In the last quarter of 1996, the IEEE Transactions on Education will publish a special issue, accompanied by a CD-ROM organized essentially as a World Wide Web (WWW) server so that it can be viewed with browsers on any of the three major desktop hardware platforms. This paper discusses (1) how the combination of CD-ROM technology and the WWW de facto file format standards open the possibility for archiving multimedia and software and (2) how the WWW has permitted experimentation with a paperless review process.
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