USENIX 1991 Winter Technical Conference

Carolyn Carr carolyn at usenix.ORG
Fri Nov 16 12:24:18 AEST 1990


USENIX Winter Conference Program
Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas Texas
January 21-25, 1991

TUTORIALS 

Monday, January 21

An Introduction to the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
Richard Stevens, Consultant
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An Introduction To C++
Robert Murray, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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UNIX System V Release 4.0 Internals I - File, VM,
				and Process Subsystems
Steve Buroff, AT&T; Michael Scheer, ProLogic Corporation.
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Programming The X Window System, Version 11
Oliver Jones, Saber Software, Inc.
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An Introduction to 4.3/4.4BSD Internals
Thomas W. Doeppner Jr., Brown University
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Mach Overview 
Avadis Tevanian, Jr., NeXT, Inc.
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An Introduction to the Internals of the GNU C Compiler (GCC)
Richard M. Stallman, GNU Project
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UNIX on Modern Architectures
Curt F. Schimmel, Amdahl Key Computer Labs
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An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Dave Taenzer, US West Advanced Technologies
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UNIX Technologies of Japan
Jun Murai , Keio University
Hiromichi Kogure, UNIX System Laboratories Pacific, Ltd.
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Network Security
Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corporation; Jon A. Rochlis &
Jeffrey I. Schiller, MIT
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Tuesday, January 22

UNIX Network Programming
Richard Stevens, Consultant
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Using C++ Effectively
Andrew Koenig, AT&T Bell Labs
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UNIX System V Release 4.0 Internals II
		  Session & Streams and Subsystems and Code 
Steve Buroff, AT&T; Mike Scheer, ProLogic Corporation.
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An Introduction to Programming With the X Toolkit Intrinsics
Paul Kimball & Chuck Price, Digital Equipment Corporation
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New Kernel Facilities in 4.3BSD-Reno
Marshall Kirk McKusick and Michael J. Karels, U. C. Berkeley
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Mach Virtual Memory Internals
Nawaf Bitar, Hewlett-Packard Company
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Advanced Topics in Systems Administration
Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado
Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems
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Programming in PERL
Instructor:	Tom Christiansen, CONVEX Computer Corporation
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Parallel Programming and Scalable Software
Stephen C. Johnson, nCUBE
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Network Computing System and Architecture:  Overview and
		Tutorial in Writing Distributed Applications
Nathaniel Mishkin & Paul J. Leach, Hewlett Packard;
		Richard Mackey, Open Software Foundation
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Tuesday, January 22 - Half day

C++ Programming Style
Tom Cargill, Consultant
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C++ Tactics
Robert Murray, AT&T Bell Laboratories

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Special Note to Full Time Students:  A limited number of spaces
in each class have been reserved for full time students at a special 
fee.  Please contact the Conference office for full details.
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USENIX Association 1991 Winter Conference
Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas Texas
January 21-25, 1991

                   PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM
                  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

  Wednesday, January 23


   9:00 - 10:30   OPENING REMARKS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
                   Lori S. Grob, Chorus systemes

                  Keynote Address
                  Eben Ostby, Pixar
                  Eben Ostby joined the Pixar Animation Research and
                  Development Group (then the Lucasfilm Computer
                  Graphics Project) in 1983.  With a background in
                  computer science in design, Mr. Ostby has designed
                  and implemented animation and modelling systems for
                  three-dimensional computer graphics.  He has also
		  worked on a number of films.  He was Technical
                  Director on Knickknack, Tin Toy and Red's Dream,
                  and a technical contributor to Luxo jr, Young
                  Sherlock Holmes, Flags and Waves and The Adventures
                  of Andre and Wally B.  He produced and directed the
                  film Beach Chair, a computer animated mini-travelogue,
                  which is considered a classic in its genre.  His
                  current research areas include the procedural
                  generation of plaids.

