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Two plenary sessions featuring big names in the digital world will highlight a conference program focusing on Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts, at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, from November 12-17, in Providence, Rhode Island. The first of the two plenary sessions is Sunday, November 14, when J.C. Hen, principal of Joystick Nation and a noted journalist and lecturer, will discuss the application of complex systems and game design to products, services and learning systems. The second plenary session at the 2004 Annual Meeting features keynoter Tim Berners-Lee, widely regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee currently serves as director of the World Wide Web Consortium. While the two general sessions provide a great deal of sizzle and substance to the meeting, the real meat and potatoes is contained in the six dozen or so contributed paper and panel sessions covering virtually every aspect of information science. These sessions have been sorted into seven major tracks: disciplinary issues, digital libraries, user behavior, system design. information organization, knowledge management and use, and resources and services.

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..