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January 1995

4-5   HICS Conference
      Hawaii
      Dan Atkins
 
9     Apple at UM
      Wendy Lougee
 
17    George Furnas:  Bellcore at UM
      Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Karen Drabenstott, Amy Warner
 
18    Sheri Schultz:  Apple at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
23    Elsevier at UM
      Wendy Lougee
 
23    Digital Libraries '95
      Washington, DC
      Bill Birmingham, Elke Rundensteiner
 
25    Sheri Schultz:  Apple at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
25    Dianne Baker:  IBM and UM
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
25-26 Trip to California:  IBM Almaden meeting
      John Price-Wilkin
 
30    Nathaniel Borenstein, First Virtual at UM
      Mike Wellman, Bill Birmingham, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank
 
 

 

February 1995

1-2   ALISE Conference
      Philadelphia, PA
      Dan Atkins, speaker
 
14    Bob Neches, ARPA at UM
      Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Elliot Soloway, Mike Wellman
 
14    ARPA/NASA/NSF Site visit at UM
      UMDL Team
 
17    UMDL Training session for sites
      Gene Alloway
 
19    AAAS
      Bill Birmingham
 
21    Information Industry Association Conference
      The Cloisters, Sea Island, GA
      Dan Atkins
 

 

March 1995

2     Mellon Foundation:  Bill Bowen at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
7     Lance Mitchell, Focus Hope at UM
      Doug Orr
 
7     Academic Planning Group (Deans and Administrators) of the 
      University of Michigan at UM
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank, Laurie Crum, Lee Liming
 
8     Larry Masinter, Xerox PARC at UM
      Presentation:  Document Management, The Web, and Digital Libraries
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank, Bill Birmingham
 
9-10  Steve Cisler, Apple at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
15    AAAI Spring Symposium
      Mike Wellman
 
15    IBM Planning Session on Digital Libraries at UM
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin, Randy Frank, 
      Laurie Crum
 
16    Mellon Foundation:  Bill Bowen at UM
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee
 
17    Visitors from MCI at UM
      Randy Frnak
 
20    Visitors from Sinclair Community College, Ohio
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee
 
21    Visitors from Cranbrook Institute, Michigan
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum, Olivia Frost
 
21    UMDL Training session for sites
      Gene Alloway
 
24    FLICC/FEDLINK Forum
      Washington, DC
      Dan Atkins
 
28    Apple Executives at UM
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank
 
28    Hector Garcia-Molina and digital library team, Stanford University
      Mike Wellman
 
29    Charles Eisendrath:  Director, Michigan Journalism Fellows
      Dan Atkins
 
30    Larry Coppard, School of Social Work
      Dan Atkins
 
31    Suzanne Thorin:  Library of Congress at UM
      Presentation:  Digital Library Activities at the Library of Congress
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
31    Arthur Keller,Stanford at UM
      Presentation:  CommerceNet Smart Catalogs: Architecture and 
      Approach
      Elke Rundensteiner, Mike Wellman
 
 

 

April 1995

6     Visitors from Detroit Public Library, Ann Arbor Public Library, 
      Ypsilanti Public Library to UM
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
10-11 Spring 1995 CNI Task Force Meeting
      Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.
      Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee
 
14    Apple planning session at UM
      Wendy Lougee, Elliot Soloway
 
19    Perry Samson: Space Physics Research Lab at UM
      UMDL Operating Committee Team members
 
24-25 DLI All-project meeting at UIUC
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank, Karen Drabenstott, Joan Durrance, Amy 
      Warner, Elke Rundensteiner, Wendy Lougee, Doug Orr, John 
      Price-Wilkin, Laurie Crum, Bill Birmingham
 
