ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP (Kelly Booth) (08/24/85)
1st International Conference on Computer Workstations November 12-14, 1985 San Jose, California Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society General Information Registration information will be sent to members of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM/SIGGRAPH, and other selected mailing lists in the near future. General information con- cerning the conference can be obtained from the General Chair, Dr. Edward Miller Software Research, Inc. 580 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 957-1441 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE MONDAY, November 11 Tutorials 9:00 - 5:00 TUESDAY, November 12 Opening Remarks 9:00 - 9:15 Keynote Addresses 9:15 - 10:30 Session 1 1:00 - 12:30 Session 2 Panel 1 2:00 - 3:30 Vendor 1 Vendor 2 4:00 - TBA Exhibitors Suites WEDNESDAY November 13 Session 3 Session 4 9:00 - 10:30 Session 5 Session 6 11:00 - 12:30 Session 7 Panel 2 2:00 - 3:30 Vendor 3 Vendor 4 4:00 - TBA Exhibitors Suites THURSDAY, November 14 Session 8 Session 9 9:00 - 10:30 Session 10 Session 11 11:00 - 12:30 Conference Banquet Luncheon 12:30 - 2:00 Panel 3 2:00 - 3:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS E. Wegbreit, Vice President, Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA. W. Doherty, IBM Research, Yorktown, NY. SESSION 1. WINDOWING TECHNIQUES (Chair: K. Lantz, Stanford University, CA) Constraint-Based Tile Windows - Ellis S. Cohen, Lee A. Iverson, Siemens Research and Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ; Edward T. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. WHIM, The Window Handler and Input Manager - Michael J. Goodfellow, IBM Research, San Jose, CA. Object Oriented Input Handling with RIOS - Kevin D. Gourley, Microelectronics and Computer Technical Corporation, Austin, TX. SESSION 2. DISPLAY ARCHITECTURE (Chair: R. Ellis, CALMA Research and Development, Sunnyvale, CA) A Display Architecture for Driving Two Different Bitmapped Displays from One Frame Buffer - Robert P. Colwell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. The Shading Engine - A Low Cost Parallel Processor for Rendering High Quality Color Images in Graphics Workstations - K. C. Nunan, A. G. Lean, C. P. Wang, IBM Research, Yorktown, NY. Graphics Systems - C. Kornfeld, AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ. SESSION 3. USER INTERFACE (Chair: J. Grimes, INTEL, Santa Clara, CA) An Approach to Generalized Editing - Prasun Dewan, Marvin Solomon. University of Wisconsin. The Engineering of an Environment on Small Machines - Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Jennifer Elgot, David Itkin, Bonnie Kowalchack, Michael Maggio, IBM Research, Yorktown, NY. A Theory of Productivity in the Creative Process - J. Brady, IBM, Santa Teresa Lab, San Jose, CA. SESSION 4. OPERATING SYSTEMS & ARCHITECTURE (I) (Chair: K. Booth, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA) Multiasking Support in a Graphics Workstations - Kellogg S. Booth, William B. Cowan, David R. Forsey, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA. Adagio, a Robotics Multitasking Multiprocessor Workstation - Peter P. Tanner, Marceli Wein, W. Morven Gentleman, Stephen A. MacKay, Darlene A. Stewart, National Research Council, Ottawa, CANADA. A Real Time Oriented Machine for A.I. Applications - J. P. Sansonnet, P. Clere, E. Papon, Laboratoires de Marcoussis, FRANCE. SESSION 5. BENCHMARKING & PERFORMANCE (Chair: L. Hatfield, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, CA) Benchmarking Engineering Workstations - Mark A. Linton, Stanford University, CA. Benchmarking - Graphical Workstations - Bruce E. Brown, Quail Group, UT; Robert L. Judd, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, CA. Logical Link Performance Study of a Token Ring LANs - L. W. Huang IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC. SESSION 6. OPERATING SYSTEMS & ARCHITECTURE (II) (Chair: R. Haskin, IBM Research, San Jose, CA) The Ridge Operating System: High Performance Through Message-Passing and Virtual Memory - Edward Basart, Ridge Computers, Santa Clara, CA. Identifying Objects in Interactive Workstation Environments - Jay Glicksman, Advanced Information and Decisions Systems, Mountain View, CA Encrypted Data and Voice Communications in a Packet Switched Network - William Kelly, Charles Oestreicher, Dinakar Gan, Computer Sciences Corporation, Reston, VA. SESSION 7. APPLICATIONS (Chair: E. Carlson, Convergent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) Voice and Telephony Applications for the Office Workstation - Antonio Ruiz, IBM Research, San Jose, CA. A Release-Control System for a Network of Personal Workstations - Dario Guise, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. A Network Architecture for Intelligent Workstation Interface - Thomas Kaczmarek, USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA. SESSION 8. CAD APPLICATIONS (Chair: N. Gunther, Xerox Palo Research Center, CA) Conversion of an IC Design Capability from a Mainframe to a Workstation Environment - Dave W. Palmer, John A. Wisniewski, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM. A Workstation Approach to IC Process Characterization - Neil Gunther, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA. A Low-Cost PCB Workstation - Werner Schenk, Omnicad Corporation, NY. SESSION 9. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (Chair: K. Lantz, Stanford University, CA) Processor Sharing in NEST: A Network of Computer Workstations - Rakesh Agrawal, Ahmed K. Ezzat, AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ. A Workstation-Based Approach to Text Retrieval and Manipulation - Lee A. Hollaar, University of Utah. Using Workstations to Investigate Computer Networks - Mark Sherman, Ann Marks, (Networks at Dartmouth) Dartmouth College, NH. SESSION 10. WORKSTATION COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS (Chair: R. Phillips, University of Michigan) The Professional Workstation Project - R. H. Campbell, W. J. Kubitz, University of Illinois. Networking a Large Number of Workstations Using UNIX United - Murthy V. Devarakonda, Robert E. McGrath, Roy H. Campbell, William J. Kubitz, University of Illinois. A Bridge from Full-Function to Reduced-Function Workstations - R. L. Phillips, D. E. Atkins, R. Aggarwal, N. Benovich, B. Schipper, University of Michigan. SESSION 11. WORKSTATION ARCHITECTURES (Chair: M. Blasgen, IBM Research, Yorktown, NY) Voice/Data on the NGEN Workstation - Karen Bedard, George Harris, Jeff Krause, Rick Lagueux, Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA The SM90 Workstation - J. F. Abramatic, INRIA, FRANCE. The Realisation and Application of an Intelligent GKS Workstation - Ray G. Spiers, Sigmex, ENGLAND. PANEL 1. RISC Architecture for Workstations (Chair: TBA) PANEL 2. The Apollo Environment (Chair: TBA) PANEL 3. A Role for Mini-Computers? (Chair: P. Mantey, University of California, Santa Cruz)