Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau From: lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: Salt Lake USENIX Conf Technical Program Schedule Message-ID: <2845@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-May-84 06:52:31 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-cs.2845 Posted: Fri May 25 06:52:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 05:42:21 EDT Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 336 Sorry about the separate postings, but our news feed has been down for a bit so I thought I better get it out via Arpanet unix-wizards, too. Track A schedule is definite (we hope!), but Track B is a bit tentative. In particular, a session or two may still be added to Track B. STUG in Track B is definite. Order of data here is: Track A Usenix, Track B Usenix, Track B STUG. Preliminary Technical Program Schedules Summer 84 USENIX Conference, Salt Lake City and Software Tools Users' Group Track A - Wednesday, June 13 Wed-1A 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. UNIX Directions Opening Remarks Conference Organizers and USENIX board KEYNOTE ADDRESS: An Architecture History of the UNIX System Stuart I. Feldman, Bell Communications Research UNIX Standards: UNIX Meets Godzilla, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb? Michael Tilson, Human Computing Resources Corporation 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break Wed-2A 11:00 - 12:30 a.m. Mail and News ACSNET - The Australian Alternative to UUCP Piers Dick-Lauder & R.J. Kummerfeld (University of Sydney), Robert Elz (University of Melbourne) Broadcasting of Netnews and Network Mail via Satellite Lauren Weinstein The Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server Douglas B. Terry, Mark Painter, David W. Riggle, and Songnian Zhou, U.C. Berkeley MMDF II: A Technical Review Douglas P. Kingston III, Ballistic Research Laboratory DRAGONMAIL: A Prototype Conversation-Based Mail System Douglas E. Comer and Larry L. Peterson, Purdue University 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH Wed-3A 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Networks and Distributed Processing Converting the BBN TCP/IP to 4.2BSD Robert Walsh and Robert Gurwitz, BBN Laboratories Network Tasking in the LOCUS Distributed Unix System David Butterfield and Gerald Popek, Locus Computing Corporation Project Athena James Gettys, Digital Equipment Corporation - MIT/Project Athena TEMPO - A Network Time Controller for a Distributed Berkeley UNIX System Riccardo Gusella and Stefano Zatti, U.C. Berkeley 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break Wed-4A 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Distributed File Systems The Version 8 Network File System Peter J. Weinberger, AT&T Bell Laboratories Towards a Distributed File System Walter F. Tichy and Zuwang Ruan, Purdue University The Livermore Interactive Network Communication System Alex Phillips, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Panel on Distributed File Systems Session speakers and others Track A - Thursday, June 14 Thu-1A 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Programming Languages An Optimizing Portable C Compiler for the New CDC CYBER 180 Kok-Weng Lee and Mario D. Ruggiero, Human Computing Resources Corporation A Simple Simulation Toolkit in "C" Robert P. Warnock III and Bakul Shah, Fortune Systems Corporation An Adaptable Object Code Optimizer for UNIX Systems Bill Appelbe and Bob Querido, U.C. San Diego & NCR Corporation Using Modula-2 for System Programming with Unix Michael L. Powell, Digital Equipment Corporation The FP-Shell Manton Matthews and Yogeesh Kamath, University of South Carolina 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break Thu-2A 11:00 - 12:30 a.m. Programming Environments and Window Systems SYSTANT: An Integrated Programming Environment for Modular C under UNIX Stowe Boyd, AZREX, Inc. LIPs: Knowledge Base Development System Kiyoki Ohkubo, PANAFACOM Limited WINDX - Windows for the UNIX Environment Peter E. Collins, Ithaca Intersystems, Inc. The Maryland Window System Chris Torek and Mark Weiser, University of Maryland A Text-Oriented Terminal Multiplexor for Blits Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH Thu-3A 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Kernel I A Multiprocessor UNIX System Maurice J. Bach and Steven J. Buroff, AT&T Bell Laboratories A Demand-paging Virtual Memory Manager for System V Richard Miller, Human Computing Resources Corporation Resource Controls, Privileges, and other MUSH Robert Elz, University Of Melbourne A Dynamic Bad-Block Forwarding Algorithm Bakul Shah and Robert P. Warnock III (Fortune Systems Corporation) An Expandable Object-Based UNIX Kernel Erik Reeh Nielsen, NCR Systems Engineering Copenhagen 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break