[comp.sys.masscomp] Agenda for National Meeting in April

masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber, Moderator) (02/09/88)

                           PROPOSED AGENDA FOR MUS NATIONAL MEETING


       MONDAY

       9:00 - 12:00    Tutorials - Parallel Sessions
                       Integrating Data Acquisition into      C. Grant
                                                                MASSCOMP
                       Applications
            or
                       NFS Overview and Management            A. Groupe
                                                                MASSCOMP

       12:00 - 1:00    Lunch

       1:00 - 4:00     Tutorials - Continued

                       Advanced Data Acquisition Topics       R. Van Liew
                                                                MASSCOMP
            or
                       Programming with NFS Remote Proceedure
                       Call Interface                         A. Groupe

       5:30 - 7:30     Cocktail Reception

       TUESDAY

       9:00 - 10:00    Welcome                                S. Barber
                                                              Baylor College 
                                                                of Medicine
                                                              B. Bair
                                                              Cranfield 
                                                                Phoenix Data
                                                                  Systems

                        Business Evants                       D. Chayes
                                                              Lamont Doherty 
                                                                Geo. Obs.

                                                              
                       Break

       10:30 - 12:00   Question & Answer Session              MC Engineers

                       -Operating Systems, Compilers, Networks,
                        Data Acquisition, Hardware

       12:00 - 1:30    Lunch -- Keynote Speaker         Dr. William B. F. Ryan
                                                        Lamont Doherty
                                                          Geological Obs.
                                                           Columbia University

       1:30 - 4:00     Technical Presntations

       Parallel:       X-Window--Intro. for Non Graphers     MASSCOMP
       1:30 - 2:00     X-Window--Wizard's Guide              MASSCOMP

       Parallel:       Multiprocessing                        MASSCOMP
       2:00 - 2:30     Standards                              MASSCOMP

       2:30 - 3:00     Break

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       W. Kanneth Freed
       3:00 - 3:30     Pictures -- A Revolutionary            Rise Technology
                       Documsntation Tool

                       Submitted Paper:                       Clifford N. Cary
                       Utility for Creating Contiguous        Creare Inc.
                       Disk Space

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       Roger Nash
       3:30 - 4:00     How to Dastroy Your System             Contel, Federal
                                                                Systems

                       Futures:  CPU's after the 68030        MASSCOMP

       4:00 - 5:00     Informal Business Meeting
                       -Nomination of Candidates
                       -Discussion of By-Laws

       5:00 - 7:00     Cocktail Reception and Third-Party Vendor
                           Demonstrations


       WEDNESDAY

       9:00 - 12:00    Third-Party Presentations

       9:30 - 10:00     [All these are TBA]

       10:30 - 11:00   Break(????)

       11:00 - 11:30

       11:30 - 12:00

       12:00 - 1:30    Lunch --  Roundtable Discussions - SIGs


       1:30 - 4:00     Technical Prassntstions

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       Mark E. Crovella
       1:30 - 2:00     A Computer-Based Approach to           Calspan Corp.
                       Tire Testing

                       X-Window--Moving from SP-40            P. Morton
                                                               MASSCOMP

       Parallel:       LWB - Novice Session                   MASSCOMP
       2:00 - 2:30
                       LWB - Example of Complex Measurement   MASSCOMP
                       with new Program Interfacs

       2:30 - 3:00     Break

       Parallel:       NFS - Novice Session                   MASSCOMP
       3:00 - 3:30
                       NFS - Advanced Topics                  MASSCOMP

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       James Wolf
                                                                Anil Gowda
       3:30 - 4:00     Product User-Interface Simulation         Honeywell

                                                              Tahsin Choudhuri
                                                                Univ. of
								 Minnesota

                       Vector/Array Processing                MASSCOMP

       4:00 - 5:00     Lobbying for Candidates/Causes

       5:00 - 6:00     Business Meeting
                       -Treasurer's Report
                       -Elections
                       -By-Law Amendments

       6:00 - 7:30     Cocktail Reception -- Presentation      Gus Klein
                                                                President
                                                                  MASSCOMP


       THURSDAY

       9:00 - 12:00    Technical Presentations

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       John H. Reum
       9:00 - 9:30     Data Acquistion and Recording System     Combustion
                                                                 Engineering

                       Submitted Paper:                       Bob Wallace
                       Rotating Machinery Analysis using      Cranfield Data
                       MASSCOMP Computers                        Systems

       Parallel:       Submitted Paper:                       Stan Barber
       9:30 - 10:00    Gatewaying with your MASSCOMP          Baylor College
                                                               of Med.

                       Submitt,d Paper:                       Frederic Laville
                       Acquiring and Analyzing the Under-     Grayson Abbott
                       water Sound Produced by Rainfall       Matthew Miller
                                                              Creare Inc.

       10:00 - 10:30   Break

       Parallel:       GRASS                                  MASSCOMP
       10:30 - 11:00

                       Futures:  Networking                   MASSCOMP

       11:00 - 12:00   New Products                           MASSCOMP

       12:00 - 1:00    Lunch

       1:00   2:30     Quastions & Answer Session             MASSCOMP
                                                              Vice Presidents

       2:30 - 3:00     Conference Wrap Up

       3:00            Meeting Closes