scherrer@mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer) (01/30/91)
MULTIMEDIA - FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE Summer 1991 Technical Conference and Exhibition June 10-14, 1991 OPRYLAND HOTEL Nashville, Tennessee CALL FOR PAPERS **** FEB 6 -- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS **** We invite submission of your papers and multimedia presentations for the technical track. Please target a sophisticated audience, particularly knowledgeable of operating system issues but keenly interested in new and exciting projects in many areas. Suggested topics include, though are not limited to: Multimedia, applications and research: systems integrating voice, video, audio, touch, or music data compression technology user interface/human factors Hypermedia: authoring systems hypermedia/multimedia documents Operating systems issues: multiprocessor systems distrubuted systems secure systems fault tolerant systems systems for novel architectures distributed file systems Communications and Networking: protocols performance administration and security Programming environment: user interfaces, windowing, graphics compilers and language technology software development and other support tools testing and debugging Sophisticated Applications: databases transaction processing instructional scientific, biological, medical, etc. Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive instructions for the preparation of final papers, to be published in the conference proceedings. We are looking into possibilities for making audio and video materials available as well. *** FORM OF SUBMISSIONS Submissions to the technical track should represent new work and be in the form of an ** extended abstract and outline **. Be complete enough to provide details of your approach and give the committee confidence in the final paper. Full papers are accepted as well. A submission should be from ** 3-5 pages ** and include: 1. Authors name(s), postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. 2. Abstract: 100-300 words. 3. Outline: 2-5 pages giving enough details of the approach or algorithms to allow the committee to understand and judge the submission. 4. References and citations to relevant literature. Show you are aware of previous work (and not reinventing the wheel). 5. Time needed for presentation. Slots are usually 30 minutes but adjustment can be made when in-depth background or audio-visual support is desirable. 6. Audio-visual presentation description and requirements. We are happy to provide assistance and equipment in making your presentation as audio and visually appealing as possible. Abstracts Due: February 6, 1991 Notification to Authors: March 4, 1991 Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 19, 1991 Please submit one hard-copy and one electronic-copy to: Deborah K. Scherrer Nashville USENIX Technical Program mt Xinu 2560 Ninth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 Internet: nashville@usenix.org UUCP: uunet!usenix.org!nashville Telephone: (415) 644-0146 FAX: (415) 644-2680 Be sure to include your postal and electronic mail addresses in all correspondence. USENIX Conference Technical Program Committee: Eric P. Allman UC Berkeley Frances Brazier Vrije Universiteit Tom Duff AT&T Bell Laboratories Daniel E. Geer Digital Equipment Corp. Stanley P. Hanks Baylor College of Medicine Michael Hawley MIT Media Lab Jun Murai Keio University Alan G. Nemeth Digital Equipment Corp. Jeff Peck Sun Microsystems, Inc. Charles E. Perkins IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Gretchen Phillips SUNY - Buffalo Charles S. Roberts Hewlett-Packard Larry Stead Bellcore Avadis Tevanian NeXT, Inc. -- Deborah Scherrer scherrer@mtxinu.com Mt Xinu, Inc. ..!uunet!mtxinu!scherrer 2560 Ninth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 415-644-0146