donnalyn@uunet (Donnalyn Frey) (11/11/89)
USENIX Association 1990 Winter Technical Conference in Washington, DC The USENIX Association will hold its 1990 Winter Technical Conference on January 22-26 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The Usenix Association is a not-for-profit organization of individuals and institutions with an interest in UNIX and UNIX- like systems and the C programming language. It is dedicated to fostering the development and communication of research and technological information and ideas pertaining to advanced computing systems. The upcoming conference will feature presentations on virtual memory, architecture and debuggers, applications, utilities, kernel internals, networks, user interface management systems, file systems, and languages. Tutorials will include MACH, 4.3BSD UNIX, C++, MIT X Window System, and X Toolkit intrinsics. New tutorials will be featured on system administration, UNIX on modern architectures, using C++ effectively, and object oriented programming. The conference will also include an ethics in the industry session and a new concurrent sessions conference track. The ethics panel will include an attorney, corporate CEO, and ethicist to discuss various questions regarding ethics in the computer science industry. The experimental concurrent sessions will enable people to exchange information and ideas in a more informal atmosphere. Topics will include regular expressions, make, submitting and presenting papers at a conference, getting the most from technical support, computer networks, NAWK - a new version of awk, and PERL - a system administration language. For registration information, contact the USENIX Conference Office at 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613, El Toro, CA 92630, (714) 588-8649, fax (714) 588-9706, or at judy@usenix.org. -- Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.