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As promised, here's the Program for December.  As an added 
attraction, Sun Microsystems has arranged for tours of their
plants during the conference.  There will be a sign-up sheet
and SUG will provide free shuttle busses during the three 
days.

TUTORIALS

Sunday, December 2, 1990

The Internet & its Protocols, William LeFebvre
XView, Neil Groundwater & Mitch Jerome
Topics in Systems Administration, Rob Kolstad & Evi Nemeth
UNIX Device Driver Design, Dan Klein
Introduction to C++
Open Windows for Application Developers
SunOS 4.X Basic System Security
SunOS Release 4.1 Update Seminar

PROGRAM

Sun User Group Conference

December 3-5, 1990

San Jose Convention Center
and Fairmont Hotel

(On Monday, the BoFs and the Reception are in the 
Fairmont; on Tuesday, the SUG meeting, the BoFs, 
and the Developers' Panel are in the Fairmont.)

Monday:
9-10	Keynote Address, Wayne Rosing, VP Desktop Systems and 
		Graphics Group (Ballroom 1&8)
10:15-
 11:30	W.Harbert, U. of Pittsburgh, Deep Time--A visualization of the 
		northward motion of the Pacific Plate during the last 
		120 million years (B1&B4)

	S. Bechtolsheim, Purdue, Introduction to LaTeX (B2&B3)

	H. Shiffman, Sun, Introduction to Object-Oriented programming 
		in C++ (C1&C4)

	C. Rudlin, MD, Medical Records (C2&C3)

	J. Postel, USC, DARTnet (K)

	B. Callaghan, Sun, The Automounter (N)

	R. Mori, Sun, LispView: A New Look for Sun CommonLisp (J)

11: 30 - 1:30 LUNCH

1:30-
 2:30	I. Sindelar, AT&T, Specification-Driven Tool Technology (B1&4)

	M. Blanchet, U. de Laval, Installing and Using Name Services 
		on a Sun Network (B2&3)

	D. Ungar, et al., Stanford U., Self: A Dynamically-Typed 
		Object-Oriented Programming Language (Live Demo) (C1&C4)

	J. Rosbrough, Great-West Life, Relational DBMS Application 
		Capacity Benchmarking (C2&C3)

	C. Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, Audio (K)

	L. Delzompo, Sun, OpenLook: The Key to Interoperability (N)

	S. Ahnger, Sun, SunNet License (J)

2:45-
 4:15	J. Parker, Sun, NIS Tutorial (B1&B4)

	TBA (B2&B3)

	H. Stern, Sun, Sun OS 4.1 Performance Tuning (C1&C4)

	T. Atwood, Object Design, Object-Oriented DBs (C2&C3)

	S. Tirfing, Sun, SunSource Browser and Software Development Tools (K)

	D. Novitsky, Sun, System Software Future Plans and Directions (N)

	E. Lamb, Sun, Sun OS/SV4 for Developers (J)

4:30-
 5:30	General Session - Andy Bechtolsheim, VP of Technology, 
		The SPARC Wave (Ballroom 1-8)

6-7 BoFs in Fairmont

7:30 - 10:00 RECEPTION in Fairmont
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Tuesday:
9-10	B. Craig, Sun, The ONC Roadmap: Distributed Computing 
		Platform Directions (Ballroom 1&8)

	K. Kitagawa, Sun, Introduction to SPARC Architecture (Ballroom2&7)

	L. Mishma, Sun, Desktop Applications for the Office Environment (B1&B4)

	B. Petro, Sun, CDROM Now! (B2&B3)

	N. Bourbaki et al, Lucid, An Open Architecture for Programming 
		Environments (C1-C4)

	H. Shing & L.M. Ni, MSU, Efficient Management of Multi-Server 
		Network Systems (K)

	B. Biles, Sun, SunNet Manager 1.1 (N)

10:15-
 11:30	D. Rosenlund & L. Howard, Sun, The PC Distributed Computing 
		Platform: ONC's PC-NFS (Ballroom 1&8)

	N. Mammen, LSI Logic, SPARC MMU and Cache Tutorial (Ballroom 2&7)

	L. Baron, B. Ulbrich, Sun, & E. Scultz, LLNL, Security at Sun (B1&B4)

	L. Spencer, Sun, OSI: The latest GOSIP (B2&B3)

	P. Rafferty & L. Hower, Idaho Nat. Eng. Lab., Design of a Distributed 
		Image Processing System (C1-C4)

	A. Foster et al., Epoch, Network Storage Management (K)

	B. Watson, Sun, Graphic Acceleration through SunWindows (N)

11:30-1:30 LUNCH
	Keynote: J. Warner, CEO, Precision Visuals, Visualization in the 90s 
		-- Cutting through the Hype and Snakeoil (Exhibit Hall 2)

