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From: thomas@utah-cs.UUCP (Spencer Thomas)
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Subject: USENIX Conference Technical Program (final!)
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 00:56:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 4 00:56:11 1984
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Track A: Symphony Hall Track B: Hotel Utah Grand Ballroom
TECHNICAL PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
TRACK A - UNIX DIRECTIONS
Wed-1A (9:00 - 10:30 am) General Chair: Randy Frank, Univ. of Utah
Program Chairs: Jay Lepreau and Spencer Thomas, Univ. of Utah
9:00 - 9:40 Opening Remarks and Announcements
Conference Organizers and USENIX board
9:40 - 10:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: An Architecture History of the UNIX System
Stuart I. Feldman, Bell Communications Research
10:10 - 10:30 UNIX Standards: UNIX Meets Godzilla, or How I Learned to Love the
Bomb?
Michael Tilson, Human Computing Resources Corporation
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - MAIL AND NEWS
Wed-2A (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Chair: Steve Bellovin, AT&T Bell Laboratories
11:00 - 11:20 ACSNET - The Australian Alternative to UUCP
Piers Dick-Lauder and R.J. Kummerfeld (University of Sydney),
Robert Elz (University of Melbourne)
11:20 - 11:35 Broadcasting of Netnews and Network Mail via Satellite
Lauren Weinstein
11:35 - 11:55 The Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server
Douglas B. Terry, Mark Painter, David W. Riggle, and Songnian
Zhou, U.C. Berkeley
11:55 - 12:15 MMDF II: A Technical Review
Douglas P. Kingston III, Ballistic Research Laboratory
12:15 - 12:30 DRAGONMAIL: A Prototype Conversation-Based Mail System
Douglas E. Comer and Larry L. Peterson, Purdue University
LUNCH
TRACK A - NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
Wed-3A (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Jay Lepreau, Univ. of Utah
2:00 - 2:25 Converting the BBN TCP/IP to 4.2BSD
Robert Walsh and Robert Gurwitz, BBN Laboratories
2:25 - 2:55 Network Tasking in the LOCUS Distributed UNIX System
David Butterfield and Gerald Popek, Locus Computing
Corporation
2:55 - 3:15 Project Athena
James Gettys, Digital Equipment Corporation - MIT/Project
Athena
3:15 - 3:30 TEMPO - A Network Time Controller for a Distributed Berkeley UNIX
System
Riccardo Gusella and Stefano Zatti, U.C. Berkeley
TRACK B - WORKSHOP: HOW TO TEACH UNIX
Wed-3B (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Bubbette McLeod, Informatics General Corp.
Panelists are Ms. McLeod, Jay Hosler (User Training Corp.),
Jim Joyce (International Technical Seminars), Stan Kelly-
Bootle (author of "The Devil's DP Dictionary"), and Bob
Nystrum (Momentum Compter Systems)
Introducing People to UNIX
Bubbette Mcleod, Informatics General Corporation
Interactivity in Packaged UNIX Training: A Modest Proposal
Jay Hosler, User Training Corporation
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS
Wed-4A (4:00 - 5:20 pm) Chair: Mike Muuss, BRL
4:00 - 4:20 The Version 8 Network File System
Peter J. Weinberger, AT&T Bell Laboratories
4:20 - 4:40 Towards a Distributed File System
Walter F. Tichy and Zuwang Ruan, Purdue University
4:40 - 5:00 The Livermore Interactive Network Communication System
Alex Phillips, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
5:00 - 5:20 Panel on Distributed File Systems
Session speakers and others
THURSDAY, JUNE 14
TRACK A - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Thu-1A (9:00 - 10:30 am) Chair: Kirk McKusick, U.C. Berkeley
9:00 - 9:15 An Optimizing Portable C Compiler for the New CDC CYBER 180
Kok-Weng Lee and Mario D. Ruggiero, Human Computing Resources
Corporation
9:15 - 9:30 A Simple Simulation Toolkit in "C"
Robert P. Warnock III and Bakul Shah, Fortune Systems
Corporation
9:30 - 9:50 An Adaptable Object Code Optimizer for UNIX Systems
Bill Appelbe and Bob Querido, U.C. San Diego & NCR Corporation
9:50 - 10:10 Using Modula-2 for System Programming with UNIX
Michael L. Powell, Digital Equipment Corporation
10:10 - 10:30 The FP-Shell
Manton Matthews and Yogeesh Kamath, University of South
Carolina
TRACK B - WORKSHOP: TCP/IP AND NETWORKING
Thu-1B (9:00 - 10:30 am) Chair: Mike Muuss, Ballistic Research Lab
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS AND WINDOW SYSTEMS
Thu-2A (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Chair: Spencer Thomas, Univ. of Utah
11:00 - 11:15 SYSTANT: An Integrated Programming Environment for Modular C
under UNIX
Stowe Boyd, AZREX, Inc.
