A report summarizing action recommendations will be prepared and disseminated. The WWW has captured the imagination, attention, energy, and resources of many individuals and groups, and has become the second largest consumer of Internet bandwidth. The amount of information accessible via the Web grows at the rate of megabytes per day. The computer science research community regularly disseminates information about research projects and research centers via WWW pages. Distributed research projects sometimes use WWW pages as a project notebook.
Students investigate potential graduate programs by browsing through the web.
WWW presents many opportunities for the communication and collaboration within the research communities supported by IRIS as well as for the general computer science research community. In addition, the Web provides an important new way for NSF to make information available to the research community and to the public. Recommendations concerning research which NSF in general and IRIS in particular should consider undertaking with respect to the WWW, its accessibility, and its usability. Cost of WWW or Internet services.