Interview With Siegfried Reich - General Chair Hypertext 2005
- Yeliz Yesilada:
- Welcome and thanks for sparing the time to talk with us. As the general chair of the Hypertext'05 conference, how was the conference and what did we mainly miss by not being there?
- Siegfried Reich:
- ACM Hypertext 2005 was held September 6-9 in Salzburg, Austria. This year's theme was "Concepts, Methodologies and Tools for Supporting Knowledge Workers", we had 6 workshops (with 62 participants) and a total of 118 participants.
The keynote talks were given by Monika Henzinger (Research Director of Google, "Hyperlink Analysis on the World Wide Web") and Uffe Wiil (Maersk MC-Kinney Moller Institute, "Hypermedia Technology for Knowledge Workers: A Vision of the Future"). - Yeliz:
- Can you give us some highlights? For example, who won the best paper awards this year?
- Sigi:
- The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award was given to Stuart Moulthrop for "What the Geeks Know: Hypertext and the Problem of Literacy". The Ted Nelson Newcomer award was given to J. Nathan Matias for "Philadelphia Fullerine: A Case Study in Three-Dimensional Hypermedia".
- Yeliz:
- How many tutorials and workshops were there and what were they?
- Sigi:
- There were 6 workshops at HT05:
- WS1 - Adaptive and Personalized Semantic Web
- WS2 - International Workshop on Combining Intelligent and Adaptive Hypermedia Methods/Techniques in Web-Based Education Systems
- WS3 - 2nd International Workshop on Hypermedia & Web Engineering
- WS4 - 1st International Workshop on Peer to Peer and Service Oriented Hypermedia: Techniques and Systems
- WS5 - International Workshop on Computational Hypermedia: Hypermedia Integrated with Computational Support
- WS6 - Workshop on Narrative, Musical, Cinematic and Gaming Hyperstructure
- Yeliz:
- How was the participation this year? Was it better than last year?
- Sigi:
- We had 118 in total. This is slightly higher than last year.
- Yeliz:
- How were the social events?
- Sigi:
- Well, you will need to ask the participants ... I think we had a _really_ good poster event, directly in the conference hotel. And we had a really brilliant conference dinner at the "Museum der Moderne" (Museum of Modern Art, see HT'05 website for how much fun we had)
- Yeliz:
- Where will the hypertext conference next year be, we hope it will be somewhere sunny and nice, but actually it doesn't matter does it, hypertext conferences are always fun to go to?
- Sigi:
- HT'06 will be in Denmark!
- Yeliz:
- Is there anything else you'd like to tell us about the HT'05?
- Sigi:
- Well, I think the future really is in Uffe's keynote talk and so I encourage everyone in joining and supporting Hypertext 2006 in Denmark!
- Yeliz:
- Thank you very much for talking to us!
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Siegfried Reich is head of research at Salzburg Research as well as senior researcher working in the area of hypermedia middleware and Web Engineering. He received his M.Sc. in applied computer science from the University of Linz (1992) and a Ph.D. in computer science and economics from the University of Vienna (1995). Since 2003 he is head of research and director of Salzburg Research, the research institute of the county of Salzburg. Sigi Reich has published over 80 international papers and has served as referee for many journals, conferences and workshops. He has been involved in several European and national research projects. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and the Austrian Computer Society OCG.