Conference Report: The Active Web Alan Dix, and Dave Clarke On 20th January 1999 a British HCI Group day conference was held on "The Active Web". The call for papers for this was very successful with a very large number of extended abstracts submitted. These were refereed by a panel of 25 referees, each paper having at least 4 reviews. In the end 12 papers were selected for the main speaker programme plus a number of posters and demos. However, the standard of the papers was extremely high and it was very difficult deciding which papers to leave out of the programme. The final programme included presenters from five European countries, if we include co-authors, authors of posters and other submissions and referees, academics and practitioners from twelve countries and four continents were represented in total. Presenters and attendees included both academic and practitioners capturing that most exciting essence of web-related work: research and practice are closely related, it is a field that is constantly operating 'on the edge'. Student Bursaries aQtive limited sponsored several bursaries to help students attend the conference. These were awarded to four students based on short position statements about their current work and
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