From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) Subject: CFP: Am. Library Assn. 1992 Proceedings Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1991 18:37:09 GMT Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle >From: Bruce Miller Subject: call for papers >To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L > Publication Opportunity for Cyberpunks, Technologists, and > Futurists > The LITA President's Program at the ALA Annual Conference in San > Francisco in 1992 will feature internationally renowned > roboticist Hans Moravec and highly acclaimed speculative fiction > authors David Brin and Bruce Sterling. These brilliant futurists > will seek to expand the vision of the audience beyond the use of > technology solely for the automation of text and the > mechanization of information processing to encompass a future in > which the relationships between humans and their information > machines will be distinctly personal and symbiotic. The program > will cover selected contemporary experiments with relevant > technologies and relationships, but it will emphasize concepts > and terms of reference that define visions of the future and > issues and concerns that are presented by progress toward those > visions of the future. > > The LITA Imagineering Interest Group is sponsoring the program > and has begun work to develop an information packet for attendees > and a monograph to be published shortly after the conference > which will include the speakers' presentations. In addition to > other features, we plan to include ten or more essays on related > topics such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, virtual > reality, cyberspace, adaptive technology, futurism, etc. These > essays will be three to five pages in length for the packet, b.ut > there will be an opportunity to expand them up to fift.en pages > for the monograph. This is your big chance! If you want to > write one of these essays or you have an idea.for a good topic > and someone who should write it, please contact Milton Wolf > (sfwolf@unssun.nevada.edu or 702/784-4.77) or R. Bruce Miller > (rbmiller@ucsd.edu or 619/534-1234>. -- - bob pasker +-----------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+ | bob@halfdome.UUCP | bob%halfdome@cs.sfsu.edu | rbp@well.sf.ca.us | | bob@carlyle.com | rbp@sutro.sfsu.edu | | +-----------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+ --