mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) (02/28/86)
. CALL FOR PAPERS The Summer 1986 USENIX Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, June 9-13. The Program Committee solicits papers and panel sessions on any technical aspect of the UNIX Operating System including related areas such as compilers and languages, networks, distributed computation, and software technology. Further, the Committee especially solicits contributions in the following special areas (the descriptions beyond the title are merely inspirational): - The Audio-Visual Unix Sound, Imagery, and Synthesis using UNIX - Computer Typography Troff, TeX, Postscript, and what comes next - User Interface Technology Why is writing a program to use a Window System like making leaded glass? - Electronic Mail Systems "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave..." Design Issues, Protocols, and Implementations - Operating Systems Design The UNIX Kernel, Other Systems to Steal From, and Implementations for New Architectures - Remote Filesystems Do you live in a State or a State-less? - The Philosophy and Theology of UNIX Prospective and Retrospective Thoughts and Ruminations The Conference Publication Schedule is as follows: Abstracts due.................. March 12, 1986 Notification of acceptance..... March 28, 1986 Camera-ready copy due.......... April 25, 1986 Abstracts should be at least 1000 words or 1-2 pages and convey the sense of the final paper. The author should include his name, address, telephone numbers, and network addresses attached to the submission. The submissions will be acknowledged as received. Network addresses are particularly useful in the case of paper submissions. The Program Committee requests that abstracts be sent via electronic mail directly to: mo@seismo.arpa or seismo!mo Paper submissions may be sent to the following U.S. mail address: Mike O'Dell 13110 Memory Lane Fairfax, VA 22033 Attn: USENIX Program Committee In case of delay in acknowledging electronic mail, or for additional information, contact Mike O'Dell, Program Chairman, at (703) 471-0030 or (703) 378-8574. ---------- The Program Committee ------------- Mike O'Dell, Group L Corporation, Chair John Chambers, MCC Mike Hawley, Lucasfilm Ltd. Sam Leffler, Lucasfilm Ltd. Jim McKie, Bell Communications Research Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories Spencer Thomas, University of Utah Computer Science Dept.