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Re: Residential Computing Symposium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nschmidt@MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 29 08:57:44 1993
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From: Dan Updegrove <danu@dccs.upenn.edu>
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Subject: Re: Residential Computing Symposium
To: birdland@dagobah.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Merriman)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 23:21:19 EDT
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In-Reply-To: <9310290240.AA01400@dagobah.Stanford.EDU>; from "Jeff Merriman" at Oct 28, 93 7:40 pm
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Jeff,
I strongly endorse a symposium focused on residential computing and
networking, and I can't think of a more attractive venue than the Stanford
campus. No matter when it's scheduled, the University of Pennsylvania
would participate.
As much as I like the idea of "living in" your networked res halls (and
I'd probably bring a PowerBook if arranging for enough of your Macs proved
problematic), I want to raise the issue of timing. For us (having just
wired the first 20% of the rooms and created a set of on-the-fly support
programs, with the next 30% to be wired next summer), there are a large
number of substantial planning and service issues that require resolution
during the winter and spring. Increasing opportunity for input from peers
during this period would lead me to suggest having the meeting earlier,
even if it meant we had to use nearby hotels.
In any case, we all owe you thanks for offering to host such an event!
If the symposium is indeed held next summer, we look forward to active
participation in this electronic forum, augmented, perhaps, by
birds-of-a-feather meetings at other conferences in the interim:
- - ACM SIGUCCS User Services (San Diego)
- - CAUSE (San Diego)
- - ACM SIGUCCS Management (St. Louis)
- - National Net (Washington)
Regards,
Dan Updegrove
Associate Vice Provost
Information Systems & Computing
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