25    UMDL Training session for sites
      Gene Alloway
 
26    Bristol Myers
      Corporate Headquarters, Pennsylvania
      Dan Atkins, speaker
 
27    Eugene Miya:  NASA at UM
      Randy Frank, Ken Alexander, Doug Orr, Greg Peters, Dan Kiskis, 
      Bill Birmingham, Mike Wellman, Wendy Lougee, Amy Warner, John 
      Price-Wilkin, Gene Alloway, Karen Drabenstott, Elliot Soloway
 
28    Marvin Weinberger:  Infonautics at UM
      Dan Atkins, Elliot Soloway, Mike Wellman, Wendy Lougee, 
      Randy Frank
 
28    Oskar Woerz, Austria at UM
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank
 
28    Ellen Poisson, New York Public Library at UM
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin, Gene Alloway, Terry Madden
 
 

 

May 1995

2     Dave Rodgers, Jim Sterken, Mike McEvoy:  ArborText at UM
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
3     Giorgio Valle, University of Milano, Italy at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
4-5   California:  Apple conference ("Ties that Bind")
      Dan Atkins
 
9     Benjamin Grosof, IBM T.J. Watson Research at UM
      Presentation:  Communications and Reasoning Smarts for Agents
 
10    IBM (Willy Chiu and technical team) at UM
      UMDL Team
 
11    Bob Jacobson:  The Chronicle for Higher Education at UM
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, Bill Birmingham, Randy Frank, Elliot 
      Soloway, Karen Drabenstott
 
15-17 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries 
      (ADL'95)
      McLean Hilton at Tysons Corner, VA
      Elke Rundensteiner, Anisoara Nica
 
16    Peter Bono, Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt at UM
      Dan Atkins, Kathy Willis, Bill Birmingham, Randy Frank, Karen Drabenstott
 
18-19 HPCC/IITA Digital Library Workshop
      Ramada Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA
      Randy Frank, Elke Rundensteiner
 
19    Canton Township Hall
      Dan Atkins, speaker
 
23    UMDL Training session for sites
      Gene Alloway
 
24-25 Trip to Stanford University
      Doug Orr, Bill Birmingham
 
25    Mr. Ho Nam Choi, Science Library, Korea Advanced Institute of Science
      and Technology
      Wendy Lougee
 
26    Dianne Baker:  IBM at UM
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
31    Arron Shutz, UM President's Office, UM Monograph
      Dan Atkins
 
 

 

June 1995

2     Engineering National Advisory Committee (NAC) at UM
      Randy Frank, Dan Atkins
 
6     Kaye Gapen:  The Morino Institute at UM
      Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Randy Frank
 
6     Mike Lesk:  Bellcore at UM
      Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee, Karen Drabenstott
 
6     Mellon Foundation:  Bill Bowen at UM
      Dan Atkins, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank
 
7     Lourdes Feria:  University of Colima
      Laurie Crum, Wendy Lougee
 
8     Visitors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
      Laurie Crum, Olivia Frost
 
8     The Morino Institute, Coalition for Networked Information, Mitre
      Focus group to identify standards to advance development of intelligent discovery 
      and retrieval  processes to find information that exists across a variety of 
      heterogeneous sources
      Washington, DC
      Dan Atkins
 
9     Ray Tacoma:  nCUBE
      Laurie Crum, Gene Alloway
 
9     Mary Schroer:  Michigan State Representative at UM
      Dan Atkins
 
12    Visitors from Ohiolink at UM
      Wendy Lougee, John Price-Wilkin
 
16    Marti Hearst and Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC
      Mike Wellman
 
21    Channel 2 television interview
      Dan Atkins
 
22-28 American Library Association
      Chicago, IL
      Dan Atkins, Bill, Birmingham, Joan Durrance, Amy Warner, Laurie Crum, 
      Olivia Frost
      Panel Session:  NSF/ARPA/NASA Funded Digital Library Projects:
      Research Designed to Create Tomorrow's Libraries
      Panel members:  Dan Atkins, Bill Birmingham, Joan Durrance Amy Warner
      Presentation:  Toward the Digital Library:  Academic Library Futures
      Speaker:  Dan Atkins
 
