[news.announce.conferences] IEEE SDNC: Mass Storage Conference

spike@saturn.UCSC.EDU (Daniel Helman) (03/30/88)

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              IEEE SYSTEMS DESIGN & NETWORKS CONFERENCE
                    Santa Clara Convention Center

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             Mass Storage Trends and Systems Integration
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                      Wednesday, April 20, 1988

                      Tutorial Program 9:00-5:30
             "Magnetic and Optical Mass Storage Systems"
               Dr. Al Hoagland, Santa Clara University
               David Campbell, Hewlett Packard Company

    Topics:
         History, status, future trends, physical and economic
         limits of magnetic storage, concepts in magnetic
         recording, magnetic head technology (ferrite and thin
         film), longitudinal and vertical recording techniques,
         DASD design tradeoffs for both low and high end systems,
         optical heads, read/write data channels, data formats,
         optical servo and seek systems, optical disk
         standardization activities


                       Thursday, April 21, 1988

    Keynote Address 8:30-9:00
         "Mass Storage Trends in the 1990's"
         Jack Taylor, Vice President, Brier Technology

    Technical Sessions 9:00-1:00 and 2:00-5:30
    Topics:
         What's New in Magnetic Storage?
         Optical Storage - Just Around the Corner?
         System Performance/Architectures
         Systems Interfaces & Standards
    Papers from:
         Adaptec, Applied Magnetics, Cipher Data, Danvik, Disk
         Trend, Emulex, Fujitsu America, Hewlett Packard, IBM
         Almaden Research Center, I/O XEL, Laser Drive, Magnesys,
         Santa Clara University, Siemens Information Systems,
         Toshiba America

    Exhibits 5:30-7:30
         State-of-the-art demonstrations by local companies.
         Includes refreshments.


    IEEE Member Advance Registration Fees (before April 8)
    Technical Sessions (incl. proceedings and exhibits) $60
         Student (no proceedings)                        25
    Tutorial (incl. book, coffee and lunch)              85
         Student                                         50
    Exhibit Only                                         10
    Extra Proceedings                                    25

    Add $10 to each advance fee for Non-IEEE members.
    At the door fees will be $20 more each.

    Make checks payable to SDNC of IEEE and mail to:
    SDNC, 1248 Olive Branch Lane, San Jose CA 95120

    For more information:
         Daniel Helman (408) 429-4153
         spike@saturn.ucsc.edu
         ...!ucbvax!ucscc!saturn!spike

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