walters@grebyn.com (Chris Walters) (04/17/91)
First Announcement of the Super Seminar:
NeXT Applications P4: Present, Planned, Projected, Potential,
sponsored by the Washington, D.C. Area NeXT User Group (WaNUG).
To be held: June 11-12-13, 1991
at: The American University
Washington, D.C.
There will be exhibits each day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; these will include
showings by:
Light House Design, Ltd. -- Diagram!
Lotus Development Corp. -- Improv
Objective Technologies, Inc. -- OT Palettes (these include
SmartFields, Chooser, MathPalette, GraphPalette)
Wolfram Research, Inc. -- Mathematica
WordPerfect Corp. -- WordPerfect
SAS Institute, Inc. -- The SAS System
There will be tutorial sessions each day at various times; subjects will
include:
"Using Mathematica" by Dr. Alfred Gray
"Using PhaseScope" by its author, Dr. Michael Mezzino
There will be poster papers each day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Send abstracts to Dr. Larry Medsker,
Chair, Computer Science and Information Science
The American University
Washington, D.C. 20016
(202) 885-3306
You may use his e-mail address, medsker@auvm.bitnet, for short messages but not
for abstracts or papers: use the conventional mail address for those.
There will be a variety of talks and panel discussions, including the
following:
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Tuesday, June 11, 1991
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Panel on NeXT Applications at Goddard Space Flight Center
Chair: Dr. Henning Leidecker: NeXT Scientific Visualization
* Mr. Timothy VanSant: Imaging Solar Panels on the Hubble Space Telescope
* Dr. Robert Cahalan: Simulation of Clouds by Fractals
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Lotus Development Corporation, Lotus Advanced Technology Group:
Advantages of NeXT Step
* Theoretical
* Actual Case History of Improv
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Panel on Mathematica
Chair: Dr. Alfred Gray, Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland
* Dr. Michael Mezzino, chair of the Mathematics Department, University of
Houston-Clear Lake (Author of ``PhaseScope'')
* a representative from Wolfram Research, Inc.
* Dr. Henning Leidecker
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Panel on NeXT Music
Chair: Douglas Scott: Graphics-based Sound Editing Programs for
Digital Music
* Peter Yadlowsky, University of Virginia: Music Synthesis
Programs Using the NeXT Step Interface
* Brad Garton, Director of Computer Music, Columbia University:
Automated Sound Generators - ``Looching'' and Its Siblings
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Wednesday, June 12, 1991
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Panel on NeXT Interpersonal Computing
Chair: Michael O'Neill, MITRE Corporation
* ESL Incorporated
* Boss Logic, Inc.
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Session 1: NeXT Developer's Panel
Chair: Roger Rosner, Director of Engineering, Light House Design, Ltd.
Session 2: Panel on NeXT Applications at the Naval Research Laboratory
Chair: John Michopoulos
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Presentation: NeXT Wall Street Applications by
Alex Cone, President of Objective Technologies, Inc.
Applications for the following companies will be discussed:
* First Boston Company
* Union Bank of Switzerland
* Lehman Brothers
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Presentation: "NeXT Health Care Professionals' Workstation" by
Kent A. Speckman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director for R & D,
Biomedical Information Communication Center at
Oregon Health Sciences University (Invited, but not yet able to confirm)
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Thursday, June 13, 1991
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
"Vision One: Keynote for the Future" by
Dr. Ronald F. E. Weissman,
Director of Higher Education for NeXT Computer, Inc.
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel on NeXT User Groups: Addressing user's concerns
Chair: Conrad Geiger, NeXT Computer, Inc.
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
"Vision Two: Three Vital Advances"
Chair: Hugh O'Neill, President of WaNUG
* Charles Wayne, DARPA Program Manager: Speech Recognition
* Brian Bosch, DARPA Program Manager: T-Mach -- Trusted and Secure Mach
* Kristofer A. Younger, Senior Technical Consultant,
NeXT Computer, Inc.:
Object Orientation: From Applications to Environments
3:30 p.m. - 4:45
Panel on NeXT and Higher Education
Chair: Dr. Ronald F. E. Weissman
The expected format for each of the above sessions is that 15 minutes of the announced time
is reserved for floor-discussions; panel chairs are responsible for the selection of their
speakers.
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Pre-Registration is $10.00 for any combination of days paid in advance,
or $15 paid at the door.
To send in pre-payment, give name, organization, postal address,
telephone number, and e-mail address (if available). Make check
payable to:
Washington, D.C. Area NeXT Group
and send to:
Hugh O'Neill
President of WaNUG
P.O. Box 39036
Washington, D.C. 20016
(301) 224-3116 (after 8 p.m. EDT)
In addition, any general messages may be addressed to Mr. Hugh O'Neill,
or to Mr. Chris Walters at walters@grebyn.com.
There are some dormatory rooms available at The American University for
$25 per person per night for double occupancy and
$40 per person per night for single occupancy.
There are many hotels and motels available; the Holiday Inn at Chevy Chase, MD
has offered discount rates of $75 per room (this includes single, double, or
triple occupancy). Call Holiday Inn directly: (301) 656-1500 or 1-800-458-3800.
(When makeing reservations, please identify the organization as
``NeXT Conference for American University: Code Number SM2108.''
There are ten such rooms reserved at this rate until June 1, 1991.