1:30-
 3:00	Visual Data Analysis Panel, J. Warner, chair (Ballroom 1&8)

	H. Spiller, Sun, SPARC Developer Tools (Ballroom 2&7)

	B. English, Sun, Internationalization and Asian Localization (B1&B4)

	R. Milner, NRAO/VLA, The Internet: Discovering and Using its 
		Resources (B2&B3)

	J. Borish & J. Lawson, EuPhonics, Digital Signal Processing (C1-C4)

	P. Rajani, AT&T, Automated Backup and Recovery Systems (K)

	C. Kollars, Sun, X-Terminals & Workstations (N)

3:15-
 4:30	M. Whitton & D. Schiff, Sun, Sun's Visualization Products 
		(Ballroom 1&8)

	S. Muchnick, Sun, SPARC Optimizing Compilers (Ballroom 2&7)

	K. Parker, Sun, Electronic Publishing: A New Era of Growth and 
		Understanding (B1&B4)

	F. Butt, Stratus, Usenet and Network News (B2&B3)

	K. Sheehan, Sun, MMAP (C1-C4)

	G. Yaron, INTEL Israel, Central Management Environment for 
		Distributed Network (K)

	Z. Popovic, Brown U., Distant Ray Tracer -- Performance Issues 
		for Loosely-Coupled Network Implementation (N)

6-7	SUG Meeting, Fairmont, Regency1

	BoFs, Fairmont

7:15-10	Developers' Panel, Rob Gingell, chair, Fairmont, Regency1
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Wednesday
9-10	P.Godston, Sun, Development of Open Windows through 
		DevGuide (Ballroom1&8)

	J. Little, Portal Communications Corp., Connecting your 
		Sun to a UUCP Network (Ballroom 2&7)

	S. Nahm, Sun, Building Network-Independent Distributed 
		Applications with ONC's TI-RPC (B1&B4)

	V. Jepson, Sun, Integrated Solutions for Scholars (B2&B3)

	D. Hitz, Auspex, Performance Monitoring (C1-C4)

	B. Williamsen, Sun, I/O Strategy for SPARC Servers (K)

	A. Guzzi et al., U. of Connecticut, Network Servers to Manage Files
		in a large network of heterogeneous hosts (N)

10:15-
 11:30	D. Reim, Sun, SPARC Compilers (Ballroom 1&8)

	C.A. Funka-Lea, AT&T, Visual Modeling with Q+ (Ballroom2&7)

	C. Dai, Sun, Document Image Management (B1&B4)

	C. Typaldos, Sun, Sun's Standards Philosophy (B2&B3)

	M. Murthy, ALANTEC, SNMP-based Network Management (C1-C4)

	N. Colwell, Sun, Database -- Productivity Tools for the database 
		environment (K)

	C. Stolle, Sun, Server Strategy for the Workgroup Computer
		environment (N)

11:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
	Keynote: Michael D. O'Dell, Bellcore, Time is of the Essence
		(Exhibit Hall 2)

1:30-
 2:30	D. Taber, Sun, System Software Enhancements forLarge Systems 
		(Ballroom 1&8)

	Y.P. Chang & B. Nelson, Auspex, NFS I/O (Ballroom 2&7)

	New Graphics Hardware panel, B. Croll, Sun, chair (B1&B4)

	T. Budjeau (Andersen) & D. Freibrun (Cincinnati Bell IS), System 
		Integration (B2&B3)

	D. Folk, et al., GE SSD, SCSA (C1-C4)

	A. Deogirkir, Sun, NeWSware -- Information Support for the '90s (K)

	BAYSLUG Meeting (N)

3-5	SUN EXECUTIVE PANEL 
		Scott McNealy, President & CEO
		Ed Zander, VP Corporate Marketing
		Carol Bartz, VP Worldwide Field Operations
		Eric Schmidt, VP General Systems Group
		Wayne Rosing, VP Desktop Systems & Graphics Group
		Brenda Adams, VP US Customer Service
	Exhibit Hall 2

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The difference between practice and theory in practice is always
greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory.