The Association of Internet Researchers: &#39Broadening the Band&#39 The conference will be attended by Maria MacIntyre, presenting the paper &#39Internet: Changing The Health Encounter?&#39 during the &#39ehealth&#39 session on Thursday 16th. Related Links: AoIR 4.0&#39ehealth&#39 session, October 16Abstract: &#39Internet: Changing The Health Encounter?&#39

19-21 September, Amsterdam Yanna Vogiazou will be attending. Related Links: Communities and Technologies 2003

&#39Instant messaging trialled to support study of German course&#39 Please see KMi noticeboards to read the article, which appears in the July 2003 edition (issue 3). Related Links: online news (issue 3 not available at time of writing)

Prof Anthony Finkelstein and Prof Jeff Kramer came to visit John Domingue, accompanied by Profs Bashar Nuseibeh and Anne Deroeck of the OU Related Links: Prof Anthony FinkelsteinProf Jeff Kramer

Hosted by the School of Computer Science & Information Technology at the University of Nottingham Simon Buckingham Shum & Murray Altheim will be attending. Related Links: HyperText 03School of Computer Science & Information Technology at the University of Nottingham

Attended by Victoria Uren, presenting a paper entitled &#39Semantic Structuring of Concepts found in Scholarly Literature: An Empirical Study using a Fuzzy Clustering Approach&#39. Related Links: SCI 2003

&#39Research and Development in Information Retrieval Conference Preferences&#39 Attended by Nikolaos Nanas, PhD student, KMi Related Links: SIGIR 03