11:15 - 11:35 LIPs: Knowledge Base Development System
Kiyoki Ohkubo, PANAFACOM Limited
11:35 - 11:50 WINDX - Windows for the UNIX Environment
Peter E. Collins, Ithaca Intersystems, Inc.
11:50 - 12:10 The Maryland Window System
Chris Torek and Mark Weiser, University of Maryland
12:10 - 12:30 A Text-Oriented Terminal Multiplexor for Blits
Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
LUNCH
TRACK A - KERNEL I
Thu-3A (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories
2:00 - 2:15 A Multiprocessor UNIX System
Maurice J. Bach and Steven J. Buroff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
2:15 - 2:30 A Demand-paging Virtual Memory Manager for System V
Richard Miller, Human Computing Resources Corporation
2:30 - 2:50 Resource Controls, Privileges, and other MUSH
Robert Elz, University Of Melbourne
2:50 - 3:10 A Dynamic Bad-Block Forwarding Algorithm
Bakul Shah and Robert P. Warnock III (Fortune Systems
Corporation)
3:10 - 3:30 An Expandable Object-Based UNIX Kernel
Erik Reeh Nielsen, Soren Lauesen, and Vilhelm Rosenqvist, NCR
Systems Engineering Copenhagen
TRACK B - SOFTWARE TOOLS TECHNICAL SESSION I
Thu-3B (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Dave Martin, Hughes Aircraft Company
2:00 - 2:20 Avionics Simulation Package: A large System Application in Ratfor
Dave Martin, Hughes Aircraft Company
2:20 - 2:40 An Update on the Software Tools Standards Effort
Bill Meine, Sun Microsystems
2:40 - 3:00 Ada? Yet Another VOS?
Neil Groundwater, Analytic Disciplines, Inc.
3:00 - 3:30 A LEX Tool for the VOS
Vern Paxson, Real Time Systems Group, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - KERNEL II
Thu-4A (4:00 - 5:30 pm) Chair: Lou Salkind, NYU
4:00 - 4:20 Processes as Files
Thomas J. Killian, AT&T Bell Laboratories
4:20 - 4:40 Memory Management Units and the UNIX Kernel
Clara S. Lai and Chris Peer Johnson, UniSoft Systems
4:40 - 5:05 Techniques for Debugging XENIX Device Drivers
Paresh K. Vaish and Jean Marie McNamara, Intel Corporation
5:05 - 5:30 User-Mode Development of Hardware and Kernel Software
Robert P. Warnock III, Fortune Systems Corporation
TRACK B - SOFTWARE TOOLS TECHNICAL SESSION II
Thu-4B (4:00 - 5:30 pm) Chair: Dave Martin, Hughes Aircraft Company
4:00 - 4:20 A Portable TOPS-20-like Command Parser
Nelson Beebe, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Physics
4:20 - 4:40 Mine Planning Applications in Ratfor
Mike Norred, MINESoft
4:40 - 5:00 A Ratfor Implementation of KERMIT
Allen Cole, University of Utah Computer Center
5:00 - 5:30 Future Directions for STUG (open discussion)
Dave Martin, moderator, Hughes Aircraft Company
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
TRACK A - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND COMPARISONS
Fri-1A (9:00 - 10:30 am) Chair: Clem Cole, Masscomp
9:00 - 9:20 Relating Benchmarks to Performance Projections, or What Do You Do
With 20 Pounds of Benchmark Data?