26    Benjamin Grosof and others, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
      Mike Wellman
 
 

 

July 1995

 
7     Dr. Herve Gallaire, Xerox (Europe)
      Dan Atkins, Kathy Willis
 
10    Paul DuCloy, INRIA Digitral Library Project Office and
      tour of new French National Library (France)
      Dan Atkins
 
11    Presentation to Elsevier senior editors and interaction with Elsevier
      electronic publishing projects (Netherlands)
      Dan Atkins
 
12    Prof Doctor Jose Encarnacao, House of Computer Graphics,
      Fraunhofer Institute (Germany)
      Dan Atkins, Kathy Willis
 
13    Dr. Erich Neuhold, Dr. Norbert Streitz and faculty, GMD-IPSI
      (Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute) (Germany)
      Dan Atkins, Kathy Willis
 
10-14 ARPA/CSTO Joint PI Meeting
      Marriott's Harbor Beach Resort, Fort Lauderdale, FL
      June 10, 1995:  Hotel reservations deadline
      Bill Birmingham, Doug Orr
 
14    Michael Moore:  University of Pittsburgh
      UMDL Team
 
24-25 Shigeo Sugimoto:  University of Library and Information Science
      Japan
      John Price-Wilkin, Randy Frank, Gene Alloway, Ken Alexander, Greg Peters, 
      Wendy Lougee, Laurie Crum, Amy Warner, Elke Rundensteiner
 
27    Suzanne Thorin:  Library of Congress
      Dan Atkins
 
27-28 Handle System Workshop
      CNRI, Reston, VA
      Fritz Freiheit, Dan Kiskis
 

 

August 1995

4     Dianne Baker:  IBM at UM
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
13-14 James Hollan and Ben Bederson
      University of New Mexico
      George Furnas
 
15    Bill Bowen, Mellon Foundation
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee
 
17    John Adler:  Harper Weekly at UM
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank
 
22-25 NSF-UMDL Teacher Training
      University of Michigan
      Gene Alloway, Raven Wallace, Kathleen Hamel
 
23    Steve Griffin: National Science Foundation
      UMDL Project team
 
23    John Christoffersson:  McGraw-Hill
      UMDL Project team
 
23-25 DIS '95:  Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems:
      Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques
      Ann Arbor, MI
      George Furnas
 

 

September 1995

 
2     Representations from ERCIM at Heraklion, Crete
      Kathy Willis
 
7-8   National Design Review Workshop
      Xerox Document University:  Leesburgh, VA
      (sponsored by Alexandria Digital Library)
      David Barber
 
8     Toni Hooper:  RMD, on Board of Director of Calcio Project
      South Africa
      Dan Atkins
 
11    Joe Riley, Pioneer High School
      Elliot Soloway
 
11    Bob Galardi, Principal, Pioneer High School
      Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
12    CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation--Big 10 Institutes)
      Presentations by:  Randy Frank, Bill Birmingham, Wendy Lougee
 
13    Karen Hunter, Roland Dietz:  Elsevier Science at UM
      NSF-UMDL Project Team
 
13    Dr. Boyd Rayword, University of New South Wales at UM
      Dan Atkins, Karen Drabenstott
 
18    Hector Garcia-Molina and project team:  Stanford University
      Dan Kiskis
 
18    Weather Underground presents:  Disaster in the Classroom
      A live interactive television show for K-12 students
      In Ann Arbor on Cable Channel 8
      Perry Samson
 
19-20 Workshop with European Commission and Scientists 
      National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, DC
      Dan Atkins
 
20    Visitors from the National Center for Science Information Systems
      (Japan)
      Dan Kiskis, Wendy Lougee, Mike Wellman, NSF-UMDL Operating Committee
 
21    Robert Kahn:  CNRI
      Presentation:  Merging Technology, Legal and Business Considerations in the
      Development of Digital Object Infrastructure
      UMDL Project Team
 
