Atlanta Summer 1986 USENIX Meeting Call for Papers

Mike O'Dell mo at seismo.CSS.GOV
Thu Jan 30 08:39:22 AEST 1986


			CALL FOR PAPERS

The Summer 1986 USENIX Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia,
June 9-13.  The Program Committee solicits papers and panel
sessions on any technical aspect of the UNIX Operating System including
related areas such as compilers and languages, networks, distributed
computation, and software technology.  Further, the Committee especially
solicits contributions in the following special areas (the descriptions
beyond the title are merely inspirational):

	- The Audio-Visual Unix
		Sound, Imagery, and Synthesis using UNIX

	- Computer Typography
		Troff, TeX, Postscript, and what comes next

	- User Interface Technology
		Why is writing a program to use a Window System like
		making leaded glass?

	- Electronic Mail Systems
		"Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave..."
		Design Issues, Protocols, and Implementations

	- Operating Systems Design
		The UNIX Kernel, Other Systems to Steal From,
		and Implementations for New Architectures

	- Remote Filesystems
		Do you live in a State or a State-less?

	- The Philosophy and Theology of UNIX
		Prospective and Retrospective Thoughts and Ruminations

The Conference Publication Schedule is as follows:

	Abstracts due.................. March 12, 1986
	Notification of acceptance..... March 28, 1986
	Camera-ready copy due.......... April 25, 1986

Abstracts should be at least 1000 words or 1-2 pages and convey the sense
of the final paper. The author should include his name, address,
telephone numbers, and network addresses attached to the submission.
The submissions will be acknowledged as received.  Network addresses
are particularly useful in the case of paper submissions.

The Program Committee requests that abstracts be sent via electronic
mail directly to:

	mo at seismo.arpa or seismo!mo 

Paper submissions may be sent to the following U.S. mail address:

	Mike O'Dell
	13110 Memory Lane
	Fairfax, VA 22033

	Attn: USENIX Program Committee

In case of delay in acknowledging electronic mail, or for additional
information, contact Mike O'Dell, Program Chairman, at (703) 471-0030
or (703) 378-8574.

---------- The Program Committee -------------

Mike O'Dell, Group L Corporation, Chair
John Chambers, MCC
Mike Hawley, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Sam Leffler, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Jim McKie, Bell Communications Research
Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Spencer Thomas, University of Utah Computer Science Dept.



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