NEWS RELEASE

Contact: DCI Media Relations
(508) 470-3870

Release Date: August 14, 1996

Leader in High-Technology Education Giving Back to Community

Andover, MA -- For more than a decade, DCI has brought high-technology education to business and information technology professionals. This year, it is also working to bring high technology into America's schools.

DCI is an active sponsor of three community programs this fall:

• NetDay96, a grassroots, volunteer effort to wire the nation's schools to allow them access to the Internet and the educational benefits of modern technology.

• MassNetworks, the Commonwealth's NetDay96 concern, concentrating on creating more community involvement in the education system.

• Kids Compute-2001, Mayor Thomas Menino's initiative to provide the Boston public schools with hardware, software and telecommunications access.

The company's partnership with these programs will culminate on Oct. 12, when DCI, in conjunction with NetDay96 and MassNetworks, provides a free Teacher's Training Forum at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. This forum will show teachers how they can use the Internet and the World Wide Web in their classrooms to enhance student learning.

The forum will be held just prior to DCI's Internet Expo, the world's largest Internet, Web and E-mail conference and exposition, scheduled for Oct. 15-17 at the Hynes. The Internet Expo boasts 12 core conference tracks on the latest Internet-related issues and technologies, plus an exhibit hall featuring hundreds of software and hardware vendors. The event is expected to draw more than 50,000 attendees.

DCI, based in Andover, Mass., is a world leader in providing high-technology seminars, conferences and trade shows. The largest American company of its kind, DCI boasts revenues of more than $40 million and employs about 150 people at its Andover headquarters. It holds more than 100 events around the country each year, and is the Hynes Convention Center's No. 1 customer.