Last Call for Papers -- June Conference

Deborah Scherrer scherrer at mtxinu.COM
Wed Jan 30 11:48:21 AEST 1991


				      
		    MULTIMEDIA - FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
				      
	      Summer 1991 Technical Conference and Exhibition

			      June 10-14, 1991
			       OPRYLAND HOTEL
			    Nashville, Tennessee
				      

			      CALL FOR PAPERS

		  **** FEB 6 -- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ****

We invite submission of your papers and multimedia presentations for the
technical track. Please target a sophisticated audience, particularly
knowledgeable of operating system issues but keenly interested in new 
and exciting projects in many areas. Suggested topics include, though 
are not limited to:

    Multimedia, applications and research:
	systems integrating voice, video, audio, touch, or music
	data compression technology
	user interface/human factors

    Hypermedia:
	authoring systems
	hypermedia/multimedia documents

    Operating systems issues:
	multiprocessor systems
	distrubuted systems
	secure systems
	fault tolerant systems
	systems for novel architectures
	distributed file systems

    Communications and Networking:
	protocols
	performance
	administration and security

    Programming environment:
	user interfaces, windowing, graphics
	compilers and language technology
	software development and other support tools
	testing and debugging

    Sophisticated Applications:
	databases
	transaction processing
	instructional
	scientific, biological, medical, etc.


Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive instructions for the
preparation of final papers, to be published in the conference proceedings.
We are looking into possibilities for making audio and video materials
available as well.


*** FORM OF SUBMISSIONS

Submissions to the technical track should represent new work and be 
in the form of an ** extended abstract and outline **. Be complete enough
to provide details of your approach and give the committee confidence in the
final paper. Full papers are accepted as well. A submission should be 
from ** 3-5 pages **  and include:

    1. Authors name(s), postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.

    2. Abstract: 100-300 words.

    3. Outline: 2-5 pages giving enough details of the approach or algorithms 
	to allow the committee to understand and judge the submission.

    4. References and citations to relevant literature. Show you are aware of 
	previous work (and not reinventing the wheel).

    5. Time needed for presentation. Slots are usually 30 minutes but 
	adjustment can be made when in-depth background or audio-visual 
	support is desirable.

    6. Audio-visual presentation description and requirements. We are happy 
	to provide assistance and equipment in making your presentation as 
	audio and visually appealing as possible.

    Abstracts Due: February 6, 1991
    Notification to Authors: March  4, 1991
    Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 19, 1991

Please submit one hard-copy and one electronic-copy to:
	Deborah K. Scherrer
	Nashville USENIX Technical Program
	mt Xinu
	2560 Ninth Street
	Berkeley, CA 94710
	
	Internet: nashville at usenix.org
	UUCP: uunet!usenix.org!nashville
	Telephone: (415) 644-0146
	FAX:       (415) 644-2680

    Be sure to include your postal and electronic mail
    addresses in all correspondence.

USENIX Conference Technical Program Committee:

Eric P. Allman		UC Berkeley		
Frances Brazier		Vrije Universiteit	
Tom Duff		AT&T Bell Laboratories 	
Daniel E. Geer		Digital Equipment Corp.	
Stanley P. Hanks 	Baylor College of Medicine 
Michael Hawley		MIT Media Lab		
Jun Murai		Keio University		
Alan G. Nemeth		Digital Equipment Corp.	
Jeff Peck		Sun Microsystems, Inc.	
Charles E. Perkins 	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 
Gretchen Phillips	SUNY - Buffalo		
Charles S. Roberts	Hewlett-Packard 	
Larry Stead		Bellcore		
Avadis Tevanian		NeXT, Inc.		

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Deborah Scherrer                                 scherrer at mtxinu.com
Mt Xinu, Inc.                               ..!uunet!mtxinu!scherrer
2560 Ninth Street
Berkeley, CA  94710                                     415-644-0146



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