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Ron Gomes  
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 More options Jun 9 1983, 11:59 am
Newsgroups: net.usenix
From: r...@hcr.UUCP (Ron Gomes)
Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 11:59:01 EDT
Local: Thurs, Jun 9 1983 11:59 am
Subject: Toronto USENIX Conference Schedule (tentative)

                        Wednesday, July 13

Schedule/       Author(s)       Title  
     Length            

 8:45-11:45     SESSION A/B - Opening Session   Chair: Michael Tilson

 8:45- 9:30                     Opening Remarks, Usenix

 9:30-10:15 /45 Lesk            Keynote address:  Technology
                                Driven Software vs. Psychology
                                of Users:  An Irresistible
                                Force Meets an Immovable Object

10:15-10:45             BREAK

10:45-11:45 /60 AT&T                UNIX Licensing and New
                                Product Offerings

11:45- 1:30             LUNCH

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION A - Programming Tools 1    Chair: Joseph Yao

 1:30- 1:55 /25 Baecker,        On Enhancing the Presentation
                Breslin &   of C Source Code
                Sturgess

 1:55- 2:15 /20 Nakamura &  On-Line Manual System for
                Murai           Software Development on UNIX

 2:15- 2:35 /20 Kendall         Bcc: Runtime Checking for C
                                Programs

 2:35- 2:55 /20 Farley,         CDB - a C Source Language
                Kunkel &    Debugger
                Thompson

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION B - UNIX Implementation 1    Chair: Michael Blake-Knox

 1:30- 1:55 /25 Holt, Mendell   Tunis: A Portable, Unix
                & Perelgut  Compatible Kernel Written
                                in Concurrent Euclid

 1:55- 2:20 /25 Gien            The SOL Operating System

 2:20- 2:40 /20 Barrett         An Implementation of UNIX for
                                the Intel iAPX 286

 2:40- 3:00 /20 Whistler        UNIX a la Data General

 3:00- 3:30             BREAK

 3:30- 5:00     SESSION A - Programming Tools 2    Chair: Ian Darwin

 3:30- 3:55 /25 Bryan           VCHK -- A program for Updating
                                and Maintaining Software
                                Distributions

 3:55- 4:15 /20 Hirgelt         Enhancing MAKE or Re-inventing
                                a Rounder Wheel

 4:15- 4:35 /20 McGowan,        Mm4 -- Make with M4 Tools
                Anderson &  for Maintaining Makefiles
                Brumm

 4:35- 5:00 /25 Novak           Using Make Effectively

 3:30- 5:00     SESSION B - UNIX Implementation 2    Chair:  Phyllis Eve Bregman

 3:30- 3:55 /25 Patriquin       File System Considerations in
                                a Multiple Process UNIX
                                Environment

 3:55- 4:15 /20 Wilens          A High Performance Implementa-
                                tion of UNIX for the IBM
                                Series/1

 4:15- 4:35 /20 Dunietz &   The Use of the Z80 I/O Processor
                Powell          by the TRS-XENIX Operating
                                System

 4:35- 4:55 /20 Neff            Virtual memory Management in
                                GENIX

                        Thursday, July 14

Schedule/       Author(s)       Title
     Length

 8:45-10:00     SESSION A - User Interface 1   Chair:  Barbara Arlow

 8:45- 9:10 /25 Perlman         The Interface Arsenal

 9:10- 9:40 /30 Buxton, Lamb,   A User Interface Management
                Sherman, Smith  System

 9:40-10:00 /20 Tuori           Talking to UNIX -- Some
                                Experience with Speech Input

 8:45-10:00     SESSION B - UNIX Implementation 3    Chair: David Martindale

 8:45- 9:00 /15 Lucas &     A General-Purpose Object-File
                Lycklama        Format

 9:00- 9:15 /15 Hoover          A User Information Data Base
                                for UNIX (What to do when
                                /etc/passwd just isn't enough)

 9:15- 9:35 /20 Cole            Attaching an Array Processor
                                in the UNIX Environment

 9:35-10:00 /25 Daniel          Z -- A High Performance Raster
                                Graphics Package for UNIX
                                Operating Systems

10:00-10:30             BREAK

10:30-11:45     SESSION A - User Interface 2   Chair:  Robert Pike

10:30-10:50 /20 Steffen & Veach     The Edit Shell - Combining
                                Screen Editing with the History
                                List

10:50-11:15 /25 Korn            KSH - A Shell Programming
                                Language

11:15-11:40 /25 Mankins &   A Simple Window Management
                Franklin        Facility for the UNIX Time-
                                sharing System

