peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus) (11/21/90)
There have been a few changes to the previously-posted program. Also,
note that the pre-registration only runs TEN MORE DAYS. Domestic
registrations postmarked after November 20 will not get the
pre-registration discount. Foreign preregistrations must be postmarked on
or prior to November 13. PHONE PREREGISTRATION (MC or VISA) will be
accepted till November 26. See below.
Hotel rooms are filling up. Tutorials are filling up.
Peter
Sun User Group
8th Annual Conference and Exhibit
December 2-5, 1990
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, California
SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday 5:30-
LUG Advisory Committee Meeting
If you are an officer of a Sun Local User Group or are interested in
forming a Local User Group, get in touch with Dinah McNutt Anderson
(dinah@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu) about this important first meeting. Cold
buffet courtesy of the Sun User Group.
TUTORIAL TOPICS
December 2, 1990
(NOTE: Tutorials will be full day sessions, running concurrently;
i.e., you can attend only ONE Tutorial.)
1. THE INTERNET AND ITS PROTOCOLS, Bill LeFebvre, Northwestern U.
2. XVIEW, Neil Groundwater & Mitch Jerome, Sun
3. TOPICS IN SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION, Evi Nemeth, U. of Colorado, &
Rob Kolstad, Sun RMTC
4. UNIX DEVICE DRIVER DESIGN, Dan Klein, SEI CMU
5. INTRODUCTION TO C++
6. OPEN WINDOWS FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
7. SUNOS 4.X BASIC SYSTEM SECURITY
8. SUNOS RELEASE 4.1 UPDATE SEMINAR
(offered by Sun Educational Services)
SPECIAL EVENTS:
-Sun Consulting/SE Assistance Center
-EXHIBIT Hours: 11:30-7:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday;
10:00-3:00 p.m. on Wednesday
-Email Room
-Software Exchange Room
-Sun Factory Tours
***** MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 *****
9:00-10:00 OPENING KEYNOTE
Wayne Rosing
VP, Desktop Systems & Graphics, Sun Microsystems
Room: Ballroom 1-8
10:15-11:30 (M01) Visualizing a Portion of "Deep Time": The Northward
Motion of the Pacific Plate during the last 120 Million
years
Speaker: William Harbert, University of Pittsburgh
Room: B1 & B4
(M02) Introduction to LaTeX
Speaker: S. Bechtolsheim, Purdue University
Room: B2 & B3
(M03) An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++
Speaker: Harris Shiffman, Sun
Room: C1 & C4
(M04) The Metamorphosis of a Medical Record--The transition
from Dumb Terminals to OpenLook
Speaker: Craig Rudlin, M.D.
Medical Software and Computer Systems, Inc.
Room: C2 & C3
(M05) DARTnet
Speaker: Jon Postel
USC Information Services Institute
Room: K
(M06) The Automounter
Speaker: Brent Callaghan, Sun
Room: N
(M07) LispView, a New Look for Sun Common Lisp
Speaker: Rob Mori, Sun
Room: J
11:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 (M08) Specification-Driven Tool Technology
Speaker: Iris Sindelar, AT&T Bell Labs
Room: B1 & B4
(M09) Name Services on a Sun Network
Speaker: M. Blanchet, University of Laval
Room: B2 & B3
(M10) SELF: A Fast, Dynamically Typed, Object-Oriented
Programming Language Based on Prototypes with LIVE DEMO!
Speakers: David Ungar, Bay-Wei Chang, Urs Holzle,
Craig Chambers, Stanford University
Room: C1 & C4
(M11) (was M20) System Software Future Plans and Directions
Speaker: Donna Novitsky, Sun
Room: C2 & C3
(M12) Audio
Speaker: Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab
Room: K
(M13) Open Look
Speaker: Peter Godston, Sun
Room: N
(M14) Sun Net License: How to Implement Floating Software
Licenses in Your Distributed Computing Environment
Speaker: Sally Ahnger, Sun
Room: J
2:45-4:15
(M15) NIS Tutorial
Speaker: J. Parker, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(M16) TBA
Room: B2 & B3
(M17) SunOS 4.1 Performance Tuning
Speaker: Hal Stern, Sun
Room: C1 & C4
(M18) Experiences with Object Oriented Databases
Speaker: Tom Atwood, Object Design, Inc.
