USENIX SUMMER 1991 Technical Conference & Exhibition

[Carolyn Carr]

       	USENIX SUMMER 1991 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
		    Nashville, Tennessee

                MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE  


HOTEL REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Monday, May 6, 1991

PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Monday, May 20, 1991

The brochure containing full information on registration has just been
mailed and members should be receiving it shortly.  Non-members
can receive a brochure by contacting:

                        USENIX Conference Office
                        22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
                        El Toro, CA  92630
                        Telephone # (714) 588-8649
                        FAX # (714) 588-9706
                        email address:  judy at usenix.org

MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS EARLY!  Opryland Hotel and most other 
hotels in the area will be SOLD OUT due to the International Country 
Music Fan Fair (with the must-see Grand Masters Fiddlers Convention).

We encourage you to reserve your hotel rooms early - BEFORE MAY 6 -
even before you register for the conference.  Rooms will be difficult
to find after the May 6 deadline.  You can cancel your room reservation
up to 3 days prior to your arrival in Nashville and still get a full
refund.

Special rates have been arranged for USENIX attendees at the hotels
listed below.  Call the hotel of your choice DIRECTLY.  BE SURE TO
MENTION that you are attending the USENIX Conference/Exhibition to take
advantage of the group discount.  A one night's deposit is required
for each room reserved.

*Opryland Hotel (Headquarters)
 2800 Opryland Drive, Nashville, TN 37214
 615/889-1000

 "Traditional Room" rates:     Single:  $114	Double:  $129
 "Golden Terrace" room rates:  Single:  $144	Double   $159

*Shoney's Inn of Music Valley (Nearby with shuttle services available)
 2420 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN 37214
 615/885-4030

              Room Rates: Single or Double Room:  $84

*Sheraton Music City Hotel
 777 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
 615/885-2200

	      Room Rates:  Single or Double Room: $92

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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JUNE 12-14, 1991

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

9:00 - 10:00	Introductory Remarks
	Deborah K. Scherrer, mt Xinu Inc.

	KEYNOTE ADDRESS

	Musical Dreams and Musical Reality
	Paul Lansky, Princeton University

	Most of the music we hear either has some computer mediation
        (as in digital recording) or is created with the help of one
	cpu or another (particularly in popular music).  But what is
	only now emerging are ways of reconstructing our fundamental
	views of what music is all about.  Paul Lansky elucidates new
	musical concepts with detailed examples and with reference to
	new hardware and software capabilities.  One of the leading
	composers employing computer music synthesis, Paul Lansky is
	well known also as an author, critic, and theorist of the music
	of the future.

10:30 - 12:30

	A.  FILE SYSTEMS 
	Session Chair:  Eric Allman, University of California, Berkeley

	Long-Term Caching Strategies for Very Large Distributed File 
	Systems	[Refereed Paper]
	Matt Blaze, Rafael Alonso, Princeton University

	Management of Replicated Volume Location Data in the Ficus 
	Replicated File System [Refereed Paper]	
	Thomas W. Page, Jr., Richard G. Guy, John Heidemann, Wai 
	Mak, Gerald J. Popek, University of California, Los Angeles

	Swift:  A Storage Architecture for Large Objects [Refereed
	Paper] Luis-Felipe Cabrera, IBM Almaden Research Center and 
	Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

	An Open and Extensible Event-Based Transaction Manager [Refereed
	Paper] Edward C. Cheng, Edward Chang, Johannes Klein, Dora Lee, 
	Edward Lu, Alberto Lutgardo, Ron Obermarck, Digital 
	Equipment Corporation

10:30 - 12:30

	B.  HYPERMEDIA
	Session Chair:  Sharon Murrel, AT&T Bell Laboratories
 
	Overview of Hypertext [Invited Talk]	
	John J. Puttress, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Emerging Hypermedia Standards [Refereed Paper]	
	Brian D. Markey, Multimedia Engineering, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

	Multimedia Presentation System "Harmony" with Temporal 
	and Active Media [Referred Paper]	
	Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Shinji Shimojo, Toshio Matsuura, Shojiro 
	Nishio, Hideo Miyahara, Osaka University

2:00 - 3:30
	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
	Session Chair:  Jun Murai, Keio University

	Spacio-Temporal Editing Using Multi-Layered Image 
	Synthesis (HDTV) [Multimedia Demo]
	Seiki Inoue, NHK

	DIDDLY:  Digital's Integrated Distributed Database 
	LaboratorY [Multimedia Demo]
	Ellen Lary, Database Systems Research, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

2:00 - 3:30
	B.

