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[xhibit@ics.com: Xhibition 93 Call for Participation]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Roden)
Wed Sep 9 19:44:47 1992
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 18:45:40 EST
From: roden@MIT.EDU (Peter Roden)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
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From: xhibit@ics.com
To: advisory@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: xhibit@ics.com
Subject: Xhibition 93 Call for Participation
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 17:17:32 -0400
WHAT: Xhibition 93 Call for Participation
WHEN: June 7-11
WHERE: San Jose Convention Center
WHO: You. Or maybe a colleague. If you know someone who would
like to speak, pass a copy of this call for participation onto
others or let us know.
WHAT: Xhibition is more than a Technical Conference and trade
show to see and to hear about X and Distributed Computing. It
is the place where technology meets the industry. X has matured
and so has our audience. The attendees are looking to you, the
technology leaders, to lead them into the right direction. X,
formerly interesting only to developers, is expanding into different
markets and combining with different technologies. With Xhibition
at the focal point, our technical conference covers a broad base of
technologies and solutions utilizing those technologies. Some
suggested topics include:
X Window System
7 R5-compatibility issues, customization, ...
7 X, xdm, and security
7 X and non-UNIX operating systems-VMS, NeXT, NT, OS/2, MVS
7 Object oriented programming and X
7 Internationalization
7 GAIA-Data Interchange
7 Extending OSF/Motif and OPEN LOOK
7 Cross-platform and cross window system development
PC's and X
Performance Tuning
Multimedia
7 Multimedia Display Systems
7 Video and Audio
7 Multimedia and X, Macintosh, and Windows
7 Imaging
7 Multimedia Objects
7 Portability
7 Scalability
Object oriented technology
7 C++
7 specifications
7 re-usable software components
7 migrating to object oriented technology
7 Language bindings
Graphic User Interfaces
7 Motif, OPEN LOOK, Macintosh, and Windows
7 Programming tools
7 Widgets and gadgets
7 Human factors considerations
7 Designing a better interface
7 Event driven, iterative models
Databases
7 Database tools
7 SQL-going from SQL2 to SQL3
7 OODBMS and RDBMS
7 Visual query systems
7 Distributed databases
Distributed Computing
7 DCE/DME/ATLAS
7 Distributed Object Development and Management
7 Security
7 CORBA
7 Distributed Objects Everywhere
Developing Distributed Applications
Case Studies
7 Development issues
7 End-user issues
7 Migration-developer/end-user
HOW?
Proposals for paper presentations and panels should be 300 words.
Paper presentations will be from 20 minutes in length.
Written papers are not required but the conference proceedings
will be published. Please note all deadlines below.
Panel presentations will be from 60-90 minutes in length. Panel
chairpeople are responsible for coordinating and for disseminating
information to their panel members as well as gathering presentations
for publication.
This year, we are increasing our emphasis on advanced tutorials.
Proposals for tutorials require a 3 hour course outline. Comprehensive
tutorial notes for attendees are required and must be delivered by the
deadline below. Tutorials are strictly technical and should not contain
sales or marketing information.
For Papers, Panels, and Tutorials:
Since we attract a diverse set of developers and end-users with varying
skill sets and experience, we ask that you specify who your audience
should be. Please include any prerequisites, degree and type of
programming experience (if any), and the general level of the
presentation (i.e. novice, intermediate, advanced, or expert).
If proposals are being made through a PR agency or speaker's bureau,
the speaker(s) information (name, company, title, address, phone #, fax #,
e-mail address) as well as complete information from the contact
person are required.
For submission, e-mail is preferred (xhibit@ics.com). However, you
can mail your submissions to:
Xhibition 93 Technical Program
201 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139 or
call us at 617.621.0060 or
fax us at 617.621.9555.
Please be sure to include: speaker(s) name(s), company, title, address,
phone#, fax #, e-mail address.
WHEN:
DEADLINES
TUTORIALS PAPERS/PANELS
Submissions due
Oct. 16, 1992 Nov. 20, 1992
Notification of Acceptance
Oct. 23-Nov. 30, 1992 Nov. 30-Dec. 31, 1992
Show program description due
Dec. 4, 1992 Jan. 8, 1993
Draft tutorial notes due Draft papers due
Dec. 20, 1992 Jan. 29, 1993
Completed tutorial notes Completed papers
Feb. 1, 1993 March 19, 1993
Completed panel notes
March 19, 1993
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