This year's conference continues the Compcon tradition of providing a broad technical overview of the most exciting developments in the computer industry. However, special emphasis is given to the technologies driving the emerging Information Super Highway - from the nuts and bolts of fast microprocessor design to broadband networks, advanced storage and compression technologies and multimedia applications. A set of keynote presentations and tutorials complements the material presented in the technical papers.

1995 Program Index

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Advance Program - Papers, Seminars and Tutorials

Theme: TECHNOLOGIES for the SUPERHIGHWAY

MONDAY March 6, 1995

Monday's Events

9:00-10:00am Keynote address: Jim Clark, Chairman and CEO, Netscape Communications Corp.

"Internet = Electronic Commerce, Now!"

10:15-11:45am Morning Sessions (First session in each track)

11:45am-1pm Lunch

1:00-2:00pm Keynote address: Professor Dave Farber, Moore Professor of Telecommunications, University of Pensylvania

"Glass Tunnels Connecting Broadband Islands - The GII"

2:15-3:45pm Early Afternoon Sessions (Second Session in each track)

4:00-5:30pm Mid Afternoon Sessions (Third Session in each track)

5:30-7:30 Social Hour

Monday, Track 1

World Wide Web Topics, W. W. Wilcke, HaL

1. The WWW as a Platform Independent Interface to High Performance Computing, David Robertson and Bill Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
2. WWW Network Traffic Patterns, Jeffrey Sedayao, Intel
3. A Powerful Wide-Area Client, Tak W. Yan, Stanford Univ, and Juergen Annevelink, HP

Digital Money on the Commerce Net, D. Gifford, MIT

1. Netbill: An Electronic Commerce System Optimized for Network Delivered Information and Services, Marvin Sirbu and J. Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University
2. Payment Switches for Open Networks, by D. Gifford, A. Payne, L. Stewart, and W. Treese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Payment services for open networks, B. Clifford Neuman, University of Southern California

Business on Networks, Fred Strange, LLNL and FSTC

1. Doing Business of the Information Highway: The nine steps to conduct business on the info. highway. F, Strange, LLNL
2. CommerceNet: Spontaneous Electronic Commerce on the Internet Allan M. Schiffman and Jay M. Tenenbaum, EIT
3. Ordering, Distributing and Receipt: Order Processing & Management at IBM, Don Willenborg, IBM
4. Billing, Payment/Settlement, Accounting & Ancillary Services: Netaccount, Deepak Gupte, Nations Bank

Monday, Track 2

Information Highway Trials in the Bay Area, W. J. Lennon, LLNL

1. Wavelength Division Multiplexing Wide Area Network trial: The National Transparent Optical Network Consortium, W. J. Lennon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
2. Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Local Area Network: Stanford's Starnet, Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford University
3. ATM services Trial: BAGnet and other CalREN supported projects William Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

Distance Learning Technologies, Tom Wilkins, HP

1. Distance Learning on the Desk Top, Pat Portway, Applied Business Telecommunications
2. Distance Learning in Higher Education, Dr. Carla Lane
3. Distance learning the community/corporate connection, Tom Wilkins, HP

PA-RISC: Application-Driven Innovation, Ruby Lee, HP

1. Advanced Performance Features of the 64-bit PA-8000 Doug Hunt, et al , HP, Fort Collins
2. New MP Hardware Architecture for Commercial and Technical Environments, Loren Staley, et al , HP Roseville
3. A Highly Scalable System Utilizing up to 128 PA-RISC Processors Tony Brewer, et al, Convex Computer

Monday, Track 3

Alpha 21164 Microprocessor and Systems, Dileep Bhandarkar, DEC

1. The Organization of the Alpha 21164 Microprocessor Pete Bannon and Jim Keller, Digital Equipment Corporation
2. World's Fastest Workstation, John Zurawski, John Murray, Paul Lemmon. Digital Equipment Corp
3. 21164 based High Performance Multiprocessor Server D.M.Fenwick, D.J.Foley, S.R.VanDoren, Digital Equipment Corporation

First generation PowerPC SMP systems, Kimming So, IBM

1. IBM RS/6000 Commercial SMP Systems, James O. Nicholson, IBM
2. AIX Operating System Support for Symmetric Multiprocessing Jack C. O'Quin, Ronald S. Clark and Thomas V. Weaver, IBM
3. The performance and performance methodology for a PowerPC SMP system Bret R. Olszewski, IBM, Jean-Jacques Guillemaud, Groupe Bull Inc

Satellite Superhighways, J. Stuart, Teledesic

1. Superhighway to the home via DBS delivery, Peter Hampton, Primestar Partners
2. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) applications on the horizon, James Stuart, Teledesic
3. Role of satellites in NII and GII, Larry Seidman, Hughes
4. Gigabit Satellites in Distributed Supercomputing for Global Research, Larry Bergman, JPL

TUESDAY, March 7, 1995

Tuesday's Events

9:00-10:00am Keynote address:

Andy Lippman, Associate director, MIT Media Lab,

"Distributed Media Bank"

10:15-11:45am Morning Sessions (First session in each track)

11:45am-1:00pm Lunch

1:00-2:00pm Keynote address: Steve Schramm, VP Engineering, General Magic

"Agents that Travel"

1:45-2:05pm Computer Society Awards

2:15-3:45pm Early Afternoon Sessions (Second Session in each track)

4:00-5:30pm Mid Afternoon Sessions (Third Session in each track)

5:30-7:30pm Social Hour at the Top of the Mark, Mark Hopkins Hotel.

