USENIX 1997 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE January 6-10, 1997, Anaheim, California Co-Located with: USELINUX: Linux Applications Development & Deployment Conference Co-Sponsored by Linux International and the USENIX Association PROGRAM AT A GLANCE AND IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER ===================================================== Early Registration Savings Deadline: November 22, 1996 Hotel Discount Deadline: December 20, 1996 ===================================================== SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 Registration 4:00pm - 9:00pm Kickoff Reception 6:00pm - 9:00pm MONDAY, JANUARY 6 Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm Tutorials 9:00am - 5:00pm TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm Tutorials 9:00am - 5:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 6:00pm - 10:00pm WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 Registration 7:30am - 6:00pm Keynote Address 9:00am - 10:30am Technical Sessions 11:00am - 5:00pm USELINUX Developers 9:00am - 5:30pm Vendor Display 12:00am - 7:00pm USELINUX Case Studies 7:30pm - 11:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 7:30pm - 11:00pm THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Registration 7:30am - 6:00pm Technical Sessions 9:00am - 6:00pm USELINUX Developers 9:00am - 5:30pm Vendor Display 10:00am - 4:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 6:00pm - 10:00pm USELINUX Case Studies 6:00pm - 10:00pm FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 Technical Sessions 9:00am - 5:45pm USELINUX Business 9:00am - 4:00pm NEW AT ANAHEIM: =============== USELINUX, the Linux Applications Development and Deployment Conference, co-sponsored by Linux International and USENIX. If you are: An application developer porting or developing Linux applications, a system admininistrator having to maintain Linux systems, a business person who wishes to develop a Linux business, plan to attend USELINUX. One fee covers the registration for both conference programs, and you can go freely back and forth between them. (Tutorials carry a separate fee for both USENIX and USELINUX). ================================= TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday-Tuesday, January 6-7, 1997 ================================= Register now to guarantee your first choice - seating is limited. Tutorial fees include printed and bound tutorial materials from your sessions, lunch, CD-ROM with Tutorials, Referreed Papers, and Invited Talks, Admission to the Vendor Exhibits TUTORIAL OVERVIEW Monday, January 6 ================= M1: Beginning Perl Programming for UNIX Programmers (Updated for Perl 5) M2: The Kerberos Approach to Network Security (Updated). M3: An Introduction to Java M4: Secure Java Programming M5: Windows NT and Windows 95 - The Win32 API M6: UNIX Network Programming M7: Selected Topics in System Administration (New) M8: How Networks Work - The Limits of Modern Internetworking (Updated) M9: System and Network Performance Tuning (New) M10: Inside the Linux 2.0 Kernel (New) Tuesday, January 7 ================= T1: UNIX Security Tools: Use and Comparison. T2: CGI and WWW Programming in Perl (New) T3: Security on the World Wide Web (New) T4: Creating Effective User Interfaces (New) T5: Java Applets and the AWT (New) T6: Setting Up And Administering A Web Server (New) T7: Security for Software Developers: How to Write Code that Withstands Hostile Environments (New) T8: Solaris System Administration (New) T9: IP version 6: An Introduction T10: Writing Device Drivers Under Linux (New) COMPLETE TUTORIAL DISCRIPTIONS Are available on our Website, http://www.usenix.org ==================================== TECHNICAL PROGRAM Wednesday-Friday, January 8-10, 1997 ==================================== TECHNICAL SESSIONS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 9:00-10:30 Opening Remarks: John Kohl, Pure Atria Corporation Keynote Address: Developing on "Internet Time" James Gosling, Sun Microsystems REFEREED PAPERS 11:00-12:30: PERFORMANCE I Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files Gregory R. Ganger and M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Observing the Effects of Multi-Zone Disks Rodney Van Meter, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California A Revisitation of Kernel Synchronization Schemes Christopher Small and Stephen Manley, Harvard University 2:00-3:30: INTERFACE TRICKS Porting UNIX to Windows NT David G. Korn, AT&T Research Protected Shared Libraries - A New Approach to Modularity and Sharing Arindam Banerji, John M. Tracey, and David L. Cohn, University of Notre Dame A Novel Way of Extending the Operating System at the User-Level: the Ufo Global File System Albert