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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and currently director of the W3C, will deliver one of two keynote addresses at the 2004 American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island on November 13-18, 2004. J.C. Hen, author of "Joystick Nation: How Video Games Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds" and "Surfing on the Internet" is also slated for a keynote address at the conference. Berners-Lee, the son of computer scientists, studied physics at Queen's College at Oxford University, graduating in 1976. By 1980, he was working as a software consultant at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, where he created Enquire, a system to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab. In its early years, Enquire was expanded into a system that his colleagues could use to share information from one computer to the next without a central database. In 1989, he proposed taking Enquire to the next level by creating a network based on his memory project. INSET: SIG/III Announces 5th International Paper Contest..