[comp.org.usenix] Proceedings

fuat@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) (06/30/91)

In article <1991Jun27.142401.7792@csl.dl.nec.com> harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison) writes:

>Has anyone considered archiving the papers presented at the Usenix
>conferences?  The individual authors generally don't seem to mind
>sending copies.

The Nashville conference had two excellent tracks and at times it was
hard to decide which talk to attend.  Unfortunately, only one track
had corresponding papers in the proceedings.  Would it be possible to
publish in the conference proceedings, at the very least the
abstracts, and preferably full papers for all tracks?  I realize this
might lead to an even bulkier and more expensive book, but otherwise I
don't have anything to look at for the second track to help me decide
which talk to go to or for later reference.

						--Fuat


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bcn@june.cs.washington.edu (Clifford Neuman) (06/30/91)

  harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison) writes:

  >Has anyone considered archiving the papers presented at the Usenix
  >conferences?  The individual authors generally don't seem to mind
  >sending copies.

As I come across such papers, I have been building an index using
Prospero.  At the moment I have only about 12 such papers included. I
would be interested in hearing from authors that have made their
papers available by FTP so that I could add them to the index.  If
there is someone that is willing to more actively look for such
papers, I can provide the ability for that person to update the
index.

Prospero makes the set of papers that have been indexed look like they
are on a single file system.  If you would like more information on
Prospero send a message to info-prospero@isi.edu.

	~ Cliff