peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus) (10/24/90)
As promised, here's the Program for December. As an added attraction, Sun Microsystems has arranged for tours of their plants during the conference. There will be a sign-up sheet and SUG will provide free shuttle busses during the three days. TUTORIALS Sunday, December 2, 1990 The Internet & its Protocols, William LeFebvre XView, Neil Groundwater & Mitch Jerome Topics in Systems Administration, Rob Kolstad & Evi Nemeth UNIX Device Driver Design, Dan Klein Introduction to C++ Open Windows for Application Developers SunOS 4.X Basic System Security SunOS Release 4.1 Update Seminar PROGRAM Sun User Group Conference December 3-5, 1990 San Jose Convention Center and Fairmont Hotel (On Monday, the BoFs and the Reception are in the Fairmont; on Tuesday, the SUG meeting, the BoFs, and the Developers' Panel are in the Fairmont.) Monday: 9-10 Keynote Address, Wayne Rosing, VP Desktop Systems and Graphics Group (Ballroom 1&8) 10:15- 11:30 W.Harbert, U. of Pittsburgh, Deep Time--A visualization of the northward motion of the Pacific Plate during the last 120 million years (B1&B4) S. Bechtolsheim, Purdue, Introduction to LaTeX (B2&B3) H. Shiffman, Sun, Introduction to Object-Oriented programming in C++ (C1&C4) C. Rudlin, MD, Medical Records (C2&C3) J. Postel, USC, DARTnet (K) B. Callaghan, Sun, The Automounter (N) R. Mori, Sun, LispView: A New Look for Sun CommonLisp (J) 11: 30 - 1:30 LUNCH 1:30- 2:30 I. Sindelar, AT&T, Specification-Driven Tool Technology (B1&4) M. Blanchet, U. de Laval, Installing and Using Name Services on a Sun Network (B2&3) D. Ungar, et al., Stanford U., Self: A Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language (Live Demo) (C1&C4) J. Rosbrough, Great-West Life, Relational DBMS Application Capacity Benchmarking (C2&C3) C. Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, Audio (K) L. Delzompo, Sun, OpenLook: The Key to Interoperability (N) S. Ahnger, Sun, SunNet License (J) 2:45- 4:15 J. Parker, Sun, NIS Tutorial (B1&B4) TBA (B2&B3) H. Stern, Sun, Sun OS 4.1 Performance Tuning (C1&C4) T. Atwood, Object Design, Object-Oriented DBs (C2&C3) S. Tirfing, Sun, SunSource Browser and Software Development Tools (K) D. Novitsky, Sun, System Software Future Plans and Directions (N) E. Lamb, Sun, Sun OS/SV4 for Developers (J) 4:30- 5:30 General Session - Andy Bechtolsheim, VP of Technology, The SPARC Wave (Ballroom 1-8) 6-7 BoFs in Fairmont 7:30 - 10:00 RECEPTION in Fairmont ------------------------------------------- Tuesday: 9-10 B. Craig, Sun, The ONC Roadmap: Distributed Computing Platform Directions (Ballroom 1&8) K. Kitagawa, Sun, Introduction to SPARC Architecture (Ballroom2&7) L. Mishma, Sun, Desktop Applications for the Office Environment (B1&B4) B. Petro, Sun, CDROM Now! (B2&B3) N. Bourbaki et al, Lucid, An Open Architecture for Programming Environments (C1-C4) H. Shing & L.M. Ni, MSU, Efficient Management of Multi-Server Network Systems (K) B. Biles, Sun, SunNet Manager 1.1 (N) 10:15- 11:30 D. Rosenlund & L. Howard, Sun, The PC Distributed Computing Platform: ONC's PC-NFS (Ballroom 1&8) N. Mammen, LSI Logic, SPARC MMU and Cache Tutorial (Ballroom 2&7) L. Baron, B. Ulbrich, Sun, & E. Scultz, LLNL, Security at Sun (B1&B4) L. Spencer, Sun, OSI: The latest GOSIP (B2&B3) P. Rafferty & L. Hower, Idaho Nat. Eng. Lab., Design of a Distributed Image Processing System (C1-C4) A. Foster et al., Epoch, Network Storage Management (K) B. Watson, Sun, Graphic Acceleration through SunWindows (N) 11:30-1:30 LUNCH Keynote: J. Warner, CEO, Precision Visuals, Visualization in the 90s -- Cutting through the Hype and Snakeoil (Exhibit Hall 2) 1:30- 3:00 Visual Data Analysis Panel, J. Warner, chair (Ballroom 1&8) H. Spiller, Sun, SPARC Developer Tools (Ballroom 2&7) B. English, Sun, Internationalization and Asian Localization (B1&B4) R. Milner, NRAO/VLA, The Internet: Discovering and Using its Resources (B2&B3) J. Borish & J. Lawson, EuPhonics, Digital Signal Processing (C1-C4) P. Rajani, AT&T, Automated Backup and Recovery Systems (K) C. Kollars, Sun, X-Terminals & Workstations (N) 3:15- 4:30 M. Whitton & D. Schiff, Sun, Sun's Visualization Products (Ballroom 1&8) S. Muchnick, Sun, SPARC Optimizing Compilers (Ballroom 2&7) K. Parker, Sun, Electronic Publishing: A New Era of Growth and Understanding (B1&B4) F. Butt, Stratus, Usenet and Network News (B2&B3) K. Sheehan, Sun, MMAP (C1-C4) G. Yaron, INTEL Israel, Central Management Environment for Distributed Network (K) Z. Popovic, Brown U., Distant Ray Tracer -- Performance Issues for Loosely-Coupled Network Implementation (N) 6-7 SUG Meeting, Fairmont, Regency1 BoFs, Fairmont 7:15-10 Developers' Panel, Rob Gingell, chair, Fairmont, Regency1 ------------------------------------------- Wednesday 9-10 P.Godston, Sun, Development of Open Windows through DevGuide (Ballroom1&8) J. Little, Portal Communications Corp., Connecting your Sun to a UUCP Network (Ballroom 2&7) S. Nahm, Sun, Building Network-Independent Distributed Applications with ONC's TI-RPC (B1&B4) V. Jepson, Sun, Integrated Solutions for Scholars (B2&B3) D. Hitz, Auspex, Performance Monitoring (C1-C4) B. Williamsen, Sun, I/O Strategy for SPARC Servers (K) A. Guzzi et al., U. of Connecticut, Network Servers to Manage Files in a large network of heterogeneous hosts (N) 10:15- 11:30 D. Reim, Sun, SPARC Compilers (Ballroom 1&8) C.A. Funka-Lea, AT&T, Visual Modeling with Q+ (Ballroom2&7) C. Dai, Sun, Document Image Management (B1&B4) C. Typaldos, Sun, Sun's Standards Philosophy (B2&B3) M. Murthy, ALANTEC, SNMP-based Network Management (C1-C4) N. Colwell, Sun, Database -- Productivity Tools for the database environment (K) C. Stolle, Sun, Server Strategy for the Workgroup Computer environment (N) 11:30 - 1:30 LUNCH Keynote: Michael D. O'Dell, Bellcore, Time is of the Essence (Exhibit Hall 2) 1:30- 2:30 D. Taber, Sun, System Software Enhancements forLarge Systems (Ballroom 1&8) Y.P. Chang & B. Nelson, Auspex, NFS I/O (Ballroom 2&7) New Graphics Hardware panel, B. Croll, Sun, chair (B1&B4) T. Budjeau (Andersen) & D. Freibrun (Cincinnati Bell IS), System Integration (B2&B3) D. Folk, et al., GE SSD, SCSA (C1-C4) A. Deogirkir, Sun, NeWSware -- Information Support for the '90s (K) BAYSLUG Meeting (N) 3-5 SUN EXECUTIVE PANEL Scott McNealy, President & CEO Ed Zander, VP Corporate Marketing Carol Bartz, VP Worldwide Field Operations Eric Schmidt, VP General Systems Group Wayne Rosing, VP Desktop Systems & Graphics Group Brenda Adams, VP US Customer Service Exhibit Hall 2 -- The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory.