Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.org.sug,comp.org.uniforum Path: pa.dec.com!decwrl!uunet!usenix!toni From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Subject: USENIX 1994 WINTER CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFO Message-ID: Reply-To: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 00:42:05 GMT Lines: 1043 Xref: pa.dec.com comp.org.usenix:4767 comp.org.sug:1080 comp.org.uniforum:200 **************************************************************** REGISTER NOW!! CONFERENCE BEGINS IN TWO WEEKS!!! **************************************************************** USENIX WINTER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE January 17-21, 1994 San Francisco Hilton San Francisco, California URGENT NOTICE: SAN FRANCISCO HILTON HOTEL DISCOUNT STILL OFFERED ******************************************************************** For those of you who plan to attend our Winter Technical Conference in San Francisco, Jan 17-21, and have not yet made your hotel arrangements, please call the headquarters hotel, SF Hilton (see below) immediately. They are still guaranteeing the USENIX room rate. We are still seriously below our estimated number of sleeping rooms that we guarantee the hotel in our contract, and are being threatened with enforcement of penalty clauses if the room guarantee is unmet. USENIX conferences place a heavy demand on hotel meeting space. During a typical week-long conference, we need many rooms to offer the 15-20 tutorials, as well as having parallel tracks for several days (some of which have over 1,000 attendees). The cost of renting this space in a city like San Francisco is astronomical. What USENIX does is make an agreement with a hotel that, in exchange for a guaranteed minimum number of rooms rented by attendees, the hotel will throw in meeting space and other services at no direct cost to USENIX. This agreement is complicated and, because the number of facilities in the U.S. where we can hold a meeting is rather limited, we typically sign these contracts five years in advance of a conference. These contracts contain penalty clauses (often in the $50,000-$100,000 range) if we fail to fulfill our commitment to the hotel. The hotel industry is fairly close knit, and word gets out quickly about groups that can't live up to their contracts. Such groups may have trouble getting space, or may have to pay a higher rate. Therefore, we ask that you make your room reservation at the SF Hilton soon, and state that you are attending the USENIX Conference. That way we make our commitment and you will be assured of getting the discounted USENIX-rate below. We also encourage roomsharing (comp.org.usenix.roomshare can be used for this purpose). Ellie Young Executive Director, USENIX Association ------------------------------------------------------------------ San Francisco Hilton (Headquarters) Telephone 1-415-771-1400 or Tollfree- U.S. or Canada: 1-800-HILTONS SINGLE $120 / DOUBLE $140 333 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94142-0868 To guarantee your reservation, you must provide a major credit card. To cancel your reservation and receive a refund, you must give notice at least 24 hours in advance of your planned arrival date. *********************************************************************** USENIX WINTER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION This posting details the important information about the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference, including: - Conference schedule of activities and events - Vendor Display - Special hotel rates and airfares -- how to make your reservations - Upcoming USENIX Symposia and Conferences - How to register for the conference - Conference Registration Form IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER PRE-REGISTRATION SAVINGS DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 27, 1993 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE PLEASE NOTE! THE USUAL FORMAT OF THE USENIX CONFERENCE IS REVERSED IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE TECHNICAL SESSIONS NOW PRECEDE THE TUTORIAL PROGRAM. OTHER CONFERENCE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED ACCORDINGLY. