RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (12/20/87)
Since I've been having trouble reaching all registrants by direct mail
paths, I'm also sending the agenda to this list. Anyone not yet
registered who wants to do so should send mail to
xconference@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu giving name, postal address, phone
number, and which if any of the tutorials you want to attend. The
conference is (still, as of this writing) free.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13
9:00-12:15
Room 26-100
Tutorial: Introduction to Programming the X Window System with Xlib
Suggested reading:
"The X Window System,"
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 5, No. 2, April 1986, pp79-109
Scheifler and Gettys
"A Simple X11 Client Program, or,
How hard can it really be to write `Hello, World'?"
David Rosenthal (if you don't have a copy, send a message with
subject "send etc hw" and empty body to xstuff@apx.lcs.mit.edu)
Perhaps browse parts of
Xlib: C Language X Interface (Gettys, Newman, Scheifler).
Perhaps a text on raster graphics, such as Foley and Van Dam or
Newman and Sproull.
13:45-17:00
Room 26-100
Tutorial: The Xtk Toolkit
Suggested reading:
everything for the above tutorial (plus good familiarity with Xlib)
nodding familiarity with concepts of object-oriented programming
Perhaps attempt to read
X Toolkit Library - C Language Interface (Xtk Intrinsics)
19:30-21:30
Room 10-250
Organizational Meeting: X Users Group
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
08:30-12:35
Kresge Auditorium
Talks
Shared X: X In A Distributed Group Work Environment (HP)
Integrating X Into A Multi Window-System Environment (Apollo)
Implementation Experiences With X11 On A High Performance Workstation (DEC)
The BE2 (Andrew) Toolkit (CMU)
A User Interface Editor for the X Window System (DEC)
A Rapid Prototyping System Using The Xtk Toolkit (CMU)
Pickling Widgets - Some Extensible Enhancements For The Xtk Toolkit (Masscomp)
12:35-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:05
Kresge Auditorium
Talks
SWIFT: SPS WIndow Facility Toolbox (TRW)
Counterpoint: A Reasoning Based Graphics Toolkit (AT&T Bell Labs)
An HP Widget Set For The X Toolkit (HP)
Digital's Xtoolkit Extensions (DEC)
16:10-18:00
rooms to be announced
Birds Of a Feather sessions
Xtk Toolkit
Server Implementors
Computer Conferencing
Documentation
X and Ada
Image Processing
PostScript And Display PostScript
UIMSes Versus Toolkits
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
08:30-10:05
Kresge Auditorium
Talks
Testing And Validation (X Testing Consortium)
X3D-PEX Extension (PEX Architecture Team)
10:30-12:00
rooms to be announced
Birds Of a Feather sessions
BE2 Toolkit
Window Managers
X Servers On Diskless Terminals
X and Lisp
International And Internationalization Concerns
3D
Video
Testing And Validation
Fonts
12:00-13:20
Lunch
13:20-16:00
Kresge Auditorium
Talks
Live Video In X (Parallax Graphics)
The X11/NeWS Server: a Design Overview (Sun)
The Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager (Siemens)
Window Managers in X11 (DEC)
The MIT X Consortium (MIT)
Here is an approximate map of the area (not to scale). The numbers (10,
26, 34, 36, 38) are MIT building numbers.
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