Volume 8, Number 6     November/December 2000

Moving Forward

Events

The 2001 IEEE Aerospace Conference will be held March 10–17, 2001 in Big Sky, Montana. This is the twenty-first in a series of annual weeklong winter conferences designed for aerospace experts, academia, military personnel and industry leaders in a stimulating and thought-provoking environment. The Conference promotes interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems, their underlying science and technology and their applications to government and commercial endeavors. The program will survey and record key innovations and achievements in aerospace technologies and their applications to date, and will explore future possibilities. For more information or to register for the conference, visit the web site at http://www.aeroconf.org/index.htm

NASA Advanced Materials Symposium: New Directions in High Performance Polymers will be held March 21–22, 2001 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For more information, contact Ray Turcotte, Technology Marketing Manager, at NASA Langley Research Center. Call: 757-864-8881, E-mail: r.p.turcotte@larc.nasa.gov

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) is sponsoring the CHI 2001 Conference, which will be held March 31–April 5, 2001 in Seattle, Washington. ACM is a major force in advancing the skills and knowledge of Information Technology (IT) professionals and students throughout the world. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation. For more information or to register for the conference, visit the web site at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2001/

International Space Development Conference 2001 (ISDC 2001), hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Albuquerque Section, and the New Mexico Space Society, a chapter of the National Space Society, will be held May 24–28, 2001 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The International Space Development Conference is the annual meeting of the National Space Society (NSS). ISDC is co-sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The purpose of the conference is to provide updates of the latest space information and trends to members of the two organizations, as well as members of other space-related organizations. The conference is open to interested members of the public, as well as members of NSS, AIAA, or any other supporting organization. ISDC 2001 is intended to provide a wider level of exposure and appreciation of space issues and concerns, all presented by an outstanding array of scientists, astronauts, businesspeople and civic leaders. For more information or to register for the conference, visit the web site at http://www.isdc2001.org/

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