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Monday, January 17 9:00 am-5:30 pm Tuesday, January 18 9:00 am-5:30 pm Wednesday, January 19 9:00 am-5:30 pm TUTORIALS Thursday, January 20 9:00 am-5:00 pm Friday, January 21 9:00 am-5:00 pm BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS Monday, January 17 6:00 pm -10:00 pm Tuesday, January 18 8:00 pm -10:00 pm Wednesday, January 19 6:00 pm -10:00 pm Thursday, January 20 6:00 pm -10:00 pm PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS/VENDOR DISPLAY Tuesday, January 18 12:00 pm-5:00 pm Wednesday, January 19 10:00 am-2:00 pm OPENING RECEPTION/KICKOFF Sunday January 16 6:00 pm-9:00 pm USENIX CONFERENCE RECEPTION AT THE EXPLORATORIUM Tuesday January 18 6:15 pm-8:15 pm ON-SITE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION HOURS Sunday January 16 4:00 pm-9:00 pm Monday January 17 7:30 am-6:00 pm Tuesday January 18 7:30 am-6:00 pm Wednesday, January 19 7:30 am-6:00 pm Thursday, January 20 7:30 am-5:00 pm Friday January 21 7:30 am-10:00 am PRE-REGISTRATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. AND YOU'LL SAVE MONEY TOO! Pre-Register by December 27 to save up to $100 WINTER 1994 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS PROGRAM CHAIR: Jeffrey Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rafael Alonso, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Brian N. Bershad, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore Frederick S. Glover, Digital Equipment Corporation UNIX* Software Group Judith E. Grass, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc. Samuel J. Leffler, Silicon Graphics, Inc. D. R. McAuley, University of Cambridge David Presotto, AT&T Bell Laboratories Margo Seltzer, Harvard University Cathy L. Watkins, Intel Corporation, O/S Technology Engineering INVITED TALKS COORDINATORS: Brent Welch, Xerox PARC and Bob Gray, US WEST Advanced Technologies WORKS-IN-PROGRESS COORDINATOR Peg Schafer, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. GURU IS IN COORDINATOR Ed Gould, Digital Equipment Corporation TERMINAL ROOM COORDINATOR Gretchen Phillips, State University of New York at Buffalo TUTORIAL PROGRAM COORDINATOR Daniel V. Klein, USENIX VENDOR DISPLAY COORDINATOR Peter Mui, Consultant MEETING PLANNER Judith DesHarnais, USENIX USENIX ASSOCIATION OFFICE WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS: Short, pithy and fun, Work-in-Progress (WIP) Reports introduce interesting new or ongoing work. If you have interesting work you would like to share or a cool idea that is not ready to be published, a WIP Report is for you! We are particularly interested in presenting student work. To reserve your presentation slot, contact Peg Schafer via e-mail to wips@usenix.org BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS The always popular Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BOFs) bring together devotees of many varied discip- lines for demonstrations, discussion, announcements, and sharing of strategies. BOFs are offered Monday through Thursday even- ings. BOFs may be scheduled on-site. We prefer you schedule BOFs in advance by telephone to the USENIX Conference Office at 1-714-588-8649 or via e-mail to conference@usenix.org THE GURU IS IN: Have a question thatUs been bothering you? Try asking a USENIX guru! Noted experts from the USENIX community will be available to answer questions, each in their own area of expertise. The schedule, including the names of the volunteer gurus and their areas of expertise, will be posted at the confer- ence. The Guru is IN is being coordinated by Ed Gould <> of Digital Equipment Corporation. CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: A copy of bound tutorial materials for the session(s) in which you registered is included in the regis- tration fee. One copy of the Conference Proceedings, which con- tains all refereed papers, and one copy of the Invited Talks Sub- mitted Notes may be picked up at the conference by all who re- gistered for the technical sessions. After the conference, the Conference Proceedings are available for purchase from the USENIX Association Office at 1-510-528-8649 or via e-mail to office@usenix.org TERMINAL ROOM: The USENIX Terminal Room in the Hilton Hotel will be open throughout the conference week. Internet and dial-out access will be provided in the Terminal Room for attendees. Copying facilities will be available to create tapes of miscel- laneous GNU and public domain software. (Look for details posted to comp.org.usenix) CONFERENCE ATTENDEE MESSAGE SERVICE: Electronic message service will be available Monday, January 17 through noon Friday, January 21. Electronic messages to conference attendees should be ad- dressed: first_lastname@conference.usenix.org Telephone messages for conference attendees may be left by telephoning the San Francisco Hilton at 1-415-771-1400 and asking for the USENIX Message Desk extension. The Message Desk will be open Sunday, January 16, 4-9 pm, and continue open during confer- ence hours until Friday, January 21 at 3 pm. MEETING FOR "SIGNIFICANT OTHERS" If friends or members of your family accompany you to San Francisco, they may want to meet oth- ers with time to see the sights or who wish to share childcare. The USENIX lounge, on Monday, January 17 from 10:00-11:00 am, will serve as the "significant others" meeting place. EXPLORATORIUM RECEPTION--BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: All technical session attendees are invited to join in the fun of the USENIX Reception at the