Room: C2 & C3
(M19) Sun Source Browser and Software Development Tools
Speaker: Soren Tirfing, Sun
Room: K
(M20) TBA
Room: N
(M21) Sun OS/SVR4 for Developers
Speaker: Eli Lamb, Sun
Room: J
4:30-5:30 Keynote: Andy Bechtolsheim -
VP of Technology and Co-founder, Sun Microsystems
The SPARC Wave
Ballroom 1-8
7:30-10:00 RECEPTION (Fairmont Hotel)
***** TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 *****
9:00-10:00 a.m.
(T01) The Open Network Computing (ONC) Roadmap, Distributed
Computing Platform Directions and Services-Today and
Tomorrow
Speaker: Brian Craig, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(T02) Introduction to the SPARC Architecture
Speaker: Kevin Kitagawa , Sun
Room: 2 & 7
(T03) Desktop Applications for the Office Environment
Chair: Laura Mishma,Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(T04) CD ROM NOW! CD ROM Activities at Sun
Speaker: Bill Petro, Sun
Room: B2 & B3
(T05) An Open Architecture for Programming Environments
Speakers: Nickieben Bourbaki, Richard Gabriel,
Matthieu Devin, Patrick Dussud, David Gray
Harlan Sexton, Lucid, Inc.
Room: C1-C4
(T06) Efficient Management of Multi-Server Network Systems
Speakers: Honda Shing and Lionel M. Ni
Michigan State University
Room: K
(T07) SUN NET MANAGER, Rev 1.1 and Future Directions
of Heterogeneous Network Management
Speaker: Brian Biles, Sun
Room: N
10:15-11:30
(T08) The PC Distributed Computing Platform-ONC's
PC-NFS: Transparent Integration of PCs into UNIX
Environments
Speakers: David Rosenlund and Laura Howard, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(T09) SPARC MMU and Cache Tutorial
Speaker: Neil Mammen, LSI Logic
Room: 2 & 7
(T10) Security at Sun
Speakers: Larry Baron & Beverly Ulbrich, Sun,
Dr. Eugene Scultz, LLNL
Room: B1 & B4
(T11) OSI, The Latest GOSIP
Speaker: Lloyd Spencer, Sun
Room: B2 & B3
(T12) The Design of a Distributed Image Processing
& Dissemination System
Speaker: Patrick Rafferty, Idaho National Engineering Lab.
Room: C1-C4
(T13) Network Storage Management for UNIX Workstation
Speaker: Anthony Foster, Epoch Systems
Room: K
(T14) OpenWindows and Graphics
Speaker: Mark Pinone, Sun
Room: N
11:30-1:30 LUNCH/KEYNOTE
James Warner -
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Precision Visuals
"Visualization in the '90's--Cutting through the hype and
the Snake Oil"
Exhibit Hall 2
1:30-3:00 (T15) Visual Data Analysis--Solving Real Problems
Speakers: James Warner, Chairman, Precision Visuals
George Matier, NASA Ames
Brenda Bowman, LLNL
Zahra Ardehali, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(T16) SPARC Developer Tools
Speaker: Henry Spiller, Sun
Room: 2 & 7
(T17) Internationalization and Asian Localization:
Software Support for International Applications
Speakers: Bill English, Sun
Hiroshi Kitajima, Nihon Sun
Albert Fung, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(T18) Internet
Speaker: R. Milner, NRAO/VLA
Room: B2 & B3
(T19) Using General-Purpose Workstations for Digital
Signal Processing
Speakers: Jeffrey Borish and Jim Lawson, EuPhonics
Room: C1-C4
(T20) Automated Backup and Recovery Systems
Speaker: Percy Rajani, AT&T Bell Labs
Room: K
(T21) X-Terminals and Workstations
Speaker: Chuck Kollars, Sun
Room: N
3:15-4:30
(T22) Sun's Visualization Products
Speakers: Mary Whitton & Mark Monger, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(T23) SPARC Optimizing Compilers
Speaker: Steve Muchnick, Sun
Room: 2 & 7
(T24) Electronic Publishing: A new era of growth and
understanding
