[comp.windows.x] preliminary schedule for the X Conference

rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/06/89)

Monday, January 15

 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 BOFs

  Motif
  XView
  InterViews
  Lisp Toolkits
  Performance Evaluation
  Ada and X
  Emacs and X
  X and "Other" Languages (not C, C++, Lisp, or Ada)

Tuesday, January 16 

 9:00am to 5:00pm Talks

  The Changes Made to the Xt Intrinsics in Release 4
    Ralph R. Swick
    Digital Equipment Corporation/M.I.T. Project Athena
  The Xt Intrinsics:  Lessons for the Next Generation
    Paul Asente
    Digital Equipment Corporation Western Software Lab
  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
    Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis Information Systems
  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, 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 BOFs and Mini-Sessions

  R4 Xt Intrinsics
  TAE Plus
  Interactive Development Tools
  C++ and X
  Server Implementors Mini-Session
    RealTimeX: Can it "Real"ly Work?
      Sam Black
      Concurrent Computer Corporation
    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 Porductivity 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.
  Internationalization
  Colormaps, Colors, and Image Display and Manipulation

 8:30pm to 10:30pm Q&A with the X Consortium Director and staff, followed by
		   an open meeting of user groups

Wednesday, January 17

 8:30am to 4:00pm 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
  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 Corporation
  Rooms, External Window Management, and the ICCCM
    Hania Gajewska
    Olivetti Research California
    Mark S. Manasse
    Systems Research Center, DEC

 4:15pm to 5:45pm BOFs

  User Interface Management Systems
  Avoiding Pitfalls in Using and Writing Widgets (talk and BOF)
      Miles O'Neal
      Sales Technologies Inc.
      Susan Liebeskind
      Georgia Tech Research Institute
  Server Implementors
  Testing and Validation
  VEX and Overlays
  Computer Conferencing and X
  Gwm
  Session Managers