Hollaar@UTAH-20@sri-unix (11/30/82)
From: Lee Hollaar <Hollaar at UTAH-20>
CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP INFORMATION
SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR
NON-NUMERIC PROCESSING
Snowbird, Utah, March 6-9, 1983
Sponsored by: ACM SIGARCH, SIGIR, and SIGMOD
Computer Science Department, University of Utah
As the costs to design, implement, and maintain a large scale system change
from a situation where hardware costs predominate to one where software costs
do, it is reasonable to explore computer architectures which differ from the
classic numerically-oriented machine. Front end processors, performing
protocol translations, are now common in data communications systems, and a
variety of backend processors for database and information retrieval
applications are available or currently under development. New architectures
are being developed for robotics, image processing, searching and sorting,
artificial intelligence, highly available systems, workstations, and text
processing.
In the past, this workshop has been a primary avenue for those engaged in
research and development of a variety of specialized non-numeric systems to
discuss their current activities and future directions. It has proved
invaluable to students conducting research in computer architecture, allowing
them to present preliminary results of their work, and to receive comments and
suggestions from others in the field.
Workshop Location and Registration Information
The workshop will be held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, located in
Little Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. Transportation is
available from the Salt Lake airport. The registration fee of $300 includes
double occupancy rooms for three nights, breakfast, and the workshop banquet.
The remaining meals and any skiing expenses are the responsibility of the
participants. Rooms will be available for check-in at 3:00 PM Sunday, March
6, and the first workshop session will be held at 7:30 that evening.
Because of severely limited space, attendance at the workshop will be by
preregistration only. Rooms have only been reserved for the workshop
participants. If you wish to bring along family members, you should contact
the Workshop Chairman as soon as possible. For those wishing to arrive on
Saturday, rather than Sunday, a limited number of rooms are available for an
additional $45.
To register for the workshop, write the Workshop General Chairman by January 1,
1983, indicating your name and affiliation, mailing address and telephone
number, your interest and background in computer architecture for non-numeric
processing, and whether you have submitted a paper. Include the appropriate
registration fee ($300 normally, $345 for early arrival). Acceptances will be
sent out on January 15, 1983, and registration checks for those we are unable
to accommodate will be returned. Priority on registration will be given to
those submitting a paper for presentation. We urge you to submit your request
for registration early.
Instructions for Authors
We invite papers on current or proposed work in all areas of specialized
computer architecture for non-numeric applications, such as: image processing
data communications, information management and retrieval, workstations, highly
available systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, searching and sorting,
and text processing. Presentations will last from 30 to 45 minutes, with half
the time devoted to the presentation of the paper and half to discussion. In
addition, a final session, to be organized at the workshop, will consist of a
number of short presentations for those wishing to present or discuss a
concept, but unable to prepare a full length paper.
The deadline for submission was November 15, 1982. Since the program will be
determined by the end of December, if you wish to present a paper you should
contact the Program Chairman immediately to discuss your submission. It is
anticipated that the workshop proceedings will be published as a special joint
issue of the newsletters of the sponsoring SIGs.
Workshop General Chairman: Workshop Program Chairman:
Lee A. Hollaar Roger L. Haskin
Department of Computer Science IBM Research Laboratories, K52/282
University of Utah 5600 Cottle Road
Salt Lake City UT 84112 San Jose CA 95193
(801) 581-3203 (408) 256-6353
Hollaar@Utah-20 Haskin.ibm-sj@Udel-Relay
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