USENIX SUMMER 1991 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION: TECHNICAL SESSIONS PROGRAM

[Carolyn Carr]

                          USENIX SUMMER 1991
                  TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

                " MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE"

                            June 10-14
                       Nashville, Tennessee

Note that, due to difficulties in scheduling the audio/visual equipment,
there have been some adjustments to the original schedule.   We have
tried to keep changes to a minimum, and do apologize for any
difficulties this may cause.

Also note that the program includes refereed papers, "invited
presentations" (i.e.  interactive worksessions, minitutorials, etc.),
and multimedia demos.
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                      **TECHNICAL SESSIONS**

              Wednesday through Friday, June 12 - 14

	WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

Wed 9 - 10  		PLENARY SESSION
	Introductory Remarks
	Deborah K. Scherrer, mt Xinu

	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Musical Dreams and Musical Reality
	Paul Lansky, Princeton University

Wed 10:30 - 12:30	A.  FILE SYSTEMS
	Long-Term Caching Strategies for Very Large Distributed File 
	Systems	
	Matt Blaze, Rafael Alonso, Princeton University

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

	Exploiting Multiple I/O Streams to Provide High Data-Rates
	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
	Edward C. Cheng, Edward Chang, Johannes Klein, Dora Lee, 
	Edward Lu, Alberto Lutgardo, Ron Obermarck
	Digital Equipment Corporation

Wed 10:30 - 12:30 	B.  HYPERMEDIA
	Overview of Hypertext  ["invited talk"]
	John J. Puttress, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Emerging Hypermedia Standards -
	Hypermedia Marketplace Prepares for HyTime and MHEG
	Brian D. Markey, Multimedia Engineering, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

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

Wed 2:00 - 3:30	 	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
	Spacio-Temporal Editing Using Multi-Layered Image 
	Synthesis (HDTV)
	Seiki Inoue, Masahiro Shibata,  NHK

	DIDDLY:  Digital's Integrated Distributed Database 
	LaboratorY
	David B. Wecker, Database Systems Research, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

Wed 2:00 - 3:30 	B.  MULTIMEDIA DATA RATES AND SYNCHRONIZATION
	Distributed Multimedia:  How Can the Necessary Data Rates be 
	Supported?	
	Michael Pasieka, Paul Crumley, Ann Marks, Ann Infortuna
	Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University

	Multimedia/Realtime Extensions for the Mach Operating 
	System	
	Jun Nakajima, Masatomo Yazaki, Hitoshi Matsumoto
	Human Interface Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories, LTD.

	A Testbed for Managing Digital Video and Audio Storage
	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

Wed 4:00 - 5:30 
	Neural Orchestration:  From Cortical Simulation to Cortical 
	Symphony	
	Matthew Witten, Robert E. Wyatt, University of Texas at Austin

	UNIX and MIDI for the Masses	["invited talk"]
	Tim Thompson, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Wed 4:00 - 5:30 	A.  MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING I
	MAEstro -- A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Environment
	George D. Drapeau, Stanford University
	Howard Greenfield, Sun Microsystems

	A Structure for Transportable, Dynamic Multimedia Documents	
	Dick C. A. Bulterman, Guido van Rossum, Robert van Liere, 
	CWI:  Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica

	Parsing Movies in Context
	Thomas G. Aguierre Smith, Natalio C. Pincever
	Interactive Cinema Group, The Media Lab, MIT

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

Thurs 9:00 - 10:30 	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMO
	The Architecture of the IRCAM Musical Workstation
	Eric Lindemann, Miller Puckette, Eric Viara, Maurizio De Cecco,
	Francois Dechelle, Bennett Smith
	Institut de Recherche et Coordination of Acoustique/Musique
	(IRCAM)

Thurs 9:00 - 10:30	B.  STRINGS AND THINGS
	Fast String Searching
	Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Daniel Sunday, Johns Hopkins University

	SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO
	David G. Korn, K.-Phong Vo
	AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Activity Server:  You can run but you can't hide	
	Sanjay Manandhar, MIT Media Lab

Thurs 11:00 - 12:30 	A.  USER INTERFACE
	8-1/2, the Plan 9 Window System
	Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories

	Integrating Gesture Recognition and Direct Manipulation
	Dean Rubine, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon 
	University

	A Minimalist Global User Interface	
	Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Thurs 11:00 - 12:30 	B. ["invited talks"]  
	From Blazon to PostScript	
	Daniel V. Klein, Software Engineering Inst., Carnegie Mellon 
	University

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

Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMO
	Software Technology at NeXT
	Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffe, Bryan 
	Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc.

Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 	B. ["invited talk"]  
	Overview of Motif	
	Ellis Cohen, Open Software Foundation

Thurs 4:00 - 5:30 	A.  MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING II
	Plastic Editors for Multimedia Documents
	Matthew E. Hodges, Digital Equipment Corporation
	Russell M. Sasnett, GTE Laboratories Inc.

	MediaView:  An Editable Multimedia Publishing System
	Developed with an Object-Oriented Toolkit	
	Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory

	Newspace: Mass Media and Personal Computing
	Walter Bender, Hakon Lie, Jonathan Orwant,
	Laura Teodosio, Nathan Abramson
	Electronic Publishing Group, MIT Media Lab

Thurs 4:00 - 5:30 	B.  ["invited panel"]
	WINDOW PAINS 
	Moderator:  Jon Steinhart, Consultant
	Panelists:  James Goslind, Sun Microsystems
		    Kee Hinkley, Alsalsa Software
		    Mark Linton, Stanford University
		    Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

Fri 9:00 - 10:30 	A.  MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
	The MIT Media Laboratory
	Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab

	Integrating Real-Time Video with Sun Workstations
	Jennifer Overholt, Dave Berry, Sun Microsystems

Fri 9:00 - 10:30 	B. ["invited talk"]  
	Scaling Up:  Automating System Administration	
	Doug Kingston, Morgan Stanley & Co.

Fri 11:00 - 12:30 	A.  SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSION
	Design Considerations for JPEG Video and 
	Synchronized Audio in a UNIX Workstation Environment
	Bernard I. Szabo, Gregory K. Wallace, Digital Equipment 
	Corporation

	Shared Video under UNIX	
	Paul G. Milazzo, BBN Systems and Technologies

	Compressed Executables:  An Exercise in Thinking Small
	Mark Taunton, Acorn Computers Ltd.

Fri 11:00 - 12:30 	B. ["invited talk"]
	Networks: Friend or Foe?	
	Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems

Fri 2:00 - 3:30 	A.  AUDIO AND CONFERENCING
	Experiences with Audio Conferencing Using the X Window 
	System, UNIX, and TCP/IP	
	Robert Terek, Joseph Pasquale
	University of California, San Diego

	Integrating Audio and Telephony in a Distributed Workstation 
	Environment	
	Susan Angebranndt, Richard L. Hyde, Daphne Huetu Loung
	Nagendra Siravara, Digital Equipment Corporation
	Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab

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

Fri 2:00 - 3:30 	B. ["invited talk"]
	C Programming Style	
	Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems

Fri 4:00 - 5:30 	A.  PANEL (refereed)
	Software and Intellectual Property -- Who Owns Your Work? 	
	Organizer:  Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corp.
	Moderator:  Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems
	Panelists:  Dan Appelman, Attorney, Heller, Ehrman, White &
		    McAuliffe
		    Len Tower, Free Software Foundation
		    Glen Self, Vice President of Research & Development,
                               EDS
		    Jack Biddle, President, Computers & Communications
		   		 Industry Assoc

Fri 4:00 - 5:30 	B.  MULTIMEDIA DEMO and WIPs
	A Workstation-based Multi-media Environment for Broadcast
	Television
	Keishi Kandori, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

	Works-in-Progress 	

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