CONFERENCE  HIGHLIGHTS  INCLUDE:

Saturday       A tour to Mount Rainier

Sunday         Tutorials
               Welcome reception celebrating the 50th
               anniversary of Vannevar Bush's "As We May
               Think"

Monday         Newcomers breakfast
               Keynote address: Terry Winograd on the
               interaction between the digital and library
               cultures
               Six sessions of contributed papers
               Poster session and demonstrations
               An evening reception

Tuesday        Keynote address: Tefko Saracevic on evaluation
               in IR
               Panel session: Funding priorities for IR
               Five sessions of contributed papers
               Banquet at Microsoft campus

Wednesday      Panel session:  Education in IR
               Five sessions of contributed papers
               A tour and dinner at Tillicum Village

Thursday       Post-conference research workshops about Visual
               IR Interfaces, Z39.50, IR and databases,
               curriculum development, and automatic
               construction of hypermedia
               A tour to the University of Washington

Friday         A tour to Victoria, British Columbia