And the Awards Go To...
May 24, 1999
How could our report on WWW8 be complete without citing the four big winners of awards at the conference?
Congratulations to all of the winners!
- Best Paper
- Focused Crawling: A New Approach for Topic-Specific Resource Discovery
- Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Bryon Dom
- earlier Focused Crawling overview
- Best Presentation
- A Query Language for XML [aka: XML-QL]
- Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu
- XML-QL: A Query Language for XML
- initial draft of XML-QL as W3C Note
- Best Poster
- WebPlaces: Adding People
to the Web [JPEG]
- Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett
- Yuri Rubinsky Award
- Richard Stallman, the founder of the
Free Software Foundation, won the Yuri Rubinsky Award
for his contributions to the software industry.
Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), G
NU Emacs, and various other GNU programs.
Interviewed live via satellite with QuickCam, Stallman suggested that Europeans
Web developers visit and support
freepatents.org,
"Protecting Innovation & Competition in the IT Industry".
IBM, one of the WWW8 sponsors, was well represented technically at the conference.
See the article on IBM's site:
Almaden Researchers Receive Top Honors at the WWW8 Conference.
Other Interesting Presentations
WWWhat Happened at WWW8?
Conclusions: Recurring Themes
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