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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
SUMMER 1991 USENIX CONFERENCE
June 10-14, 1991
Nashville, Tennessee
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Deborah K. Scherrer, mt Xinu
Musical Dreams and Musical Reality
Paul Lansky, Princeton University
FILE SYSTEMS
Chair: Eric Allman, University of California, Berkeley
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
HYPERMEDIA
Chair: Sharon Murrel, 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
MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
Chair: Jun Murai, Keio University
Spacio-Temporal Editing Using Multi-Layered Image
Synthesis (HDTV)
Seiki Inoue, Masahiro Shibata, NHK
DIDDLY: Digital's Integrated Distributed Database
LaboratorY
Ellen Lary, Database Systems Research, Digital Equipment
Corporation
Neural Orchestration: From Cortical Simulation to Cortical
Symphony
Matthew Witten, Robert E. Wyatt, University of Texas at Austin
MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING I
Chair: Mike Hawley, MIT Media Lab
MediaView: An Editable Multimedia Publishing System
Developed with an Object-Oriented Toolkit
Richard L. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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
MULTIMEDIA DATA RATES AND SYNCHRONIZATION
Chair: Charles Roberts, Hewlett- Packard
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
MULTIMEDIA DEMO
Chair: Larry Stead, Bellcore
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)
STRINGS AND THINGS
Chair: Alan Nemeth, Digital Equipment Corporation
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
8-1/2, the Plan 9 Window System
Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
USER INTERFACE
Chair: Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit
A Minimalist Global User Interface
Rob Pike, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Integrating Gesture Recognition and Direct Manipulation
Dean Rubine, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon
University
Activity Server: You can run but you can't hide
Sanjay Manandhar, MIT Media Lab
MULTIMEDIA DEMO
Software Technology at NeXT
Avadis Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffe, Bryan
Yamamoto, NeXT, Inc.
MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING II
Chair: Dan Geer, Digital Equipment Corporation
Plastic Editors for Multimedia Documents
Matthew E. Hodges, Digital Equipment Corporation
Russell M. Sasnett, GTE Laboratories Inc.
MAEstro -- A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Environment
George D. Drapeau, Stanford University
Howard Greenfield, Sun Microsystems
Newspace: Mass Media and Personal Computing
Walter Bender, Hakon Lie, Jonathan Orwant,
Laura Teodosio, Nathan Abramson
Electronic Publishing Group, MIT Media Lab
MULTIMEDIA DEMOS
Chair: Jeff Peck, Sun Microsystems
The MIT Media Laboratory
Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab
Integrating Real-Time Video with Sun Workstations
Jennifer Overholt, Dave Berry, Sun Microsystems
SYSTEM IMPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSION
Chair: Gretchen Phillips, State University of New York at Buffalo
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.
AUDIO AND CONFERENCING
Chair: Tom Duff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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
PANEL
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
MULTIMEDIA DEMO and WIPs
Chair: Lisa Bloch, Sun User Group
A Workstation-based Multi-media Environment for Broadcast
Television
Keishi Kandori, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Works-in-Progress