Call for papers for Winter 1985 USENIX Technical Conference

[Lsk Katz]

Mon Oct 8 12:59:05 PDT 1984



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                               CALL FOR PAPERS
                   Winter 1985 USENIX Technical Conference

                     January 23-25  (Wednesday - Friday)
                        Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas

                       Abstracts due November 16, 1984


   Program Chair:                 Program Committee:
   Charisse Castagnoli                    Tom Ferrin   UCSF
                                       Steve Johnson   Bell Labs
                                            Lou Katz   Metron Computerware
   Tutorial Co-ordinator:                  Lewis Law   Harvard
   Michael Tilson                        Alan Nemeth   Prime Computer
   Human Computing Resources        Deborah Scherrer   mt Xinu
                                         Waldo Wedel   NBI



     This conference will be slightly shorter than previous conferences, with
an emphasis on sessions of a highly technical and more interactive nature.  To
encourage interchange between attendees and speakers, we plan to schedule
panels and semi-formal workshops as well as formal papers.  Suggestions for
topics and speakers for these are being solicited.  Because of the brevity and
interactive nature of this conference, no proceedings will be published.

Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:

 o Kernel enhancement, performance, real-time modifications

 o Networks and distributed processing

 o Hardware:  evaluations, modifications for UNIX, design issues for support-
   ing UNIX

 o Operating systems architecture

 o Programming languages and environments

 o Mail, news, and uucp:  transport systems, addressing, routing, user inter-
   faces, legal issues, USENET problems and solutions

 o Computer graphics

 o Applications:  CAI, system management and monitoring, real-time projects,
   novel database systems approaches

 o System comparisons:  4.2BSD, System V.2, 2.9 BSD, etc.

 o Standards and portability:  kernel, commands, library, languages

 o Future directions:  security, standards, trends and predictions










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     Abstracts of papers should explain what is new and interesting about the
work and should be between 300 and 1000 words.  Proposals for panels and
workshops should explain the proposed thrust of the discussion and contain
suggestions for at least two members.  All submissions must include:

   Title of presentation, panel, or workshop
   Full name of author
   Institution or company
   U.S. mail address
   Network address, if available
   Phone number
   Special requirements:  audio-visual, room size, etc.


Schedule:

                Abstracts due:   November 16, 1984
   Notification of acceptance:   December 31, 1984


     Abstracts should be submitted to one of the addresses below, either by
U.S. or electronic mail.  Any electronic mail submissions received will be
immediately acknowledged, so try again if you do not receive an acknowledg-
ment.

   Charisse Castagnoli
   Teknekron Infoswitch Corp.
   1784 Firman Drive
   Richardson, TX  75081

   allegra!convex!infoswx!usenix
   convex!infoswx!charisse at rice.arpa





























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