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Following is the Tentative Program for the upcoming Second Meeting of
the North American Transputer Users' Group.  This schedule is still subject
to change but should give a good indiction of the high quality and diversity
of the papers submitted.  NATUG 2 registration information will follow in
a subsequent posting.

[NOTE TO AUTHORS:  ANYONE SURPRISED TO EITHER SEE OR NOT SEE THEIR PAPER ON
THE PROGRAM SHOULD CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY! - jab]

-- John Board - Duke University - NATUG 2 Chair - jab@dukee.egr.duke.edu

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NATUG 2 - Sheraton University Center - Durham, NC - October 18-19, 1989

                        Tentative Program

Wednesday 10/18/89:
   ?? - 8:45 : registration
   8:45 - 9:00:  opening remarks, etc.
   9:00 - 10:00: First session (2 talks)
      9:00 - 9:30: T. Bowen, D. Deluca, G. Herman, K.C. Lee, and
            W.H. Mansfield (Bellcore) ``A High Performance Distributed
            Database Using Transputers''
      9:30 - 10:00: Dennis G. Shea et al. (IBM Yorktown) ``Applications of 
           Project VICTOR''
   10:00 - 10:30: Break
   10:30 - 12:00: Second session - Performance Evaluation (3)
      10:30 - 11:00: N.M. Ho, S.W. Lau, and F.C.M. Lau (Univ. of Hong Kong)
           ``Efficient Tools for Transputer Performance Monitoring''
      11:00 - 11:30: R.J. Duckworth and A.R. Michaud (Worcester Polytechnic
           Institute) ``Evaluating the Transputer using The Jigsaw Puzzle''
      11:30 - 12:00: Steve Turner and Wentong Cai (Univ. of Exeter, UK)
           ``Highly Transparent Monitoring of Real-Time occam Programs''
   12:00 - 1:15:  Lunch, including INMOS Update
   1:15  - 1:30:  Housekeeping / Announcements
   1:30  - 3:30:  Third session - Hardware and Applications (4)
      1:30 - 2:00: Hamid R. Arabnia (Univ. of Georgia) ``Computer Input
           Device for Severely Disabled People''
      2:00 - 2:30: Graham K. Ellis (Virginia Tech) ``Data Acquisition 
           and Control Using Transputers''
      2:30 - 3:00: Howard E. Motteler (UMBC) ``occam and Dataflow''
      3:00 - 3:30: Daniel C. Hyde (Bucknell Univ.) and Matthew Squire 
           (Swarthmore College) ``Describing Hypercube Architectures in Occam''
   3:30  - 3:45:  Break
   3:45  - 5:25:  Fourth session - Communications and Network Topoligies (4)
      3:45 - 4:10: Peter Jones and Alan Murta (Univ. of Manchester UK)
           ``Run Time Reconfiguration for the Support of Inter Processor
           Communications''
      4:10 - 4:35: A. Clessas, A. Dostie, and S.B. Seidman (George Mason Univ.)
           ``Systolic Computing on Transputer Networks''
      4:35 - 5:00: Martin Shumway (INMOS Colorado Springs) ``Deadlock-Free 
           Packet Networks''
      5:00 - 5:25: Tom Hintz (Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Aust.), John Hulskamp
           (Royal Melborne Inst. of Tech., Aust.), and Wayne Moore (Mitchell
           College of Advanced Education) ``Remote Access to Parallel 
           Computer Systems''
   5:30  - 6:15:  Reception
   6:15        :  Dinner
   9:00        :  Software Forum
                  NATUG Committee Meeting

Thursday 10/19/89:

   7:30 -  8:00:  Continental Breakfast
   8:00 - 10:00:  Fifth session - Physical and Mathematical Applications (4)
	8:00 -   8:25: Wayne W. Lang (Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville)
           ``Modeling of a Hopfield Neural Network VLSI Design by a
           Small T800 Transputer Network''
	8:25 -   8:50: John A. Board, Jr. and Jeff Lu (Duke Univ.) ``Performance
           of Parallel Neural Network Simulations''
	8:50 -   9:15: F.H. Lee and G. S. Stiles (Utah State Univ.) ``Parallel
           Simulated Annealing: Several Approaches''
	9:15 -   9:40: Rodney H. Cooper (Univ. of New Brunswick), Wayne
           Patterson, and Terri Richard (Univ. of New Orleans) ``Using 
           Multiple-Radix Arithmetic for Fast Parallel Multiplication on
           a Transputer System''
    9:45 - 10:15: Break
   10:15 - 12:15: Sixth session - Operating Systems and Environments (4)
	10:15 - 10:45: Perry J. Busalacchi (Univ. of Minnesota) ``Linda on
           a Transputer-based Personal Computer''
	10:45 - 11:15: Ian Hyland and M.R. Moulding (Royal Military College
           of Science, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK) ``A Graphical
           Design Environment for Transputer Systems Development''
	11:15 - 11:45: Manas Mandal, Prasad Vishnubhotla, Kalluri Eswar, and
           Chandrasekhar Gollamudi (Ohio State Univ.) ``ALPS on a Transputer
           network: Kernel Support for Topology-Independent Programming''
	11:45 - 12:15: Z. Xu, O. de Vel, G. Brown, I. Graham (Univ. of Waikato,
           New Zealand) ``A Graph Tool for Parallel Programming in Occam''
   12:15 - 1:30:  Lunch              
   1:30  - 1:40:  Housekeeping / Announcements
   1:40  - 3:45:  Seventh session - Software and Algorithms (5)
	1:40 -   2:05: M. Cannataro, G. Spezzano, Domenico Talia (CRAI, Italy)
           ``The Development of a Multi-Transputer Implementation of the
           AND/OR Process Model''
	2:05 -   2:30: J.-M. Adamo (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
           ``Exception Handling in the C_NET Language''
	2:30 -   2:55: Runping Qi and Alan Wagner (Univ. of British Columbia)
           ``Programming for Data Parallelism using C++''
	2:55 -   3:20: Daniel C. Hyde and Kathleen R. Thornton (Bucknell
           Univ.) ``Wavefront (Hyperplane) Algorithms for Transputers''
	3:20 -   3:45: Judith O. Berkey and Pearl Y. Wang (George Mason Univ.)
           ``Transputer Implementation of Heuristic Algorithms for the
           One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem''

Poster Session:

   Zhang Ying (Univ. of British Columbia) ``The Design and Implementation
      of a Topological Programming Environment for Parallel C++ on Transputers''
   O. de Vel, Z. Xu, I. Graham, G. Brown (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand)
      ``The Waikato transputer multicomputer system''
   Howard E. Motteler and Charles K. Nicholas (UMBC) ``Some Experiences
      with occam 2 and the TDS Environment''
   Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt Univ.) ``A Graphical Programming Environment''
   N.M. Ho, F.C.M. Lau (Univ. of Hong Kong) ``Experiments on ALT
      and Its Variations''