Thu-4A 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Kernel II Processes as Files Thomas J. Killian, AT&T Bell Laboratories Memory Management Units and the UNIX Kernel Clara S. Lai and Chris Peer Johnson, UniSoft Systems Techniques for Debugging XENIX Device Drivers Paresh K. Vaish and Jean Marie McNamara, Intel Corporation User-Mode Development of Hardware and Kernel Software Robert P. Warnock III, Fortune Systems Corporation Track A - Friday, June 15 Fri-1A 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Performance Analysis and Comparisons Relating Benchmarks to Performance Projections, or What Do You Do With 20 Pounds of Benchmark Data? Gene Dronek, Aim Technology UNIX System V and 4BSD Performance Jeffrey P. Lankford, AT&T Bell Laboratories Measuring and Improving the Performance of 4.2BSD Sam Leffler (Lucasfilm, Ltd), Mike Karels, and M. Kirk Mckusick (U.C. Berkeley) 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break Fri-2A 11:00 - 12:30 a.m. Applications, Text Processing, Graphics The UNIX System HELP Facility Thomas W. Butler and Lisa A. Kennedy, AT&T Bell Laboratories Adventures with Typesetter (Device) Independent Troff Mark Kahrs and Lee Moore, University of Rochester The Readers Workbench - A System for Computer Assisted Reading Evan L. Ivie, Brigham Young University Circuit Design Aids - CDA: A Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing System Terry Slattery and Willie McCool, U.S. Naval Academy A Transition Diagram Editor Charles C. Mills (U.C. Berkeley) and Anthony I. Wasserman (U.C. San Francisco) 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH Fri-3A 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. System Management and Porting Optical Storage Management Under the Unix Operating System Perry S. Kivolowitz, SUNY Stony Brook Automatic Software Distribution Andrew Koenig, AT&T Bell Laboratories 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 Experiences with a Large Mixed-Language System Running Under the UNIX Operating System Richard A. Becker, AT&T Bell Laboratories The Dynamics of a Semi-Large Software Project with Specific Reference to a UNIX System Port Brian Pawlowski and Alan Filipski, Motorola, Inc. 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break Fri-4A 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Open Session Random Talks These talks will be scheduled first-come, first-served, with signup beginning Wednesday morning. Ten minutes/speaker, any topic allowed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Track B: Workshops, Projects, Panels Wed-3B 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Workshop: How to Teach UNIX Bubbette McLeod, chair (Informatics General Corp.), Jay Hosler (User Training Corp.), Stan Kelly-Bootle (author of "The Devil's DP Dictionary"), Bob Nystrum (Momentum Compter Systems), and Jim Joyce (International Technical Seminars) Thu-1B 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Workshop: TCP/IP and Networking Michael Muuss, chair (Ballistic Research Lab), and others Fri-1B 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. UUCP Mapping Project What is a Domain? Mark R. Horton, AT&T Bell Laboratories Proposal for a UUCP/Usenet Registry Host Mark R. Horton, Karen Summers-Horton, and Berry Kercheval, UUCP Project Map Gathering Description and Progress Report Scott Bradner, Harvard University A Reliable Mail Service for the UUCP Net: Implementation Status Report Berry Kercheval, Zehntel, Inc. Panel and Q&A on the UUCP Mapping Project UUCP Project members Fri-2B 11:00 - 12:30 a.m. 4.2BSD Panel and Q & A Kirk Mckusick, moderator (U.C. Berkeley). Panelists include Mike Karels (U.C. Berkeley), Sam Leffler (Lucasfilms), Robert Elz (University of Melbourne), Bill Joy & Bill Shannon (Sun Microsystems). We may be adding additional sessions in Track B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Tools User Group - Thursday, June 14 Thu-3B 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. STUG Session I Avionics SimuLation Package: A large System Application in Ratfor Dave Martin, Hughes Aircraft Company An Update on the Software Tools Standards Effort Bill Meine, Sun Microsystems Ada? Yet Another VOS? Neil Groundwater, Analytic Disciplines, Inc. A LEX Tool for the VOS Vern Paxson, Real Time Systems Group, Lawrence Berkeley Labs 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break Thu-4B 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. STUG Session II A Portable TOPS-20-like Command Parser Nelson Beebe, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Physics Mine Planning Applications in Ratfor Mike Norred, MINESoft A Ratfor Implementation of KERMIT Allan Cole, Univ. of Utah Computer Center Future Directions for STUG (open discussion) Dave Martin, moderator, Hughes Aircraft Company Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com