It's not quite live TV, but Cornell News Service is starting to bring you news almost as soon as it happens, by updating its web pages on the fly.
This year's special centennial meeting of the American Physical Society in Atlanta offered as many attractions in the halls as in the meeting rooms. Along with the usual presentations on the latest esoteric developments in physics, there were events ranging from a physics-music cabaret to magic shows, speeches and exhibits about the history of physics, and at least 60 alumni gatherings. Cornell's important role in the history of the society was celebrated in several events.
To bring some of this ambiance to its audience, the News Service equipped senior science writer Blaine Friedlander Jr. with a digital camera and a laptop computer and sent him to roam the halls of the Georgia World Congress Center, home of the APS meeting last week. Several times a day he transferred his photos to his computer and e-mailed them back to the News Service offices in Ithaca, where they were quickly posted to the World Wide Web, along with the stories he had filed.
The News Service created a special web site devoted to the APS centennial -- the only one with daily updates from the meeting. Along with Friedlander's photos, the site includes some historical notes on the role of Cornell physicists in the founding the society and the journal Physical Review, reports on important speeches at the conference and stories about current work reported by Cornell researchers.
You can find the News Service web coverage of the APS meeting at http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March99/APS/cornell.APS100.html.
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