carolyn@usenix.ORG (Carolyn Carr) (04/26/91)
USENIX SUMMER 1991 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION Nashville, Tennessee MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE ** Technical Sessions Program** HOTEL REGISTRATION DEADLINE Monday, May 6, 1991 PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE Monday, May 20, 1991 The brochure containing full information on registration has just been mailed and members should be receiving it shortly. Non-members can receive a brochure by contacting: 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 ********************************************************************** 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 Using Multi-Layered Image Synthesis (HDTV) [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 Mutable Editors for Multimedia [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 -- 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. *********************************************************************** 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