kolstad@convex.UUCP (01/09/85)
Here's the USENIX AGENDA as it stands on Wednesday, January 9. I
hope there are no surprises here. If there are, my phone number
is 214-669-3700:
AGENDA
Thursday, January 24, 1985
Plenary Session
Thursday (8:30 am - 9:30 am) Conference Coordinator: John Donnelly, Denelcor
Program Chair: Charisse Castagnoli, Teknekron Infoswitch
Program Chair: Rob Kolstad, CONVEX Computer Corporation
Opening Remarks
Conference organizers and USENIX board
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Whither the Gurus
Rob Kolstad, Convex Computer Corporation
Satellite News
Thursday (9:30 am-10:20 am)Chair: Lou Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Netnews via Satellite: A Progress Report (12/84)
Lauren Weinstein, Vortex Technology
Research into Liability Issues in Netnews Transmission
Susan Nycum, Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett
Kernel Implementation
Thursday (10:30 am - 11:45 am) Chair: John Quarterman, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Porting the 4.2BSD UNIX Virtual Memory Subsystem
Jim Mankovich & Rob Kolstad, Convex Computer Corp.
A Multiple CPU Version of the UNIX Kernel
Eric J. Finger, Michael M. Krueger, Al Nugent, Masscomp
Tilde Trees in the UNIX Environment
Douglas Comer, Ralph E. Droms, Purdue University
Languages
Thursday (1:15 pm - 2:50 pm) Chair: Steve Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories
DIBOLIX - An Implementation of DIBOL under UNIX
Gary Aitken, Kenneth & Christine Scott, Finished Software & SHA
Computers Inc.
Modula-2: An Alternative to C for System Programming
Morris Djavaheri & Stan Osborne, San Francisco State University
Concurrent C - An Overview
N.H. Gehani & W.D. Roome, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Panel Discussion of C versus Other Languages on UNIX
Steve Johnson & Michael Powell, AT&T Bell Laboratories & DEC
User Interfaces
Thursday (3:10 pm - 4:10 pm) Chair: Alfred Correira, Computer Thought Corp.
Development of a Compiler for the Bourne Shell
Vincent Kasten & Paul Ruel, Concentric Associates, Inc.
Access - A Program to Interpret Pathname Access Permissions for UNIX
Steven J. Mahler & David A. Curry, Purdue University
A High-Performance Model for 2-D Alphanumeric Display Generation
Paul Bame, Hewlett-Packard
Performance
Thursday (4:10 pm - 5:15 pm) Chair: Tom Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco
Monitoring System and Process Performance
William J. Meyers, SCI Systems
Interpreting UNIX Benchmarks
John Saxer, CIE Systems
Friday, January 25, 1984
Networking
Friday (8:30 am - 10:10 am) Chair: Joe Kalash, University of California, Berkeley
Implementing XNS Protocols for 4.2BSD
James O'Tool, Chris Torek, Mark Weiser, University of Maryland
UNIX Kernel Networking Support and the LINCS Communications Architecture
Joseph E. Requa, Lawrence Livermore
Transparent Integration of UNIX and MS-DOS
C. Kline, G. Popek, J. Rothschild, R. Schulz, J. Uttal, Locus
Computing Corp.
Overview of the Sun Network File System
Dan Walsh, Bob Lyon, Gary Sager, J. M. Chang, D. Goldberg, S.
Kleiman, T. Lyon, R. Sandberg, and P. Weiss, Sun Microsystems
Standards and Directions
Friday (10:30 am - 12:00 pm) Chair: John Chambers, Microelectronics Center
Latent Source Bugs and UNIX System Portability
Alan Filipski, Motorola Microsystems
The Clipboard Data Interchange Facility
Robert T. Nicholson, Sydis Inc.
Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core
Ian Darwin & Geoff Collyer, University of Toronto
A Capability Based Protection Mechanism Under UNIX
Daniel Klein, The Avatar Corporation
Software Tools and Applications
Friday (1:30 pm - 3:10 pm) Chair: John Trudeau, Teknekron Infoswitch
An Overview of the SETOPT Command Line Option Parser Generator
Gary Perlman, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Geritol for Old Programs or Troff's Got a Lot of Life in It Yet!
Robert Lawson, Avi Naiman, David Slocombe, Mathew Zaleski,
SoftQuad Inc.
Interactive Examination of a C Program with Cscope
Joseph L. Steffen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
A Basic Direct Access Method for UNIX
Robert R. Richards, Chemical Abstracts Service
UUCP and Netmail
Friday (3:30 pm - 4:30 pm) Chair: Tom Watson, Scientific Machines Corp.
Status of the USENIX UUCP Project
Karen Summers-Horton & Mark Horton, AT&T Bell Laboratories
A Parser for Electronic Mail Addresses
Peter Honeyman & Pat E. Parseghian, Princeton University
Automatic Forwarding of Mail in CSNET
Michael T. O'Brien, Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Notesfiles: Why You Should Use Them
Raymond B. Essick IV, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana