taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (04/13/87)
- - 1. SYMPOSIUM ON STANDARDS AND INTERFACES IN PERSONAL COMPUTING This is an announcement of the ECA-Symposium on Standards and Interfaces in Personal Computing. It is to be held on May 21-22, 1987, in Brussels, Belgium. It is organized by the European CAMAC Association, ECA, and sponsored by the Commis- sion of European Communities. 1.1 Purpose of the Symposium This symposium is aimed at identifying and promoting future areas of standardisation in the field of personal computing. With the future in mind, attention is concentrated on the more powerful personal computers and the more affordable personal workstations which will become common-place in the academic, commercial and industrial environment. The power of these devices will be exploited by the promotion of interface stan- dards which will lead to the full integration of powerful hard- ware, well engineered software, graphics and communications. 1.2 General Information The symposium is one of an ongoing series of real time instrumentation and computing topics and is sponsored by the ESONE Committee of European Laboratories. It is to be held at the Flemish Free University in Brussels. The language of the symposium will be English. Abstracts of papers are planned to be available at the symposium whilst the proceedings are to be subsequently published by a reputable journal. Copies will be available to participants for a relatively small sum whilst fees for attendance are not anticipated. Reasonable hotel accomodation is available in Brussels but participants are advised to make early application, mentioning the symposium to: Tourist Information Service Grand Place 1 B-1000, Brussels Tel. (02) 2305029 Telex: TGBRU-B65206. 1.3 PROGRAMME The programme will consist of invited papers from interna- tional experts and a poster exhibition. The programme for the two days is: - Introduction and welcome by EEC representative, Jan Rouk- ens. - The Past and Future Development of Personal Workstations - Maurice Wilkes FRS. - Object Oriented Languages - Doug Shepherd. - Network File Systems - Alec Ojadjinski. - Integrated Voice and Data Networking - Michael Salmony. - Future Bus Structures for 32 bit Personal Computers - Wal- ter Fink. - Advantages of RISC Architectures - Steve Thurber. - The Human Interface, An Overview - Najah Naffah. - A.I. Techniques in Man-Machine Communications - Jean-Paul Haton. - MS-DOS and MS-Windows as PC Standards - Joachim Kempin. - AT&T Unix Standards - Andrew Rifkin. - Committee Suport System - Jorg Hahn. - "ANSA Project" - Andrew Herbert. - Software Integration - Rudolf Marty. - Portable Common Tool Environment - Ian Cambell. - "Computer Aided Design - Speaker from Recal-Redac. - Laservision ROM - M. Derkseme If you wish to attend, please return the following form to Mrs H. Pilwat. Mrs. Helene Pilwat KFA Julich Zent. fur Elektronik Postfach 1913 D-5170 JULICH Germany Tel: 02461 61 6521 Telex: 833 556 Name Initials Organisation Street City Postal code Country O I am planning to attend the symposium O I will submit a paper to the poster exhibition Tentative title: Ian Willers, chairman organizing committee. - -