Information Superhighway Conference
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*******Please post to other groups that may be interested****** TECHNOLOGIES for the SUPERHIGHWAY IEEE COMPCON 95 To be held in San Francisco, March 5-9 at the Stanford Court Hotel. COMPCON '95 is the premier professional conference on Information Superhighway Technologies and applications. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. There are no exhibits. This is a no-nonsense technical conference for computer science and engineering professionals who are interested to share and learn more about the rapidly growing Information Superhighway business. Besides three days of 90 technical sessions, there are 9 tutorials in relevant subjects. ------------------------------ For Advanced Program (printed copy after Jan 20) e-mail: egrimes@aol.com FAX: 408 973 1325 URL for World Wide Web access: http://www.hal.com/compcon To Register for the conference: e-mail: COMPCON95@lbl.gov FAX: 510 422 2495, Tel: 510 422 2199 Mail: Compcon 95 c/o Dave Hunt, L-130 LLNL, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550 Conference Fees (3 days): Early* On-site IEEE Member $ 325 $ 375 Non-Member $ 425 $ 475 Student $ 50 $ 50 *Early registration cut off: Feb. 21 One-day $175 (Members), $250 (non-members), Tutorials (these cost extra) Full day tutorials same as conference fees 1/2 day tutorials (half above fee) Speakers, committee members, session chairs can all use the lower member prices, whether an IEEE member or not. .pa ============ Master Compcon 1995 plan with papers, sessions and Tutorials ============ Theme: TECHNOLOGIES for the SUPERHIGHWAY MONDAY March 6, 1995 Plenary speakers: Professor Dave Farber, Moore Professor of Telecommunications, University of Pensylvania "Glass Tunnels Connecting Broadband Islands - The GII" Jim Clark, Chairman and CEO, Netscape Communications Corp. "Internet = Electronic Commerce, Now!" Monday, Track 1 World Wide Web Topics, W. W. Wilcke, HAL 1. The WWW as a Platform Independent Interface to High Performance Computing, David Robertson and Bill Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 2. WWW Network Traffic Patterns, Jeffrey Sedayao, Intel 3. A Powerful Wide-Area Client, Tak W. Yan, Stanford Univ, and Juergen Annevelink, HP Electronic Commerce on the Internet, D. Gifford, Open Market Inc, and MIT 1. Netbill: An Electronic Commerce System Optimized for Network Delivered Information and Services, Marvin Sirbu and J. Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University 2. Payment Switches for Open Networks, by D. Gifford, A. Payne, L. Stewart, and W. Treese, Open Market, Inc. 3. Payment services for open networks, B. Clifford Neuman, University of Southern California Business on Networks, Fred Strange, LLNL and FSTC 1. Doing Business of the Information Highway: The nine steps to conduct business on the info. highway. F, Strange, LLNL 2. CommerceNet: Spontaneous Electronic Commerce on the Internet Allan M. Schiffman and Jay M. Tenenbaum, EIT 3. Ordering, Distributing and Receipt: Order Processing & Management at IBM, Don Willenborg, IBM 4. Billing, Payment/Settlement, Accounting & Ancillary Services: Netaccount, Deepak Gupte, Nations Bank .pa Monday, Track 2 Is it time to pay attention? Information Highway Trials in the Bay Area, W. J. Lennon, LLNL 1. Wavelength Division Multiplexing Wide Area Network trial: The National Transparent Optical Network Consortium, W. J. Lennon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab 2. Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Local Area Network: Stanford's Starnet, Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford University 3. ATM services Trial: BAGnet and other CalREN supported projects William Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Distance Learning Technologies, Tom Wilkins, HP 1. Distance Learning on the Desk Top, Pat Portway, Applied Business Telecommunications 2. Distance Learning in Higher Education, Dr. Carla Lane 3. Distance learning the community/corporate connection, Tom Wilkins, HP Satellite Superhighways, Ted Laliotis, HP 1. Superhighway to the home via DBS delivery, Peter Hampton, Primestar Partners 2. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) applications on the horizon, James Stuart, Teledesic 3. Role of satellites in NII and GII, Lawrence P. Seidman, Hughes 4. Gigabit Satellites in Distributed Supercomputing for Global Research, Larry Bergman, JPL .pa Monday, Track 3 Alpha 21164 Microprocessor and Systems, Dileep Bhandarkar, DEC 1. The Organization of the Alpha 21164 Microprocessor Pete Bannon and Jim Keller, Digital Equipment Corporation 2. World's Fastest Workstation, John Zurawski, John Murray, Paul Lemmon. Digital Equipment Corp 3. 21164 based High Performance Multiprocessor Server D.M.Fenwick, D.J.Foley, S.R.VanDoren, Digital Equipment Corporation First generation PowerPC SMP systems, Kimming So, IBM 1. IBM RS/6000 Commercial SMP Systems, James O. Nicholson, IBM 2. AIX Operating System Support for Symmetric Multiprocessing Jack C. O'Quin, Ronald S. Clark and Thomas V. Weaver, IBM 3. The performance and performance methodology for a PowerPC SMP system Bret R. Olszewski, IBM, Jean-Jacques Guillemaud, Groupe Bull Inc PA-RISC: Application-Driven Innovation, Ruby Lee, HP 1. Advanced Performance Features of the 64-bit PA-8000 Doug Hunt, et al , HP, Fort Collins 2. New MP Hardware Architecture for Commercial and Technical Environments, Loren Staley, et al , HP Roseville 3. A Highly Scalable System Utilizing up to 128 PA-RISC Processors Tony Brewer, et al, Convex Computer .pa TUESDAY, March 7, 1995 Plenary speakers: Steve Schramm, VP Engineering, General Magic, "Agents that Travel" Andy Lippman, Associate director, MIT Media Lab, "Distributed Media Bank" Tuesday, Track 4 Information Hosting Services, G. Lidor, Bell Labs, AT&T 1. PersonaLink Agent-based Messaging and Information Services Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T 2. InfoSleuth: Networked Exploitation of Information using Semantic Agents, Darrell Woelk and Christine Tomlinson, MCC 3. Enhancing Lotus Notes for Carrier Grade Hosting, Paul Cummings, Lotus Development Corp. Mobile Internet Applications (based on PDAs), Joel Bartlett, DEC 1. Experience with a Wireless World Wide Web Client, Joel F. Bartlett, DEC 2. Enabling PDA's with Wireless Communications, Rick Lane, Motorola 3. Video on Demand in Wireless Communication, E. Tsern, Stanford Univ Infopad, A. Baum, Apple 1. The Infopad Project: Providing Portable Multimedia Access to the Information Highway, Bob Brodersen or Jan Rabaey UC Berkeley 2. Infopad: A Low Power, Wireless Multimedia Terminal, Sam Sheng, UC Berkeley 3. Infonet: Network Infrastructure and Software for Mobile Information Access, My Le, UC Berkeley 4. User Interface and Applications in the Infopad Environment, Andy Burstein or Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley .pa Tuesday, Track 5 Advanced Media Enhancement Technologies. R. Lee, HP 1. An Object-Based Architecture for a Digital Compression Camera, John Beck, et al, HP Chelmsford 2. Realtime MPEG Video via Software Decompression on PA-RISC Processors, Ruby Lee, et al, HP Cupertino 3. Color Recovery: Millions of Colors from an 8-bit Graphics Device, Anthony Barkans, HP Fort Collins Interactive TV, R. Williams, IBM 1. Set-top boxes and applications, Lee Colby, HP 2. Oracle media server and its applications, Andy Laursen, Mark Porter and Jeffrey Olkin, Oracle 3. Video on Demand: Hong Kong trial, R. Haskin and F. Stein, IBM Storage Hierarchy in Multimedia Systems, M. Kienzle, IBM 1. Buffering and Caching in Large-Scale Video Servers, Asit Dan, Dan Dias, Rajat Mukherjee, Christos Polyzois, Dinkar Sitaram, Renu Tewari, IBM 2. Using Tertiary Storage in Video-on-Demand Servers Martin Kienzle, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, and William Tetzlaff, IBM 3. Server Preroll RPC for Client/Server Multimedia M.Baugher, G.Flurry, J.Wilkinson, IBM 4. Elements of scalable video servers, W. Tetzlaff, IBM and R. Flynn, Polytechnic University. .pa Tuesday, Track 6 HAL Computer Systems, Wen Li, HAL 1. Architectural Overview of HAL Systems, Winfried W. Wilcke, HAL 2. The CPU Microarchitecture, Niteen Patkar, HAL 3. Cache and Memory Management Microarchitecture, Chien Chen and Dave Lyon and David Chang, HAL PowerPC Processors, S. Peter Song, IBM and Nasr Ullah, Motorola 1. A PowerPC Microprocessor for the Low Power Computing Market, Deene Ogden, Belli Kuttanna, Albert J. Loper, Soummya Mallick and Michael Putrino, IBM 2. The PowerPC 620 Microprocessor: A High Performance Superscalar RISC Microprocessor, David Levitan, Thomas L. Thomas, Motorola and Paul Tu, IBM 3. A Pipelined, Weakly-Ordered Bus for Multi-Processing Systems Michael Allen and Kurt Lewchuk, Motorola Power PC software and Systems, N. Ullah, Motorola, M. NguyenPhu, IBM 1. The PowerPC Architecture: 64-bit Power with 32-bit Compatibility C. Ray Peng, Motorola, Tom Petersen and Ron Clark, IBM 2. The PowerPC 620 in Distributed Computing, Michael P. Taborn, John K. Yuan, David C. Lee, and Albert Tsay, IBM 3. Developing Windows NT Applications for the PowerPC, Howard C. Thamm, Motorola 4. Using the PowerPC Microprocessor for Power-Managed Systems (by IBM), Keith Braithwaite, IBM .pa Social Hour: TOP OF THE MARK, MARK HOPKINS HOTEL, 5:30 - 7:30 Note: The TOP OF THE MARK is a restaurant on top of a hotel tower next to the conference hotel. Since both hotels are on top of Nob Hill, the view from the TOP OF THE MARK is absolutely spectacular. .pa WEDNESDAY, March 8, 1995 Plenary speakers: Professor Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley "A Case for Networks of Workstations: NOW" John Warnock, CEO of Adobe Systems "The New Information Frontier" Wednesday, Track 7 NOW: Networks of Workstations, D. Patterson, UC Berkeley 1. The IBM SP-2, Tilak Agerwala, IBM 2. The Berkeley NOW Project, Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler, and David A. Patterson, U.C. Berkeley 3. Tempest: User-level Shared Memory", Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, and David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin High speed network protocols, W. Lennon, LLNL 1. 1394 --It's Everywhere, Dan Moore and Gary Hoffman, Skipstone Inc. 2. Fibrechannel 1995, Ed Frymoyer, HP 3. Local Area MultiProcessor: surpassing clusters, David B. Gustavson, SCIzzL, and Prof. Qiang Li, Santa Clara University ATM panel, S. Bell, Bell Consulting 1. The WAN Perspective, Larry Roberts, CEO ATM Systems 2. The LAN Perspective, Robert Newman, Dir. ATM, Synoptics 3. The Silicon Perspective, Akber Kazmi, Philips Semiconductor .pa Wednesday, Track 8 Taligent Object Services, J. Grimes, Taligent 1. Runtime Services for Persistent Objects, Russell Nakano, et al, Taligent 2. An Object-Oriented Device Driver Model, Steve Lemon, et al, Taligent 3. Object-Oriented Wrappers for the Mach Microkernel, Stephen Kurtzman and Kayshav Dattatri, Taligent Multimedia Authoring and Acrobat, J. King, Adobe and M. Harrison, UC Berkeley 1. Technical Issues in Hypermedia Scripting Languages, Brian F. Dennis and Prof. Michael A. Harrison, UC Berkeley 2. Acrobat 2.0, Andrew Shore, Adobe Systems 3. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job: Authoring vs. Programming Tools, Michael McGrath, Grafica Multimedia, Inc. Post-Production (Hollywood), A. Fetzer, consultant 1. Digital Editing Technology in Broadcast Video Production Leon Siverman, Laser Pacific 2. Digital Technology and the Convergence in Film, Video and Multimedia Bruce Pfander, 20th Century Fox 3. Digital Editing Technology - A Film Maker's Perspective Andrew Silver, Silver Productions .pa Wednesday, Track 9 Advanced CD systems, W. Lenth 1. CD technology for the future, Hoss Bozorgzad, Philips 2. CD and Competing Mass Storage Technologies in an Application Driven Environment, Paul Wehrenberg, Apple 3. CD or not to CD, A. Bell, IBM High Performance Storage Systems, R. Morris, IBM 1. Scalable Network Storage, E. K. Lee, Digital Equipment Corporation 2. The Parallel Scotch Storage Server, G. Gibson, CMU 3. Future Directions in RAID, J. Menon, IBM New Trends in Storage Management, J. Menon, IBM 1. ADSM: A multi-platform, scalable, backup and archive mass storage system. L-F Cabrera, B. Rees, S. Steiner, et al. IBM 2. An Object Oriented Model for Distributed Storage Management, David Low, EMC 3. Step by Step, Hierarchical Storage Management, Jim Gast, Palindrome 4. Data Striping for Heterogeneous Environments, Jim McNiel, Cheyenne .pa Wednesday, Track 10 The UltraSPARC Microprocessor with Multimedia Support, Robert Garner, SUN 1. UltraSPARC: The Next Generation Superscalar 64b SPARC Dale Greenley, et al, SUN 2. Verification of the UltraSPARC Microprocessor Shrenik Mehta, et al, SUN 3. The Visual Instruction Set (VIS) in UltraSPARC, Marc Tremblay, SUN 4. Video processing with UltraSparc, Chang Zhou, et al, SUN Can Digital Technology Reinvent the Newspaper? Panel, Paul Freiberger, Interval Research 1. Publishing today is like an electronic pinata, Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future. 2. An optimistic view that says hardware is key, John Markoff, New York Times 3. Bill Mitchell, Director of Mercury Center, Knight-Ridder Inc. Internet Access to Environmental Data, P. Mantey, UC Santa Cruz 1. SEQUOIA 2000, Joseph Pasquale, UC San Diego 2. BADGER: Bay Area Digital GeoResource, David Milgram Lockheed Research Laboratory 3. REINAS: Real-Time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System, Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz ============== TUTORIALS Sunday, March 5 Yale N. Patt, Computer Architecture Choices Steve W. Bell, ATM Overview Lawrence Rowe, Digital Audio and Video Compression, Multimedia Systems and Applications Henry A. Sowizral, Understanding and Developing Virtual Reality Systems Thursday, March 9 Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey and Jim Gray, Client/Server Overview and Update Dave Grubb and Jerry Owens, Exploring INTERNET on your PC Borko Furht, Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications Jim King, Color on the Desktop, (1/2 day) M. Ketabchi, Is DBMS Technology in Chaos, Modern DBMS approaches Products and Standards and Trends (1/2 day) Updated 1/6/95 Robin Williams (Program Chair) rwilliams@almaden.ibm.com Winfried W. Wilcke (General Chair) wilcke@hal.com Ted Laliotis (Steering Committee Chair) laliotis@hpl.hp.com
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