25-29 Information: A Factor of Success for Human Development
      Havana, Cuba
 
26-29 CNI
      Monterrey, CA
      Dan Atkins
 
 

 

October 1995

 
2     Digital Federation Meeting
      Washington, DC
      Dan Atkins
 
4     Visitors from Tilburg University
      (Netherlands)
      Wendy Lougee
 
6     Visitors from Danish Academic Libraries
      (Denmark)
      Laurie Crum, Karen Drabenstott, Amy Warner, Wendy Lougee
 
9-12  American Society of Information Specialists (ASIS)
      Converging Technologies:  Forging New Partnerships in Information
      Chicago Marriott Hotel, Chicago, IL
      Presentation:  Amy Warner, Karen Drabenstott
      Amy Warner, Karen Drabenstott Dan Atkins, Laurie Crum
 
16-17 Joerg Hakke, GMD
      (Germany)
      Olivia Frost, Elke Rundensteiner
 
17    Visitors from University of Oslo
      (Norway)
      Laurie Crum, Randy Frank, Wendy Lougee
 
17    Paul Evan Peters, CNI
      Dan Atkins
      Presentation:  Networked Information
 
17    John Adler, Harper's Week
      Dan Atkins, Kathy Willis, Wendy Lougee, Randy Frank, John Price-Wilkin
 
18    State of Michigan Information Advisory Board
      Dan Atkins
      Presentation:  Networking for the State
 
20    Sung Hyuk Kim, Sookmyung Women's University
      (Korea)
      Elke Rundensteiner, Laurie Crum
 
24    Michael Twidale, Lancaster University
      (UK)
      Randy Frank, Laurie Crum, Michael Wellman, George Furnas, Dan Atkins, Karen Drabenstott
 
24    Richjard Giordano, University of Manchester
      (UK)
      Randy Frank, Laurie Crum, Michael Wellman, George Furnas, Dan Atkins, Karen Drabenstott
 
29-31 User-Centered Evaluation of Digital Libraries:  A Research 
      Symposium
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Tom Finholt
 
 

 

November 1995

/2    Lock-Ho Thi Xuan, Ling Siew Kheong, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
      Singapore
      Wendy Lougee and Digital Library Project members
 
9-10  DLI All-project meeting at UC--Santa Barbara
      Attending:  Bill Birmingham, Laurie Crum, Randy Frank, Fritz Freiheit, 
      Dan Kiskis, James Reed, Raven Wallace, Wendy Lougee, Elke Rundensteiner, 
      Anisoara Nica, Tom Finholt, Steve Kirk, John Price-Wilkin
 
9-10  International Roundtable for Library & Information Science
      Kanazawa Institute, Tokyo, Japan
      Dan Atkins
 
20    Mark Middleton, Mitsubishi
      Ed Durfee, Dan Atkins, Mike Wellman
 
21    University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series
      Speaker:  George Furnas
 
29    Mark Adler, Harper's Week
      Kathy Willis
 
30    Barbara Gordon, Sun Microsystems
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank
 
31    Michael Joyce, Kathy Kurosman, Kappa Waugh:  Vassar College
      Dan Atkins, Dan Kiskis, Wendy Lougee
 

 

December 1995

1-2   CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents
      Baltimore, MD
      Speakers:  Jose Vidal, Ed Durfee
      Task Planning Agents in the UMDL
 
6-7   Cristos Nikolau, ERCIM
      Dan Atkins, Olivia Frost, Randy Frank, Mike Wellman,
      Presentation:  Economic Models for Resource Management in Digital Libraries
 
8     The Transformation of the Public Library:    
      Access to Digital Information in a Networked World
      Invitational Symposium
      Library of Congress, Washington, DC
      Speaker:  Dan Atkins
 
13    Visit to University Microfilms
      Dan Atkins, Randy Frank, Olivia Frost, Wendy Lougee, Elliot Soloway

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