Tuesday, Track 4

Information Hosting Services, G. Lidor, Bell Labs, AT&T

1. PersonaLink Agent-based Messaging and Information Services Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T
2. Info-Sleuth: Intelligent Search Management via Semantic Agents Darryl Woelk, MCC
3. Enahncing Lotus Notes for Carrier Grade Hosting Applications, Paul Cummings, Lotus Development Corp.

Mobile Internet Applications (based on PDAs), Joel Bartlett, DEC

1. Experience with a Wireless World Wide Web Client, Joel F. Bartlett, DEC
2. Enabling PDA's with Wireless Communications, Rick Lane, Motorola
3. Video on Demand in Wireless Communication, E. Tsern, Stanford Univ

Infopad, A. Baum, Apple

1. The Infopad Project: Providing Portable Multimedia Access to the Information Highway, Bob Brodersen or Jan Rabaey UC Berkeley
2. Infopad: A Low Power, Wireless Multimedia Terminal, Sam Sheng, UC Berkeley
3. Infonet: Network Infrastructure and Software for Mobile Information Access, My Le, UC Berkeley
4. User Interface and Applications in the Infopad Environment, Andy Burstein or Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, Track 5

Advanced Media Enhancement Technologies. R. Lee, HP

1. An Object-Based Architecture for a Digital Compression Camera, John Beck, et al, HP Chelmsford
2. Realtime MPEG Video via Software Decompression on PA-RISC Processors, Ruby Lee, et al, HP Cupertino
3. Color Recovery: Millions of Colors from an 8-bit Graphics Device, Anthony Barkans, HP Fort Collins

Interactive TV, R. Williams, IBM

1. Set-top boxes and applications, Lee Colby, HP
2. Oracle media server and its applications, Andy Laursen, Mark Porter and Jeffrey Olkin, Oracle
3. Video on Demand: Hong Kong trial, R. Haskin and F. Stein, IBM

Storage Hierarchy in Multimedia Systems, M. Kienzle, IBM

1. Buffering and Caching in Large-Scale Video Servers, Asit Dan, Dan Dias, Rajat Mukherjee, Christos Polyzois, Dinkar Sitaram, Renu Tewari, IBM
2. Using Tertiary Storage in Video-on-Demand Servers Martin Kienzle, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, and William Tetzlaff, IBM
3. Server Preroll RPC for Client/Server Multimedia M.Baugher, G.Flurry, J.Wilkinson, IBM
4. Elements of scalable video servers, W. Tetzlaff, IBM and R. Flynn, Polytechnic University.

Tuesday, Track 6

HaL Computer Systems, Wen Li, HAL

1. Architectural Overview of HaL Systems, Winfried W. Wilcke, HAL
2. The CPU Microarchitecture, Niteen Patkar, HaL
3. Cache and Memory Management Microarchitecture, Chien Chen and Dave Lyon and David Chang, HaL

PowerPC Processors, S. Peter Song, IBM and Nasr Ullah, Motorola

1. A PowerPC Microprocessor for the Portables Market, D. Ogden, IBM
2. A Pipelined, Weakly-Ordered Bus for Multi-Processing Systems Kurt Lewchuk and Michael Allen, Motorola
3. The PowerPC 620 Microprocessor: A High Performance Superscalar RISC Microprocessor, Thomas L. Thomas, Motorola and Paul Tu, IBM

Power PC software and Systems, N. Ullah, Motorola, M. NguyenPhu, IBM

1. The PowerPC Architecture: 64-bit Power with 32-bit Compatibility C. Ray Peng, Motorola, Tom Petersen and Ron Clark, IBM
2. Developing Windows NT Applications for the PowerPC, Howard C. Thamm, Motorola
3. Using the PowerPC Microprocessor for Power-Managed Systems, Keith Braithwaite, IBM
4. The PowerPC 620 in Distributed Computing, Michael P. Taborn and John K. Yuan, IBM, and David C. Lee, IBM

WEDNESDAY, March 8, 1995

Wednesday's Events

9:00-10:00am Keynote address: Professor Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley

"A Case for Networks of Workstations: NOW"

10:15-11:45am Morning Sessions (First session in each track)

11:45am-1pm Lunch

1:00-2:00pm Keynote address: John Warnock, CEO of Adobe Systems

"The New Information Frontier"

2:15-3:45pm Early Afternoon Sessions (Second Session in each track)

