The International World Wide Web Conference Series has sparked a tremendous international following since the series began in 1994. The first conference was held in Geneva in May 1994, the second in Chicago in October 1994, and the third in Darmstadt, Germany in April 1995. The fifth will be held in Paris in May 1996. The Fourth International World Wide Web Conference is comprised of tutorials and workshops on December 11, a Technical Conference and Exhibition on December 12 and 13, and a Developers Day on December 14. The W3C exists to develop common protocols and reference codes for the evolution of the World Wide Web.
Membership is open to any organization.
To date, the Consortium comprises more than 90 organizations. Now in its third decade, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science is at the forefront of the computer revolution, playing a vital role in advancing information technology and its uses. LCS has helped information technology grow from a mere curiosity to 10 percent of the industrial world's economies by its pioneering efforts in interactive computing, computer networking, distributed systems and public key cryptography. LCS members and alumni have started some thirty companies and have pioneered the Nubus, the X-Window System, the RSA algorithm, the Ethernet and spreadsheets. Today the LCS is dedicated to the invention, development and understanding of information technologies expected to drive substantive technical and socio-economic change.