IPC Activity Record and Organization

Record of activities Fiscal year 1999 18 May: Steering Committee, Takanawa Prince Hotel 27 May: Kyoto Digital Archive, Demonstration to Mayor of Sapporo City （At Sapporo City Hall） 28 May: General Meeting, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University 29-30 May: Research Project Camp, Hokkaido University (Participants: Hokkaido University, Tama Art University, Volunteers from IPC members) 31 July-2 Aug.:Research Project Camp, Hokkaido University (Participants: Hokkaido University, Tama Art University, Volunteers from IPC members) 3 Aug.:IPC Pad Developing Project briefing session Hokkaido University 1 Sept.:IPC Pad Developing Project Kick-off Meeting, Sapporo Electronics Center Fiscal year 1998 20 May 1998: Consortium Council, Shinagawa Prince Hotel 21 May: Steering Committee, Shinagawa Prince Hotel 29 May: General meeting, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University 21 August: Piazza Project briefing session, Sapporo Electronics Center 25-27 November: Demonstration of Piazza at ContentCreation + NICOGRAPH'98, Makuhari Messe 25 November: Completion of IP promotional video 31 March: 6th IP Workshop, Kanagawa Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Center, Yokohama Fiscal year 1997 23-25 May 1997: Talks by Planning Commitee members at Internet World, Makuhari Messe 23 May: General meeting, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University May: Release of Smalltalk-based IP system and its source code June: 1st Pad Contest August: 2nd Pad Contest September: Web site update September: Results of 1st Pad Contest 5 October: IP presentation, Sapporo City Hall November: Results of 2nd Pad Contest November: Web site update November: Production of CD-ROM containing beta release of IP standard specification version by Fujitsu, a Hitachi Software Engineering version and the Digital Factory version 26-28 November: Digitalmedia World '97, Makuhari Messe December: 4th Pad Contest 12 January 1998: IP Development Project briefing session, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University January: IP Development Project starts February: 5th Pad Contest March: Results of 4th Pad Contest 31 March: 5th IP Workshop, Kanagawa Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Center, Yokohama May: Results of 5th Pad Contest Fiscal year 1996 14 May 1996: General meeting, Kanagawa Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Center, Yokohama 15-17 May: Demonstration of IP at Internet World, Makuhari Messe 22-25 May: Talk by John Cheuck, IPC director of global planning, at Intermedia Asia 96, Singapore June: Acquisition of the "pads.or.jp" domain from JPNIC. Homepage: http://www.pads.or.jp 11 July: Consortium Council August: Participation in conference held by Speakeasy Inc., Chicago, USA September: IntelligentPad standard specification sample system alpha release distributed, with source code, to IPC members only November: IP system for Macintosh released by Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. November: IntelligentPad standard specification version 2.0 completed November: Production of CD-ROM with IP system for Windows by Fujitsu, version for Macintosh by Hitachi Software Engineering, and text of version 2.0 of the standard specification 20-22 November: Handing out CD-ROMs at Digital Media World 96 January 1997: Distribution of IP for Smalltalk (Digital Factory) at IPC technology meeting February: Consortium Council March: CyberSpace Sapporo '97, Sapporo March: 4th IP Workshop, Kanagawa Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Center, Yokohama March: English version of IP standard specification, in HTML