Events
Cyberspace Business Tips: UCLA’s Anderson School is presenting a symposium called “2001, a Cyberspace Odyssey” on campus Wednesday. Leaders from PeopleSoft, Bay Networks and Pacific Bell will discuss the future of technology in business during an executive round table. Afterward, participants can attend breakout sessions on topics including the Web, business continuity, the workplace and customer support. For information, call (310) 825-1879 or e-mail is.associates@anderson.ucla.edu
* Cable Confab: The National Cable Television Assn.’s 47th annual Convention & International Exposition is being held this week in Atlanta. Don’t let the name fool you--technology, telecommunications, the Internet, computers and electronic media will all have a place at the convention. Sessions will include discussions on digital programming, cable modems, the Telecommunications Act, high-speed applications and “Heading Down the Amazon.com.” For more information, go to https://www.ncta.com or use the fax-on-demand service, (732) 544-2514.
* Network Futures: “The World of Tomorrow Is Here” is the focus of this year’s Networld-Interop 98, today through Friday in Las Vegas. In addition to the general conferences, educational tutorials, workshops and exhibits, the networking event this year will feature an Internet Service Provider Forum, which will help ISP managers evaluate new technologies, and a CommUnity Conference, which will focus on data, voice and video convergence products. Executives from the likes of 3Com, UUNet Technologies and Microsoft will be the keynote speakers. For more information, call (800) 944-4629 or point your browser to https://www.interop.com
CYBERCULTURE
* Tibetan Global Reach: The Dalai Lama is making his cyberspace debut Tuesday on AudioNet (https://www.audionet.com). Live at 5 p.m. will be a cybercast of the second annual Juliet Hollister Awards Ceremony, featuring a speech by his holiness, who will receive one of the awards. The awards are an event to honor an individual’s “lifework in helping to create new interfaith understanding.” Other recipients will be Mary Robinson, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, and Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar.
* Thanks, Mom: Psst . . . Mother’s Day is Sunday. You haven’t forgotten, have you? What would your mother say? Not to worry. There are plenty of things you can do online to celebrate the woman who gave you life. Holidays on the Net has a Mother’s Day section (https://www.holidays.net/mother/) that includes a history of Mother’s Day, as well as a place to make an online tribute to your mom with pictures, poems and stories. At Dearmom.com (https://dearmom.infospace.com) you can send a virtual card, create a personal Web page or take the TV mom quiz.
* Web en Espanol: Hola. Cinco de Mayo es Martes, y usted tiene tiempo para celebrar. Not sure of the significance of Cinco de Mayo? Don’t worry, just go to https://soundprint.brandywine.american.edu/~soundprt/ more_info/nogales_history.html. You’ll learn all about the battle of Cinco de Mayo, Emperor Maximilian and even a little about how the holiday is celebrated today. More interested in the people and places that influenced Cinco de Mayo? Head to https://www.angelfire.com/az/CincodeMayo/
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