[comp.sys.transputer] OUG Japan cancellation, Transputing 1991 call for papers

Geraint.Jones@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) (10/02/90)

Kazuto  Matsui  from the Inmos  Business  Centre  in Tokyo  reminds  me to tell
everyone  that the OUG Japan meeting (previously  announced  here)  in May 1991
has been cancelled,  or at least indefinitely  postponed.  This is to avoid any
conflict  with the meeting sponsored  by the various occam and transputer  user
groups around the world,  to happen in Santa Clara,  California  22--26th April
1991.

While I am here let me remind you about that meeting  too.  The call for papers
is attached  to the end of this  posting,  just  in case  you  missed  the  1st
October deadline.  If you are intedning  to submit anything  it would propbably
be as well to give  immediate  notice  to one of the collectors  listed  in the
call, and get the paper to them as soon as possible.

Since the launch of the H1 is now scheduled for mid-April,  you can expect that
there will be a full technical  disclosure  from Inmos  on this product  at the
Santa Clara meeting.
									     gj


                      TRANSPUTING 1991 - CALL FOR PAPERS
                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


The  First World Conference  of National Transputer and Occam User Groups will
take place at :-

          Title:  TRANSPUTING 1991

          Place:  Santa Clara, California (at the Sunnyvale Hilton)

          Dates:  22nd. to 26th. April, 1991



The goals of this conference are :-

     +    to present ``state-of-the-art'' research on all aspects of  parallel
          computing based upon communicating process architectures;

     +    to demonstrate ``state-of-the-art'' products and  applications  from
          as wide a range of fields as possible;

     +    to progress the establishment of international software and hardware
          standards for parallel computing systems;

     +    to provide a forum for the free exchange  of  ideas,  criticism  and
          information  from  a world audience gathered from Industry, Commerce
          and Academia;

     +    to establish and encourage an understanding of the new software  and
          hardware technologies enabled by the transputer;

     +    to promote an awareness of how these technologies may be applied and
          what are their advantages.

The conference themes will include:  education  and  training  issues,  formal
methods  and security, performance and scalability,  porting existing systems,
parallelisation paradigms, tools, programming languages, support environments,
standards and applications.

Applications  include:  embedded  real-time  control  systems,   workstations,
super-computing,   consumer   products,  artificial  intelligence,  databases,
modelling,  design,  data  gathering  and  the  testing   of   scientific   or
mathematical theories.

The  conference  programme  will  contain  invited  papers  from   established
international authorities in these fields together with submitted papers.  The
International Program Committee, presided over by Professor  P.H.  Welch  (OUG
Chair),  is  now  soliciting  papers on all areas described above.  All papers
will be fully refereed.  Only papers of high excellence will be accepted.  The
proceedings  of  this conference will be published internationally and will be
given to delegates as they register at the start of the meeting.



PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

The programme committee consists of invited experts from Industry and Academia
together with existing committee members from the joint organising user-groups
based in Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, New Zealand,
North America, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The organising load is being spread around the world to ensure that all points
of  view  and  expertise  are  properly  represented and to obtain the highest
standards of excellence.



INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Seven copies of submitted papers (not exceeding 16 pages -  single-spaced,  A4
or  US  ``letter'')  must reach one of the Program Committee members nominated
below before 1st October, 1990.  Authors will be  notified  of  acceptance  by
15th November, 1990.  Final camera-ready copy will be required by 6th January,
1991.

A submitted paper should be a draft version of the  final  camera-ready  copy.
It  should contain most of the information, qualitative and quantitative, that
will appear in the final paper - i.e.  it  should  not  be  just  an  extended
abstract.

Please submit your paper to the Committee member closest to you in the list :-

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Professor P H Welch
Chair, OUG
Computing Laboratory
The University
Canterbury
Kent, CT2 7NF
UK

Phone: +44 227 764000
FAX:   +44 227 762811
Email: phw@ukc.ac.uk

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Dr D Stiles
Chair, NATUG
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Utah State University
Logan
UT 843222-4120
USA

Phone: +1 801 750 2806
FAX:   +1 801 750 2992
Email: dyke@opus.ee.usu.edu

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Professor T L Kunii
Chair, OUG Japan
Dept of Information Science
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo
Japan

Phone: +81 3 816 1783
FAX:   +81 3 818 4607
Email: kunii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Dr K S Venkatesh
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
2/1 Brunton Road
Bangalor-560 025
India

Phone: +91 812 575781
FAX:   +91 812 563183
Email: @shakti.uu.net:venki@cdacb

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Dr J Hulskamp
Chair, Australian Occam and Transputer User Group
Department of Communication and Electrical Engineering
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne 3001
Australia

Phone: +61 3 660 2453
FAX:   +61 3 662 1060
Email: rcojh@minyos.xx.rmit.oz

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Dr R Lins
Chair, Occam User Group: Latin America
Department de Informatica
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
P O Box 7851
50739-Recife-PE
Brazil

Phone: +55 812 713052
FAX:   +55 813 264880 (The British Council)
Email: ufpedi@brfapesp.bitnet

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CONFERENCE STRUCTURE


        PAR
          ... exhibition/demonstrations (Monday..Friday)
          SEQ
            ... tutorials (Monday)
            ... conference papers (Tuesday..Thursday)
            ... seminars/workshops (Friday)



CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

On the Monday of TRANSPUTING 1991, we shall be holding some tutorials  on  the
fundamental  principles  underlying transputer technologies and various design
paradigms for exploiting them.  On the Friday, we  shall  be  running  several
workshops  that  will  focus  directly  on  a range of specialist themes (e.g.
real-time issues, formal methods, AI, super-computing, ...).

We welcome suggestions from the community for what particular themes should be
chosen for these tutorials and workshops.  In particular, we welcome proposals
from any group that wishes to run such a tutorial or workshop.   A  submission
should  give  details  of  the proposed programme, numbers of people to attend
(minimum and maximum) and how much equipment (if any) is needed  for  support.
Please submit your suggestions and/or proposals to one of the Committee listed
above by 1st October, 1990.



FURTHER INFORMATION

Companies and other organisations wishing to be  associated  with  TRANSPUTING
1991 should contact either Peter Welch or Dyke Stiles at the above addresses.

lindsay@watnow.waterloo.edu (Lindsay Patten) (10/03/90)

In article <9010021416.AA20507@prg.ox.ac.uk>,
Geraint.Jones@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) writes:

|> Since the launch of the H1 is now scheduled for mid-April,  you can
expect that
|> there will be a full technical  disclosure  from Inmos  on this
product  at the
|> Santa Clara meeting.

Would someone repost the H1 description?  Will it really be a 100MIPs,
100Mb/link processor?  Will those of us who stuck by transputers in the
face of increasingly fast competition be vindicated?

Would someone at cornell give me an email address there to contact
about getting the latest Trollius release (previous mail has not been
responded to)?

Would someone post the address of the trollius mailing list?

Demanding sort aren't I? :-)

Thanks,

Lindsay Patten                       Never get angry at stupid people! -Erasure
Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence Group         S4 y+ f-- t+ w- k+ m h- r
Department of Systems Design Engineering              lindsay@pami.waterloo.edu
University of Waterloo               {utai|decvax|uunet}!watmath!watnow!lindsay