mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (05/03/91)
I was just looking through the Transputing '91 program and was very impressed with the papers there. I'd like to suggest that papers like those there would be of great interest to the audience of Computing Systems, a scholarly refereed quarterly published jointly by the University of California Press and the Usenix Association. Computing Systems has about 5000 subscribers, over 500 being industrial research and university libraries. Computing Systems is a fast-turnaround journal dedicated to chronicling the interplay between the theory and practice of building advanced computing systems. While some of the papers we have published might be Unix-related in some way, that is certainly not a requirement. In the first 3 years of issues, we published papers covering dynamic graphics, fast cryptographic techniques, disitributed programming environments, new operating systems, and an entire issue devoted to electronic music, complete with a Compact Disc for the audio examples. Papers have ranged from 3 pages (a "Controversy" piece) to 75 pages - with 3 being nearer any limit than 75. So, those of you out there Transputing, please consider submitting a manuscript, and please pass along the idea to your collegues. You might even consider building on a conference paper, revising and expanding it based on more recent results (and no page limit!). If you have any questions about the journal or the submission process, please send them to me or our managing editor for a prompt reply. Mike O'Dell Editor-in-Chief Computing Systems mo@bellcore.com Peter Salus Managing Editor Computing Systems peter@usenix.org