D. Alexandrov, Maximilian Ibel, Klaus E. Schauser, and Chris J. Scheiman, University of California, Santa Barbara 4:00-5:00: CLIENT TRICKS Network-aware Mobile Programs Mudumbai Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Shamik Sharma, and Joel Saltz, University of Maryland Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and David Culler, University of California, Berkeley THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: CLUSTERING Building Distributed Process Management on an Object-Oriented Framework Ken Shirriff, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations Robert D. Blumofe, University of Texas, Austin and Philip A. Lisiecki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD Pedro A. Souto and Eugene W. Stark, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11:00-12:30: TOOLS Libcdt: A General and Efficient Container Data Type Library Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Research A Simple and Extensible Graphical Debugger David R. Hanson and Jeffrey L. Korn, Princeton University Cget, Cput, and Stage Safe File Transport Tools for the Internet Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories 2:00-3:30: WORKS IN PROGRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-10:30: USER SOMETHING WebGlimpse - Combining browsing and searching Udi Manber, Michael Smith, and Burra Gopal, University of Arizona Mailing List Archive Tools Sam Leffler and Melange Tortuba, Silicon Graphics Experience with GroupLens: Making Usenet Useful Again Bradley N. Miller, John T. Riedl, and Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota 11:00-12:30: PERFORMANCE II Overcoming Workstation Scheduling Problems in a Real-Time Audio Tool Isidor Kouvelas and Vicky Hardman, University College London On Designing Lightweight Threads for Substrate Software Matthew Haines, University of Wyoming High-Performance Local-Area Communication With Fast Sockets Steven H. Rodrigues, Thomas E. Anderson, and David E. Culler, University of California, Berkeley 2:00-3:30: CACHING and STASHING An Analytical Approach to File Prefetching Hui Lei and Dan Duchamp, Columbia University Optimistic Deltas for WWW Latency Reduction Gaurav Banga, Fred Douglis, and Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Research A Toolkit Approach to Partially Connected Operation Dan Duchamp, Columbia University 4:15-5:45: JOINT CLOSING SESSION Severe Tire Damage's Stupid Mbone Tricks - A Lecture/Demonstration INVITED TALKS ============= WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 11:00-12:30: Nomadicity and the IETF Charles E. Perkins, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 2:00-3:30: If Cryptography Is So Great, Why Isnt It Used More? Matt Blaze, AT&T Research 4:00-5:00: The Inktomi Web Search Engine Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: The AltaVista Web Search Engine Louis Monier, Digital Equipment Corporation 11:00-12:30: IPv6: The New Version of the Internet Protocol Steve Deering, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 2:00-3:30: Highlights from 1996 USENIX Conferences and Workshops 4:00-5:30: Inferno Rob Pike, Bell Labs FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-10:30: Measuring Computer Systems: How to Tell the Truth with Numbers Margo Seltzer and Aaron Brown, Harvard University 11:00-12:30: Stupid Net Tricks Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories 2:00-3:30: Finding Bugs in Concurrent Programs Gerard J. Holzmann, Bell Laboratories USELINUX PROGRAM ================= USELINUX DEVELOPERS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 9:00-10:30: Linux: What It Is and Why It Is Significant Mark Bolzern, Work Group Solutions Tom Miller, X Engineering Software Systems 11:00-12:30: The Sparc Port of Linux David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 2:00-3:30: Advanced Device Drivers Alessandro Rubini, Universita di Pavia 4:00-5:00: Future of the Linux Kernel Linus Torvalds, Helsinki University THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: Real Time Victor Yodaiken and Michael Barabanov, New Mexico Institute of Technology 11:00-12:30: /proc Stephen Tweedie, Digital Equipment Corporation 11:00-12:30: The Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) Framework Ted Tso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2:00-3:30: Standards Heiko Eissfeldt, Unifix Software 4:00-5:30: Connecting Legacy and Open Systems Michael Callahan, Stelias Computing, Inc. USELINUX BUSINESS ================= FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-9:30: Linux: What It Is and Why It Is Significant Mark Bolzern, Work Group Solutions Tom Miller, X Engineering Software Systems 9:30-10:30: Linux and Distribution Channels: Ways to Enter the Commercial Market Dan Rosenberg, Stromian