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No one planned it, but this issue has a strong theme running through it of the World Wide Web. It is my conviction that the Web is one of the HCI community's great successes: take the then-arcane internet, add a dash of hypertext and a hefty portion of HCI, and at last everyone can understand why the internet is so useful and important. In the first SIGCHI Bulletin I edited, only just over 2 years ago, we still had to include a large side-bar explaining how to use ftp to retrieve reports and software via the net. Nowadays a simple URL suffices.
The articles on the Web in this issue are mainly about content, which just goes to show how quickly Web has caught on and been accepted as a serious method of information communication.
While we're on the subject of World Wide Web content, let me just remind you again about the online SIGCHI Bulletin. It is at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin. At any time, the most recent issue is accessible only for SIGCHI members, so be sure to have your ACM membership number to hand the first time you go along: you can then choose a user name and password for yourself.
A new element of the online Bulletin this issue is a feedback form. This gives you a chance to say what you think of the Bulletin, analogue or digital versions, and let us know what you would like to see added or changed, or where you would like more emphasis put. Please fill it in!
Was CHI 95 a financial success? How many people came? Will there be another CD ROM at a CHI conference? When will the next CHI be outside of North America? Where will CHI be in the year 2004? All these questions, and more, can be answered by reading the SIGCHI News article in this issue. There is such an article in nearly every issue, and although they often look rather dry, being minutes of meetings of the SIGCHI Executive Committee, they are usually worth reading for the interesting information they give about the state of SIGCHI, the CHI conference, finances, projects, and future plans. All SIGCHI minutes since June 1994 are online in the online Bulletin.
And talking of future plans, hopefully it hasn't escaped you that ACM are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. They will be finishing the year with a Future of Computing conference, and the SIGCHI Bulletin is planning to join in with the future theme by having a Futures issue, to match the "arCHIve: A Look Back at SIGCHI" issue that we had last issue.
The Futures special issue will be January 1997. The deadline for that issue is 1st October this year, so please if you have any contributions, either about the future of HCI, or the future of SIGCHI, please send them in!
Steven Pemberton
Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven
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