Tentative Agenda for UNICOM

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                                  Agenda


W1      Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address

          "Software Army on the March"
          John Mashey, Bell Labs

W2      News from ...
        Armando Stettner, chair

        So far, we have Usenix, /usr/group, AT&T, DEC, and SUN

W3A     Performance Enhancement and Measurement
        Terrance Miller, chair

          "An implementation of the vfork system call for PDP-11 UNIX"
          Michael Karels, UC Berkeley

          "Improved Schedulers for Non-Paged UNIX Systems"
          P. Darwyn, Peachey Hospital

          "Contiguous Load Modules for UNIX"
          Steve Zucker, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

          "Handling Very Large Programs on a 16 Bit Super-micro"
          Mitch Bishop, Zilog, Inc.

          "UNIX System III and 4.1BSD; A Practical Comparison"
          John Chambers, John Quarterman, University of Texas

W3B     Languages and Programming Environments
        Joseph Yao, chair

          "UNIX APL"
          Joseph Yao, SAI

          "SOLID - System for On-Line Information Development"
          John R. Mashey, Bell Labs

          "The VMS C Compiler"
          Jean Wood, DEC

          "Q'Nial:  a new interactive programming system for the UNIX com-
          munity"
          M. A. Jenkins, Queen's University

W4A     Networks
        Greg Noel, chair

          "The Plexus Networked UNIX"
          Monte Pickard, Plexus Computers, Inc.

          "CSNET Status Report"
          Brendan Reilley, U Delaware

W4B     Development Tools
        Bill Tuthill, chair

          "Bibliographic Database System"
          Jim Moyer, UC San Francisco

          "Development of Refer: Bug Fixes and Enhancements"
          Bill Tuthill, UC Berkeley

          "RAPID: a Tool for Building Interactive Information Systems"
          Anthony I. Wasserman, David T. Shewmake, UC San Francisco

          "COBOL Compiler Construction Experiences Using Lex and Yacc"
          Robert E. Conant, Herbert G. Mayer, Burroughs Corp.

T1A     Bell Labs Reports
        Berkley Tague, chair

          "UNIX System Product Definition"
          Don Cragun, Bell Labs

          "UNIX Software Generation Systems"
          D. J. Kretsch, Bell Labs

          "UNIX File System Evolution"
          Larry A. Wehr, Bell Labs

          "The Evolution of UNIX System Performance"
          Jerome Feder, Bell Labs

T1B     UNIX in the Office Environment
        Keith Muller, chair

          "A Friendly Text Processing Environment"
          Arthur Zemon, TRW

          "UNIX Time-sharing Menu-driven Office System for Terminals  (UT-
          MOST)"
          James A. Neyer, Perkin-Elmer

          "A Uniform and Simple User Interface to UNIX"
          Spencer Rugaber, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

          "Writing User Documentation for UNIX Systems"
          Sandra L. Emerson, Yates Ventures

          "An Office Management System that Exploits UNIX Strengths"
          Paul Croft, UC San Diego

T2B     New UNIX implementations I
        David Patterson, chair

          "Hewlett-Packard's Entry into the UNIX Community"
          Frederick W. Clegg, Hewlett-Packard

          "4.2bsd on the Sun Workstation"
          Tom Lyon and Bill Shannon, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

          "Experiences in Porting 4.1BSD  UNIX  to  the  $lambda$750  VLSI
          Development System."
          Paul Chen, Metheus Corporation

          "Unix on Apollo Computers (Yet Another Unix Emulation)"
          Eric R. Shienbrood, Apollo Computer, Inc.

T3A     Programming Languages and Evironments
        Bill Appelbe, chair

          "Work in Progress: UNIX System Ada Programming Support  Environ-
          ment"
          J. Eli Lamb, Bell Labs

          "Unix Logo"
          Brian Harvey, Atari, Inc.

          "List Processing in C"
          L. V. Ackerman, Fred B. Thelander, Henry Ford Hospital

          "A Global Optimizing C Compiler"
          George Powers, Zilog, Inc.

T3B     Novel Applications of UNIX
        Jim McGinness, chair

          "ARIEL: An Experimental UNIX-based Interactive Video Information
          System"
          R. C. Haight, D. B. Knudsen, Bell Labs

          "Development of a Digital Simulation System in a  UNIX  environ-
          ment"
          William E. Raves, James Cassidy, Computer Automation

          "UNIX Research at Lucasfilms"
          Jim Lawson, Lucasfilms

T4A     Technical Reports
        Andy Tannenbaum, chair

          "UNIX for the STD bus"
          Luigi Cerofolini, University of Bologna

          "Ctrace - A Portable Debugger for C Programs"
          J. L. Steffen, Bell Labs

          "A PDP11 UNIX System with 4.1 BSD VAX11-style Filesystems"
          D. Seeley, UC San Diego

          "The IS/1 Workbench for VAX/VMS"
          William Torcaso, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

T4B     Database Systems
        Roger Sippl, chair

          "The Intel Data Base Processor (iDBP) and IS/3"
          John R. Levine, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

          "The DB Relational Database Management System"
          J. Robert Ward,  International  Institute  For  Applied  Systems
          Analysis

          "/rdb: A Relational Data Base Management System for UNIX"
          Rod Manis, Computer Consulting

          "Microprocessors for Biomedical Research Database Management and
          Analysis"
          F.W. Stitt, Clinical Data Research Services, Inc.

          "FOCUS, a Visually Oriented Database Browser"
          Tony Wasserman, University of California

F1A     Graphics
        Phil Cohen, chair

          "Windows with 4.2bsd"
          Steven R. Evans, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

          "Graphics Standards for Personal Workstations"
          Michael Shantz, SUN Microsystems, Inc.

          "Device Independent Graphics Enhancements"
          Greg Hidley, ITT DCD

          "Terminal-Independent Plotting Packages: An Example and  Sugges-
          tions for Standards"
          Don Mackay, UC San Diego

F1B     New UNIX Implementations II
        Joel Carter, chair
          "UNIX Enhancements for Real-time Applications"
          Kent Blackett, MASSCOMP


          "EUNICE"
          Joel Carter, The Wollongong Group

          "REGULUS, a Real-Time UNIX Lookalike"
          Bill Allen, Alcyon

          "UNIX for the NS16032"
          Paul Neelands, Human Computing Resources Corporation

          "The Port of UNIX to the Gould 32/27"
          Jack Blevins, Gould, Inc.

F2A     New UNIX Implementations III
        Mike O'Brien, chair

          "Porting UNIX"
          P. Verbaeten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

          "UNIX on the National Semiconductor NS16032"
          Glenn C. Skinner, Bill Jolitz, National Semiconductor

          "UNIX for the Computer Automation 4/95"
          Steve Pozgaj, Human Computing Resources Corporation

          "Porting UNIX to the NCR 9000"
          Bill Appelbe, Greg Noel, NCR

F2B     Marketing and Venture Capital
        Marlene Martin, chair

F3      Portability
        Mike O'Dell, chair

          "Portability in the Unix World"
          Mike O'Dell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

          "A Tutorial on C Portability"
          Michael Tilson, Human Computing Resources Corporation

          "IS/3: A Compatible Extension of UNIX System III"
          Steven Zucker, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation

F4      Standardization
        Heinz Lycklama, chair

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