rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/22/90)
The 4th Annual X Technical Conference, sponsored by the MIT X Consortium and held on January 15-17, was recorded on video tape. Copies are now available in VHS format. One printed copy of the conference proceedings and the handouts for the recorded tutorials will accompany each tape set. A summary of the recorded tutorials and talks appears below. To order copies, at $700 per set (price includes shipping), send a check and a written request to: Michelle Leger Room 217 Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Please include the following information in your request: name, postal address for shipping, and phone number. Checks should be made payable to "MIT". Purchase orders will not be accepted. Please allow 8 to 10 weeks for delivery. If you have questions, you can direct them to Michelle Leger at mail address: michelle@expo.lcs.mit.edu TUTORIALS Event-handling in X, and The X Graphics Model Ollie Jones, Apollo Division of Hewlett-Packard Inter-Client Communication Conventions Glenn Widener, Tektronix, Inc. TALKS The Changes Made to the Xt Intrinsics in Release 4 Ralph R. Swick, Digital Equipment Corp./MIT Project Athena The Xt Intrinsics: Lessons for the Next Generation Paul Asente, Western Software Lab, Digital Equipment Corp. TAE Plus: Transportable Applications Environment Plus Marti Szczur, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Beyond the Interface: Rapid Interactive Development of MOTIF Applications with a User Interface Manager for X Dustin Kassman, Corvallis Information Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company An Object-Oriented, Constraint-Based, User Interface Development Environment for X in CommonLisp Brad A. Myers, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University OI: A Model Extendable C++ Toolkit for X Windows Gary Aitken, Solbourne Computer, Inc. XOOT -- The C++ X Object-Oriented Toolkit for the rest of us George W. Sherouse, Radiation Oncology, Univerity of North Carolina The Answer Garden Mark Ackerman, Center for Coordination Science, MIT Internationalization in the X Window System Sivan Mahadevan, AT&T Bell Laboratories Unidraw: A Framework for Building Domain-Specific Graphical Editors John Vlissides, Stanford University RealTimeX: Can it "Real"ly Work? Sam Black, Concurrent Computer Corp. Technology Directions in Hardware Assisted X Dick Verburg, IBM Porting the X-11 Server to Non-Memory Mapped Graphics Cards With Graphics Accelerators Rich Miner, Center for Productivity Enhancement, University of Lowell XDMCP -- A First Step in Making it Easier to Get Started in X Mike Jordan, Network Computing Devices VEX: features and current state Todd Brunhoff, Visual Systems Lab, Tektronix, Inc. X server optimization and hardware issues Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium A Multithreaded Server for X and PEX Nathan Meyers, Hewlett-Packard Company Opportunities with Lightweight Processes Christian P. Jacobi, Xerox PARC The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Window Sharing in X John F. Patterson, Bellcore Using speech recognition to augment window manager functions Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab Gwm, the emacs-like window manager Colas Nahaboo, BULL Research FRANCE xRooms: A Multiple Virtual Workspace Interface for the X Window System Bill Janssen, Xerox Corp. Rooms, External Window Management, and the ICCCM Mark S. Manasse, Systems Research Center, Digital Equipment Corp.