  11:00 - 12:30   KERNELS 1       Chair:  Barry Gleeson

                  Processors, Priority and Policy: Mach Scheduling for
                  New Environments
                   David L. Black, Carnegie Mellon University

                  A 2nd Generation Kernelized UNIX
                   Marc Guillemont, Jim Lipkis, Doug Orr, Marc Rozier,
                   Chorus systemes

                  Partitioned Multiprocessors and the Coexistence of
                  Heterogeneous Operating System Environments
                   Nick Vasilatos, Concurrent Computer Corporation

  11:00 - 12:00   INVITED TALK: TOOLKIT GRAPHICS
                          
                   Doug Blewett, AT&T Bell Laboratories

  12:30 -  2:00   Lunch

   2:00 -  3:30   FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE         Chair: Trent Hein

                  Extent-like Performance from a UNIX File System
                   Larry McVoy and Steve Kleiman, Sun Microsystems

                  Smart Filesystems
                   C. Staelin and H. Garcia-Molina, Princeton
                  University

		  Lessons Learned Tuning the 4.3BSD Reno
                  Implementation of the NFS Protocol
                   Rick Macklem, University of Guelph


  2:00 - 3:00     INVITED TALK: TROFF MACRO PROGRAMMING
                   Sharon Murrel, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
		   Jaap Akkerhuis, mt Xinu

  4:00 - 5:30     THREADS & NETWORKS      Chair: Deborah Scherrer

                  Sun OS Multi-thread Architecture
                   S.R. Kleiman, M.L. Powell, S. Barton, D. Shah,
                   D. Stein and  M. Weeks, Sun Microsystems

                  Bringing the C Libraries With Us Into A Multithreaded
                  Future
                   Michael B. Jones, Carnegie Mellon University

                  A Tree-Based Packet Routing Table for Berkeley UNIX
                   Keith Sklower, CSRG, University of CA - Berkeley

  4:00 - 5:30     INVITED TALK: UNIX SECURITY TODAY AND TOMORROW PANEL

                   Pat Bahn, organizer, GTE Government Systems
                   Bill Cheswick, moderator, AT&T Bell Laboratories

  Thursday, January 24

   9:00 - 10:30   INTERFACE TOOLS         Chair: Tom Duff

                  An X11 Toolkit Based on the Tcl Language
                   John K. Ousterhout, University of CA - Berkeley

                  User Interface Construction Based On Parallel and
                  Sequential Execution Specification
                   Toshiyuki Masui, Carnegie Mellon University

                  $HOME MOVIE - A Home Movie System for Producing Demos
                  on a Sun
                   Stephen A. Uhler, Bellcore Computer Systems Research
                   Division

   9:00 - 10:30   INVITED TALK:  SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION FORUM - Part 1

                   Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems

  11:00 - 12:30   AWK PAPER AND KERNEL PANEL

                  Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language
                   Henry Spencer, University of Toronto

                  Panel -  Kernel Directions (1 Hour)
                   Rick Rashid, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Mike Powell,
                   Sun Microsystems,  Michael Karels, University of
                   CA- Berkeley, Michel Gien, Chorus systemes,
                   Moderator TBA

  11:00 - 12:30   INVITED TALK:  SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION FORUM - Part 2

                   Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems

  12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

   2:00 - 3:30    PROGRAMMING TOOLS        Chair: Marc Donner

                  Program Loading in OSF/1
                   Harminder G. Singh, Larry W. Allen, Kevin G. Wallace
                   and Melanie B. Weaver, Open Software Foundation

                  Compiling from Saved State: Fast Incremental
                  Compilation with Traditional UNIX Compilers
                   Alastair Fyfe, Ivan Soleimanipour and Vijay Tatkar,
                   Sun Microsystems

                  A New Hash Package for UNIX
                  Margo Seltzer and Ozan Yigit, University of CA -
                  Berkeley

   2:00 - 3:00    INVITED TALK:  USING DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS
                   Vinny Cahill, University of Dublin