	Can You Hear What I See:  Cortical Simulation to Cortical 
	Symphony [Refereed Paper]	
	Matthew Witten, Center for High Performance Computing, 
	University of Texas

	UNIX and MIDI for the Masses [Invited Talk]	
	Tim Thompson, AT&T Bell Laboratories

4:00 - 5:30

	A.  MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING I
	Session Chair:  Mike Hawley, MIT Media Lab.

	MediaView:  A Multimedia Publishing System Developed with 
	an Object-Oriented Toolkit [Refereed Paper]	
	Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory

	A Structure for Transportable, Dynamic Multimedia 
	Documents [Refereed Paper]	
	Dick C. A. Bulterman, Guido van Rossum, Robert van Liere, 
	OCWI:  Center for Mathematics and Computer Science

	Parsing Movies in Context [Refereed Paper]
	Natalio C. Pincever, Thomas G. Aguierre Smith, Interactive 
	Cinema Group, MIT Media Lab

4:00 - 5:30

	B.  MULTIMEDIA DATA RATES AND SYNCHRONIZATION
	Session Chair:  Charles Roberts, Hewlett-Packard

	Distributed Multimedia:  How Can the Necessary Data Rates be 
	Supported? [Refereed Paper]	
	Michael Pasieka, Information Technology Center, 
	Carnegie Mellon University

	Multimedia/Realtime Extensions for the Mach Operating 
	System [Refereed Paper]	
	Jun Nakajima, Masatomo Yazaki, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Fujitsu 
	Laboratories LTD.

	A Testbed for Managing Digital Video and Audio Storage
	[Refereed Paper]
	P. Venkat Rangan, Walter A. Burkhard, Robert W. Bowdidge, 
	Harrick M. Vin, John W. Lindwall, Kashun Chan, Ingvar A. 
	Aaberg, Linda M. Yamamoto, Ian G. Harris, University of 
	California, San Diego

THURSDAY, JUNE 13
9:00 - 10:30
	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMO
	Session Chair:  Larry Stead, Bellcore
	
	The IRCAM Musical Workstation [Multimedia Demo]
	Eric Lindemann, IRCAM

9:00 - 10:30

	B.  STRINGS AND THINGS
	Session Chair:  Alan Nemeth, Digital Equipment Corporation

	A String Search Algorithm Generator [Refereed Paper]
	Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Daniel Sunday, Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab

	SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO [Refereed Paper]
	Kiem-Phong Vo, David G. Korn, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	8-1/2, the Plan 9 Window System [Refereed Paper]
	Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories

11:00 - 12:30

	A.  USER INTERFACE
	Session Chair:  Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit

	A Minimalist Global User Interface [Refereed Paper]	
	Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Integrating Gesture Recognition and Direct Manipulation
	[Refereed Paper]
	Dean Rubine, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon 
	University

	Activity Server:  you can run but you can't hide
	[Refereed Paper]	
	Sanjay Manandhar, MIT Media Lab


11:00 - 12:30

	B.  

	From Blazon to PostScript [Invited Talk]	
	Daniel V. Klein, Software Engineering Inst., Carnegie Mellon 
	University

	The KornShell Past, Present and Future [Invited Talk]
	David G. Korn, AT&T Bell Laboratories

2:00 - 3:30
	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMO

	Software Technology at NeXT [Multimedia Demo]
	Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffee, Bryan 
	Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc.

2:00 - 3:30
	B.  

