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- From: carolyn@usenix.ORG (Carolyn Carr)
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- Subject: USENIX Summer 1993 Technical Conference - Call for Papers
- Keywords: USENIX Association
- Message-ID: <1269@usenix.ORG>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:32:30 GMT
- Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley
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- CALL FOR PAPERS:
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- USENIX SUMMER 1993 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
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- CINCINNATI, OHIO
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- JUNE 21 -25, 1993
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- THEME
-
- A little over ten years ago UNIX encountered the bitmap display
- and the mouse. Developments since then, such as the X window
- system, didn't try to change UNIX. Rather they layered on it
- to cope with the demands of the new user interface technology.
- After ten years this doesn't look like a successful strategy;
- UNIX hardly has industry-leading user interfaces and a horde of
- new user interface technologies are arriving.
-
- Radical thinking and new operating system capabilities are needed to
- support new user interface technologies. Communicating with the
- user is a real-time problem, why aren't we using the emerging
- real-time capabilities of UNIX to support it? Are UNIX byte-string
- files adequate, or do we need a generalized file attribute
- model? Can users really navigate a file name space that is a rooted
- tree of all the files in the Internet?
-
- As usual, USENIX is interested in papers describing new and
- interesting developments in open operating systems. But in Cincinnati
- we're particularly interested in papers addressing the the evolution
- of operating systems to support new and effective user interfaces.
-
- KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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- Our keynote speaker, Bruce Tognazzini, has been a long-time customer of
- the operating system support for the user interface.
- He has been designing man-machine interfaces for better
- than 30 years. He spent the last 14 years at Apple where he led at
- various times both the Apple II and Macintosh human interface efforts
- before moving to SunSoft earlier this year. During his most recent
- tenure in the Evangelism group at Apple, he wrote what the author and
- his mom have both described as a major new publication in the field of
- human-computer interaction, "Tog on Interface".
-
- PROGRAM COMMITTE
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- David S. H. Rosenthal SunSoft Inc (Program Chair)
- Matt Blaze AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Nathaniel Borenstein Bellcore
- Bob Gray U.S. West Advanced Technologies
- Steve Kleiman SunSoft Inc
- Kirk McKusick University of California at Berkeley
- Jeff Mogul Digital Equipment Corp.
- JR Oldroyd Instruction Set
- Pat Parseghian AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Dennis Ritchie AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- IMPORTANT DATES
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- Abstracts Due: February 2, 1993
- Notifications to Authors: February 27, 1993
- Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 14, 1993
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- WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORTS
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- WIP Coordinator: Peg Schafer, BBN
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- Phone: 617-873-2626 E-mail: wip@usenix.org
-
- WIP sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to present short
- (typically 10 minute) talks on work which is on-going, currently under
- development or is newly completed. This year USENIX is particularly
- encouraging students to present their research at the WIP sessions.
- The USENIX audience provides valuable discussion and feedback.
-
- Time for a talk may be reserved in advance (preferred) by phone or
- e-mail, or on-site.
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- FORM OF SUBMISSION FOR REFEREED PAPERS
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- Authors of papers to be presented at the technical sessions and
- published in the proceedings must submit one copy of an extended
- abstract by at least two of the following methods:
-
- - e-mail to summer93papers@usenix.org
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- - fax to (510) 548-5738
-
- - or mail to:
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- Summer 93 USENIX
- USENIX Association
- 2560 Ninth St, Suite 215
- Berkeley CA 94710
-
- by February 2nd, 1993. Enquiries about these submissions may be
- made by E-mail to david@usenix.org or to (510) 528-8649.
-
- The schedule for reviewing submissions for the conference is very
- short, and reviewers don't have time to read full papers. The
- object of an extended abstract is to convince the reviewers that
- a good paper and 25-minute presentation will result. They need to
- know that the authors:
-
- - are attacking a significant problem.
-
- - are familiar with the current literature about the problem.
-
- - have devised an original solution.
-
- - have implemented it and, if appropriate, characterized its
- performance.
-
- - have drawn appropriate conclusions about what they have learned
- and why it is important.
-
- As at previous USENIX conferences, papers that analyze problem areas
- and draw important conclusions from practical experience are welcome.
- Note that the USENIX conference, like most conferences and journals,
- considers it unethical to submit the same paper simultaneously to more
- than one conference or publication, or to submit a paper that has been
- or will be published elsewhere.
-
- The extended abstract must be 5 sides or less. Only the first 5
- sides of your submission will be sent to the reviewers. The full paper
- may be attached to the extended abstract; it will not be sent to the
- reviewers but may be helpful during final evaluation.
-
- The extended abstract should include the abstract as it will appear in
- the final paper, and represent the paper in "short form". Supporting
- material may be in note form. Authors should include references to
- establish that they are familiar with the literature, and if
- appropriate performance data to establish that they have a working
- implementation and measurement tools.
-
- Every submission should include one additional side containing:
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- - The name, surface mail address, daytime and evening phone
- numbers, E-mail address and (if available) fax number
- of one of the authors, who will act as the contact point.
-
- - An indication of which, if any, of the authors are students
-
- - A list of audio/visual equipment desired beyond a microphone
- and an overhead projector.
-
- Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by February 27, 1993.
- They will receive instructions for preparing camera-ready copy of
- an 8-12 page final paper, which must be received by March 14, 1993.
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