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[Bob Scheifler : Call for Participation: 8th
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Roden)
Sun Jun 27 20:54:20 1993
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 20:55:51 EST
From: roden@MIT.EDU (Peter Roden)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
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To: consortium-wide@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Call for Participation: 8th Annual X Technical Conference
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 16:21:35 EDT
From: Bob Scheifler <rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
The 8th annual X Technical Conference will be held on January 24-26, 1994 at
the Marriott Copley Place Hotel in Boston, MA. The conference is sponsored by
the X Consortium. There is no set theme for the conference; we are interested
in submissions covering all aspects of X. Presentations on both research and
commercial developments are encouraged.
The first day of the conference will be devoted to tutorials. We are
particularly interested in tutorial topics which have not been given before or
have had only limited exposure. Proposals for tutorials that might draw only
a small audience are quite welcome. Tutorials are usually half-day (3 hours)
or all-day (6 hours). Although we do not pay tutorial speakers a fee, the
cost of printing tutorial notes is covered. Reasonable requests for computer
projection equipment can be accommodated, but you need to provide the computer.
The final two days will be devoted to talks, in a single track. Presentations
can range anywhere from 5 to 50 minutes, and video tape is welcome (but live
computer projection is not available). Written papers are not required;
however, the conference proceedings will be published as an issue of The X
Resource, by arrangement with O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. The journal issue
will be available both at and after the conference. So, this is an ideal
opportunity to reach a large X community, with rapid publication, and we
strongly encourage all accepted talks to provide written papers.
On all three days, there will be "Birds of a Feather" sessions for general
discussion of areas of specific interest to the attendees. If there are
particular BOFs you would like to see or run, please let us know.
There will no trade show or vendor exhibits associated with this conference.
If you would like to give a tutorial, make a presentation, run a BOF, or have
some other creative proposal, send details to:
xconference@expo.lcs.mit.edu
or
Bob Scheifler
Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
Network mail is preferred. Please be sure to include your name, net and
postal address, phone number, affiliation, a detailed description of the
presentation, what your relationship is to the work (e.g., project manager,
principal designer, lead engineer, me-myself-and-I), how much time you need
for the presentation, and what audio/visual facilities you need. Generally,
the more information you supply the program committee, the better. Rough
drafts or extended abstracts for papers are encouraged; at minimum, a
multiple-paragraph abstract and a talk outline should be provided.
The deadline for submissions is midnight, October 28, Eastern time; receipt
will be acknowledged. The program committee cannot consider any submissions
received after the deadline (no exceptions).
Please be aware that the deadline for camera-ready copy of final papers for
accepted talks will be December 13. Notification of acceptance will happen
around November 10.
A single registration fee (amount still to be announced) covers the entire
conference, including tutorials. The registration fee is waived for speakers.
Information on registration will be sent to this mailing list at a later date.
The program committee this year:
Jeff Barr, Visix Software
Dan Greening, Novell
Chris Kent Kantarjiev, Xerox PARC
Rob Lembree, Digital Equipment Corp.
Daniel McCoy, I-NET
Masato Morisaki, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
Todd Newman, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Chuck O'Neill, Amdahl Corp.
Chris Peterson, Integrated Computer Solutions
Bob Scheifler, MIT X Consortium
Barb Seewer, Structural Dynamics Research Corp.
Rick Thomas, UNIX System Laboratories
Brian Wilson, Apple Computer
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