   4:00 - 5:30    FILE SYSTEMS    Chair:  Steve Bourne

                  Evolutionary Path to Network Storage Management
                   Antony W. Foster, Robert K. Israel, Arun Taylor,
                    Tracy M. Taylor, Neil Webber, Epoch Systems

                  A Highly Available Network File Server
                   Anupan Bhide and Stephen P. Morgan, IBM Research;
                   Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy, Rice University

                  The OSF/1 UNIX Filesystem (UFS)
                   Susan LoVerso, Noemi Paciorek and Alan Langerman,
                   Encore Computer Corp; George Feinberg, Open Software
                   Foundation

   4:00 - 5:30    WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION        Chair:  Lisa Bloch

  Friday, January 25

   9:00 - 10:30   OBJECTS IN ACTION       Chair:  Michel Gien

                  Advancing Files to Attributed Software Objects
                   Andreas Lampen, Technische Universitat Berlin

                  Organizing Tools in a Uniform Environment Framework
                   Axel Mahler, Technische Universitat Berlin

                  The Process File System and Process Model in UNIX
                  System V
                   Roger Faulkner and  Ron Gomes, Sun Microsystems

  11:00 - 12:30   INSECURITY              Chair: Michael Karels

                  Limitations of the Kerberos Authentication System
                   Michael Merritt and Steven Bellovin, AT&T Bell
		   Laboratories
                  UNIX Password Encryption Considered Insecure
                   Philip Leong and Chris Tham, University of Sydney

                  An Authentication Mechanism for USENET
                   Matt Bishop, Dartmouth College

  11:00 - 12:00   DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS PANEL
                   Mike Kazar, Transarc; John Ousterhout, University of
                   CA - Berkeley;  Rafael Alonso, Princeton University;
                   Brian Palowski, Sun Microsystems Moderator: Peter
                   Honeyman  IFS/ University of Michigan

  12:30 -  2:00   Lunch

  2:00 -  3:30   KERNEL II               Chair: Jan Edler

                  An Experimental Implementation of Draft POSIX
                  Asynchronous I/O
                   A. Lester Buck and Robert A. Coyne, Jr., IBM Federal
                   Sector Div.

                  The Parallelization of UNIX System V Release 4.0
                   Mark Campbell, Richard Barton, Jim Browning, et.al.,
                   NCR Corporation

                  An Overview of the Integrity S2 NonStop-Ux Operating
                  System
                   Peter Norwood, Tandem Computers

   2:00 -  3:00   INVITED TALK: DEBUGGING X AND X TOOLKIT APPLICATIONS

                  Paul E. Kimball, Digital Equipment Corporation

   4:00 -  5:30   DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING   Chair: Max Meredith Vasilatos

                  DRUMS: A Distributed Statistical Server for STARS
                   Andy Bond and John H. Hine, Victoria University of
                   Wellington

                  Experience Building a Process Migration Subsystem for
                  UNIX
                   Dan Freedman, University of Calgary

                  A Modular Architecture for Distributed Transaction
                  Processing
                   Michael Wayne Young, Dean Thompson and Elliot Jaffe,
                   Transarc Corporation

  For additional USENIX conference information, or pre-registration
  materials contact:

                  USENIX CONFERENCE OFFICE
                  22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
                  El Toro, CA  92630
                  Tel: (714) 588-8649
                  FAX: (714) 588-9706

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        	USENIX Association Student Attendee Grant
			Application Form

The Association will award a limited number of travel and accommodation
grants to full-time students interested in attending the USENIX
Winter 1991 Conference Program (January 21-25, 1990) in Dallas, TX.
Interested full-time students should return this form
together with a copy of their current student identification to:
If you have not yet received information about registration,
please contact the USENIX  Conference Office at tel: 714-588-8649.

		Ellie Young, Executive Director
			USENIX Association
		2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215
			Berkeley, CA 94710

Applications must arrive by January 2, 1990.

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