracy Project
  G Scott Aikens
• A Sidewalk Network on the Data Superhighway: Neighborhood Telephone
  Roland Alton-Scheidl
• Communication Compacts: The Role of Computer-Mediated Communication and Information Technologies (COMCITs) in the Design and Implementation of Development Programs in Central America
  Pual Fervoy, Irene Chaverri, Nora Galeano, Stephen Cox, Fundación Acceso
• Accountability Modeling and Online Policy Development in the Australian Public Service Context
  Karin Geiselhart

E10: Social Progress, Social Control

• Transgressions: Identity in the Service of Democracy
  Lincoln Ellis, Peter Schmuhl
• Evaluating the Internet: A Social Progress Matrix
  Jeremy J. Shapiro, Shelley K. Hughes
• The Third Reticulum: Internet and Developing Countries
  Munawar Anees

F2: Ensuring Internet Access

• What Do We Mean By "Universal Access?": Social Perspectives in a Canadian Context
  Andrew Clement, Leslie Regan Shade
• Nonprofit Applications of the Information Highways: Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Policies
  Marie d'Udekem-Gevers, Claire Lobet-Maris
• Toward an Internet Census for Developing Nations
  Larry Press, Luis Rodríguez,

F4: Internet Content: Rights and Responsibilities

• Not-for-Profit Service Organizations and Economic Viability on the Internet
  Joseph Janes
• Trademarks on the Internet: Who's in Charge?
  David W. Maher
• Domain Names and Trademarks: At the Intersection
  Jessie N. Marshall

G1: Bandwidth, Obstacles to Expansion

• Low Earth Orbiting Satellites and Internet-Based Messaging Services
  Gary L. Garriott
• The Internet: Access Avenue for Videoconferencing
  Ramiro Calvo, Venilde Jeronimo
• The Teledesic Network: Using Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites to Provide Broadband, Wireless, Real-Time Internet Access Worldwide
  Daniel Kohn
• Securing Radio Spectrum for Wireless Internet Access
  Steve Cisler

G3: Multicultural and Physical Access Barriers

• The Linguistic Implications of Standardization of Information Technologies
  Stéphane Chaudiron, Marcel Cloutier
• Creating and Maintaining Nation-to-Nation Community Gateway Services on the WWW: The Japan Window Project
  Burton H. Lee, Yasuhisa Sakamoto, Atsuhiro Goto, Ayako Yamazaki, Greg Harris
• Internet for the Disabled Community: The Singapore Experience
  Tan Tin Wee, Ron Chandran-Dudley, Anne Quek, Tan Tai Ming, Lim Fung, Lim Kin Chew, Poh Yew Tiong, Maynard Kang, Eugene Soh, Derek Kiong
• Exploring Beneath the Surface: Web-Based, High-Speed Educational Networking Activities from Project Rivers
  Nancy Parsons Heath, Gilbert Bennett

G4: Community Networking

• HealthNet Community Access Pilot
  Rebekah Jamieson
• Civic Networks? Why Should Governments Bother with Them?
  Paul Baker
• Sustainable Community Development Networks: Strategic Community-Based Models for Multisector Networks in the North and South
  Gregory Searle
• Networking for All Victorians: Public Librarians Are Driving the Highway
  Christine Mackenzie

G5: Economic Viability

• Expanding Internet Access in Bulgaria: The Role of Commercial IP Providers in Connecting Bulgarian Universities to the Internet
  Volin Karagiozov
• Systematization of the Peruvian Scientific Network Experience
  José Soriano
• From Access to Service: How to Launch an Internet Service
  Mathew Lodge, Amanda Jobbins
• Can This Connectivity Project Succeed? Predicting and Assessing Success in Internet Implementations in Developing Countries
  Stephen Ruth, Robert Schware

G6: Expansion Strategies: Lessons from East and South

• FREEnet: Russian Association of Academic and Research Regional Networks
  A. S. Mendkovich, A. I. Rusakov
• Consolidation of the Internet Backbone in Central America
  Guy de Téramond
• Development of the Internet in Ghana
  William Tevie, Nii Narku Quaynor, Andrew Bulley

G7: Political Panel

• Panel on the Impact of the Internet on the Public Sector
  Gilles Trempe
• Information Technology and Government: The Need for New Leadership
  Jerry Mechling
• Electronic Commerce and Government
  André Vallerand

H1: Internet Connectivity Experiences

• Internet Development in Asia
  Peng Hwa Ang, Chee Meng Loh
• Prospects for the Development of the Internet in Russia
  Alexandre Kouznetsov, Dmitri Bourtsev
• Internet eXchange for Local Traffic: Hong Kong's Experience
  Che-Hoo Cheng

H2: Crises and the Internet

• Forethought and Hindsight: Experiences from the First Internet Disaster Drill
  Yoichi Shinoda, Tomomitsu Baba, Nobuhiko Tada, Akira Kato, Jun Murai
• Digital Communication via the Internet in a War Zone: Conflict Resolution and the Internet
  Eric Bachman
• The Spirit of the Internet in the Balkans and the Enactment of the Macedonian Academic and Research Network
  Barton Thurber, Iskra Djonova-Popova

H3: Society Catching up with the Technology

• Privacy: Building Block or Barrier on the Internet?
  Elizabeth A Williams
• Rapid Deployment of the Internet by the Singapore Government
  Ernie Quah Cheng Hai
• Society Catching Up with the Technology: Assessing the Impact of Information and Telecommunications on Policy Formulation
  Fay Durrant

H4: New Learning Environments

• Nutrition Online: An Internet-Based Distance Learning Course
  Morton M. Sternheim, Helen R. Sternheim, Nancy Cohen, Stella Volpe, Mary Jane Laus, Patsy Beffa-Negrini
• Website as Worksite: Reordering and Restructuring Social Relationships Through the Information Technology Management (ITM) Program
  John Willinsky, Vivian Forssman
• Making Web Space for Young Adults: Issues and Process a Case Study of the Internet Public Library Teen Division
  Samantha Bailey, Sara Ryan
• Internet Strategies for Empowering Indigenous Communities in Teaching and Learning
  Ron Aust, Brian Newberry, Paul Resta

H5: Moving from Old to New

• Belleville in the Web
  Bob Gentile, Sue Zentner, Bob Koechley
• Internet Health Services: A Case Study
  Pierre Girardin, Maryse Rivard, Yves Bougault, Jean-François Garneau
• Tampines WebTown: A Community Pilot Project
  Irene Ng, Quah Cheng Hai, Allan Tan, Rudi Wong, Tan Tin Wee

H6: Creating an Internet Presence

• A Major Art Resource on the World Wide Web: Putting the Roland Collection Resource Guide Online
  Sheena Bassett, Francis Cave, David Jones, Roberto Minio, Mick Neary
• Students' Extracurricular IT Activities: Inform@Puce
  Fabián A. Rodríguez, Elke C. Meyer
• "Sí, Spain": A Case Study for Development and Diplomacy
  José Luis Pardos

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