[net.arch] 18th Annual Microprogramming Workshop

sd@erc3ba.UUCP (S.Davidson) (10/03/85)

The 18th Annual Workshop on Microprogramming will be held 

	December 3 - December 6, 1985

at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California.

The conference will include tutorials, informal discussion sessions,
panels, and formal paper sessions.  The informal sessions include
the Microprogramming Shootout and Microprogramming War Stories, the
panels include Architectures, Vertical Migration, Legal Issues, and 
Automated System Level CAD.  There are formal paper sessions on Prolog, 
data flow architectures, microcode compaction, architectures, 
microprogramming languages, and microcode tools.

The keynote speaker is Glen Langdon from IBM.  His topic is
"Will Microcode Make RISC Machines Obsolete?"  We have some other
goodies planned, such as exclusive use of the Monterey Aquarium for a 
banquet Tuesday night.

If you're interested I will E-mail you a copy of the complete
program.

-- 
Scott Davidson
AT&T Engineering Research Center
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(609) 639-2221
P.O. Box 900
Princeton, NJ 08540