[news.announce.conferences] Workshop on Network and OS Support for Digital Audio and Video

ramesh@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Ramesh Govindan) (04/25/90)

                       Announcing an
                   INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
                             on

            NETWORK AND OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT

                FOR DIGITAL AUDIO AND VIDEO

                     November 8-9, 1990
      International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
                 Berkeley, California, USA



The trend towards powerful workstations and high-speed  net-
works has enabled applications to communicate and manipulate
digital audio and video (``continuous media'').   Continuous
media  differ  from  other media in that they have stringent
delay and bandwidth requirements.  The  mechanisms  used  to
transport  ordinary  data over networks are insufficient for
communicating continuous media.  Special  operating  systems
support  must  also  be provided to meet the requirements of
continuous media applications.

This workshop is intended to bring together  researchers  in
networks  and operating systems to discuss the needs of con-
tinuous media applications and how they  may  be  satisfied.
To  foster discussion, attendance will be limited to 50 peo-
ple.

                  Submission of abstracts

Participants must send a 500-2000  word  abstract  (in  raw,
unformatted   text)   describing  their  technical  work  to
``av-workshop@Berkeley.EDU''.   Electronic   submission   is
strongly  encouraged.   If electronic submission is impossi-
ble, participants may send their abstracts to: Ramesh Govin-
dan,  International  Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center
Street, Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704, U.S.A.

                          Schedule

        Submission of abstracts due: August 15, 1990
        Acceptance notification: September 15, 1990
Notification of program to participants: September 30, 1990
          Registration deadline: November 1, 1990


                     Program Committee

David Anderson (UC Berkeley and ICSI)   Lester Ludwig (Bellcore)
Steve Casner (ISI)                      Radu Popescu-Zeletin (GMD-FOKUS)
Domenico Ferrari (UC Berkeley and ICSI) Daniel Swinehart (Xerox PARC)
Andy Hopper (U Cambridge and Olivetti)  Masahiro Taka (NTT)
Francis Leung (AT&T Bell Labs)          Hideyuki Tokuda (Carnegie-Mellon)


                           Venue

The workshop is sponsored by and will be held at the  Inter-
national  Computer  Science  Institute  (ICSI).  ICSI  is an
organization  devoted  to   international   cooperation   in
advanced  computer  science  research and loosely affiliated
with the University of California at Berkeley.