Subject: NISO Annual Meeting announcement
fOrwarded Message 07/25/91 12:24 From BR.WCC "Walt Crawford": NISO Annual Meeting: Monday, September 23, 1991 "Controversies of the Information Age--Lessons for Standards Makers" is the theme for this year's NISO Annual Meeting, Monday, September 23, 1991, at the Harvard Club in Boston, Massachusetts. The program will look at various challenges facing standards development today: the economy, the environment and security. On Sunday afternoon NISO has arranged for a special guided tour of Boston, followed by "Standards 101," an introductory workshop on standards development and NISO in particular. A cash bar reception will follow. Linda Garcia (Project Director and Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress) will keynote, exploring the economic justification for standards in terms of today's shift to a global economy and the mechanization and networking of technologies. Dr. Michael Spring (U. Pittsburgh) will react to Ms. Garcia's presentation and project on what we can expect in standards development over the next ten years. Michael Pekich (Houghton Mifflin) and Jobe B. Morrison (Miami Mill) will speak on "Paper Permanence and the Environment," and explore the questions of striking a comfortable balance between preserving our written heritage and being environmentally responsible. Dr. David C. Clark (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science) will address the challenges of computer security. Dr. Clark recently chaired a study committee of the National Academy of Sciences on computer and communication security. Registration fee is $100 for NISO members, $150 otherwise. Contact the NISO office via Bitnet (NISO@NBSENH) -- or by phone (301) 975-2814 or fax (301) 869-8071 -- for a copy of the brochure and registration form. (Posted on behalf of NISO.) *** Conservation DistList Instance 5:13 Distributed: Sunday, August 4, 1991 Message Id: cdl-5-13-001 ***Received on Wednesday, 31 July, 1991