Trip Report Technological Trends, Applications and Markets A Personal View on the 5th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT'93) Manfred Thuering,Anja Haake & Joerg M. Haake Introduction This year's ACM conference on hypertext (HT'93) took place in Seattle, Washington, USA from November 14 to November 18. It followed the European ACM Conference on Hypertext (ECHT) which was held in Milan, Italy, 1992. Almost 650 people attended HT'93: about 54% from industries, 44% from research organizations and 2% from others. The overwhelming majority were from the US and Canada (82%), followed by European participants (12%) mostly from the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Austria and participants from other countries (6%) mostly from Japan, Korea, and the Argentine. The conference program featured papers, panels, technical briefings, demos, and videos on key topics of hypertext technology and various hypertext application domains. Keynote addresses were given by Irene Greif (Lotus Development Corporation), George Landow (Brown University) and Robert Akscyn (Knowledge Systems Incorporated). At a reception in his honor, Ted Nelson presented his ideas on "meta publishing" and his current work on the Xanadu project. The conference was preceded by two parallel workshops, one on "Hyperbase Systems" and the
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