	Overview of Motif [Invited Talk]	
	Ellis Cohen, Open Software Foundation

4:00 - 5:30

	A.  MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING II
	Session Chair:  Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corporation

	Mutable Editors for Multimedia [Refereed Paper]	
	Matthew Hodges, Digital Equipment Corporation
	Russell Sasnett, GTE Laboratories

	MAEstro -- A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Environment
	[Refereed Paper]
	George D. Drapeau, Stanford University

	Mass Media and Personal Computing [Refereed Paper]	
	Walter Bender, Hakon Lie, Jonathan Orwant, Laura Teodosio, 
	Electronic Publishing Group, MIT Media Lab

4:00 - 5:30

	B.  PANEL
	WINDOW PAINS: What are window systems and where are they going?
	How should they support graphics, color and new kinds of input
	devices?  What should be built into the window system?  How
	has early standardization (of frame buffers, pixel representa-
	tion) influenced our ability to design and extend window
	systems?  James Gosling, Jon Steinhart and Rob Pike will be
	among the panelists at your service.


FRIDAY, JUNE 14

9:00 - 10:30
	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
	Session Chair:  Jeff Peck, Sun Microsystems

	The MIT Media Laboratory [Multimedia Demo]
	Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab

	Integrating Real-Time Video with Sun Workstations
	[Multimedia Demo]
	Jennifer Overholt, Multimedia Group, Sun Microsystems

9:00 - 10:30
	B.  
	Scaling Up:  Automating System Administration [Invited Talk]	
	Doug Kingston, Morgan Stanley & Co.

11:00 - 12:30
	A.  SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSION
	Session Chair:  Gretchen Phillips, State University of New York 
	at Buffalo

	Experiences Integrating JPEG-Compressed Video and 
	Synchronized Audio in a UNIX Workstation Environment
	[Refereed Paper]
	Bernard I. Szabo, Gregory K. Wallace, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

	Shared Video under UNIX	[Refereed Paper]
	Paul G. Milazzo, BBN Systems and Technologies

	Compressed Executables:  An Exercise in Thinking Small
	[Refereed Paper]
	Mark Taunton, Acorn Computers Ltd.

11:00 - 12:30

	B.
	Networks: Friend or Foe? [Invited Talk]	
	Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems

2:00 - 3:30

	A.  AUDIO AND CONFERENCING
	Session Chair:  Tom Duff, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Experiences with Audio Conferencing Using the X Window 
	System, UNIX, and TCP/IP [Refereed Paper]	
	Robert Terek, Joseph Pasquale
	University of California, San Diego

	Integrating Audio and Telephony in a Distributed Workstation 
	Environment [Refereed Paper]	
	Susan Angebranndt, Richard Hyde, Daphne Loung, Nagendra 
	Siravara, Digital Equipment Corporation
	Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab

	A Brief Overview of the DCS Distributed Conferencing System
	[Refereed Paper]
	R. E. Newman-Wolfe, C. L. Ramirez,  H. Pelimuhandiram, 
	D. L. Wilson, M. Webb, University of Florida

2:00 - 3:30
	B.
	C Programming Style [Invited Talk]	
	Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems

4:00 - 5:30
	A.  PANEL
	Software -- Who Owns Your Work? 	

	This lively debate will cover intellectual property issues such
        as patent protection of software algorithms, novel copyright
        claims such as look-and-feel, who should own information, who
	should or shouldn't be denied access to it, and who should
	build on it.

4:00 - 5:30
	B.  
	Session Chair:  Lisa Bloch, Sun User Group

	Virtual Reality for a Golf Tournament [Multimedia Demo]
	Keishi Kandori, Asahi Broadcasting Co.

	Works-in-Progress 	

	These reports provide researchers with 10 minutes to speak 
	on current work and receive valuable feedback.  Present your 
	interim results, novel approaches, or newly-completed work.  
	Open to all.  Schedule your session by contacting Sharon 
	Murrel or Andrew Hume during the conference.

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