From: drue@cs.utexas.edu (Drue Johnson)
Subject: Computer Sciences Industrial Forum '92
Date: 30 Jan 92 01:01:10 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences:


                     THE COMPUTER SCIENCES INDUSTRIAL FORUM
                              February 17 - 18, 1992

                                   Sponsored by
                         Department of Computer Sciences
                        The University of Texas at Austin

                                     at the
                        Joe C. Thompson Conference Center
                               Austin, Texas, USA

                        To Register, Call (512) 471-9732
                     Or Send E-mail to: candy@cs.utexas.edu


To meet the emerging global challenge in computing, it is becoming imperative
that companies and universities work closely.  The Computer Sciences
Industrial Forum (CSIF '92) is a program which provides a forum for
representatives of industry and academia to discuss current advances in
computer technology.  The Forum includes:

	* A KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr. Forest Baskett, Senior Vice President of
	Research and Development, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems;

	* TECHNICAL TALKS by faculty and graduate students about their
	research;

	* INFORMAL ROUNDTABLES on topics of mutual concern to industry and
	academia;

	* A RECEPTION that will allow industry representatives to meet
	informally with graduate students, faculty, and alumni;

	* DEMONSTRATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS, presented by UT Austin faculty,
	that will provide more detailed information about research currently
	in progress.  Each session will be small to allow ample time for
	interaction.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
  Dr. Forest Baskett is one of the most distinguished alumni of the
Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Baskett, who earned a PhD from UT-Austin in 1970, is the first
to receive this prestigious honor, presented on the occasion of the
25th Anniversary of the department.
  Dr. Baskett's career spans both the academic and corporate worlds.
Currently, he is Senior Vice President of Research and Development
at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems where he is a contributor to
graphics structures and earlier served as a designer of multiprocessor
structures.  Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Dr. Baskett was
director of Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Lab where
he spent four years designing and building research prototypes of
reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems.
  Dr. Baskett's first employment was as an assistant professor of
Computer Sciences at UT-Austin.  Subsequently, he served for 11 years
as professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University where he was leader of the SUN workstation team at Stanford.
He holds a BA in Mathematics from Rice University and is the author
and co-author of numerous articles on performance evaluation, computer
architecture and graphics workstation architecture.


SCHEDULE

Monday, February 17, 1992

 8:30 -  8:45 a.m.	Registration and Coffee

 8:45 - 10:00 a.m.	Keynote Address
			  Welcome - A.G. Dale, Chair,
			    Department of Computer Sciences
			  Keynote Address - Forest Baskett, Senior Vice
			    President, Research and Development, Silicon
			    Graphics Computer Systems

10:30 - 12:00 noon	Technical Talks
			  "Memory Hierarchies and Object-Oriented Systems"
			    - Paul R. Wilson
			  "Recovering 3-D Surface Shape from Texture"
			    - Boaz J. Super
			  "Subsymbolic Computing with Neural Networks"
			    - Risto Miikkulainen
			  "On the Semantics of Protocols Among
			   Distributed Intelligent Agents"
			    - Munindar P. Singh

12:00 -  1:30 p.m.	Lunch and Poster Sessions

 1:30 -  3:00 p.m.	Roundtable Discussion
			  "Future Systems Architectures"
			    - J.C. Browne, Host and Moderator
			    Tilak Agerwala, Director, Systems Technology
			    PS/LOB, IBM Corporation; Doug DeGroot, Senior
			    Member Technical Staff, Texas Instruments;
			    Andrew Heller, CEO and Chairman, HaL Computer
			    Systems, Inc.

 3:15 -  5:00 p.m.	Demonstrations and Discussions
			  "Large, Multifunctional Knowledge Bases"
			    - Bruce W. Porter
			  "Real Time Systems"
			    - Aloysius K. Mok
			  "CODE - A Next Generation Parallel Programming
			   Environment"
			    - J.C. Browne

 5:30 -  7:00 p.m.	25th Anniversary Reception


Tuesday, February 18, 1992

 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Technical Talks
			  "Linking Theory and Practice in Technology
			   Transfer"
			    - David Gibson, Asso Director, UT Ctr for
			    for Technology Venturing, Grad Sch of Business
			  "Machine Code Verification Based on a Formal
			   Microprocessor Specification"
			    - Yuan Yu
			  "Transaction Management in Multidatabase Systems"
			    - Abraham Silberschatz
			  "Non-Serializable Executions in Heterogeneous
			   Distributed Database Management Systems"
			    - Rajeev Rastogi

10:30 - 12:00 noon	Roundtable Discussion
			  "Emerging University and Industry Relations"
			    - Joanne Click, Host; John Werth, Moderator
			    James Baker, Director, Information and
			    Computing Sciences, Lockheed Research and
			    Development Division; Karen Johnson,
			    Manager, University Initiatives, Texas
			    Instruments; Hans Mark, Chancellor, The
			    University of Texas System

12:00 -  1:30 p.m.	Lunch and Poster Sessions

 1:30 -  3:00 p.m.	Technical Talks
			  "Understanding Interfaces"
			    - Simon S. Lam
			  "Issues in Distributed Systems Security"
			    - Thomas Woo
			  "Automatic Programming by Reuse of Generic
			   Algorithms"
			    - Gordon S. Novak, Jr.
			  "Access Methods for Large, Multifunctional
			   Knowledge Bases"
			    - Liane E. H. Acker


TO REGISTER, OR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Registration fee is $95/person.  Academics may attend free-of-charge.

Office of External Affairs, Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1188

(512) 471-9732

email:  candy@cs.utexas.edu