Public Speaker
Mitra is a confident public speaker, and has presented papers, or sat on panels at many conferences, with audiences as large as 2000. Some of the presentations include:
| Screenworks: Web Futures Seminar - December 2004 | New Directions - blogs, rss and social networks, Powerpoint |
| ACE (Adult Community Education) IT Trainers intensive, September 2004 | IT training requirements in today's world Powerpoint; PDF of Slides; Links |
| ACE (Adult Community Education) IT Trainers day, July 2004 | IT training requirements in today's world Powerpoint; RTF |
| Information Technologies in Rural Areas, December 2003 | Byron Knowledge Management Project (published paper) |
| Adult Learning Australia, November 2003 | Byron Knowledge Management Project (peer reviewed paper) |
| Adult Community Education NSW, August 2003 | Byron Knowledge Management Project (handout) |
| CCNR June 2002 | Open Source Content Management Systems for Community Networks. |
| Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems (FDIS) June 99 | Community Software - history, current state and challenges (cache) |
| Avatars Oct 97 | Several panels on Living Worlds and other topics |
| Australian Internet World Aug 97 | Tutorial on Living Worlds |
| Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems June 97 | Multi User Interaction in VRML 2.0 |
| Siggraph Aug 97 | Presented the case for VRML in debate with Java3D, SGI, Microsoft before an audience of about 2000 |
| VRML Feb 97 | Panels chair for the conference & Chaired panel on Living Worlds |
| Toronto Internet World Jan 97 | Panelist on multi-user VRML. |
| World Makers Jan 97 | Panelist on "Tour of Babel - language divergence"; Big Persistent Worlds; Multi-user |
| Earth To Avatars Oct 96 | Avatar Standards Track panelist, presenting Living Worlds |
| SigGraph Aug 96 | BOF Panelist on VRML binary format, and future of VRML and multi-user |
| Web Interactive July 96 | Tutorial on VRML2.0 and several panels including Authoring |
| ISOC - INET 96 | VRML2.0/Moving Worlds: Adding Behaviors and Multiuser to VRML |
| Virtual Humans June 96 | Avatars on the Net |
| Uniforum 96 | VRML2.0, and multiuser 3D Worlds. |
| VRML 95 | Moving Worlds - adding behaviors to VRML |
| San Diego Behaviors Symposium 95 | Presented papers on adding behaviors to VRML, and led sub-group on merging different event driven proposals |
| Verge meeting 95 | Presented Worlds Chat |
| VR World 95 | Presented Worlds Inc multi user worlds |
| WWW2 94 - Chicago | Presented URL's, URN's, URC's and resolution mechanisms |
| Gopher 94 | Presented AOL Gateway, led session on Quality control |
| Gopher 93 | Presented problems with Gopher+, and led session on moving to Mime types |
| International Communications Association, New Orleans 88 | Why the Association for Progressive Communications is different. |