Gene Dronek, Aim Technology
9:20 - 9:40 UNIX System V and 4BSD Performance
Jeffrey P. Lankford, AT&T Bell Laboratories
9:40 - 10:00 Measuring and Improving the Performance of 4.2BSD
Sam Leffler (Lucasfilm, Ltd), Mike Karels, and M. Kirk
McKusick (U.C. Berkeley)
TRACK B - UUCP MAPPING PROJECT
Fri-1B (9:00 - 10:30 am) Chair: Mark R. Horton, AT&T Bell Laboratories
9:00 - 9:05 UUCP Mapping Project Overview
Karen Summers-Horton, UUCP Project
9:05 - 9:10 UUCP Site Name Registry
Lauren Weinstein
9:10 - 9:30 What the Heck is a Domain?
Mark Horton, AT&T Bell Laboratories
9:30 - 9:50 Unknown Mailer Error 101, or Why It's So Hard To See You
Scott Bradner, Harvard University
9:50 - 10:05 The Great Mail Software Project, or How I'm Going to Spend My
Summer Vacation
Berry Kercheval, Zehntel, Inc.
10:05 - 10:30 Panel Discussion
UUCP Project members
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - APPLICATIONS, TEXT PROCESSING, GRAPHICS
Fri-2A (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Chair: Andy Tannenbaum, Masscomp
11:00 - 11:15 The UNIX System HELP Facility
Thomas W. Butler and Lisa A. Kennedy, AT&T Bell Laboratories
11:15 - 11:35 Adventures with Typesetter (Device) Independent Troff
Mark Kahrs and Lee Moore, University of Rochester
11:35 - 11:55 The Readers Workbench - A System for Computer Assisted Reading
Evan L. Ivie, Brigham Young University
11:55 - 12:15 Circuit Design Aids - CDA: A Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing
System
Terry Slattery and Willie McCool, U.S. Naval Academy
12:15 - 12:30 A Transition Diagram Editor
Charles C. Mills (U.C. Berkeley) and Anthony I. Wasserman
(U.C. San Francisco)
TRACK B - 4.2BSD PANEL AND Q&A
Fri-2B (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Moderator: Kirk McKusick, U.C. Berkeley
What is the Future for 4.2BSD?
Panelists include Robert Elz (University of Melbourne), George
Goble (Purdue), Mike Karels (U.C. Berkeley), Sam Leffler
(Lucasfilms), Bill Joy and Bill Shannon (Sun Microsystems).
LUNCH
TRACK A - SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND PORTING
Fri-3A (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Mike O'Dell, Group L Corp.
2:00 - 2:20 Optical Storage Management Under the UNIX Operating System
Perry S. Kivolowitz, SUNY Stony Brook
2:20 - 2:40 Automatic Software Distribution
Andrew Koenig, AT&T Bell Laboratories
2:40 - 3:00 4bsd UNIX TCP/IP and VMS DECNET: Experience in Negotiating a
Peacful Coexistence
Van Jacobson, Craig Leres, Joseph Sventek, and Wayne Graves,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
3:00 - 3:15 Experiences with a Large Mixed-Language System Running Under the
UNIX
Operating System
Richard A. Becker, AT&T Bell Laboratories
3:15 - 3:30 The Dynamics of a Semi-Large Software Project with Specific
Reference to a UNIX System Port
Brian Pawlowski and Alan Filipski, Motorola, Inc.
TRACK B - THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE C LANGUAGE
Fri-3B (2:00 - 3:30 pm) Chair: Lawrence Rosler, AT&T Bell Laboratories
C Standardization
Lawrence Rosler, AT&T Bell Laboratories
COFFEE BREAK
TRACK A - OPEN SESSION
Fri-4A (4:00 - 5:00 pm)
Short unreviewed presentations
These talks will be scheduled first-come, first-served, with
signup beginning Wednesday morning. Ten minutes/speaker, any
topic allowed.
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