At each hotel, there will be a hospitality desk with a computer connected to the Internet and a database of events created by the host committee, Mr. Pavia said.
It's hard to imagine home exchange before the Internet, when a "database" was four classified ads or a binder of mimeographed forms; when you could barely choose time and place, much less insist on a zillion "search parameters"; and when no Google or community ratings system existed to vet people.
Data will be secured first, then exported and uploaded to the internet into a database.
The images are saved on the Internet in a database that is also accessible to the ophthalmologist and two technicians at the hospital.
This makes the Internet a global database and exchange floor where individuals worldwide can find each other and strike independent deals.
But, remarkably, Congress has yet to place on the Internet a searchable database of congressional votes, indexed by bill name, bill subject, bill title, member name, etc.
In summer 2006, AOL did something unprecedented in the history of the internet: it published a database showing what 658,000 members had searched for over three months.
The drawings are destined for the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible, an Internet database and a multivolume book that, if all goes well, will contain individual illustrations of all 36,665 verses of the King James Bible, along with portions of the Apocrypha commonly included in Roman Catholic Bibles.
"We're in kind of a golden age of rum right now," said Martin Doudoroff, a founder of CocktailDB, an Internet cocktail database and one designer of a tiki drinks iPhone application.
In addition, the software, which cost about $750,000, uses a city wireless Internet connection to reach a database for each fire company's working tour.
