Tommie Usdin has issued a call for participation at Extreme Markup Languages 2002, IDEAlliance's seriously technical markup conference.

Held from August 6-9 in Montréal, Canada, Extreme is "an intense 3.7-day conference preceded by two days of tutorials." Proposals for papers are due in by April 3, 2002.

Usdin explains Extreme's ethos: "At Extreme Markup Languages software developers, markup theorists, philosophers of information, knowledge representers (and presenters!), and the kind of people who like hanging around with them devote the better part of a week to the unfettered pursuit of better understanding of problems of information management, knowledge systems, markup, formal languages, the search for a better parser interface, and the development of markup-related software."

More information is available at the conference web site.

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