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)