[Wednesday, September 16]  [Thursday, September 17]  [Friday, September 18]
Technical Sessions   Thursday, September 17
9:00 am - 9:45 am	Invited Talk Tcl/Tk for Dummies Tim Webster, Timothy Webster Design and Consulting, Inc. Tim Webster will explain why he chose to write a book about Tcl/Tk, and how he sold the idea to IDG. He will discuss the basic strategy for organizing the book: writing the outline, deciding what to cover, and what, in retrospect, he would have done differently. He will cover some topics that may be saleable, and offer basic advice about book-writing. Tim Webster is a freelance writer and consultant, and the author of Tcl/Tk for Dummies.
9:45 am - 10:45 am	Testing and Debugging Session Chair: George Howlett, Bell Labs Innovations for Lucent Technologies A Tcl-based Multithreaded Test Harness Paul Amaranth, Aurora Group, Inc. Using Tcl/Tk for an Automatic Test Engine C. Allen Flick, DSC Communications Corporation, James Dixson, Silicon Valley Networks Corporation wshdbg - A Debugger for CGI Applications Andrej Vckovski, Netcetera AG
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Web Technology (Server-Side) Session Chair: John Reekie, University of California, Berkeley NeoWebScript: Enabling Webpages With Active Content Using Tcl Karl Lehenbauer, NeoSoft, Inc. XML Support For Tcl Steve Ball, Zveno Pty Ltd Creating High Performance Web Applications using Tcl, Display Templates, XML, and Database Content Alex Shah, Tony Darugar, Binary Evolution, Inc.
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Conference Lunch & Invited Talk Tcl/Tk and the Languages of the Net: 1971-1998 Peter Salus, The Tcl/Tk Consortium In 1970, RFC 51 by Michele Elie proposed the first true language of the Net: at that time, a seven node construct. More recently, Java, Limbo, and Tcl have been created. The history of Net languages from 1968 through 1998 will be detailed, focusing on Tcl and Tk.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Web Technology (Client-Side) Session Chair: Ray Johnson, Scriptics Corporation WebWise Tcl/Tk: A Safe-Tcl/Tk-based Toolkit Enhanced for the World Wide Web Hemang Lavana, Franc Brglez, North Carolina State University Internet-based Desktops in Tcl/Tk: Collaborative and Recordable Amit Khetawat, Hemang Lavana, Franc Brglez, North Carolina State University Creating a Multimedia Extension for Tcl Using the Java Media Framework Moses DeJong, Brian Bailey, Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota Visualizing Personal Web Caches with Caubview Charles L. Brooks, GTE Internetworking, Murray S. Mazer, Curl Corporation, Frederick J. Hirsch, The Open Group Research Institute
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Work-in-Progress Sessions (WIPs)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Poster Session / Informal Demonstrations DataMynah: A pseudo-NL interface to large multivariate datasets De Clarke, University of California, Santa Cruz Enhancing Interfaces with Animated Widgets D. Scott McCriskard, Georgia Institute of Technology Mobile Streams M. Ranganathan, Laurent Andrey, and Virginie Schall, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Anurag Acharya, University of California, Santa Barbara Tcl/Tk Program Development Tools Clif Flynt, Flynt Consulting Services
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

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