Information Superhighway Conference

[Ted Laliotis <[e-mail]>]

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          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.
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For Advanced Program (printed copy after Jan 20)
 e-mail: [e-mail]
 FAX: [phone]

URL for World Wide Web access: http://www.hal.com/compcon

To Register for the conference:
 e-mail: [e-mail]
 FAX: [phone],  Tel: [phone]
 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.

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 Master Compcon 1995 plan with papers, sessions and Tutorials

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 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

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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

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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
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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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


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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) [e-mail]
  Winfried W. Wilcke (General Chair) [e-mail]
  Ted Laliotis (Steering Committee Chair) [e-mail]