Path: utzoo!yunexus!torsqnt!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!USU.BITNET!STILES From: STILES@USU.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Preliminary program for April's NATUG meeting. Message-ID: <8903081614.AA13173@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 8 Mar 89 14:58:00 GMT Article-I.D.: tcgould.8903081614.AA13173 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 193 Distribution-File: occam@sutcase.case.syr.edu transputer@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Attached below please find the Preliminary Program for the North American Transputer Users Group meeting of April 5 & 6. To those who submitted abstracts and I have been unable to reach by email: please consider this a notice of acceptance; surface mail verification will follow. Speakers: Please let me know soon whether you need any audio-visual equipment beyond on overhead projector. Dyke Stiles Stiles@usu.bitnet Stiles@cc.usu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ North American Transputer Users Group Spring Meeting April 5 & 6, 1989 Salt Lake City, Utah Preliminary Program (Changes Possible!) Wednesday Luncheon Speaker: C. A. R. Hoare Wednesday Afternoon (April 5: 1:00 - 3:00; 3:30 - 5:00) 1:00 - 1:30 Trollius: A Software Solution for Transputers and Other Multicomputers Moshe Braner Cornell Theory Center Cornell University 1:30 - 2:00 Data Parallel Programming on Transputer Networks Computer and Information Science Prasad Vishnubhotla Ohio State University 2:00 - 2:30 Verifying the Transputer Geoff Barrett Programming Research Group Oxford University Computing Laboratory 2:30 - 3:00 Modula, Lilith, and Transputers Richard Ohran Computer Systems Architects Provo, Utah 3:00 - 4:00 Break 3:30 - 4:00 The Cogent Linda Machine William Leler Cogent, Inc. 4:00 - 4:20 A Simple but Flexible Model for Determining Optimal Task Allocation and Configuration on a Network of Transputers N. Udiavar and G. S. Stiles Department of Electrical Engineering Utah State University 4:20 - 4:40 Parallel Natural Language Processing using Transition Networks John Baker and Steven B. Seidman Department of Computer Science George Mason University. 4:40 - 5:00 An Implementation of Prolog for the Inmos T800 Transputer A. Verden, A. King, and W. Hall Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Thursday Morning (April 6: 8:00 - 10:00; 10:30 - 12:00) 8:00 - 8:30 Using Algorithmic Parallelism in the Manchester Parsifal System Peter C. Capon and Alan E. Knowles Department of Computer Science University of Manchester 8:30 - 9:00 A Transputer-based Architecture for Data Broadcasting Mark Smith, Jonathan Yen, and Susan Spach Hewlett Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California 9:00 - 9:30 A Fully Parallel, Multi-Processor Hardware and Software System Using Inmos Transputers and the occam Programming Language Rodney Taylor and Scott Taylor General Dynamics Pomona, California 9:30 - 10:00 The Cyclops Vision System C. J. Taylor, N. Vlamis, M. Buhler, and A. Ganz Center for Systems Science Yale University 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 Kilonode: A Transputer-Based Parallel Computer F. H. Schlereth* and B. F. Schlereth** *Syracuse University **General Electric Syracuse, New York 11:00 - 11:20 Software Development on the Video Analysis Transputer Array Thomas B. Henderson, Jerome J. Symanski, and Keith Bromley Naval Ocean Systems Center San Diego, California 11:20 - 11:40 Variable Topology Parallel Processing on the Sun: A Graphics Based, Mouse Driven Approach Jack Harper Topologix, Inc. Denver, Colorado 11:40 - 12:00 The Esprit Project Gordon Harp RSRE, Great Britain and Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California Thursday Luncheon Speaker: Inmos Thursday Afternoon (April 6: 1:00 - 3:10) 1:00 - 1:30 IMISSED-T: Interactive Microprocessor Instruction Set Simulation Environment with Graphical Display for Transputers Erik Dirkx INFO Department Vrije University Brussel 1:30 - 1:50 Print Inspection and Flexible Image Processing on Transputer Arrays Majid Mirmehdi Department of Computer Science The City University, London 1:50 - 2:10 The Travelling Salesman Problem on Meiko Parallel Computer Ji Zhao Department of Computer Science University of Edinburgh 2:10 - 2:30 Transputer Communication Models and Statistics Duane Call Computer Sysytems Architects Provo, Utah 2:30 - 2:50 A Design Laboratory Introduction to a Reduced Instruction Set Computer, A Forth Based Single Board Computer Implementation of the IMS T212 Transputer Darrow F. Dawson and Kurt L. Hambacker University of Missouri-Rolla 2:50 - 3:10 How the Transputer Stacks Up Against Other Machines: Performance Comparisons on Several Application Programs G. S. Stiles Department of Electrical Engineering Utah State University