Exploratorium. The Exploratorium, "the best science museum in the world" (Scientific American), is located within the 1915 landmark Palace of Fine Arts. Here, a team of practical-minded showmen, led by Frank Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist (who worked with his brother J. Robert at Los Alamos), have created a mad scientist's laboratory complete with flying sparks, flashing lights and bubbling test tubes. Best of all, the 650+ exhibits are "hands-on" and fun! The USENIX Reception is Tuesday, January 18, 6:15P8:15 pm. Enjoy plentiful hors d'oeuvres and beverages. Transportation to the Exploratorium is included in the technical sessions registration. Additional Reception tickets may be purchased at the conference registration desk for $40 each. OPENING RECEPTION: The Opening Reception, Sunday January 16, 6:00-8:00pm in the Conference Registration area offers you a chance to say hello over soft drinks and snacks. KICKOFF: The Kickoff introduces attendees to conference events and to San Francisco. Kickoff is 8:00 pm Sunday, immediately follow- ing the Opening Reception. VENDOR DISPLAY: On Tuesday, January 18, noon-5:00 pm, and Wednes- day January 19, 10:00 am-2:00 pm, the USENIX Vendor Display will provide a relaxed environment in which you can "kick the tires" of important software and hardware products and discuss needed services. Emphasis is on serious answers from technically savvy vendor representatives, so you'll know how something will work with what you've already got. Plus, you can review the newest releases from technical and professional book publishers. VENDORS: The Vendor Display and are an exceptional opportunity for receiving feedback on new development from USENIX's technically astute conference attendees. If your company would like to participate, please contact: Peter Mui Telephone 1-510-528-8649 FAX 1-510-548-5738 Email: pmui@usenix.org HOTELS AND TRANSPORTATION: The San Francisco Hilton will be the location for USENIX conference registration, the tutorials, the technical sessions, and the vendor display/product demonstra- tions. The hotel offers excellent meeting facilities and is in the heart of San Francisco, close to stores, theaters, and a variety of restaurants. SPECIAL USENIX HOTEL RATES: Special room rates have been arranged for USENIX attendees at the hotels listed below. Contact the hotel of your choice directly to make your reservation. To guarantee your reservation, you must provide a major credit card. To cancel your reservation and receive a refund, you must give notice at least 24 hours in advance of your planned arrival date. **BE SURE TO STATE YOU ARE ATTENDING THE USENIX CONFERENCE. It is important when making your hotel reservation that you state you are attending the USENIX Conference and that you pay the USENIX rate. Thus we get credit toward fulfilling our room guarantee. (If you use a corporate discount rate, it will not count toward the USENIX commitment.) San Francisco Hilton (Headquarters) SINGLE $120 / DOU- BLE $140 333 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94142-0868 Tele- phone 1-415-771-1400 Tollfree - U.S. or Canada: 1-800-HILTONS The King George Hotel SINGLE $ 79 / DOUBLE $ 79 334 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94102-1783 Telephone 1-415-781- 5050 Tollfree - U.S. or Canada: 1-800-288-6005 DISCOUNT AIRFARES Using American OR United Airlines ... 5% off any applicable fare (including supersavers)* OR 10% off the unrestricted full coach fare * To qualify for the very lowest supersaver fare, a Saturday night stay is required. Save with these airfare discounts, available only through JNR, Inc. JNR, Inc. will help you plan your flights to and from San Francisco with schedules and fares for all airlines, one-call changes and refunds, boarding passes, and two complimentary drink/headset coupons with each ticket. JNR, Inc. TOLL FREE: 1-800-343-4546 (USA) Telephone: 1-714- 476-2788 (Local) AIRPORT TO HOTEL TRANSPORTATION: The SFO Airporter Bus provides hotel transportation from the San Francisco International Airport every 20 minutes. Catch the bus from the lower level at the air- port. Current cost is $8 one way, $14 round trip. SuperShuttle provides 24 hour service to the Hilton Hotel a very frequest intervals. To catch a SuperShuttle van, you must go the second level and exit to the departure island. Current cost is $10 one way. Taxi service is available at an approximate cost of $25 one way. SPECIAL NOTE TO THOSE DRIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO Parking in San Francisco is scarce and expensive when it can be found. Parking at the Hilton Hotel, if available, is currently running $22/day. The Downtown Center Garage, directly across from the Hilton on O'Farrell and Mason Streets is $17/day (with an Early Bird Spe- cial of $8.50 for those in by 9:30 am and out by 6:00 pm). Consider using BART if you