The meeting was conceived primarily as a local forum where researchers from the universities and research centers from Mississippi, Louisiana and neighboring states would present their work. It was also viewed as a gathering where scientists in all areas of computation could develop links between its various threads in an informal atmosphere. The conference was organized by

Seven keynote addresses were delivered:

• W. Abramowicz (The Poznam University) Information Filters Supplying Management Information
  
• J. Wasniewski (UNI-C Danish Supercomputing Center) Linear Algebra with Recursive Algorithms (LAWRA)
  
• L. Brugnano (Universita di Firenze) Blended Block Implicit Methods for the Numerical Solution of ODEs
  
• L.Fishman (Naval Research Laboratory) The Role of Operator Symbols in Classical Elliptic Wave Propogation
  
• G. Fairweather (Colorado School of Mines) Orthogonal Spline Collocation Methods for Differential Equations
  
• K. Shaw (Naval Research Lab) The Object-Oriented GIDB-Taking Mapping to a Higher Plane
  
• L. Welch (Ohio University) Adaptive QoS and Resource Management for Dynamic, Distributed Real-time Systems
  

and six Minisymposia took place:

• Web Based Applications in Support of Naval Aviation organized by S. Myrick
  
• Web Driven Business Information Systems organized by W. Abramowicz
  
• Computing in Underwater Acoustics organized by J. Ioup
  
• Computational Chemistry organized by J. Leszczynski
  
• Real-Time System Security organized by L. Welch and B.Tjaden
  
• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations organized by J. Zhu and Q.Sheng