NORDUnet '95 - Programme Schedule

Most presentations with abstracts.

Tuesday 14 November

Plenary sessions

13:00 - 14:30 Opening session

• Welcome
  Ole Carsten Pedersen (UNI-C)
  
  
• The impact on Society by the Information Technology
  Torben Kornbech Rasmussen (Ministry of Education)
  
  
• DENet upgrades to a 34 Mbps research network, (abstract )
  Ole Carsten Pedersen (UNI-C))
  
  
• Nordic telecom operators' view on high speed networking in Europe
  Stefan Westman (Telia), Olle Wallner (Tele2), Eric Malmström (Transpac Scandinavia) :
  
  
• High speed networking in Europe - the Ten-34 project (abstract )
  David Hartley (UKERNA)
  
  

Coffee break

15:00 - 16:30 Nordic update

• Progress of Nordic infra structure (abstract )
  Peter Villemoes (NORDUnet)
  
  
• Network proliferation in West Nordic countries
  Faroe Islands (abstract ), Full paper
  Iceland(abstract )
  Petur Zachariassen (Færoyar University)
  
  
• Support for a Nordic networked information infrastructure: NORDINFO's three new centres of excellence
  Lennart Thörnquist (NORDINFO)
  
  

17:30 - 19:00 Get-together

Wednesday 15 November

Track 1: Applications

Publishing, Info Servers and Libraries

9:00 - 10:30 Scientific publishing on the net - Practice and perspectives

• Free Scientific/Scholarly Journals and Preprint/Reprint Archives on the Net: Costs and Cost Recovery on the Page-Charge Model (abstract)
  Stevan Harnad (Univ. of Southampton)
  
  
• Network aspects of CAPCAS and Elsevier Electronic Subscriptions (abstract)
  Chris C. P. Kluiters (Elsevier Science)
  
  
• Mediator - News creation and distribution via broadband network (abstract)
  Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (UNI-C)
  

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 Libraries on the net - Practice and perspectives

• Public libraries enter the net - New community information tasks, new social responsibilities (abstract)
  Søren Christian Hansen (Silkeborg Bibliotek)
  
  
• Research libraries - Virtual libraries, digital information: the re-engeneering of the super tankers (abstract)
  Terje Johnsen (Univ. Lib., Oslo Univ.)
  
  
• Interfacing libraries to the net - Achievements and standards (abstract), Presentation, Slides
  Ole Husby (BIBSYS, Trondheim)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Educational uses of Internet

• Distance education and distributed education using real-time multimedia over the Internet - three examples:
  Geir Pedersen (Oslo University)
  
  
• Odin - Nordic school children on the electronic highway (abstract)
  Erla Sigurðardóttir (Nordisk Ministerråd)
  
  
• Elementary schools on the net:
  Internet Experiences at the Bernadotte School (abstract)
  Clare Macdonald (Bernadotteskolen)

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Multimedia trends

• HTML: Stop tagging - Start styling! (abstract )
  Håkon W. Lie (W3 Consortium, INRIA)
  
  
• Virtual reality on the net - VRML and browsers:
  Kevin Connors (Silicon Graphics Inc.)
  
  
• Hot Java client (abstract), Presentation
  Peter Parnes (University of Luleå)
  
  

19:30 - 24:00 : Conference Dinner

Wednesday 15 November

Track 2: Technology

9:00 - 12:30: New services: ATM, IP next generation, M-bone

• FUNET's Experience with ATM (abstract)
  Juha Heinänen (FUNET)
  
  
• Experience from trying to use ATM as a WAN backbone (abstract)
  Sven Tafvelin (Chalmers Technical University)
  
  
• IP/ATM United States experiences
  Peter Ford (MCI)
  
  

Coffee break

• IPng Overview and Status:
  Bob Hinden (Ipsilon Networks, Inc.)
  
  
• M-bone in practise for managers ( abstract )
  Håvard Eidnes (SINTEF RUNIT)
  
  
• European networking infrastructure and organizations ( abstract)
  Frode Greisen (UNI-C)
  

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:30 Security aspects - Servers and Internet applications

• Introduction to network security: An overview (abstract), Slides of presentation
  Adam Cain (NCSA)
  
  
• Security toolbox and firewalls (abstract)
  Martin Bech (UNI-C)
  
  
• CERT (abstract)
  Jørgen Bo Madsen (UNI-C)
  
  

Coffee break

• Secure E-mail (abstract), Presentation
  Harald T. Alvestrand (UNINETT)
  
  
• WWW security: Authentication, Privacy and Digital Payment: (abstract), Slides of presentation
  Adam Cain (NCSA)
  
  
• Discussion
  Panel of security speakers
  
  

19:30 - 24:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday 16 November

Track 1: Applications

9:00 - 10:30 Commercial aspects - copyright, digital money

• Copyright issues
  Olav Torvund (Faculty of law, Oslo University)
  
  
• Payment systems in Cyberspace (abstract)
  Allan F. Ottosen (PBS A/S)
  
  
• Paying for information in practise (abstract )
  Mogens Sandfær (Danish Technical Knowledge Center)
  
  

Coffee break

Thursday 16 November

Track 2: Technology

9:00 - 10:30 Network plans in USA and Europe

• Internet as a collaborative environment - the Linux case: (abstract)
  Kai Harrekilde-Petersen (TERMA Elektronik A/S)
  
  
• U.S. - Nordic Connectivity Emerging through the "Terrible Teens"? (abstract)
  Steven N. Goldstein (International networking, NFS, USA)
  
  
• International high speed public IP networking: (abstract)
  Peter Löthberg (Stupi AB)
  
  

Coffee break

Closing session - plenary session

11:00 - 12:30 Internet information coordination

• The Integrated Information Architecture Plan of the IETF(abstract)
  Joyce Reynolds (Univ. of Southern Cal.)
  
  
• Research and education - Network plan for Denmark:
  Allan Jensen (Ministry of education)
  
  
• History and Challenges of Global Internet Infrastructure (abstract and slides)
  Vint Cerf (MCI Data Services Div., USA)
  
  
• NORDUnet '97
  Ole Carsten Pedersen (UNI-C)

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