are coming from the South or East Bay, rather than drive to San Francisco. Park at one of the BART sta- tions with large free lots. However, be aware that many lots fill up by 8:00 am! The Powell Street BART Station is nearest to the San Francisco Hilton. From the station, walk north on Powell Street for two blocks to O'Farrell Street. Turn left on O'Farrell and walk one block west to the Hotel at the corner of Mason and O'Farrell Streets. CALTRAIN is another alternative to driving from the Peninsula; call for information at 1-800-660-4287. From the CalTrain sta- tion south of Market, take the 30 Stockton bus. Get off at Mark- et Street and go left 4 blocks up Geary to Mason and then one block to the hotel. REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE AND JOIN USENIX -- WITH ONE FORM AND ONE CHECK: To join or renew your membership in USENIX, use the convenient check-off box on the Registration Form at the back of this booklet. Join or renew membership in SAGE at the USENIX As- sociation booth at the conference. To become a SAGE member, you must also be a member of USENIX. Further membership information is available from the USENIX Association office at 1-510-528-8649 or by email to office@usenix.org The USENIX Association wishes to acknowledge all trade references made in this publication. **************************************************************** USENIX WINTER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND FEES REGISTER EARLY TO SAVE! Pre-registration savings on both tutori- al and technical session fees apply only until December 27, 1993. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: UNUSUAL FOR A USENIX CONFERENCE, AT SAN FRANCISCO THE 3 DAYS OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS PRECEDE THE 2-DAY TUTORIAL PROGRAM. OTHER CONFERENCE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED ACCORDINGLY. TECHNICAL SESSIONS REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE Pre-registration (before December 27, 1993): *Member $295 Non-Member $360 Student $75 Registration (after December 27, 1993): *Member $345 Non-Member $410 Student $75 * The member fee applies to current individual members of the USENIX Association, and also to current individual members of EurOpen or AUUG. INCLUDED IN THE TECHNICAL SESSIONS REGISTRATION FEES - Admission to all technical sessions - Copy of the Winter 1994 Conference Proceedings - Copy of the Invited Talks Submitted Notes - Admission to the USENIX Reception at the Exploratorium - Admission to the Vendor Demonstrations and Vendor Display - Admission to Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, The Guru is IN, Terminal Room, and other conference activities TUTORIAL REGISTRATION FEE SCHEDULE Pre-registration (before December 27, 1993) - Two full-day tutorials $495 - One full- day tutorial $275 Registration (after December 27, 1993) - Two full-day tutorials $545 - One full-day tutorial $325 SPECIAL NOTE FOR FULL-TIME STUDENTS: Your Immediate Attention Is Requested! A limited number of spaces in each tutorial are reserved for full-time students at the special fee of $50.00 per tutorial. You MUST telephone the USENIX Conference Office, 1- 714-588-8649 during office hours of 8:30 am-5:00 pm Pacific Time Monday-Friday, to confirm availability and make a reservation. You will receive a reservation code number. This number MUST ap- pear on your Registration Form. Your registration form with full payment and a photocopy of your current student I.D. card MUST arrive within 14 days from the date of your reservation. If your registration form and payment do not arrive by that date, your reservation will be cancelled. This special fee is non- transferable. INCLUDED IN TUTORIAL REGISTRATION FEES - Admission to the tutorial(s) you select - Printed and bound tutorial materials from your session(s) - Box lunch - Admission to the Vendor Demonstrations and Vendor Display - Admission to Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, The Guru is IN, Terminal Room, and other conference activities PAYMENT - Fees are payable to USENIX CONFERENCE by check, VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Diner's Club International. - To be processed, payment must accompany your completed Registration Form. - Registration by telephone is not permitted. - Purchase Orders and vouchers CANNOT be accepted. - You may FAX your Registration if payment is by credit card. To avoid duplicate billing when faxing your registration, do not mail an additional copy. You may telephone the Conference Office to confirm receipt of your fax. CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY If you must CANCEL, all refund re- quests must be in writing and postmarked no later than January 10, 1994. Cancellations cannot be taken over the telephone. You May telephone to substitute another in your place. REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE