timr@labtam.oz (Tim Roper) (03/15/88)
Call For Papers AUUG '88 Australian Unix systems User Group Winter Conference and Exhibition 1988 September 13-15 1988, Melbourne, Australia Summary The 1988 Winter Conference and Exhibition of the Australian UNIX* systems User Group will be held on Tuesday 13th - Thursday 15th September 1988 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The conference theme is Networking - Linking the UNIX World. AUUG is pleased to announce that the guest speakers will include: Ken Thompson Bell Laboratories Michael Lesk Bell Communications Research Mike Karels University of California at Berkeley Papers Papers on topics related to computer networks and UNIX are now invited. Some suggested topics include but are not res- tricted to: o Operating system and programming language support for networks o Distributed file systems and their application o Networked window systems o ISO/OSI and UNIX o Security aspects of computer networks o Legal and social aspects of computer networks o Protocol specification methods o Harnessing new technologies o Network applications under UNIX Papers on other (non networking) aspects of the UNIX system are also sought. Authors of papers presented at the conference will receive complimentary admission to the conference and the dinner. AUUG will again hold a competition for the best paper by a full time student at an Australian educational institution. The prize for this competition will be an expense paid return trip from within Australia to the conference to present the winning paper. A cash prize in lieu of this may be paid at the discretion of AUUG. Students should indicate with their abstract whether they wish to enter the competi- tion. AUUG reserves the right to not award the prize if no entries of a suitable standard are forthcoming. A special issue of the group's newsletter AUUGN containing the conference proceedings will be printed for distribution to attendees at the conference. Acceptance of papers will be based on an extended abstract and will be subject to receipt of the final paper by the due date. Abstracts and final papers should be submitted to the programme committee chair: Tim Roper Phone: International +61 3 5871444 AUUG 88 National 03 5871444 Labtam Limited Fax: International +61 3 5805581 PO Box 297 National 03 5805581 Mordialloc Telex: LABTAM AA33550 Victoria 3195 ACSnet: timr@labtam.oz Australia UUCP: uunet!munnari!labtam.oz!timr ARPA: timr%labtam.oz@uunet.uu.net Final papers may be sent via electronic mail and formatted using troff and any of the standard UNIX macro and prepro- cessor packages (-ms, -me, -mm, pic, tbl, eqn) or with TeX or LaTeX. Alternatively, final papers may be submitted as camera ready copy on A4 paper with 35mm margins left at the top and bottom. Intending authors unable to produce either of these forms are requested to contact the programme com- mittee chair. Timetable Receipt of Extended Abstracts Monday 13th June Letters of Acceptance Sent Monday 4th July Receipt of Final Papers Monday 8th August Conference and Exhibition 13th-15th September _________________________ * UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the USA and other countries. D