taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) (10/13/86)
This article is from Jean Wood (jean@mcvax.uucp) and Neil Todd (neil@ist.uucp)
and was received on Mon Oct 13 10:21:36 1986
CALL FOR PAPERS and PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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EUUG SPRING '87 CONFERENCE
UNIX GROWS UP
Helsinki (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden), 11-15 May, 1987
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Conference structure
The next EUUG Spring Conference will be held on board the M/S Mariella leaving
from Helsinki on Tuesday 12th May 1987, arriving in Stockholm Wednesday 13th
May and finally returning to Helsinki on Thursday 14th May. All sea crossings
will be made at night. Tutorials will be held in the Hotel Dipoli in Helsinki
on Monday 11th May and Friday 15th May 1987. The theme of the conference is
``Unix Grows Up''.
Papers are solicited on the following topics:
o Future directions,
o UNIX based application development in Manufacturing, Government,
Finance, Service Industries etc,
o UNIX as a systems development environment,
o New languages topics,
o Real time processing using standard UNIX,
o Integrating UNIX systems into hetrogenous environments,
o Integrating PCs into UNIX environments,
o UNIX implementations on very big and very small machines,
o R&D using UNIX,
o Etc...
Tutorials
A full programme of tutorials will be held in the Hotel Dipoli on Monday 11th
and Friday 15th. Although the final tutorials have yet to be decided it is
hoped that, amongst other speakers, Bjarne Stroustrop will be talking on C++.
We are always willing to try to provide tutorials on any subject, provided
that enough people are interested and a suitable speaker can be found. If you
have any suggestions please send them to the Conference Coordinator.
Official Language
The official language of the conference will be English, no interpretation
will be provided.
Paper submission
Abstracts should be submitted to the EUUG Secretariat and to the Programme
Chairman, by ordinary and electronic mail (if possible in troff -ms form).
They should include the following information:
o Title of paper,
o Author(s) name(s),
o Speaker name and affiliation (if more than one author),
o Mail address,
o Fax and/or telex number,
o Electronic mail address,
o Special audio-visual requirements if necessary,
o Text of abstract (in English): about 250 words.
Conference fees will be waived for speakers.
Deadlines
o December 15th, 1986 : Abstract received by EUUG Secretariat and
Programme Chairman.
o January 1st, 1987 : Notification of acceptance or rejection by
Programme Committee.
o March 1st, 1987 : Final paper received by EUUG Secretariat and
Programme Chairman for publication in the conference proceedings.
Programme Committee and Secretariat
Ms Jean Wood (Chairman) Mr. Neil Todd (Conference Coordinator)
Digital Equipment Europe Imperial Software Technology
B.P. 29 Sophia Antipolis 60, Albert Court
F-06561 Valbonne-Cedex Prince Consort Road
F-06562 London SW7 2BH
(France) (Great Britain)
Tel: +33 93 65 51 11 Tel: +44 1 581 8155
E-mail: mcvax!jean E-mail: mcvax!ist!neil or ukc!ist!neil
Fax: +33 93 65 32 24 X3908 Fax: +44 1 581 5147
Telex: 842-461837 DECTE Telex: 928476 ISTECH G
Mr. Johan Helsingius Mr. Hans Albertsson (VUXPH, NV 5)
Oy Penetron Ab Ericsson Information Systems i Sverige Ab
Box 21 Box 11100
SF-02171, Espoo S-161 11 Bromma
(Finland) (Sweden)
Tel: +358 0 427632 Tel: +46 8 764 2616
E-mail: mcvax!penet!julf E-mail: mcvax!erisun!halbertsson
Mr. Kim Biel-Nielsen Mrs. Helen Gibbons (Secretariat)
SC Metric A/S EUUG
Bygstubben 10 Owles Hall
DK-2950 Vedbaek Buntingford, Herts., SG9 9PL
(Denmark) (Great Britain)
Tel: +45 2 89 35 00 Tel: +44 763 73039
E-mail: mcvax!diku!ibt!kbn E-mail: mcvax!inset!euug or ukc!inset!euug
Exhibition
There will be a major exhibition at this conference, potential exhibitors are
requested to contact the Secretariat for further information.
Additional information
The boat and her sister the M/S Olympia are the largest passenger boats in
daily service throughout the year in the world. Actually they should not be
called boats, they are, in fact, floating hotels. They have 9 decks, a number
of restaurants and capacity for nearly 2500 people. They make the 500km
journey from Helsinki to Stockholm in 14 hours, and they do that daily. The
M/S Mariella has recently received the "Boat of the year" award.
They both have over 2300 beds in over 800 cabins. M/S Mariella has a night
club and a dance bar for about 560 people, an a la carte restaurant for 410
pers., a buffet restaurant for 614 pers., and several additional bars and
clubs, including an English style pub (!), a Casino-bar with roulette and
Black Jack (110), 2 cafes, disco, etc.
The boat has also the largest tax free shop on the Baltic Sea as well as sauna
and a swimming pool.
The M/S Mariella has over 60 different kinds of wine in her restaurants, and
the pub has the greatest variety of beer on the Baltic Sea. The buffet
restaurant has a special kind of service called "gaende bord|" in Swedish,
"the going table", or "seisova poyta", "the standing table", in Finnish.
This means that there is a large table where all the dishes are available, and
everyone is free to go and eat as much as s/he likes, anything that s/he likes
and as often as s/he likes. That is not as brutal as it might seem to be from
the previous description :- there are separate tables for people, and people
go to the large table only to get more to eat. Normally people make four
"visits", one for fish, one for meat, one for warm dishes and a final trip for
the desserts.
Usually they have at least 4 or 5 kinds of fish (including salmon), several
sorts of meat (reindeer, pork, beef, lamb, chicken etc.), sausages, salads, 2
or 3 kinds of warm dishes, fruit and several kinds of desserts (ice cream,
biscuits, cakes, etc). Of course bread, potatoes, rice and so on are
available. They often have crabs, oysters and other things like that.
The a la carte restaurants are very good, too; in fact excellent, once the
price level is considered. The whole boat is tax free so food and drinks are
rather reasonably priced.
One of the boat's decks is the conference deck. The conference deck has a
large auditorium, 15 separate conference rooms for groups from 6 to 30 members
and an exhibition area with all the usual facilities. This can be combined
with the smaller conference rooms to form an even larger exhibition space.
All normal audiovisual equipment, including a video projector, cameras, and
monitors, overhead projector, 16 mm film projector are available in the main
auditorium.
The cabins are fairly large, normally nine square meters; the A category
cabins, the luxury cabins, and the suites have large windows opening onto the
sea; the B category cabins are equally well equipped (with shower, toilet and
radio) as the A cabins, but they do not have a window. The C category cabins
are located under the car deck, but still have the same high standard of
equipment.
The luxury cabins are somewhat larger than the normal ones, and have TV,
telephone and hair drier as additional equipment. The suites are fifty square
meters in size and have separate living and bedrooms, and a fridge in addition
to the standard luxury cabin equipment.
By chosing a tax free venue a considerable cost saving has been achieved, this
will make the Spring 1987 Conference extremely good value for money.