The Twenty-First Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, jointly hosted by the Departments of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from the 24th to the 28th of August 1998.
| Sunday, 23 August 1998 | Excursion - Native animals and native wines in the Yarra Valley |
| Monday, 24 August 1998 |
Tutorials Welcoming reception |
| Tuesday, 25 August 1998 |
SIGIR newcomers breakfast Keynote speaker (Steve Kirsch, Infoseek) Research paper presentations Poster and demonstrations session |
| Wednesday, 26 August 1998 |
Research paper presentations Panel session Conference banquet |
| Thursday, 27 August 1998 |
Research paper presentations SIGIR business meeting (Conference close at 4:30pm) |
| Friday, 28 August 1998 | Workshops. |
| Saturday, 29 August 1998 | Excursion - See the big men fly at an Australian Rules football match |
Tutorials and workshops will be held at the Melbourne Town Hall, ten minutes walk from the conference venue. The banquet will be held at the Le Meridien Hotel, fifteen minutes walk from the conference venue. Banquet tickets include admission to the nearby 55th floor Rialto observation deck. All other conference events will be held at the Sofitel Hotel in central Melbourne.
Further details of the schedule and venues will be posted closer to the date of the conference.
Alistair Moffat