C The Hyper-G Consortium

Hermann Maurer

The currently most popular Internet tool, WWW, was designed at a time when the explosive growth of the Internet could not yet be predicted. WWW is now reaching and exceeding its limits with a growing number of very large applications.

A team based in Graz, Austria, has recognized this trend sufficiently early and -- with the help from specialists from all over the world -- has developed the `second-generation' WWW system Hyper-G. Growing enthusiasm and acceptance of Hyper-G has made it necessary to tighten the cooperation and coordination of the large number of groups both in Europe and outside that work with Hyper-G. For this reason the foundation of an international Hyper-G consortium has been announced on the occasion of the meeting `Multimedia Content for the Information Society' sponsored by the EU Commission on September 25/26, 1995 in Linz, Austria.

Director of the Hyper-G Consortium is the internationally recognized computer scientist Professor Bruno Buchberger from RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) at the University of Linz, Austria.

The Hyper-G Consortium is proud to once more offer leading-edge technology developed in Europe to the whole world. It is expected that European organizations on all levels will profit from and support those developments substantially.

Professor Bruno Buchberger and Professor Hermann Maurer

Linz and Graz, Austria
September 25, 1995

C.1 Background

C.2 History

C.3 How the Hyper-G Consortium (HGC) works

C.4 Contact addresses and events

C.5 List of current members and sponsors