AND JOIN USENIX -- WITH ONE FORM AND ONE PAYMENT To join or renew your membership in USENIX, you may do so easily when registering for the conference technical ses- sions. Simply pay the non-member technical sessions registration fee and check the box on the Registration Form. $65 of the fee will be designated as dues in full, making you a current indivi- dual USENIX Association member. Join or renew membership in SAGE at the USENIX booth during the conference. To become a SAGE member, you must also be a member of USENIX. Further membership information is available from the USENIX Association office at 1-510-528-8649 or by email to office@usenix.org ENJOY THE BENEFITS -- AND SAVINGS -- OF BEING A USENIX MEMBER - Free subscription to ;login:, the bi-monthly newsletter; - Free subscription to Computing Systems, the refereed technical quarterly; - Discounts on registration fees to conferences, workshops, and symposia; - Discounts on purchases of proceedings of conferences, workshops, and symposia, other technical documentation, and books from the USENIX series published with The MIT Press; - Savings on publications from McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall, The MIT Press, John Wiley & Sons, O'Reilly & Associates, and UniForum; - Right to vote on matters affecting the Association; - Right to participate in SAGE, the System Administrators Guild, a Special Technical Group with the USENIX Association. For additional conference or registration information, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 Telephone: 1-714-588-8649 FAX: 1-714-588-9706 E-mail: conference@usenix.org Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5:00 pm Pacific Time ************************************************************************ WINTER '94 REGISTRATION FORM ************************************************************************ USENIX WINTER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE January 17-21, 1994, San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco, California - PLEASE DUPLICATE THIS FORM AS NEEDED BY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES - PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT CLEARLY NAME ________________________________________________ COMPANY/INSTITUTION ____________________________________________ MAIL ADDRESS ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ CITY_____________________________STATE____ZIP_____COUNTRY_________ FIRST NAME FOR BADGE __________________________________ TELEPHONE NO. (____)________________ FAX (____)______________________ NETWORK ADDRESS ____________________________________ (one only please; print legibly) * Is this your work address? YES _____ NO ______ * If you do not want the address you are providing to be used for all future USENIX mailings, check here _____ * If you do not want to appear in the asttendee list, check here _____ * Is this your first USENIX Conference? YES _____ NO _____ * Are you a current USENIX member? YES _____ NO _____ PLEASE NOTE! THE USUAL FORMAT OF THE USENIX CONFERENCE IS REVERSED IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE TECHNICAL SESSIONS (MONDAY, JANUARY 17 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19) NOW PRECEDE THE TUTORIAL PROGRAM (THURSDAY - FRIDAY, JANUARY 20-21). OTHER CONFERENCE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED ACCORDINGLY. TECHNICAL SESSIONS FEES Current member fee ................................$295 $_____ Applies for current individual members of the USENIX, EurOpen, or AUUG. If you are not a member of USENIX and wish to join, pay the non-member fee and check the box below.* *Non-member or renewing member fee................ $360 $_____ Late fee applies if postmarked after December 27, 1993..................... Add $50 $_____ Full-time student fee: Pre-registered or on-site....$75 $_____ *To join or renew your membership in USENIX....Check Here_____ (Pay the non-member technical sessions fee, of which $65 will be applied to your one-year individual membership.) TUTORIAL FEES Two full-day tutorials ............................$495 $_____ One full-day tutorial..............................$275 $_____ Late fee applies if postmarked after December 27, 1993 ........................Add $50 $_____ Full-time students -- See "Special Note" above CODE NO.__________________________________ $_____ CODE NO.