The USENIX folks plan to broadcast (well..err...multicast) a number of talks from next week's conference over the MBONE. Details are still unavailable, but Evi has posted the following interesting list of folks: ---- Wednesday, January 18: Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems Cryptography Brad Chen, Harvard Univ Operating System Measurement Thursday, January 19: John Ousterhout, Sun Microsystems TCL for Internet Agents Bill Janssen, Xerox PARC ILU/CORBA Inter-Language Unification Nathaniel Borenstein, 1st Virtual Holdings Internet Information Commerce David Chaum, Digicash b.v. Cash on the Internet Friday, January 20: Hal Varian, Univ of Michigan Economics of the Internet Pavel Curtis, Xerox PARC The Internet at the Turn of the Millennium: How You'll Use It and Who You'll Meet There ---- The keynote will be Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC talking about their "ubiquitious computing" scheme, which has its own set of privacy implications... Details as I get them. jon Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html