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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