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USENIX SUMMER 1991 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION " MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE" June 10-14 Nashville, Tennessee *** ON SITE REGISTRATION IS ENCOURAGED *** Note that, due to difficulties in scheduling the audio/visual equipment, there have been some adjustments to the original schedule. We have tried to keep changes to a minimum, and do apologize for any difficulties this may cause. Also note that the program includes refereed papers, "invited presentations" (i.e. interactive worksessions, minitutorials, etc.), and multimedia demos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **TECHNICAL SESSIONS** WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Wed 9 - 10 PLENARY SESSION Introductory Remarks Deborah K. Scherrer, mt Xinu KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Musical Dreams and Musical Reality Paul Lansky, Princeton University Wed 10:30 - 12:30 A. FILE SYSTEMS Long-Term Caching Strategies for Very Large Distributed File Systems Matt Blaze, Rafael Alonso, Princeton University Management of Replicated Volume Location Data in the Ficus Replicated File System Thomas W. Page, Jr., Richard G. Guy, John S. Heidemann, Gerald J. Popek, Wai Mak, Dieter Rothmeier University of California, Los Angeles Exploiting Multiple I/O Streams to Provide High Data-Rates Luis-Felipe Cabrera, IBM Almaden Research Center and Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz An Open and Extensible Event-Based Transaction Manager Edward C. Cheng, Edward Chang, Johannes Klein, Dora Lee, Edward Lu, Alberto Lutgardo, Ron Obermarck Digital Equipment Corporation Wed 10:30 - 12:30 B. HYPERMEDIA Overview of Hypertext ["invited talk"] John J. Puttress, AT&T Bell Laboratories Emerging Hypermedia Standards - Hypermedia Marketplace Prepares for HyTime and MHEG Brian D. Markey, Multimedia Engineering, Digital Equipment Corporation Multimedia Presentation System "Harmony" with Temporal and Active Media Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Shinji Shimojo, Toshio Matsuura, Shojiro Nishio, Hideo Miyahara, Osaka University Wed 2:00 - 3:30 A. MULTIMEDIA DEMOS Spacio-Temporal Editing Using Multi-Layered Image Synthesis (HDTV) Seiki Inoue, Masahiro Shibata, NHK DIDDLY: Digital's Integrated Distributed Database LaboratorY David B. Wecker, Database Systems Research, Digital Equipment Corporation Wed 2:00 - 3:30 B. MULTIMEDIA DATA RATES AND SYNCHRONIZATION Distributed Multimedia: How Can the Necessary Data Rates be Supported? Michael Pasieka, Paul Crumley, Ann Marks, Ann Infortuna Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University Multimedia/Realtime Extensions for the Mach Operating System Jun Nakajima, Masatomo Yazaki, Hitoshi Matsumoto Human Interface Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories, LTD. A Testbed for Managing Digital Video and Audio Storage P. Venkat Rangan, Walter A. Burkhard, Robert W. Bowdidge, Harrick M. Vin, John W. Lindwall, Kashun Chan, Ingvar A. Aaberg, Linda M. Yamamoto, Ian G. Harris University of California, San Diego Wed 4:00 - 5:30 Neural Orchestration: From Cortical Simulation to Cortical Symphony Matthew Witten, Robert E. Wyatt, University of Texas at Austin UNIX and MIDI for the Masses ["invited talk"] Tim Thompson, AT&T Bell Laboratories Wed 4:00 - 5:30 A. MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING I MAEstro -- A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Environment George D. Drapeau, Stanford University Howard Greenfield, Sun Microsystems A Structure for Transportable, Dynamic Multimedia Documents Dick C. A. Bulterman, Guido van Rossum, Robert van Liere, CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Parsing Movies in Context Thomas G. Aguierre Smith, Natalio C. Pincever Interactive Cinema Group, The Media Lab, MIT THURSDAY, JUNE 13 Thurs 9:00 - 10:30 A. MULTIMEDIA DEMO The Architecture of the IRCAM Musical Workstation Eric Lindemann, Miller Puckette, Eric Viara, Maurizio De Cecco, Francois Dechelle, Bennett Smith Institut de Recherche et Coordination of Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) Thurs 9:00 - 10:30 B. STRINGS AND THINGS Fast String Searching Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories Daniel Sunday, Johns Hopkins University SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO David G. Korn, K.