This conference may be of interest to some on our list. THE NEW WEB OF HISTORY A CONFERENCE ABOUT CRAFTING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON-LINE MARCH 28 AND 29, 2003 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Colleagues, The Dibner/Sloan History of Recent Science and Technology Project (HRST) and the Dibner Institute invite you to a conference on the novel opportunities and challenges that the World Wide Web presents for historians of science and technology. The conference has two goals: first, to provide a snapshot of some of the most original projects that use the Web to produce, present and disseminate scholarly and educational materials; and second, to examine critically the challenges as well as the opportunities that such projects face. The conference will be held on March 28th and 29th in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We plan three sessions, each of which includes presentations concerning recent and on-going projects: New Methods, about new tools and approaches for doing history on line; New Products, about the use of new media and the production of content; and New Challenges about issues faced by researchers, academia, and publishers. Each day will conclude with a panel of historians, administrators and program officers offering responses, reflections, and discussing future prospects. The confirmed speakers and commentators so far include: Babak Ashrafi, HRST and MIT Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, HRST and Paris X University Jed Z. Buchwald, HRST and CalTech Daniel Cohen, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Gregory Crane, The Perseus Project, Tufts University Michael Cusumano, Sloan School of Management, MIT Paolo Galluzzi, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University Slava Gerovitch, HRST and MIT Gerd Grassoff, University of Berne, Switzerland Stephen M. Griffin, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation Rob Iliffe, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT Timothy Lenoir, HRST and Stanford University David A. Mindell, HRST and MIT Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Roy Rosenzweig, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Zick Rubin, Copyright Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts Henning Schmidgen, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Harvey Shoolman, The Newton Project, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine George E. Smith, Dibner Institute and Tufts University Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton University Marney Smyth, MIT Press James Sparrow, The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University We hope that you will join us for what promises to be an interesting examination of new possibilities for our discipline. This conference is organized the History of Recent Science and Technology Project [http://hrst.mit.edu] and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Dibner Fund. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND, PLEASE CONTACT CARLA CHRISFELD AT CARLAC@MIT.EDU FOR 617-253-8721. SPACE IS LIMITED