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               The UK UNIX systems User Group



                  PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

                            and

                 CALL for PAPERS, TUTORIALS

            WORK in PROGRESS and POSTER SESSIONS



                 UNIX - THE LEGEND EVOLVES

                   London, 9-13 July 1990








































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_P_r_e_l_i_m_i_n_a_r_y _A_n_n_o_u_n_c_e_m_e_n_t

The UKUUG summer 1990 technical conference will  take  place
at  the  Royal  Lancaster Hotel in London on 11th-13th July,
preceded by two days of advanced tutorials beginning on Mon-
day  9th July. The three day conference offers presentations
by world renown exponents of UNIX related systems  supported
by   `work  in  progress'  and  `poster'  sessions.  A  pre-
conference registration pack containing detailed information
will be issued in March 1990.

_T_h_e_m_e _a_n_d _D_i_s_t_i_n_g_u_i_s_h_e_d _S_p_e_a_k_e_r_s

The UNIX kernel has eeevvvooolllvvveeeddd over a  20  year  period  during
which  Brian Kernighan coined the name UNIX, popularised the
tools philosophy, and  with  co-author  Rob  Pike,  wrote  a
definitive   book   `The   UNIX   Programming  Environment.'
Throughout this era, the UNIX system has acquired  llleeegggeeennndddaaarrryyy
status whilst exploding in coverage and geographic distribu-
tion, and bestowing great honour and world-wide  recognition
upon Ken Thompson, one of its principal architects. Research
continues at Bell Labs influenced by the  Cambridge  Distri-
buted Computing System.

Brian Kernighan will speak upon the progress which has  been
made   in   the  development  of  programming  environments,
languages, tools and even  `methodologies',  discussing  how
past  experiences will influence their future evolution. Ken
Thompson, Rob Pike and Dave Presotto  have  been  conducting
research into a successor to UNIX entitled `Plan 9 from Bell
Labs.'  The result is a  novel  and  innovative  distributed
system  which runs counter to the popular trend in computing
environments, namely workstations connected  by  local  area
networks.  Each will speak on his contribution to the propo-
sal of a new system based on clusters of  file  servers  and
execute servers connected by high speed networks.

Other noteworthy presenters include Jon Bentley,  author  of
`Programming  Pearls'  and  a  column  in  CACM; Doug Comer,
designer of the XINU system; Piers Dick-Lauder,  creator  of
the  `Share  Scheduler' along with Dennis Ritchie; Stu Feld-
man, the inventor of mmmaaakkkeee who wrote the fff777777 Fortran compiler
single  handedly;  James  Gosling,  originator of the visual
editor eeemmmaaacccsss and a NeWS & X enthusiast; Mike Karels and Kirk
McKusick,  principal investigators of 4.3 BSD; and the prol-
ific author Andy Tanenbaum, creator of the MINIX system.

_C_a_l_l _f_o_r _P_a_p_e_r_s

Technical papers are sought in aaallllll  areas  of  UNIX  related
research  and  development,  which  includes work associated
with programming languages like _C and _C++.  Accepted  papers
will   be   published  in  the  conference  proceedings  and
presented during the three days of technical sessions.



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Of particular interest, but nnnooottt confined to this area alone,
are   new  and  interesting  submissions  about  distributed
environments: file systems, data bases, execution  and  load
balancing, kernels, windowing systems, etc. Also welcome are
papers concerning tools, `little languages', networks, secu-
rity, system administration and standards.



















































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_M_e_t_h_o_d _o_f _S_u_b_m_i_s_s_i_o_n _a_n_d _I_m_p_o_r_t_a_n_t _D_a_t_e_s

EEExxxttteeennndddeeeddd aaabbbssstttrrraaaccctttsss of between two and four pages  in  length
are  invited  describing the nature of the work along with a
summary of results and conclusions. All  abstracts  must  be
submitted  to  the Programme Director who is willing to pro-
vide advice to potential  speakers.  High  quality  original
work  will  be regarded much more favourably than re-runs of
previous papers.  SSSuuubbbmmmiiissssssiiiooonnnsss fffrrrooommm ssstttuuudddeeennntttsss  aaarrreee  eeennncccooouuurrraaagggeeeddd
aaannnddd wwwiiillllll bbbeee pppaaarrrtttiiicccuuulllaaarrrlllyyy fffaaavvvooouuurrreeeddd.

o+   Receipt of Extended Abstracts: FFFrrriiidddaaayyy 222666ttthhh JJJaaannnuuuaaarrryyy 111999999000

o+   Acceptance Notifications Posted:  WWWeeedddnnneeesssdddaaayyy 333111sssttt JJJaaannnuuuaaarrryyy
    111999999000

o+   Final Paper Due for Proceedings: FFFrrriiidddaaayyy 666ttthhh AAAppprrriiilll 111999999000

_S_o_l_i_c_i_t_a_t_i_o_n _f_o_r _O_t_h_e_r _C_o_n_t_r_i_b_u_t_i_o_n_s

One day,  advanced  tutorials  play  an  important  role  in
UKUUG's  activities and so experts are encouraged to discuss
topics and subject matter with the Programme  Director.  For
the  first  time at a UKUUG conference, a `work in progress'
session will be held where 10-15 minute slots are on  offer,
with  priority being given to reports of student project and
research activity. For those preferring one-to-one  contact,
`poster' sessions are available in the terminal room next to
the auditorium for technical sessions.

