SLAC's Web Wizards
This page lists (and links to) unpublished documents and presentations by the SLAC WWW Wizards about the early SLAC Web. It is by no means a comprehensive list of the work of these individuals, who have all written and presented extensively on other topics in their fields.
A guide to our special collection of the early papers of the SLAC WWW Wizards is available online. (SLAC AHRO 2000-072)
Louise Addis, SLAC WWW Wizard Leader
Former Assistant Chief Librarian, Current SLAC Associate
Louise Addis is retired, but can still be reached at bookwitch@mac.com.
Co-recipient of 2002 Society of American Archivists J. Franklin Jameson Award for Archival Advocacy for role in preserving SLAC's early web documentation
Documents
- WWW EMail correspondence with Terry Hung, 1991-1996
- WWWizards Meeting Notes, 1992 .
- February 5 1992 WWWizards Minutes. (Summary of Web work at SLAC to that date...)
Presentations & Press
- The Virtual Library in Action. By Louise Addis, H. Galic, P.A. Kreitz, A. Johnson (SLAC). SLAC-PUB-8185, Apr 1995. 21pp. Presented at 209th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2-6 Apr 1995.
- The Virtual Library in Action: Collaborative International Control of High-Energy Physics Preprints. By P.A. Kreitz, L. Addis, A.S. Johnson (SLAC). SLAC-PUB-7110, Feb 1996. 9pp. Presented at Grey Exploitations in the 21st Century: The Second International Conference on Grey Literature, Washington, D.C., 2-3 Nov, 1995.
First Monday Interviews: Louise Addis. Volume 5, number 5 (May 2000)
Mark Barnett, SLAC WWW Wizard Leader
Computer Systems Specialist
Mark Barnett retired from SLAC, and is now deceased.Les Cottrell, SLAC WWW Wizard Leader
Assistant Director, SLAC Computing Services Group
Les Cottrell can be reached at cottrell@slac.stanford.eduSLAC WWW Wizard George Crane
Computer Systems Specialist
George Crane can be reached at crane@slac.stanford.eduPresentations
- Crane, George. Spires and the Web. Presentation. December 3, 2001. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Symposium, The Once and Future Web.
SLAC WWW Wizard Tony Johnson
Experimental Physicist
Tony Johnson can be reached at tony_johnson@slac.stanford.eduSLAC WWW Wizard Mentor Paul Kunz
Former Experimental Physicist Paul Kunz was later a Software Auditor at nexB, before his death in 2018.
AHRO October 19, 2018 Spotlight
CERN Courier obituary
Presentations
- Kunz, Paul F. Bringing the World Wide Web to America. pdf, video . Presentation to InterLab '99, 4 November 1999.
- Internet and Web Pioneers: Paul Kunz (video) Interview. November 5, 2006. A Sakai Report
SLAC WWW Wizard Bebo White
Former Software Developer, Current SLAC Associate
Bebo White can be reached at bebo@slac.stanford.eduPresentations
- Web Document Engineering. By Bebo White (SLAC). SLAC-PUB-7150, May 1996. 13pp. Talk given at 5th International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, 6-11 May 1996.
- Web Pioneer Bebo White Honored During Open Web Camp III, July 2011
SLAC WWW Wizard Joan Winters
Former Web System Administrator, Current SLAC Associate
Co-recipient of 2002 Society of American Archivists J. Franklin Jameson Award for Archival Advocacy for role in preserving SLAC's early web documentation
Documents
- Winters, Joan. Designing the SLAC Information Architecture: A Workplace for Users. InterLab '96, 21 August 1996.
- Winters, Joan M. to Lynda Winslow 6/24/2000 (Email) On WWW History at SLAC; Ideas for the Future
Presentations
- Winters, Joan M. and Moy, Sandy S. Two Approaches to Designing Web Information Architectures. SHARE 1997 Winter Technical Conference. Session 7413. 3 Mar 1997. (Contains section on early web at SLAC)
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