carolyn@usenix.ORG (Carolyn Carr) (05/03/91)
USENIX SUMMER 1991 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
Nashville, Tennessee
MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
**TECHNICAL SESSIONS**
RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM NOW! ROOMS ARE GOING FAST!
HOTEL REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Monday, May 6, 1991
PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Monday, May 20, 1991
If you wish to receive a brochure, 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
MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS EARLY! Opryland Hotel and most other
hotels in the area will be SOLD OUT due to the International Country
Music Fan Fair (with the must-see Grand Masters Fiddlers Convention).
We encourage you to reserve your hotel rooms early - BEFORE MAY 6 -
even before you register for the conference. Rooms will be difficult
to find after the May 6 deadline. You can cancel your room reservation
up to 3 days prior to your arrival in Nashville and still get a full
refund.
Special rates have been arranged for USENIX attendees at the hotels
listed below. Call the hotel of your choice DIRECTLY. BE SURE TO
MENTION that you are attending the USENIX Conference/Exhibition to take
advantage of the group discount. A one night's deposit is required
for each room reserved.
*Opryland Hotel (Headquarters)
2800 Opryland Drive, Nashville, TN 37214
615/889-1000
"Traditional Room" rates: Single: $114 Double: $129
"Golden Terrace" room rates: Single: $144 Double $159
*Shoney's Inn of Music Valley (Nearby with shuttle services available)
2420 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN 37214
615/885-4030
Room Rates: Single or Double Room: $84
*Sheraton Music City Hotel
777 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
615/885-2200
Room Rates: Single or Double Room: $92
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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JUNE 12-14, 1991
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12
9:00 - 10:00 Introductory Remarks
Deborah K. Scherrer, mt Xinu Inc.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Musical Dreams and Musical Reality
Paul Lansky, Princeton University
Most of the music we hear either has some computer mediation
(as in digital recording) or is created with the help of one
cpu or another (particularly in popular music). But what is
only now emerging are ways of reconstructing our fundamental
views of what music is all about. Paul Lansky elucidates new
musical concepts with detailed examples and with reference to
new hardware and software capabilities. One of the leading
composers employing computer music synthesis, Paul Lansky is
well known also as an author, critic, and theorist of the music
of the future.
10:30 - 12:30
A. FILE SYSTEMS
Session Chair: Eric Allman, University of California, Berkeley
Long-Term Caching Strategies for Very Large Distributed File
Systems [Refereed Paper]
Matt Blaze, Rafael Alonso, Princeton University
Management of Replicated Volume Location Data in the Ficus
Replicated File System [Refereed Paper]
Thomas W. Page, Jr., Richard G. Guy, John Heidemann,
Gerald J. Popek, Wai Mak and Dieter Rothmeier, University
of California, Los Angeles
Exploiting Multiple I/O Streams to Provide High Data-Rates
[Refereed Paper] 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 [Refereed
Paper] Edward C. Cheng, Edward Chang, Johannes Klein, Dora Lee,
Edward Lu, Alberto Lutgardo, Ron Obermarck, Digital
Equipment Corporation
10:30 - 12:30
B. HYPERMEDIA
Session Chair: Sharon Murrel, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Overview of Hypertext [Invited Talk]
John J. Puttress, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Emerging Hypermedia Standards [Refereed Paper]
Brian D. Markey, Multimedia Engineering, Digital Equipment
Corporation
Multimedia Presentation System "Harmony" with Temporal
and Active Media [Referred Paper]
Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Shinji Shimojo, Toshio Matsuura, Shojiro
Nishio, Hideo Miyahara, Osaka University
2:00 - 3:30
A. MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
Session Chair: Jun Murai, Keio University
Spacio-Temporal Editing for HDTV Program Production
[Multimedia Demo]
Seiki Inoue, NHK
DIDDLY: Digital's Integrated Distributed Database
LaboratorY [Multimedia Demo]
Ellen Lary, Database Systems Research, Digital Equipment
Corporation
2:00 - 3:30
B.