Technologies 11:00-12:30: Using Linux in Your Business: A Business Justification Presented by Linux International 2:00-4:00: The Linux Market: Who, What, Where, When and Why? Presented by Linux International USELINUX PRESENTATIONS AND CASE STUDIES DESCRIPTIONS ==================================================== WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 7:30pm - 11:00pm The Use of Linux for Dedicated Systems Chel van Gennip, HISCOM BV Perceptions: A Strategic Deployment of Linux in the Health Care Environment Greg Wettstein, Velocity LLC The Future of the Linux Desktop Ken Apa, Governors State University; Jim Fetters, Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Joe Sloan, Toyota Motor Sales USA The Classroom of the Future Karl Jeacle, Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 6:00pm - 10:30pm Using GNUstep to Deploy User Applications Scott Christley, NET-Community Embedded, Turnkey and Real Time Phil Hughes, Linux Journal Developing Linux-based Electronic Markets for Internet Trading Experiments Paul J. Brewer, Georgia State University VENDOR EXHIBITION ================= Wednesday, January 8, Noon - 7:00pm Thursday, January 9 10:00am - 4:00pm If you cannot make it to the conference but would like to visit the exhibition, please contact Cynthia Deno, Exhibit Coordinator, at 408-335-9445 or cynthia@usenix.org. Vendors: ======== The USENIX 97 Exhibition offers: "Two days of exposure to the cream of the UNIX User Community." -Neil Groundwater, Enterprise Management Group, SunSoft, Inc. Please contact: Cynthia Deno, Exhibit Co-ordinator Tel: 408-335-9445 Fax: 408-335-5327 cynthia@usenix.org GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs) ================================== Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings Do you have a topic that youd like to discuss with others? Birds-of-a-Feather sessions may be perfect for you. BoFs are interactive, informal gatherings for attendees interested in a particular topic. Schedule your BoF in advance. Call the Conference Office at 714.588.8649 or send email to conference@usenix.org. Topics are announced at the conference. BoFs may also be scheduled on-site. The Guru is IN ============== Have a question thats been bothering you? Try asking a USENIX guru! Noted experts from the USENIX community will be available to spark controversy and answer questions. Please contact the Invited Talks Coordinators via email to ITusenix@usenix.org if you would like to volunteer your expertise. Works-in-Progress Reports ========================= Short, pithy, and fun, Works-in-Progress Reports (WIPs) introduce interesting new or ongoing work. If you have work to share or a cool idea not quite ready to be published, a WIP Report is for you! You will receive insightful feedback. We are particularly interested in presenting student work. WIPs are scheduled within the technical sessions program. To reserve a slot, send email to wips@usenix.org. Topics are announced on-site. CONFERENCE SERVICES Terminal Room ============= Internet and dial-out access are provided in the Terminal Room. The Terminal Room will be open throughout the conference week. Look for details posted to comp.org.usenix. Attendee Message Service ======================== Electronic message service will be available Monday, January 6 through Friday, January 10. Electronic messages to conference attendees should be addressed: first_lastname@conference.usenix.org. HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION: ============================ Hotel Discount Reservation Deadline: Friday, December 20, 1996 USENIX has negotiated special rates for conference attendees at the Anaheim Marriott. Contact the hotel directly to make your reservation. You must mention USENIX to get the special rate. A one-night room deposit must be guaranteed to a major credit card. To cancel your reservation, you must notify the hotel at least 24 hours before your planned arrival date. 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You will receive a reservation code number which must appear on your registration form. Your registration form with full payment and a photocopy of your current student ID card must arrive within 14 days from the date of your reservation. If they do not arrive by that date, your reservation will be canceled. This special fee is non-transferable. TECHNICAL SESSIONS: USENIX offers a discount rate of $75 for technical sessions for full-time students. You must include a copy of your current student I.D. card with your registration. This fee is not transferable. STIPENDS: Student stipends are available to pay for travel, living expenses and registration fees to enable full-time students to attend this conference. 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