[1613] in Kerberos
Bay-LISA October 17th: Dan Geer speaks on Kerberos/Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Mok)
Sun Oct 13 19:27:59 1991
Date: 13 OCT 91 14:36:17 PST
From: mok@fortsc.enet.dec.com (Charles Mok)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
In article <41@sysadmin.sysadmin.com>, bjorn@sysadmin.sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva) writes...
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>Bay-LISA October 17th.
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>On Thursday October 17, Dan Geer from DEC will talk on Kerberos. Dan has
>previous been with MIT Project Athena, and has participated in the design
>and implementation of Kerberos.
This is a brief biography of Dan and an abstract of the presentation:
Biographic data on presenter
Daniel E. Geer, Jr., is Technical Director, Innovation Technology
Resource Center, Digital Equipment Corporation. Previously, he
was the Manager of Systems Development, Project Athena, where he
was responsible for all technical development, including X,
Kerberos, Hesiod, Zephyr, Moira, and all other aspects of the
Project Athena Network Services System. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT,
and a Doctor of Science in Biostatistics from Harvard University.
Member of several professional societies, he is active in UseNIX,
serving on the Program Committee for the Nashville, Tennessee,
conference and as the Chair of the University Relations Committee.
Abstract of presentation
Network Service Environments for the Technical Worker
A quantum change in the way in which technical computing is
best done is well under way. Hardware progress (such as cheap cpu
cycles), software progress (such as network transparent window
systems), and political progress (especially the appreciation of
open systems) represent substantive differences between the world
of even two years ago and the world now possible. Project Athena
spent the eight years constructing one of the best examples of
distributed computing environments. At M.I.T., ten thousand users
are sharing a pool of fifteen hundred workstations and one hundred
various servers; all figures are growing in real time. This talk
will take our experience in creating a network services model of
computation subject to the real life constraints of the academic
setting. Particular emphasis will be placed on wide-area systems
management and the maintenance of a coherent computing environment
on a large-scale, heterogenous computing infrastructure.
We will further claim that the model Athena has settled on is
the winning model - in fact that it has already won. The
organizations that can grasp the idea that a particular
computational activity is really a boat in a common sea of network
services will survive; those that rely on single-source,
stand-alone hardware will not.
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This is the introduction of Dan Geer who will be here on Oct 17th to
speak to the Bay Area LISA group. He will be presenting to the LISA
group at 7:30 - 10:30pm.
(Thanks to John Caproon for furnishing the above.)
>The Bay-LISA membership meeting will take place in November. Nominations
>for the Board of Directors will be accepted until October 17th, Noon. People
>who are nominated must be member of Bay-LISA in order to run for the Board.
>Nominations must be sent by e-mail to baylisa-info@sysadmin.com with the
>subject line NOMINATION. Each nomination require a second, which must be
>send from another e-mail domain than the nomination. Nominations will be
>announced at the beginning of the meeting, October 17.
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>General Meeting Information:
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> Date: Thursday, October 17th 7:30 PM
> (Third Thursday of every month)
> Please do not arrive before 7 PM.
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> Place: DEC Application Center for Technology
> 3945 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA
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> (Take 101 to Great America Parkway, turn right onto
> Mission College Blvd; turn right into Freedom Circle.
> The DEC building is on your right side, next to Pedro's
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> Info: Send e-mail to baylisa-info@sysadmin.com, or you
> may contact:
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> Bjorn Satdeva (408) 241-3111
> bjorn@sysadmin.com
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