_A_d_d_r_e_s_s_e_s _a_n_d _V_e_n_u_e

o+   PPPrrrooogggrrraaammmmmmeee DDDiiirrreeeccctttooorrr::: Sunil K Das, City University London,
    Computer  Science  Department,  Northampton Square, EC1V
    0HB, UK. +44 1 253 4399 x3725 _s_u_n_i_l@_c_s._c_i_t_y._a_c._u_k

o+   CCCooonnnfffeeerrreeennnccceee DDDiiirrreeeccctttooorrr::: Mick Farmer, Birkbeck College  Com-
    puter Science Department, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX,
    UK. +44 1 631 6351 _m_i_c_k@_c_s._b_b_k._a_c._u_k

o+   FFFiiinnnaaannnccceee DDDiiirrreeeccctttooorrr:::  Zdrav  Podolski,  Insignia  Solutions
    Ltd,  Carrington House, Oxford Road, High Wycombe, Bucks
    HP11 2EG, UK. +44 494 459426 _z_d_r_a_v@_i_n_s_i_g_n_i_a._c_o._u_k

o+   BBBuuusssiiinnneeessssss MMMaaannnaaagggeeerrr::: UKUUG, Owles Hall, Owles  Lane,  Bunt-
    ingford, Herts SG9 9PL, UK. +44 763 73039 _u_k_u_u_g@_u_k_c._a_c._u_k
    UKUUG is affiliated with the European UNIX systems  User
    Group.

o+   VVVeeennnuuueee::: The Nine Kings Suite, Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lan-
    caster Terrace, London W2 2TY, UK. +44 1 262 6737

The hotel is centrally located facing Kensington Gardens and
Hyde  Park,  within five minutes of Paddington Station.  The



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House of Lancaster is commonly used to describe the line  of
English  Kings  immediately  descended  from  John  of Gaunt
(1340-1399), fourth son of Edward III, which started in 1362
when  he was created Duke of Lancaster.  His three marriages
to Blanche, Constance and Catherine produced a line of  _n_i_n_e
kings.



















































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                      About the UKUUG



The UK UNIX systems User Group  is  the  only  British  body
affiliated  with  the  European UNIX systems User Group, the
_u_m_b_r_e_l_l_a organisation to the  National  Groups  existing  in
many  European  countries.  EUUG  is  comprised primarily of
institutional and individual members of affiliated  national
groups.  There  are,  at  present, 16 National Groups with a
total membership of approximately  4000.  The  advantage  of
such  a structure is that UKUUG members can accrue the bene-
fits of UK activities (for example, permission to connect to
UKnet, part of the world-wide UNIX computer network) as well
as the services provided by EUUG.

The UKUUG membership is drawn from the information  technol-
ogy,  commercial and research/academic sectors in equal pro-
portions. The membership demonstrates diverse  skills  which
facilitates  working  with, for example, software engineers,
computer manufacturers or end-users, who might  be  employed
by  software houses, universities or research centres. There
exist a wide range of backgrounds.  They all share the  fact
that they are UNIX users, whether they develop kernel modif-
ications,  build  applications  and  software   tools,   are
involved in teaching and research, use the system in a turn-
key environment, or any other sphere of interest. The  UKUUG
is  unique  in  catering  for the needs of users wwwhhhiiillleee being
completely independent from  specific hardware manufacturers
and  software  vendors.  In  order to maintain this indepen-
dence, the UKUUG is funded  entirely  from  membership  sub-
scriptions.   Needless  to  say, all major suppliers of UNIX
and UNIX-related systems are members. Members of  UKUUG  are
especially  active  in UK and European standards bodies such
as the British Standards Institute (BSI)  and  the  Interna-
tional Standards Organisation.

Services provided by UKUUG and  EUUG  include:  conferences;
workshops; newsletters; technical journals; software distri-
butions; catalogues; UKnet and EUnet, the British and  Euro-
pean  branches  of  the  world-wide  UNIX  computer network;
external relations,  with  international  standards  groups,
other world-wide user groups, and the press in all countries
where UNIX licences exist; and accounting and administrative
functions through their respective Secretariats.

A membership application form together with a  comprehensive
information  pack  is  available from the UKUUG, Owles Hall,
Owles Lane, Buntingford, Herts SG9  9PL,  UK.  (0763)  73039
_u_k_u_u_g@_u_k_c._a_c._u_k  _F_u_t_u_r_e  _U_K_U_U_G _p_o_l_i_c_y _i_s _t_o _i_n_t_r_o_d_u_c_e _a _s_t_u_-
_d_e_n_t _m_e_m_b_e_r_s_h_i_p _s_c_h_e_m_e.






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