Belated Happy New Year! And welcome to Internetworking 3.1!
This is our first issue in the new year. Although I am tempted to say the new millenium, I know that technically that's not the case. We still need to wait for one more year. And that's good because celebration of the new millenium shouldn't be done with concerns about electricity, water, computers, our future and the rest of the world. Let's hope that we'll celebrate the coming of the year 2001 with hopes and cheer... and resolutions to attend the hf/Web conference in France.
But I am not suggesting that we forget this year's conference in Austin, Texas sponsored by SBC and IBM. It's on June 19, 2000 and it's time to register... and following our tradition, it's FREE! Thanks to Optavia Corporation, we will also be offering tutorials on June 20 and 21, 2000. We have both half-day and full-day tutorial sessions. The topics include information architecture, Web accessibility, design of e-commerce sites, and internationalization and localization issues in design of global Web sites. They are reasonably priced and I'd encourage you to take advantage of them.
Also, Judy Cantor wanted me to let you all know that she was very pleased to confirm that we will have 2 conferences in 2001. We expect a conference in the summer in Wisconsin to be sponsored by Optavia Corp., and a sister conference in May at the University of Nice. Both Judy and I would like to extend a special thanks to Marco Botta for all of his efforts in coordinating our first international event! We would also like to thank Shawn Henry, Optavia Corp., for taking the lead in hosting the sister conference in the US. Thank you both!
Thanks to Gavin Lew, we have an impressive program at the HFES/IEA Conference in San Diego, California, USA in July this year. Hope to see you there, too!
We have an interesting set of submissions in this issue. Peter Pirolli questions psychological validity of the Max model used by WebCriteria to predict user's behavior. And we have a response from Chris Tilt, CTO, WebCriteria about the descriptive power of Max and the utility of approximations of existing models (GOMS in this case) for scientific and engineering purposes.
Then we have some useful advice from our Dear Aeby on designing accessible Web sites using tables and links to resources on the applicability of the ADA to the Internet sites.
We get a little more technical then with workshops on Session Tracking by Vijay Raghavendra and Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) by me. I have also compiled the reader responses I received in response to my last issue's workshop on Error Management.
Finally, we have two book reviews: Duncan Friend reviews Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig and Maya Venkatraman reviews Designing Web Usability - The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen.
Enjoy this issue and do continue to send in your articles, case studies, book reviews, workshops, and commentaries. And, feel free to send in your suggestions to me at pvora@mindspring.com or to Judy Cantor at jcantor@att.com.
I would also like to apologize to Bruce Walker, who reviewed two books for us both appearing in Internetworking 2.2: June, 1999: Cutting Edge Web Audio, by Ron Simpson and Audio On The Web: The Official IUMA Guide by Jeff Patterson and Ryan. They were incorrectly attributed to our book review editor Roger Tilson. Sorry, Bruce!
Hope to see you all in Austin!
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Pawan Vora
Chair, ITG
pvora@mindspring.com
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