Internet 1996 World Exposition Announced at NetWorld+Interop

"A World Fair for the Information Age"

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (March 14, 1995) -- The Internet 1996 World Exposition
will be formally unveiled at a special session at NetWorld+Interop on
Wednesday, March 29, in the Barron Ballroom of the Las Vegas Hilton, from
10:30 AM to Noon. A special Q&A session for the news media will be held
from 2:00-3:00 PM by the Expo organizers. This Expo for the Information
Age is an international collaboration involving a coalition of
researchers, engineers, corporate executives and public officials who are
building "a public park for the global village."

The World Exposition represents the first time that the concept of World
Fair has been taken to a truly global level. A series of on-line pavilions
that focus on key themes affecting society will include the Global
Schoolhouse Pavilion, the Reinventing Government Pavilion, the Small
Business Pavilion and the Future of Media Pavilion. The March 29th
unveiling will feature five countries that have already begun construction
of their pavilions: the United States, Japan, Thailand, the United Kingdom
and the Netherlands. Many other organizing efforts are underway in
countries around the world.

The Expo will open its doors in early January, 1996, and will last
throughout the year.  In the U.S., organizers include Dr. Vinton Cerf,
Senior Vice President of MCI; Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chief Technology Officer
of Sun Microsystems; William J. Miller, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Quantum; Carl Malamud, President of the Internet Multicasting
Service; Dr. Marshall T. Rose of First Virtual; Michael Millikin, Senior
Vice President of NetWorld+Interop and many others. Highlights of
corporate support for the World Exposition include a contribution of one
(1) terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) from Quantum, major support by Cisco
Systems for the Global Schoolhouse Pavilion, and an "Internet Railroad"
effort to circle the globe with leased telecommunications lines, headed by
Dr. Vinton Cerf. In the U.S., a series of local organizing committees have
been formed.

The Boston organizing committee is chaired by Congressman Edward Markey and
the San Francisco Bay Area organizing committee is chaired by publisher
William Randolph Hearst, III. Organizations participating in the U.S.
effort include an Internet Town Hall located at the National Press Club,
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which will be part of
the Global Schoolhouse Pavilion, and the Infomart in Dallas which will
open a "cyberspace planetarium" to teach the local community about the
Internet. In Japan, the organizing committee includes senior management
representatives of companies such as Sony, Softbank, ASCII, NTT Labs and
Nifty Serve. WIDE, the national nonprofit organization that runs the
Japanese Internet, will be local secretariat for the project and
institutional participants include the Fujisawa Campus of Keio University
and the Tokyo Aquarium.  As part of the World Exposition, Softbank
Exposition and Conference Company has announced that it will dedicate all
1996 NetWorld+Interop Conferences and Expositions to the World Expo.
Highlights of this global industrial exposition will include a special
World Expo conference track, the InteropNet, and many other activities.

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