10:30-11:45     SESSION B - Compilers and Languages 1   Chair: Jean Wood

10:30-10:50 /20 Ryan, Spiller   A New Portable Compiler for
                & Weil              Xenix

10:50-11:20 /30 Cox             Objective C Compiler:
                                Programming Smalltalk-80
                                Methods in C                    

11:20-11:40 /20 Zelitzky &  Compilers on the NS16000
                Srivastava

11:45- 1:30             LUNCH

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION A - UNIX Implementation 4   Chair:  A.R. White

 1:30- 1:55 /25 Ross & Taylor       Unix Support for Guaranteed
                                Real-Time Processing

 1:55- 2:20 /25 Teixeira        High Speed Laboratory Data
                                Acquisition on the MC-500

 2:20- 2:40 /20 Kridle          Performance Effects of Disk
                                Subsystem Choices for VAX
                                Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX

 2:40- 3:00 /20 Lutz & Shon Running the UNIX Kernel in User
                                Mode

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION B - Compilers and Languages 2   Chair: Jean Wood

 1:30- 1:55 /25 Isaacson        QL: A General Purpose Program-
                                ming Language with an Embedded
                                Data Base Interface

 1:55- 2:25 /30 Cordy & Holt        Turing: A New General Purpose
                                Language Under Unix

 2:25- 2:55 /30 Tanenbaum,      A Unix Tool Kit for Making
                Staveren &  Portable Compilers
                Keizer

 3:00- 3:30             BREAK

 3:30- 5:15     SESSION A - UNIX Directions   Chair: Michael Tilson

 3:30- 4:00 /30 Pike            UNIX Style, or "cat -v"
                                Considered Harmful

 4:00- 4:15 /15 Balter          Everything You Wanted to Know
                                About System V, and Then Some

 4:15- 4:30 /15 Chambers,       A Practical Comparision of
                Quarterman      4.2BSD and System V

 4:30- 4:55 /25 O'Dell          Berkeley UNIX after 4.2BSD -
                                Where is it Going and Why Do
                                We Want to Get There?

 4:55- 5:15 /20 PANEL           Panel Discussion:  Where is UNIX
                                Going, and Should It Go There?

 3:30- 5:00     SESSION B - Not allocated.
                            (This time is open to allow daytime
                            scheduling of birds-of-a-feather
                            sessions.)

                        Friday, July 15

Schedule/       Author(s)       Title
     Length

 8:45-10:00     SESSION A - Networking   Chair: Michael O'Dell

 8:45- 9:10 /25 Gafke & Bergan      Local Network with Virtual
                                Ports

 9:10- 9:35 /25 Wambecq         NETIX: A UNIX-based network-
                                using operating system

 9:35-10:00 /25 Foster          EtherTIP - A Virtual Terminal
                                Interface to Ethernet

 8:45-10:00     SESSION B - Applications    Chair:  Barbara Arlow

 8:45- 9:05 /20 Haenlin         A Data Base Frontend, Driven
                                by Tables Generated from a Data
                                Dictionary

 9:05- 9:30 /25 Wolfe,          A Powerful Accounting Package
                Hustler         for UNIX-Based Systems

 9:30-10:00 /30 Smith           Writer's Workbench Software
                                at Colorado State University

10:00-10:30             BREAK

10:30-11:45     SESSION A - UNIX Mail   Chair: Michael O'Dell

10:30-10:50 /20 McKie           Where is Europe?

10:50-11:20 /30 O'Dell          Unix and Electronic Mail:
                                Trials, Tribulations, and
                                Proposals

11:20-11:45 /25 PANEL           Panel Discussion:  Whither
                                network mail and news?

10:30-11:45     SESSION B - Standards, Validation, and Portability
                   Chair: Michael Tilson

10:30-10:55 /25 Fostel & Naylor     Developing a UNIX Validation
                                Suite

10:55-11:15 /20 Franke &    Early Experiences with UNIX on
                Truscott        the Gould Sel Concept Computer

11:15-11:30 /15 Scheulen        Unix Version 7 compatability
                                under Systems 3/5

11:30-11:45 /15 Lycklama        Status Report from the
                                /usr/group Standards Committee

11:45- 1:30             LUNCH

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION A - Open session:  Applications    Chair:  Ian Darwin

 1:30- 3:00     SESSION B - Open session:  Systems   Chair:  Henry Spencer

                These talks will be scheduled first-come, first-serve.
                Speakers may sign up to give talks starting Wed. morning.
                10 minutes/speaker, any topic allowed.  Titles and author
                addresses only will be printed in the conference proceedings.
                Scheduling closes Wed. night to allow printing of a
                schedule.  Sessions may extend to 5:00 if there is sufficient
                interest.


 
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