Chair: Katherine Parker, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(T25) USENET
Speaker: F. Butt, Stratus Computers
Room: B2 & B3
(T26) MMAP as an Alternative to Traditional I/O
Speaker: Kevin Sheehan, Sun
Room: C1-C4
(T27) Central Management Environment for distributed NeTwork
of UNIX workstations
Speaker: Gilad Yaron, INTEL Israel
Room: K
(T28) Distributed Ray Tracer--Performance Issues for
Loosely-Coupled Network Implentation
Speaker: Zoran Popovic, Brown University
Room: N
6:00-7:00 SUG Business Meeting
Room: Regency I
7:15-10:00 (T34) Developer's Panel
Chair: Rob Gingell, Sun
Room: Regency I
***** WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5 *****
9:00-10:00 (W01) OpenWindows Developer's Guide
Speakers: Dianna Yee, Robert Watson, Robert Mori, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(W02) UUCP
Speaker: J. Little, Portal Communications
Room: 2 & 7
(W03) Building ONC Applications: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Speaker: Steve Nahm, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(W04) Integrated Solutions for Scholars
Speaker: Van Jepson, Sun
Room: B2 & B3
(W05) A System Administrator's Performance Monitor for
Tuning NFS Network Servers
Speaker: David Hitz, AUSPEX Systems, Inc.
Room: C1-C4
(W06) I/O Strategy for SPARCservers
Speaker: Bob Williamsen, Sun
Room: K
(W07) Constructing network servers to manage files
in a large network of heterogeneous hosts: a
case study with /etc/motd files
Speakers: Anthony Guzzi, David Wong, Sue Zajac,
University of Connecticut
Room: N
10:15-11:45
(W08) SPARCompiler Strategies and Directions
10:15-11:15
Speaker: David Reim, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(W09) Experiences with Enhanced Visual Modeling using
Sun Workstations: Q+ with Expressions and Subnetworks
Speaker: Cindy Funka-Lea, AT&T Bell Labs
Room: 2 & 7
(W10) Document Image Management-The Trend of the 90's
Chair: Cynthia Dai, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(W11) Sun's Standards Philosophy
Speaker: Cynthia Typaldos, Sun
Room: B2 & B3
(W12) Implementing and Extending SNMP-based Network
Management
Speaker: Mano Murthy, ALANTEC
Room: C1-C4
(W13) Database-Productivity tools for the database environment
Chair: Nancy Colwell,Sun
Room: K
(W14) Server Strategy for the Workgroup Computing Environment
Speaker: Carl Stolle, Sun
10:15-11:00
Room: N
11:45-1:30 LUNCH/KEYNOTE
Mike O'Dell, Member Technical Staff, Bellcore, Editor-in-Chief,
COMPUTING SYSTEMS, Vice President, USENIX Association
"Time is of the Essence"
1:30-2:30 (W15) System Software Enhancements for Large Systems
Speaker: Dave Taber, Sun
Room: 1 & 8
(W16) The Anatomy of an NFS I/O operation: How and Why SCSI
is Better than IPI-2 for NFS
Speaker: Yu-Ping Cheng, AUSPEX Systems, Inc.
Room: 2 & 7
(W17) New Graphics Hardware
Speakers: Brian Croll, Ingrid Van Den Hoogen,
Niraj Swarup, Sun
Room: B1 & B4
(W18) System Integration: Heterogeneous Environments for
Client Server Applications
Speakers: Tim Budjeau, Andersen Consulting
Dick Freibrun, Cincinati Bell Info Systems, Inc.
Room: B2 & B3
(W19) Sun Computer Security Auditing System
Speaker: Christopher Beauchamp, GE SSD
Room: C1-C4
(W20) NeWSware (R): Information Support for the 90's
Speaker: Dr. Arvind Deogirikar, Sun
Room: K
(W21) BAYSLUG Meeting
Chair: Kelly Chang
Room: N
3:00-5:00 Executive Roundtable
Scott McNealy, Ed Zander, Carol Bartz, Eric Schmidt,
Wayne Rosing, Brenda Adams
Exhibit Hall 2
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