__________________________________ TOTAL DUE: $_____ TUTORIALS Select only one full-day tutorial per day by checking the appropriate box. 9:00 am- 5:00 pm (includes box lunch) Thursday, January 20, 1994 [ ] T1 Essential UNIX Programming [ ] T2 Windows NT -- Architectural Overview [ ] NEW! T3 Topics in System Administration P 1 [ ] NEW! T4 Security in an Internet Environment [ ] T5 OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) [ ] T6 How Networks Work [ ] T7 Client-Server Development with DCE/RPC [ ] T8 Porting to Solaris 2.x [ ] NEW! T9 TCL and TK: A New Approach to X11 and GUI Programming 2nd choice, if first is filled ___________________________________ Friday, January 21, 1994 [ ] F1 UNIX Network Programming [ ] F2 Windows NT--Developing Client-Server Applications [ ] NEW! F3 Topics in System Administration Part 2 [ ] NEW! F4 UNIX Power Tools-- Getting the Most out of UNIX [ ] F5 Distributed Object Computing with CORBA [ ] NEW! F6 The Law and the Internet [ ] NEW! F7 The Kerberos Approach to Network Security [ ] F8 CHORUS and SVR4 UNIX [ ] NEW! F9 Intro to Threads, POSIX PThreads, and OSF/DCE Threads [ ] F10 Sendmail Inside and Out 2nd choice, if first is filled_____________________________________ PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY THIS FORM [ ] Payment Enclosed (U.S. Dollars) Make check payable to USENIX CONFERENCE Purchase Orders and vouchers CANNOT be accepted. Charge to: [ ] VISA [ ] MasterCard [ ] American Express [ ] Diner's Club International. Account No.:__________________________________ Expiration Date:______________________________ Print Name: ____________________________________ Cardholder's Signature: __________________________________ ********************************************************************* PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY REGISTRATION FORM. REGISTRATION VIA EMAIL IS NOT ACCEPTED. ********************************************************************* PLEASE COMPLETE REGISTRATION FORM AND RETURN IT ALONG WITH YOUR FULL PAYMNENT TO: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 Telephone: 1-714-588-8649 FAX: 1-714-588-9706 You may FAX your Registration if payment is by credit card. (To avoid duplicate billing, do NOT mail an additional copy. You may telephone the Conference Office to confirm receipt of your fax.) CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: If you must CANCEL, all refund re- quests must be in writing and postmarked no later than January 10, 1994. Cancellations cannot be taken over the telephone. You may telephone to substitute another in your place. USENIX WINTER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE January 17-21, 1994 San Francisco Hilton San Francisco, California TECHNICAL SESSIONS PROGRAM (PRELIMINARY) UNUSUAL FOR A USENIX CONFERENCE, AT SAN FRANCISCO, THE 3 DAYS OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS PRECEDE THE 2-DAY TUTORIAL PROGRAM. OTHER CONFERENCE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED ACCORDINGLY. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday January 17 - January 19, 1994 The dual track technical sessions feature presentations of papers refereed and selected by the Program Committee. A parallel track of Invited Talks provide overviews and commentary from invited experts. The second track includes highlights of presentations from recent 1993 Workshops and Symposia. Monday, January 17, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Monday, 9:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Remarks Jeffrey Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory Keynote Address: John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation Monday 10:30 am - 11:00 am BREAK Monday 11:00 am - 12:30 pm REFEREED TRACK SIMPLE DATABASE TOOLS Session Chair: Rafael Alonso, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Finding Similar Files in a Large File System Udi Manber, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona cql - A Flat File Database Query Language Glenn Fowler, AT&T Bell Laboratories GLIMPSE: A Tool to Search Through Entire File Systems Udi Manber, Sun Wu, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona INVITED TALK: UNIX on Wall Street Marc Donner, Morgan Stanley Group, Incorporated, Monday 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH Monday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm REFEREED TRACK WIDE - AREA INFORMATION ACCESS Session Chair: Frederick S. Glover, Digital Equipment Corporation UNIX* Software Group Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News Kurt J. Lidl, Josh Osborne, Joe Malcolm, UUNET Technologies, Inc. The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic Database System Richard A. Golding, Vrije Universiteit, Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz and John Wilkes, Hewlett- Packard Laboratories Filesystem Daemons as Unifying Mechanism for Network Information Access Steve Summit, Consultant, Seattle, Washington INVITED TALK: Joint USENIX Symposia: Microkernels & Other Kernel Architectures Lori S. Grob, Chorus Systemes, & Experiences with Distributed & Multiprocessor Systems(SEDMS IV) Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles, Monday 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK Monday 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm REFEREED TRACK INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION Session Chair: Cathy Watkins, Intel Corporation, O/S Technology Engineering Concert/C: A Language for Distributed Programming Joshua S. Auerbach, Arthur P. Goldberg, Ajei S. Gopal, Mark T. Kennedy, James R. Russell, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Evolving Mach 3.0 to Use Migrating Threads Bryan Ford, Jay Lepreau, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems Peter Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel, Department of Computer Science, Rice University INVITED TALK: Commercializing Garbage Collection John R. Ellis, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center TUESDAY, JANUARY 18,00 am - 5:30 pm Tuesday 9:00 am - 10:30 am REFEREED TRACK EFFICIENT SCHEDULING AND NETWORKING Session Chair: Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation Workstation Support for Real-Time Multimedia Communication Olof Hagsand, Peter Sjodin, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Experience and Results from Implementation of an ATM Socket Family Richard Black, Simon Crosby, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Efficient Packet Demultiplexing for Multiple Endpoints and Large Messages Masanobu Yuhara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Brian N. Bershad, Chris Maeda, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity, and J. Eliot B. Moss, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst INVITED TALK: Beyond LEX and YACC: How to Generate the Whole Compiler W. M. Waite, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Tuesday 10:30 am - 11:00 am BREAK Tuesday 11:00 am - 12:30 pm REFEREED TRACK KERNEL PERFORMANCE: Session Chair: Brian N. Bershad, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Latency Analysis of TCP on an ATM Network Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington Improving UNIX Kernel and Networking Performance Using Profile Based Optimization Steven E. Speer, Rajiv Kumar, Hewlett-Packard and Craig Partridge, Bolt Beranek and Newman Memory Behavior for an X11 Window System J. Bradley Chen, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University INVITED TALK: The Facts About Fax Ed McCreight, Adobe Systems Inc., Tuesday 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH Tuesday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm REFEREED TRACK SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Session Chair: Judith E. Grass, Corporation for National Research Initiatives A Uniform Name Service for Spring's UNIX Environment Michael N. Nelson, Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Sanjay R. Radia, SunSoft, Inc. ACID: A Debugger Built from a Language Phil Winterbottom, AT&T Bell Laboratories Acme: A User Interface for Programmers Rob Pike. AT&T Bell Laboratories INVITED TALK: USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing Clem Cole, Locus Computing Corporation Tuesday 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK Tuesday 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm REFEREED TRACK WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS: Short, pithy and fun, Work-in-Progress (WIP) Reports introduce interesting new or ongo- ing work. If you have interesting work you would like to share or a cool idea that is not ready to be published, a WIP Report is for you! We are particularly interested in presenting student work. To reserve your presentation slot, contact Peg Schafer via e-mail to wips@usenix.org INVITED TALK: 7th USENIX System Administration (LISA VII) Conference Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, inc. This session will be a highlights from/summary of the System Ad- ministration (LISA VII) Conference, which is to held November 1- 5, 1993 in Monterey, California. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Wednesday 9:00 am - 10:30 am REFEREED TRACK NFS Session Chair: Margo Seltzer, Harvard University File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance Dave Hitz, James Lau, Michael Malcolm, Network Appliance Corporation Improving the Write Performance of an NFS Server Chet Juszczak, Digital Equipment Corporation Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS Rick Macklem, Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph INVITED TALK: Video Compression--What Do You Do When Everything is Changing? Lawrence A. Rowe, Computer Science Division-EECS, University of California, Berkeley, Wednesday 10:30 am - 11:00 am BREAK Wednesday 11:00 am - 12:30 pm REFEREED TRACK DISKS AND FILE SYSTEMS Session Chair: David Presotto, AT&T Bell Laboratories A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power Management in Port- able Computers Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas Anderson, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley Thwarting the Power-Hungry Disk Fred Douglis, P. Krishnan, Brian Marsh, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System