[comp.windows.x] X Conference schedule

rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (01/05/90)

Here's the schedule as it now stands.  Please note that we have added a BOF
on OLXTK, and that the Emacs BOF has changed days.  (Printed copies of the
schedule, with room assignments and such, will of course be given out at the
conference.)

Monday, January 15
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1:00pm to 6:00pm    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.

  OSF/Motif (TM)
    Ellis Cohen, Open Software Foundation

  Using XView (TM) to produce OPEN LOOK (TM) applications
    XView Engineering Team members, Sun Microsystems

  Writing Applications with the OPEN LOOK (TM) Xt Based Programming Environment
    Marcel Meth, AT&T Bell Laboratories

  Programming with InterViews
    Paul Calder, Stanford University

  The Serpent UIMS
    Len Bass, Erik Hardy, Rick Kazman, Dan Klein
    Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

6:20pm to 8:00pm    BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

  OSF/Motif

  XView

  OPEN LOOK Xt Based Programming Environment

  InterViews

  Lisp Toolkits

  Performance Evaluation

  Ada and X

  X and "Other" Languages (not C, C++, Lisp, or Ada)

Tuesday, January 16 
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9:00am to 12noon    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
    Frank Hall, 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

1:30pm to 5:00pm    TALKS

  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, Thomas W. Malone
    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 

5:20pm to 7:00pm    BIRDS OF A FEATHER AND MINI SESSIONS

  Server Implementors Mini-Session

      RealTimeX: Can it "Real"ly Work?
	Sam Black, Concurrent Computer Corp.

      Technology Directions in Hardware Assisted X
	Dick Verburg, John Cook
	IBM

      Porting the X-11 Server to Non-Memory Mapped Graphics Cards
	  With Graphics Accelerators
	Erich Rickheit, Dave Pelland, Rich Miner
	Center for Productivity Enhancement, University of Lowell

  Testing and Validation Mini-Session

      Enhancing the Input Synthesis Extension with Xtrap
	Alan Jamison, Digital Equipment Corp.

      Automating X Window System testing by User Synthesis
	Dan Coutu, Digital Equipment Corp.

      1000 Unemployed Monkeys
	Len Wyatt, Liz Heller
	Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

  R4 Xt Intrinsics

  TAE Plus

  Interactive Development Tools

  Internationalization

  C++ and X

  Colormaps, Colors, and Image Display and Manipulation

  Emacs and X

8:30pm to 10:30pm    OPEN MEETING
    Q&A with the X Consortium Director and staff,
    followed by an open meeting of user groups.
    Door Prize: X11R4 tapes

Wednesday, January 17
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8:30am to 12:30pm    TALKS

  XDMCP -- A First Step in Making it Easier to Get Started in X
    Dave Mackie, Ed Basart
    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
    Ian Elliott, John Brezak, 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

2:00pm to 3:55pm    TALKS

  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
    Hania Gajewska, Olivetti Research California
    Mark S. Manasse, Systems Research Center, Digital Equipment Corp.

4:15pm to 5:45pm    BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

  Avoiding Pitfalls in Using and Writing Widgets (Talk and BOF)
      Miles O'Neal, Sales Technologies Inc.
      Susan Liebeskind, Georgia Tech Research Institute

  User Interface Management Systems

  Server Implementors

  Testing and Validation

  VEX and Overlays

  Computer Conferencing and X

  Gwm

  Session Managers