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Attached below please find the Preliminary Program for the North American
Transputer Users Group meeting of April 5 & 6.  To those who submitted
abstracts and I have been unable to reach by email: please consider this
a notice of acceptance; surface mail verification will follow.

Speakers:  Please let me know soon whether you need any audio-visual
equipment beyond on overhead projector.

Dyke Stiles
Stiles@usu.bitnet
Stiles@cc.usu.edu


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                    North American Transputer Users Group
                               Spring Meeting
                              April 5 & 6, 1989
                            Salt Lake City, Utah

                             Preliminary Program
                           (Changes Possible!)

Wednesday Luncheon Speaker: C. A. R. Hoare


Wednesday Afternoon (April 5: 1:00 - 3:00; 3:30 - 5:00)

1:00 - 1:30         Trollius: A Software Solution for Transputers and Other
                    Multicomputers

                    Moshe Braner
                    Cornell Theory Center
                    Cornell University

1:30 - 2:00         Data Parallel Programming on Transputer Networks

                    Computer and Information Science
                    Prasad Vishnubhotla
                    Ohio State University

2:00 - 2:30         Verifying the Transputer

                    Geoff Barrett
                    Programming Research Group
                    Oxford University Computing Laboratory

2:30 - 3:00         Modula, Lilith, and Transputers

                    Richard Ohran
                    Computer Systems Architects
                    Provo, Utah

3:00 - 4:00         Break

3:30 - 4:00         The Cogent Linda Machine

                    William Leler
                    Cogent, Inc.

4:00 - 4:20         A Simple but Flexible Model for Determining Optimal Task
                    Allocation and Configuration on a Network of Transputers

                    N. Udiavar and G. S. Stiles
                    Department of Electrical Engineering
                    Utah State University

4:20 - 4:40         Parallel Natural Language Processing using Transition
                    Networks

                    John Baker and Steven B. Seidman
                    Department of Computer Science
                    George Mason University.

4:40 - 5:00         An Implementation of Prolog for the Inmos T800 Transputer

                    A. Verden, A. King, and W. Hall
                    Department of Electronics and Computer Science
                    University of Southampton


Thursday Morning (April 6: 8:00 - 10:00; 10:30 - 12:00)

8:00 - 8:30         Using Algorithmic Parallelism in the Manchester Parsifal
                    System

                    Peter C. Capon and Alan E. Knowles
                    Department of Computer Science
                    University of Manchester

8:30 - 9:00         A Transputer-based Architecture for Data Broadcasting

                    Mark Smith, Jonathan Yen, and Susan Spach
                    Hewlett Packard Laboratories
                    Palo Alto, California

9:00 - 9:30         A Fully Parallel, Multi-Processor Hardware and Software
                    System Using Inmos Transputers and the occam Programming
                    Language

                    Rodney Taylor and Scott Taylor
                    General Dynamics
                    Pomona, California

9:30 - 10:00        The Cyclops Vision System

                    C. J. Taylor, N. Vlamis, M. Buhler, and  A. Ganz
                    Center for Systems Science
                    Yale University

10:00 - 10:30       Break

10:30 - 11:00       Kilonode: A Transputer-Based Parallel Computer

                    F. H. Schlereth* and B. F. Schlereth**
                    *Syracuse University
                    **General Electric
                    Syracuse, New York

11:00 - 11:20       Software Development on the Video Analysis Transputer Array

                    Thomas B. Henderson, Jerome J. Symanski, and Keith Bromley
                    Naval Ocean Systems Center
                    San Diego, California

11:20 - 11:40       Variable Topology Parallel Processing on the Sun:
                    A Graphics Based, Mouse Driven Approach

                    Jack Harper
                    Topologix, Inc.
                    Denver, Colorado

11:40 - 12:00       The Esprit Project

                    Gordon Harp
                    RSRE, Great Britain and
                    Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California

Thursday Luncheon Speaker: Inmos


Thursday Afternoon (April 6: 1:00 - 3:10)

1:00 - 1:30         IMISSED-T: Interactive Microprocessor Instruction Set
                    Simulation Environment with Graphical Display for
                    Transputers

                    Erik Dirkx
                    INFO Department
                    Vrije University
                    Brussel

1:30 - 1:50         Print Inspection and Flexible Image Processing on
                    Transputer Arrays

                    Majid Mirmehdi
                    Department of Computer Science
                    The City University, London


1:50 - 2:10         The Travelling Salesman Problem on Meiko Parallel Computer

                    Ji Zhao
                    Department of Computer Science
                    University of Edinburgh

2:10 - 2:30         Transputer Communication Models and Statistics

                    Duane Call
                    Computer Sysytems Architects
                    Provo, Utah

2:30 - 2:50         A Design Laboratory Introduction to a Reduced Instruction
                    Set Computer, A Forth Based Single Board Computer
                    Implementation of the IMS T212 Transputer

                    Darrow F. Dawson and Kurt L. Hambacker
                    University of Missouri-Rolla

2:50 - 3:10         How the Transputer Stacks Up Against Other Machines:
                    Performance Comparisons on Several Application Programs

                    G. S. Stiles
                    Department of Electrical Engineering
                    Utah State University