Mirjana Spasojevic, Transarc Corporation and M. Satyanarayanan, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University INVITED TALK: Objecting to Objects Stephen C. Johnson, Melismatic Software Wednesday 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH Wednesday 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm REFEREED TRACK DEALING WITH THE PC WORLD Session Chair: Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore Wux: UNIX Tools under Windows Diomidis Spinellis, Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine An MS-DOS Filesystem for UNIX Alessandro Forin, Gerald Malan, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University The NetWare Operating System Greg Minshall, Drew Major, Kyle Powell, Novell, Inc. INVITED TALK: TCL/TK Workshop, Brent Welch, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Lawrence A. Rowe, Computer Science Division - EECS, University of California, Berkeley Wednesday 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK Wednesday 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm CONFERENCE WRAP-UP Including a few surprises... Jeffrey Mogul, Program Chair ************************************************************* TUTORIAL PROGRAM THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 AND 21 AT SAN FRANCISCO, you may choose from among nineteen full-day tu- torials, covering topics essential to your professional develop- ment. Of these nineteen, eight are offered at USENIX for the first time. The USENIX Association's well-respected tutorial program offers you introductory as well as advanced, intensive and practical tu- torials. Tutorials are presented by skilled instructors who are hands-on experts in their topic areas. All tutorials offer printed materials, provided at no extra cost, to support your understanding and provide reference at a later time. The USENIX tutorial program continues to experience high demand for its offerings. On-site registration is possible ONLY if space permits. Several tutorials sell out before pre- registration closes. Pre-registration is strongly recommended. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 NINE FULL-DAY TUTORIALS: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (includes box lunch) T1 Essential UNIX Programming Richard Stevens, Consultant T2 Windows NT - An Architectural Overview Mark Lewin, Microsoft Corporation T3 Topics in System Administration Part 1 Trent Hein, XOR Computer Systems, and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado, Boulder T4 Achieving Security in an Internet Environment Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory T5 OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (dce) David Chappell, Chappell and Associates T6 How Networks Work Vincent C. Jones, Consultant T7 Client-Server Development with DCE/RPC Richard Mackey, Open Software Foundation T8 Porting to Solaris 2.x Marc Staveley, Consultant T9 TCL and TK: A New Approach to X11 and GUI Programming John Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley FRIDAY, JANUARY 21 TEN FULL-DAY TUTORIALS: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (includes box lunch) F1 UNIX Network Programming, Richard Stevens, Consultant F2 Windows NT - Developing Client-Server Applications, Mark Lewin, Mi- crosoft Corporation F3 Topics in System Administration Part 2, Trent Hein, XOR Computer Systems, and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado, Boulder F4 UNIX Power Tools - Getting the Most out of UNIX, Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc F5 Distributed Object Computing with CORBA David Chappell, Chappell and Associates F6 The Law and the Internet, Daniel Appelman, Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe F7 The Kerberos Approach to Network Security, Dan Geer and Jon A. Rochlis, OpenVision Technologies F8 CHORUS and SVR4 UNIX, Frdric Herrmann and Jim Lipkis, Chorus Systemes F9 Introduction to Threads, POSIX - Threads, and OSF/DCE Threads Nawaf Bitar, Silicon Graphics, Inc. F10 Sendmail Inside and Out, Eric Allman, University of California, Berkeley USENIX TUTORIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE Dan Geer, OpenVision Technologies Lori S. Grob, Chorus Systemes Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan Daniel V. Klein, Tutorial Coordinator, USENIX Ellie Young, Executive Director, USENIX SPECIAL NOTE FOR FULL-TIME STUDENTS: Your Immediate Attention Is Requested! A limited number of spaces in each tutorial are reserved for full-time students at the special fee of $50.00 per tutorial. You MUST telephone the USENIX Conference Office, 1- 714-588-8649 during office hours of 8:30 am-5:00 pm Pacific Time Monday-Friday, to confirm availability and make a reservation. You will receive a reservation code number. This number MUST ap- pear on your Registration Form. 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