Neural Orchestration: From Cortical Simulation to Cortical
Symphony [Refereed Paper]
Matthew Witten and Robert E. Wyatt, Center for High Performance
Computing, University of Texas
UNIX and MIDI for the Masses [Invited Talk]
Tim Thompson, AT&T Bell Laboratories
4:00 - 5:30
A. MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING I
Session Chair: Mike Hawley, MIT Media Lab.
MediaView: An Editable Multimedia Publishing System Developed
with an Object-Oriented Toolkit [Refereed Paper]
Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A Structure for Transportable, Dynamic Multimedia
Documents [Refereed Paper]
Dick C. A. Bulterman, Guido van Rossum, Robert van Liere,
OCWI: Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
Parsing Movies in Context [Refereed Paper]
Thomas G. Aguierre Smith, Natalio C. Pincever, Interactive
Cinema Group, MIT Media Lab
4:00 - 5:30
B. MULTIMEDIA DATA RATES AND SYNCHRONIZATION
Session Chair: Charles Roberts, Hewlett-Packard
Distributed Multimedia: How Can the Necessary Data Rates be
Supported? [Refereed Paper]
Michael Pasieka, Information Technology Center,
Carnegie Mellon University
Multimedia/Realtime Extensions for the Mach Operating
System [Refereed Paper]
Jun Nakajima, Masatomo Yazaki, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Fujitsu
Laboratories LTD.
A Testbed for Managing Digital Video and Audio Storage
[Refereed Paper]
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
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
9:00 - 10:30
A. MULTIMEDIA DEMO
Session Chair: Larry Stead, Bellcore
The IRCAM Musical Workstation [Multimedia Demo]
Eric Lindemann, IRCAM
9:00 - 10:30
B. STRINGS AND THINGS
Session Chair: Alan Nemeth, Digital Equipment Corporation
Fast String Searching [Refereed Paper]
Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Daniel Sunday, Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab
SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO [Refereed Paper]
David G. Korn, Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Bell Laboratories
8-1/2, the Plan 9 Window System [Refereed Paper]
Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
11:00 - 12:30
A. USER INTERFACE
Session Chair: Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit
A Minimalist Global User Interface [Refereed Paper]
Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Integrating Gesture Recognition and Direct Manipulation
[Refereed Paper]
Dean Rubine, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon
University
Activity Server: you can run but you can't hide
[Refereed Paper]
Sanjay Manandhar, MIT Media Lab
11:00 - 12:30
B.
From Blazon to PostScript [Invited Talk]
Daniel V. Klein, Software Engineering Inst., Carnegie Mellon
University
The KornShell Past, Present and Future [Invited Talk]
David G. Korn, AT&T Bell Laboratories
2:00 - 3:30
A. MULTIMEDIA DEMO
Software Technology at NeXT [Multimedia Demo]
Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffee, Bryan
Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc.
2:00 - 3:30
B.
Overview of Motif [Invited Talk]
Ellis Cohen, Open Software Foundation
4:00 - 5:30
A. MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING II
Session Chair: Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corporation
Plastic Editors for Multimedia Documents [Refereed Paper]
Matthew Hodges, Digital Equipment Corporation
Russell Sasnett, GTE Laboratories
MAEstro -- A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Environment
[Refereed Paper]
George D. Drapeau, Stanford University
Mass Media and Personal Computing [Refereed Paper]
Walter Bender, Hakon Lie, Jonathan Orwant, Laura Teodosio,
Electronic Publishing Group, MIT Media Lab
4:00 - 5:30
B. PANEL
WINDOW PAINS: What are window systems and where are they going?
How should they support graphics, color and new kinds of input
devices? What should be built into the window system? How
has early standardization (of frame buffers, pixel representa-
tion) influenced our ability to design and extend window
systems? James Gosling, Jon Steinhart and Rob Pike will be
among the panelists at your service.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
9:00 - 10:30
A. MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
Session Chair: Jeff Peck, Sun Microsystems
The MIT Media Laboratory [Multimedia Demo]
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab
Integrating Real-Time Video with Sun Workstations
[Multimedia Demo]
Jennifer Overholt, Multimedia Group, Sun Microsystems
9:00 - 10:30
B.
Scaling Up: Automating System Administration [Invited Talk]
Doug Kingston, Morgan Stanley & Co.
11:00 - 12:30
A. SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSION
Session Chair: Gretchen Phillips, State University of New York
at Buffalo
Design Considerations for JPEG Video and
Synchronized Audio in a UNIX Workstation Environment
[Refereed Paper]
Bernard I. Szabo, Gregory K. Wallace, Digital Equipment
Corporation
Shared Video under UNIX [Refereed Paper]
Paul G. Milazzo, BBN Systems and Technologies
Compressed Executables: An Exercise in Thinking Small
[Refereed Paper]
Mark Taunton, Acorn Computers Ltd.
11:00 - 12:30
B.
Networks: Friend or Foe? [Invited Talk]
Hal Stern, Sun Microsystems
2:00 - 3:30
A. AUDIO AND CONFERENCING
Session Chair: Tom Duff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Experiences with Audio Conferencing Using the X Window
System, UNIX, and TCP/IP [Refereed Paper]
Robert Terek, Joseph Pasquale
University of California, San Diego
Integrating Audio and Telephony in a Distributed Workstation
Environment [Refereed Paper]
Susan Angebranndt, Richard Hyde, Daphne Loung, Nagendra
Siravara, Digital Equipment Corporation
Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab
A Brief Overview of the DCS Distributed Conferencing System
[Refereed Paper]
R. E. Newman-Wolfe, C. L. Ramirez, H. Pelimuhandiram,
D. L. Wilson, M. Webb, University of Florida
2:00 - 3:30
B.
C Programming Style [Invited Talk]
Rob Kolstad, Sun Microsystems
4:00 - 5:30
A. PANEL
Software and Intellectual Property -- Who Owns Your Work?
This lively debate will cover intellectual property issues such
as patent protection of software algorithms, novel copyright
claims such as look-and-feel, who should own information, who
should or shouldn't be denied access to it, and who should
build on it.
4:00 - 5:30
B.
Session Chair: Lisa Bloch, Sun User Group
A Workstation-based Multi-Media Environment For Broadcast
Television [Multimedia Demo]
Keishi Kandori, Asahi Broadcasting Co.
Works-in-Progress
These reports provide researchers with 10 minutes to speak
on current work and receive valuable feedback. Present your
interim results, novel approaches, or newly-completed work.
Open to all. Schedule your session by contacting Sharon
Murrel or Andrew Hume during the conference.
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To receive a brochure and information on registration and hotel,
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
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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.
Founded in 1975, the Association sponsors two annual technical
conferences, a once-a-year vendor exhibition, and frequent
symposia and workshops addressing special interest topics.
USENIX publishes proceedings of its meetings, the bi-monthly
newsletter ;login:, a refereed technical quarterly,
Computing Systems, and is expanding its publishing role with
a book series on advanced computing systems. The Association
also actively participates in and reports on the activities of
various ANSI, IEEE and ISO standards efforts.carolyn@usenix.ORG (Carolyn Carr) (05/22/91)
USENIX SUMMER 1991
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
" MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE"
June 10-14
Nashville, Tennessee
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.
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**TECHNICAL SESSIONS**
Wednesday through Friday, June 12 - 14
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 Hinkley, Alsalsa 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
Len Tower, Free Software Foundation
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
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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.
Founded in 1975, the Association sponsors two annual technical
conferences, a once-a-year vendor exhibition, and frequent
symposia and workshops addressing special interest topics.
USENIX publishes proceedings of its meetings, the bi-monthly
newsletter ;login:, a refereed technical quarterly,
Computing Systems, and is expanding its publishing role with
a book series on advanced computing systems. The Association
also actively participates in and reports on the activities of
various ANSI, IEEE and ISO standards efforts.jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) (05/22/91)
Grrr. CBM, you made it to SIGGRAPH, how about this one? > USENIX SUMMER 1991 > TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION > > " MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE" > > June 10-14 > Nashville, Tennessee > [...] >Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 A. MULTIMEDIA DEMO > Software Technology at NeXT > Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffe, Bryan > Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc. The "lowest" vendor there, the rest being Sun, AT&T, MIT Media Lab, etc. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 "The final twitch of "Political Correctness" grand peur has to do with the age-old fear of antinomian beastliness, lesbians holding black masses over copies of Derrida and so forth." -- Alexander Cockburn