Re: Superhighway Technologies Conference

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: Ted Laliotis <laliotis () hplabsz hpl hp com>




Dave, please send to IP and any other list you find appropriate.


IPers, please note: Dave Farber is the opening Keynote speaker at
COMPCON '95. The conference Theme is "Information Superhighway Technologies".
It is a technical conference (no exhibits) organized under the auspices of
the IEEE Computer Society. PLEASE POST TO OTHER LISTS as well.


Thanks.
Ted Laliotis
HP Labs
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           Technical Program, Tutorials and Fees for
                      IEEE COMPCON 95
 to be held in San Francisco, March 5-9 at the Stanford Court Hotel.


For Advanced Program (printed copy after Jan 1)
 e-mail: egrimes at aol.com
 FAX: 408 973 1325


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


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)


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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


Digital Money on the Commerce Net, D. Gifford, 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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 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, J. Stuart, Teledesic
 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, Larry 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


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


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. Developing Windows NT Applications for the PowerPC,
    Howard C. Thamm, Motorola
 3. Using the PowerPC Microprocessor for Power-Managed Systems,
    Keith Braithwaite, IBM
 4. The PowerPC 620 in Distributed Computing,
    Michael P. Taborn and John K. Yuan, IBM, and David C. Lee, IBM


PowerPC Processors, S. Peter Song, IBM and Nasr Ullah, Motorola
 1. A PowerPC Microprocessor for the Portables Market, D. Ogden, IBM
 2. A Pipelined, Weakly-Ordered Bus for Multi-Processing Systems
    Kurt Lewchuk and Michael Allen, Motorola
 3. The PowerPC 620 Microprocessor: A High Performance Superscalar
    RISC Microprocessor, Thomas L. Thomas, Motorola and Paul Tu, IBM


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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


Information Hosting Services, G. Lidor, Bell Labs, AT&T
 1. PersonaLink Agent-based Messaging and Information Services
    Paul S. Chisholm, AT&T
 2. Info-Sleuth: Intelligent Search Management via Semantic Agents
    Darryl Woelk, MCC
 3. Enahncing Lotus Notes for Carrier Grade Hosting Applications,
    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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WEDNESDAY, March 8, 1995


Plenary speakers:
               John Warnock, CEO of Adobe Systems
                   "The New Information Frontier"


               Professor Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley
                    "A Case for Networks of Workstations: NOW"


Wednesday, Track 7


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 8


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 9


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. (Authoring), Adobe premier customer (waiting response)


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 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, Les Kohn, et al, SUN
 4. Video processing with UltraSparc, Chang Zhou, Leslie Kohn,
    Ihtisham Kabir, 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, Virtual Reality


Thursday, March 9
 Robert Orfail, 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)
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Updated 12/15/94
  Robin Williams (Program Chair) rwilliams () almaden hp com
  Winfried W. Wilcke (General Chair) wilcke () hal com
  Ted Laliotis (Steering Committee Chair) laliotis () hpl hp com