[comp.arch] 2nd Call For Papers: 15th Computer Architecture

levitan@pitt.UUCP (Steve Levitan) (10/20/87)

                            2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

                 The 15th Annual International Symposium on
                            Computer Architecture

                          May 30th - June 2nd 1988
                                Ilikai Hotel
                            Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Papers and tutorials are solicited in any aspect  of  Computer  Architecture.
Topic areas include, but are not limited to:

        * Language oriented architectures
        * Distributed and parallel architectures
        * Performance evaluation and measurement
        * Advanced devices (optical, GaAs, etc.)
        * Microarchitecture
        * Memory systems
        * I/O architectures
        * Interconnection networks
        * VLSI impact on architecture
        * Operating systems oriented architectures
        * Architectures for transaction-based systems
        * Architectures for artificial intelligence applications
        * Novel computing techniques (connectionism, neural networks, etc.)
        * Tools and methods for architecture design and description

Submit five (5) copies of papers (in English, not to exceed 20  double-spaced
pages)  to either Program Chair. Papers will be accepted for evaluation until
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,  1987.  Each  paper  should  have  a  cover  page  which
includes:  paper  title and the full names, affiliations, complete addresses,
and phone numbers of the authors.  Notification of acceptance will  be  given
by  February 8, 1988.  Authors of accepted papers will be requested to submit
a final, camera-ready copy by March 8, 1988.

Send five (5) copies of proposals for  full  or  1/2  day  tutorials  to  the
Tutorials  Chair.  Tutorial  proposals must be received by November 13, 1987.
Proposals should include: speaker resume, tutorial title, intended  audience,
assumed  attendee  background,  course  description, outline, and a sample of
several overhead/slides from the tutorial.

For information about student  travel  grants,  contact  the  Student  Grants
Chair. For information about exhibits, contact the Exhibits Chair.

                             SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR                                PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
H. J. Siegel                  Doug DeGroot            Yale N. Patt
Supercomputing Rsrch. Cntr.   Texas Instr.            U C, Berkeley
4380 Forbes Blvd.             Compt. Science Cntr.    Compt. Science Div.
Lanham, MD 20706, USA         Mail Stop 238           573 Evans Hall
                              P.O. Box 655474         Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
                              Dalas, TX 75265 USA

TUTORIALS CHAIR               STUDENT GRANTS CHAIR    EXHIBITS CHAIR
Shreekant S. Thakker          Mark A. Franklin        Alan D. Berenbaum
Sequent Compt. Sys.           Washington Univ.        ATT Info. Sys.
15450 S.W. Koll Pky.          #2M-333                 P.O. Box 1115
Beaverton, OR                 Holmdel, NJ             St. Louis MO
97006-6063, USA               07733, USA              63130, USA

FINANCE AND
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR      REGISTRATION CHAIR
Mary Jane Irwin               Nathanial J. Davis IV
Penn. State Univ.             Air Force Inst. Tech.

PUBLICITY CHAIR               PROCEEDINGS CHAIR       AUDIO VISUALS CHAIR
Steven P. Levitan             Jose Fortes             S. Diane Smith
Univ. of Pittsburgh           Purdue Univ.            AMPEX

                                sponsored by
* Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers *
                   * Association for Computing Machinery *