4:00-5:30pm Mid Afternoon Sessions (Third Session in each track)

Wednesday, Track 7

Networks of Workstations, D. Patterson, UC Berkeley

1. The IBM SP-2, Tilak Agerwala, IBM
2. The Berkeley NOW Project, Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler, and David A. Patterson, U.C. Berkeley
3. Tempest: User-level Shared Memory", Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, and David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin

High speed network protocols, W. Lennon, LLNL

1. 1394 --It's Everywhere, Dan Moore and Gary Hoffman, Skipstone Inc.
2. Fibrechannel 1995, Ed Frymoyer, HP
3. Local Area MultiProcessor: surpassing clusters, David B. Gustavson, SCIzzL, and Prof. Qiang Li, Santa Clara University

New Trends in Storage Management, J. Menon, IBM

1. ADSM: A multi-platform, scalable, backup and archive mass storage system. L-F Cabrera, B. Rees, S. Steiner, et al. IBM
2. An Object Oriented Model for Distributed Storage Management, David Low, EMC
3. Step by Step, Hierarchical Storage Management, Jim Gast, Palindrome
4. Data Striping for Heterogeneous Environments, Jim McNiel, Cheyenne

Wednesday, Track 8

Taligent Object Services, J. Grimes, Taligent

1. Runtime Services for Persistent Objects, Russell Nakano, et al, Taligent
2. An Object-Oriented Device Driver Model, Steve Lemon, et al, Taligent
3. Object-Oriented Wrappers for the Mach Microkernel, Stephen Kurtzman and Kayshav Dattatri, Taligent

Multimedia Authoring and Acrobat, J. King, Adobe and M. Harrison, UC Berkeley

1. Technical Issues in Hypermedia Scripting Languages, Brian F. Dennis and Prof. Michael A. Harrison, UC Berkeley
2. Acrobat 2.0, Andrew Shore, Adobe Systems
3. Authoring from a User's Perspective, M. McGrath, Grafica Multimedia

Post-Production (Hollywood), A. Fetzer, consultant

1. Digital Editing Technology in Broadcast Video Production Leon Siverman, Laser Pacific
2. Digital Technology and the Convergence in Film, Video and Multimedia Bruce Pfander, 20th Century Fox
3. Digital Editing Technology - A Film Maker's Perspective Andrew Silver, Silver Productions

Wednesday, Track 9

Advanced CD systems, W. Lenth

1. CD technology for the future, Hoss Bozorgzad, Philips
2. CD and Competing Mass Storage Technologies in an Application Driven Environment, Paul Wehrenberg, Apple
3. CD or not to CD, A. Bell, IBM

High Performance Storage Systems, R. Morris, IBM

1. Scalable Network Storage, E. K. Lee, Digital Equipment Corporation
2. The Parallel Scotch Storage Server, G. Gibson, CMU
3. Future Directions in RAID, J. Menon, IBM

ATM panel, S. Bell, Bell Consulting

1. The WAN Perspective, Larry Roberts, CEO ATM Systems
2. The LAN Perspective, Robert Newman, Dir. ATM, Synoptics
3. The Silicon Perspective, Akber Kazmi, Philips Semiconductor

Wednesday, Track 10

The UltraSPARC Microprocessor with Multimedia Support, Robert Garner, SUN

1. UltraSPARC: The Next Generation Superscalar 64b SPARC Dale Greenley, et al, SUN
2. Verification of the UltraSPARC Microprocessor Shrenik Mehta, et al, SUN
3. The Visual Instruction Set (VIS) in UltraSPARC, Les Kohn, et al, SUN
4. Video processing with UltraSparc, Chang Zhou, Leslie Kohn, Ihtisham Kabir, et al, SUN

Can Digital Technology Reinvent the Newspaper? Panel, Paul Freiberger, Interval Research

1. Publishing today is like an electronic pinata, Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future.
2. An optimistic view that says hardware is key, John Markoff, New York Times
3. Bill Mitchell, Director of Mercury Center, Knight-Ridder Inc.

Internet Access to Environmental Data, P. Mantey, UC Santa Cruz

1. SEQUOIA 2000, Joseph Pasquale, UC San Diego
2. BADGER: Bay Area Digital GeoResource, David Milgram Lockheed Research Laboratory
3. REINAS: Real-Time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System, Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz

TUTORIALS

Sunday, March 5

Yale N. Patt

Computer Architecture Choices

Steve W. Bell

ATM Overview

Lawrence Rowe

Digital Audio and Video Compression, Multimedia Systems and

Applications

Henry A. Sowizral

Virtual Reality

Thursday, March 9

Robert Orfail, Dan Harkey and Jim Gray

Client/Server Overview and Updates

Dave Grubb and Jerry Owens

Exploring INTERNET on your PC

Borko Furht

Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications

Jim King

Color on the Desktop, (1/2 day)

M. Ketabchi

Is DBMS Technology in Chaos, Modern DBMS approaches Products and

Standards and Trends (1/2 day)