taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (02/08/87)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer 1987 USENIX Technical Conference
June 8-12, Phoenix, Arizona
Civic Plaza - Convention Center
Abstracts are being accepted from individuals wishing to
present papers at the Summer 1987 USENIX Technical
Conference. Abstracts should be 250-750 words long,
emphasizing what is new and interesting about the work. The
final paper should be 8-12 pages when typeset.
Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:
+ Kernel enhancements, measurements, etc.
+ Programming languages and environments.
+ UNIX in the office environment.
+ Standards and portability.
+ New mail systems (e.g., X.400-based systems or user
interfaces incorporating new interface paradigms).
+ Applications, especially unusual ones such as computer
aided music, factory automation, etc.
+ Security.
+ UNIX vs. the naive user.
+ Workstations: comparisons, experiences, trends.
+ Beyond UNIX -- what next?
Presentations by vendors should contain substantial
technical information and be of interest to the general
community.
All abstracts will be due by February 20, 1987. Electronic
submissions to ucbvax!phoenix or phoenix@Berkeley.EDU are
preferred. All abstracts should include your name, network
address (see below), and telephone number.
All authors whose abstracts are accepted must submit a paper
by the publication deadline or they will forfeit their talk.
We currently plan to strongly encourage electronic
submissions of final papers in troff format using the -me,
-mm, or -ms macros and the tbl, eqn, and pic preprocessors.
TEX and Scribe are available with limited fonts.
Dates of interest are:
20 February Abstracts due
16 March Notifications to authors
13 April Final papers due
10-12 June Conference program
The program committee consists of:
Eric Allman, Britton Lee (chair)
Greg Chesson, Silicon Graphics
Tom Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco
Daniel Klein, Carnegie Mellon University
Sam Leffler, Pixar
Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
John Mashey, MIPS
Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado
John Quarterman, TIC
Dennis Ritchie, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Dave Taylor, Hewlett Packard
Chris Torek, University of Maryland
For additional information regarding the program, contact:
Eric Allman
Britton Lee
1919 Addison Suite 105
Berkeley CA 94704
415/548-3211 (work) 415/843-9535 (home)
ucbvax!eric eric@Berkeley.EDU
Please include your network address, if available, with
abstracts and all correspondence. This should be an Arpanet
address or a UUCP address relative to a well known host; if
in doubt, start from mcvax, ucbvax, decvax, or seismo. Also
include a telephone number so you can be contacted in the
event of network difficulties. If you do not have a network
address, please include a surface mail address so that
information can be sent to you if your paper is accepted.