glockner%cs@ucsd.edu (Alexander Glockner) (10/04/88)
Earlier, I asked about "arctic 89", hoping there would be another
conference/course as there was this summer. I received several rave
reviews of Arctic 88, and the following from Ken Birman. Since it has
all the information anyone would want to know, I thought it best just
to quote "as is". Note that next year's is provisionally scheduled to
be in Ithaca NY.
Alex
(Shucks, and I always wanted to visit Norway...)
Ken Birman (birman@cornell.edu)
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Arctic 88 was held in Tromso, Norway in July of this year. It
consisted of a short course organized by Sape Mullender and attended by
about 120 students, academics and industry researchers with interests
in "advanced issues" in distributed computing. The lecture notes are
being edited into a book and will be published by Adison Wesley
sometime next spring. Lecturers were myself, Andrew Herbert
(Cambridge/ANSA), Sape Mullender (CWI), Roger Needham (Cambridge), M.
Satyanarayanan (CMU), Alfred Spector (CMU) and Bill Weihl (MIT). Mike
Schroeder from DEC SRC was also a fairly active participant. Some
parts of the notes are available in technical report form from the
various authors; for example mine can be obtained on request. Topics
covered included network namespace and security issues, file systems,
low level communication support and RPC's, new distributed computing
models such as transactional object-based systems and virtual
synchrony, and heterogeneous systems
We are tentatively planning to run the course one more time, in the
United States from July 5-14th in Ithaca, where Cornell is located.
The course will be titled "Fingerlakes 89" and will have roughly the
same goals as did Arctic 88, but with a revised syllabus. In July,
Ithaca can be extremely pleasant and is actually something of a summer
resort area. The plan is to structure the course in a way that will
let people see a bit of the area and swim in the local lakes and gorges
during the late afternoon and weekends. Ithaca is in the northern part
of New York State, about 4 hours from New York City by car, and within
driving range of Niagara Falls. In addition to water, the area is a
major wine producing region and has a concentration of local artisans
(for example, Stueben crystal is produced near here).
We will have a much firmer plan by mid-November, at which time I will
be in a position to say exactly who will be teaching this time around
and exactly what level the course will aim at and what the syllabus
will cover. However, a good bet is that the course will resemble
Arctic 88 in most respects. We are also working on questions of
tuition and local housing, but expect that the fees will be in line
with other such courses and that Cornell will provide rather nice
suites for participants at a modest rate. Some financial aid may be
available for deserving students.
If you wish to be on a mailing list for information as it becomes
available, please send electronic mail to my secretary or to me,
indicating "Fingerlakes 89" in the subject field. The e-mail addresses
to use are: schiz@cornell.edu or birman@cornell.edu. We expect to
produce a nice poster, so if you have a good place to hang one and
would like a copy let us know. The publicity can't hurt.
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Alexander Glockner glockner%cs@ucsd.edu {...}!sdcsvax!glockner
"It's the little, pathetic attempts at Quality that kill."
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