lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau) (02/06/84)
Greetings.
CALL FOR PAPERS
SUMMER 1984 USENIX CONFERENCE
JUNE 12-15, HOTEL UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY
Abstracts due March 26
Conference Chair: Program Committee:
Randy Frank Jay Lepreau Univ of Utah, Co-Chair
University of Utah Spencer Thomas Univ of Utah, Co-Chair
Steve Bellovin Bell Labs
Conference Host: Kirk Mckusick UC Berkeley
Computer Science Department Mike Muuss Ballistics Research Lab
University of Utah Dennis Ritchie Bell Labs
Aspects of this conference which may differ from previous ones include:
- It is sponsored only by USENIX.
- We plan to publish a proceedings for distribution at the opening of
the conference.
- We are soliciting formal panels as well as papers.
- We plan to schedule some small semi-formal workshops during the day,
and also solicit suggestions for those. They are expected to be
somewhat more formal ``Birds of a Feather'' sessions.
- Papers in the ``product announcement'' genre will not be accepted,
and talks of that nature will not be tolerated by the session chairs.
Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:
- Hardware: evaluations, modifications for the UNIX(UNIX is a trademark
of Bell Laboratories) Operating System, design issues for supporting
the UNIX OS.
- Kernel enhancement, performance, real time modifications
- Networks and distributed processing
- UNIX ports and emulations with new aspects
- Operating systems architecture: alternate OS's, cacheing methods for
hierarchical memories, programming language aspects.
- Programming languages and environments
- Mail, news and uucp: transport systems, addressing, routing, user
interfaces, USENET problems and solutions.
- Papers involving novel computer graphics or computer aided design
topics are specially solicited for a computer graphics session.
- Applications: CAI, System management and monitoring
- 4.2 BSD, System V, 2.9 BSD, GNU: experiences, comparisons, critiques.
- Standards and portability: kernel, commands, library, and languages.
- Security (sic)
- Unix directions
Abstracts of papers should explain what is new and interesting about the work
and should be between 300 and 1000 words. Papers previously presented at
other conferences will not be accepted. Proposals for panels and workshops
should explain the proposed thrust of the discussion, and contain suggestions
for at least two members. All submissions must include:
Title of presentation, panel, or workshop
Full name of author
Institution or company
U.S. mail address
Network address, if available
Phone number
Special audio-visual requirements
Since the program committee plans to produce a proceedings of conference
papers for distribution at the conference opening, the following schedule must
be adhered to:
Abstracts due: March 26, 1984
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 1984
Complete papers due: May 14, 1984
Papers containing no figures may be submitted electronically, with prior
arrangement. Both Scribe and troff will be available, with output to a Xerox
2700 or Versatec. There may be a charge associated with this service; contact
the program committee chairs for more information.
Please be sure that you have the approval of your organization to present and
publish your paper before submitting an abstract. A USENIX release form will
be distributed with the notice of acceptance, and final papers must be
submitted with the completed form in order for us to be able to publish it.
The schedule is tight, and does not allow for delays caused by inability to
get release approvals. All hard-copy paper submissions must be camera-ready;
matrix printer output does not reproduce acceptably, and cannot be accepted.
Abstracts should be submitted to the program chairs at the address below,
either by U.S. or electronic mail. Due to the vagaries of the latter we will
immediately acknowledge all electronic mail submissions, so try again, or
call, if you do not soon receive an ACK.
{harpo,hplabs}!utah-cs!usenix or usenix@utah-cs.ARPA
Jay Lepreau or Spencer Thomas
Computer Science Dept.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 582-7214, 581-3095, 581-4285pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) (02/20/84)
After squinting through a number of the talks in Washington, I'd like to propose that an additional rule be imposed on presentations at the Summer USENIX: Any speaker employing viewgraphs that are not readable from the *back* of the conference room should be summarily ejected from the conference! :-) Seriously, I see no excuse for speakers using standard sized printing (10 point?) on something they expect others to read from 100 feet away. I have found 14 point type to be necessary for presentations in a room that's only big enough for 15 people; I expect 16 or 18 point type would be necessary for something like USENIX. If you don't have an output device that produces large enough type, then either: a) Find someone who does - there are lots of such devices around. Furthermore, anyone presenting a paper at USENIX probably has a number of friends on the net who could be asked for assistance. b) Draw your viewgraphs by hand! Even if you don't have art-department quality lettering, it *still* will be better than something that the audience has no hope of reading. Paul Lustgarten AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hill, NJ ihnp4!hlexa!pcl