-Phong Vo AT&T Bell Laboratories Activity Server: You can run but you can't hide Sanjay Manandhar, MIT Media Lab Thurs 11:00 - 12:30 A. USER INTERFACE 8-1/2, the Plan 9 Window System Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories Integrating Gesture Recognition and Direct Manipulation Dean Rubine, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University A Minimalist Global User Interface Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories Thurs 11:00 - 12:30 B. ["invited talks"] From Blazon to PostScript Daniel V. Klein, Software Engineering Inst., Carnegie Mellon University The KornShell Past, Present and Future David G. Korn, AT&T Bell Laboratories Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 A. MULTIMEDIA DEMO Software Technology at NeXT Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffe, Bryan Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc. Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 B. ["invited talk"] Overview of Motif Ellis Cohen, Open Software Foundation Thurs 4:00 - 5:30 A. MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING II Plastic Editors for Multimedia Documents Matthew E. Hodges, Digital Equipment Corporation Russell M. Sasnett, GTE Laboratories Inc. MediaView: An Editable Multimedia Publishing System Developed with an Object-Oriented Toolkit Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory Newspace: Mass Media and Personal Computing Walter Bender, Hakon Lie, Jonathan Orwant, Laura Teodosio, Nathan Abramson Electronic Publishing Group, MIT Media Lab Thurs 4:00 - 5:30 B. ["invited panel"] WINDOW PAINS Moderator: Jon Steinhart, Consultant Panelists: James Goslind, Sun Microsystems Kee Hinckley, Alfalfa Software Mark Linton, Stanford University Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories FRIDAY, JUNE 14 Fri 9:00 - 10:30 A. MULTIMEDIA DEMOS The MIT Media Laboratory Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab Integrating Real-Time Video with Sun Workstations Jennifer Overholt, Dave Berry, Sun Microsystems Fri 9:00 - 10:30 B. ["invited talk"] Scaling Up: Automating System Administration Doug Kingston, Morgan Stanley & Co. Fri 11:00 - 12:30 A. SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSION Design Considerations for JPEG Video and Synchronized Audio in a UNIX Workstation Environment Bernard I. Szabo, Gregory K. Wallace, Digital Equipment Corporation Shared Video under UNIX Paul G. Milazzo, BBN Systems and Technologies Compressed Executables: An Exercise in Thinking Small Mark Taunton, Acorn Computers Ltd. Fri 11:00 - 12:30 B. ["invited talk"] Networks: Friend or Foe? Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems Fri 2:00 - 3:30 A. AUDIO AND CONFERENCING Experiences with Audio Conferencing Using the X Window System, UNIX, and TCP/IP Robert Terek, Joseph Pasquale University of California, San Diego Integrating Audio and Telephony in a Distributed Workstation Environment Susan Angebranndt, Richard L. Hyde, Daphne Huetu Loung Nagendra Siravara, Digital Equipment Corporation Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab A Brief Overview of the DCS Distributed Conferencing System R. E. Newman-Wolfe, C. L. Ramirez, H. Pelimuhandiram, M. Montes, M. Webb, D. L. Wilson, University of Florida Fri 2:00 - 3:30 B. ["invited talk"] C Programming Style Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems Fri 4:00 - 5:30 A. PANEL (refereed) Software and Intellectual Property -- Who Owns Your Work? Organizer: Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corp. Moderator: Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems Panelists: Dan Appelman, Attorney, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe Barry Shein, an independent software developer Glen Self, Vice President of Research & Development, EDS Jack Biddle, President, Computers & Communications Industry Assoc Fri 4:00 - 5:30 B. MULTIMEDIA DEMO and WIPs A Workstation-based Multi-media Environment for Broadcast Television Keishi Kandori, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Works-in-Progress ************************************************************************ For REGISTRATION and HOTEL INFORMATION please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 Telephone # (714) 588-8649 FAX # (714) 588-9706 email address: judy@usenix.org ************************************************************************ USENIX, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems professional and technical organization, is a not-for-profit association dedicated to * fostering innovation and communicating research and technological developments, * sharing ideas and experience, relevant to UNIX, UNIX-related and advanced computing systems * providing a forum for the exercise of critical thought and airing of technical issues. 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