Day 2 of Hypertext 2009 Opening Session

After some technical difficulties, the Hypertext conference has started! There was approximately 31% acceptance rate which is in line with previous Hypertext conferences. There will be an ACM Student Research Competition which has 13 posters and there will be a session tomorrow from 4:45 to 6:05 pm, with winners announced at closing tomorrow at 6:10 pm. This competition is sponsored by Microsoft Research.

At noon, there will be a pitch or madness session for the posters and demos, all presenters have to speak for just one minute. The posters and demos session will happen at 6:10 to 7 pm in the A foyer and Room (Sala) B. The social dinner is at Societa Canottieri Caprera, Corso Moncalieri 22 at 8:30 pm. There will also be awards session Douglas Englebart and Ted Nelson awards for best papers. There are social tools for Hypertext 2009, please see this URL, use #ht09 for Twitter posts, ht09 tag for Flickr photos, and you can use Nokia Friend View on your phone for location-based Twitter-type posts.

Hypertext 2010 will be in Toronto, Canada from June 14-17, 2010. There will be a SIGWEB Town Meeting today at 2:10 pm in Sala A on the report on SIGWEB.

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