Talk:International Interactive Communications Society

A very important organization in it's day

In it's time this was the dominant organization for digital interactive communication both in the Bay Area and on earth for that matter. Part of the reason is that it was the ONLY one, but it did boast thousands of members at its height internationally. The New York chapter met at places like AT&T Infoquest Auditorium, School of Visual Arts and was THE hub for thinkers on the cutting edge of pre-Internet-browser emerging technologies. One was DV-I which was being developed by Intel to facilitate "uncompression" of digital video fast enough to make digital video interactive (DV-I) transparent to the user in real time for non-linear media design. IICS New York facilitated member visits to the Princeton University lab where Intel's DV-I development was centered on the east coast ca 1990.JimmyMack1955 (talk) 00:55, 5 December 2018 (UTC) added by former NY IICS member James T McGuiness

I can think of two members who had a big impact on the Internet world. Ed Niehaus who as CEO of NRH Public Relations advised Yahoo when it was just two people and a VC as well as many other very early Internet-based enterprises. Niehaus's wife Carol was an officer of the IICS and also an executive at NRH.

Also, Ken McCarthy who organized the first conference ever held on the subject of web commerce. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, was the featured speaker though I doubt he was a member. The IICS was one of the sponsors of the conference.

These are far from the only people who went on from the IICS to have a big impact on the Internet world. Basically, half the original web shops in SF which is where the web design industry started were former CD-ROM authors and IICS members who made the switch, many based on McCarthy's leadership.

The IICS part of Wikipedia McCarthy's bio is is missing. I will - in time - add it to his bio and then link back to this article.

In the history of interactive communications, the IICS played a very important role and it merits inclusion in wikipeida. Anybody who was involved in digital art and communications pre-1995 would have been aware of it, and if not a member certainly an occasional participant in some of its events, trainings, and programs.

Also, Pac Bell's Internet man (name escapes me) was a member and major supporter of the organization.

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