rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (10/22/90)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the 5TH ANNUAL X TECHNICAL CONFERENCE The 5th annual Technical Conference on the X Window System will be held on January 14-16, 1991 at the Marriott Copley Place Hotel in Boston, MA. The conference, sponsored by the MIT X Consortium, will bring together experts from industry and academia to present and discuss leading edge research and development in the X environment. This is an ideal opportunity to learn about the very latest X technology, and to talk individually with a variety of developers. The first day of the conference will be devoted to tutorials. If you are interested in giving a tutorial, please contact us. We are particularly interested in topics which have not been given before, or which have had only limited attendance. Tutorials on commercial products are welcome, although we reserve the right to have the material "slanted" appropriately for the conference. Tutorials can last up to 6 or 7 hours, as required. We do not pay tutorial speakers a fee. We do cover the cost of printing tutorial notes. The final two days will be devoted to talks, in a single track. Presentations can be anywhere from 5 to 50 minutes, and video tape is welcome. Written papers to be published in the proceedings are desirable, but definitely not required. There is no set theme for the conference; we are interested in submissions covering all aspects of X. Presentations on both research and commercial developments are encouraged. On all three days, there will be "Birds of a Feather" sessions for general discussion of areas of specific interest to the attendees. If there are particular BOFs you would like to see or run, please let us know. There will no trade show or vendor exhibits associated with this conference. If you would like to give a tutorial, make a presentation, or run a BOF, send details to: xconference@expo.lcs.mit.edu or Bob Scheifler Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Network mail is preferred. Please be sure to include your name, net and postal address, phone number, fax number if any, affiliation, a detailed description of the presentation, what your relationship is to the work (e.g. project manager, principal designer, lead engineer, me-myself-and-I), how much time you need for the presentation, and what A/V facilities you need. The deadline for submissions is November 4; receipt will be acknowledged. However, we will not wait for this deadline before making decisions on tutorials, so the earlier you get your tutorial proposal in, the better your chances are.