USENIX AGENDA

kolstad at convex.UUCP kolstad at convex.UUCP
Thu Jan 10 04:07:00 AEST 1985


Here's the USENIX AGENDA as it stands on Wednesday, January 9.  I
hope there are no surprises here.  If there are, my phone number
is 214-669-3700:

                                   AGENDA

                          Thursday, January 24, 1985

                               Plenary Session


Thursday (8:30 am - 9:30 am)   Conference Coordinator: John Donnelly, Denelcor
                     Program Chair:  Charisse Castagnoli, Teknekron Infoswitch
                      Program Chair:  Rob Kolstad, CONVEX Computer Corporation

Opening Remarks
     Conference organizers and USENIX board

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Whither the Gurus
     Rob Kolstad, Convex Computer Corporation


                                Satellite News


Thursday (9:30 am-10:20 am)Chair: Lou Katz, University of California, Berkeley

Netnews via Satellite:  A Progress Report (12/84)
     Lauren Weinstein, Vortex Technology

Research into Liability Issues in Netnews Transmission
     Susan Nycum, Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett


                            Kernel Implementation


Thursday (10:30 am - 11:45 am)  Chair: John Quarterman, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Porting the 4.2BSD UNIX Virtual Memory Subsystem
     Jim Mankovich & Rob Kolstad, Convex Computer Corp.

A Multiple CPU Version of the UNIX Kernel
     Eric J. Finger, Michael M. Krueger, Al Nugent, Masscomp

Tilde Trees in the UNIX Environment
     Douglas Comer, Ralph E. Droms, Purdue University


                                  Languages


Thursday (1:15 pm - 2:50 pm)      Chair: Steve Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories

DIBOLIX - An Implementation of DIBOL under UNIX
     Gary Aitken, Kenneth & Christine Scott, Finished Software & SHA
     Computers Inc.

Modula-2:  An Alternative to C for System Programming
     Morris Djavaheri & Stan Osborne, San Francisco State University

Concurrent C - An Overview
     N.H. Gehani & W.D. Roome, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Panel Discussion of C versus Other Languages on UNIX
     Steve Johnson & Michael Powell, AT&T Bell Laboratories & DEC


                               User Interfaces


Thursday (3:10 pm - 4:10 pm)    Chair: Alfred Correira, Computer Thought Corp.

Development of a Compiler for the Bourne Shell
     Vincent Kasten & Paul Ruel, Concentric Associates, Inc.

Access - A Program to Interpret Pathname Access Permissions for UNIX
     Steven J. Mahler & David A. Curry, Purdue University

A High-Performance Model for 2-D Alphanumeric Display Generation
     Paul Bame, Hewlett-Packard


                                 Performance


Thursday (4:10 pm - 5:15 pm)     Chair: Tom Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco

Monitoring System and Process Performance
     William J. Meyers, SCI Systems

Interpreting UNIX Benchmarks
     John Saxer, CIE Systems


                           Friday, January 25, 1984


                                  Networking


Friday (8:30 am - 10:10 am)  Chair: Joe Kalash, University of California, Berkeley

Implementing XNS Protocols for 4.2BSD
     James O'Tool, Chris Torek, Mark Weiser, University of Maryland

UNIX Kernel Networking Support and the LINCS Communications Architecture
     Joseph E. Requa, Lawrence Livermore

Transparent Integration of UNIX and MS-DOS
     C. Kline, G. Popek, J. Rothschild, R. Schulz, J.  Uttal,  Locus
     Computing Corp.

Overview of the Sun Network File System
     Dan Walsh, Bob Lyon, Gary Sager, J. M. Chang, D.  Goldberg,  S.
     Kleiman, T. Lyon, R. Sandberg, and P. Weiss, Sun Microsystems


                           Standards and Directions


Friday (10:30 am - 12:00 pm)     Chair: John Chambers, Microelectronics Center

Latent Source Bugs and UNIX System Portability
     Alan Filipski, Motorola Microsystems

The Clipboard Data Interchange Facility
     Robert T. Nicholson, Sydis Inc.

Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core
     Ian Darwin & Geoff Collyer, University of Toronto

A Capability Based Protection Mechanism Under UNIX
     Daniel Klein, The Avatar Corporation


                       Software Tools and Applications


Friday (1:30 pm - 3:10 pm)           Chair: John Trudeau, Teknekron Infoswitch

An Overview of the SETOPT Command Line Option Parser Generator
     Gary Perlman, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Geritol for Old Programs or Troff's Got a Lot of Life in It Yet!
     Robert Lawson, Avi  Naiman,  David  Slocombe,  Mathew  Zaleski,
     SoftQuad Inc.

Interactive Examination of a C Program with Cscope
     Joseph L. Steffen, AT&T Bell Laboratories

A Basic Direct Access Method for UNIX
     Robert R. Richards, Chemical Abstracts Service


                               UUCP and Netmail


Friday (3:30 pm - 4:30 pm)        Chair: Tom Watson, Scientific Machines Corp.

Status of the USENIX UUCP Project
     Karen Summers-Horton & Mark Horton, AT&T Bell Laboratories

A Parser for Electronic Mail Addresses
     Peter Honeyman & Pat E. Parseghian, Princeton University

Automatic Forwarding of Mail in CSNET
     Michael T. O'Brien, Bolt, Beranek and Newman

Notesfiles: Why You Should Use Them
     Raymond B. Essick IV, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana



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