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- From: hsoza@dcc.uchile.cl (Hector Soza Pollman)
- Subject: INFONOR'92
- Originator: hsoza@caicai
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155942.33719@dcc.uchile.cl>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:59:42 GMT
- Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion
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- Presentation
- INFONOR '92, the International Symposium on applied Applications of
- Information Technology,is an event that takes place in Antofagasta, Chile,
- every two year. Since the beginning in 1979, it has become the most important
- event in it's area in this region.
-
- The principal objetive of this symposium is to favour and promote, by means
- of tutorials, sesion, pannel sesion and papers, the contact and the
- interchange of the theoretical and practical knowledge, between chilean and
- foreign professionals that work in the areas of engineering and information
- technology.
-
- This year there will be ten tutorials and around fifty papers. EXPOIN '92
- the Industrial Exhibit of the North,is programmed simultaneously with INFONOR.
- EXPOIN '92 will take place in the industrial park, located in the north part
- of the city. In it is located the Computer Pavilion, sponsored by INFONOR
- '92, that will show the state of the art in computational equipment
- technology.
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- Symposium site.
- INOFONOR '92 will take place in Universidad Catolica del Norte, in
- Antofagasta, the address is Avenida Angamos 0610, wich is in the south
- part of the city.
-
- Climate.
- The climate in the months of November and December is warm. During the
- spring the temperature fluctuates between 18 and 25 degrees centigrade.
- The beaches and swimming places are a great turistic attraction, the waters
- are calm and appropite for the practice of several nautic sports.
-
- Hotels.
- All the hotels are located in te main streets of the city. There are buses
- from the airport to the principal hotel in Antofagasta, that is one block
- from the COLON square. The prices for single rooms of some of the
- hotels, with a previous reservation from the University are: El Tatio US$
- 14, Colon US$ 22, Astore US$ 24, San Marin US$ 18, Antofagasta US$30. Some
- of the prices for economic hostels are: El Cobre US$ 4, Latorre US$ 4.
-
- Money Exchange.
- The chilean currency is the peso, wich is equivalent to $380 per dollar.
- The main hotels receive dollars and can also be changed in the banks and
- special exchange places. Most of the stores accept credit cards, like
- Mastercard, Visa, Dinners and American Express.
-
- Travel Agency.
- TIEMPONOR is INFONOR's official travel agency. It is located in Latorre
- 2528, office 13, telephone 265527, fax 265529.
-
- Registration Fee.
- The registration fee depends on the type of participant, wich should be
- accredited when registered. The values are in chilean pesos and dollars are:
- General: $ 70.000 or US$ 184.
- Academics: $ 35.000 or US$ 92.
-
- Preliminay Program.
- INFONOR '92 will take place between Monday November 30 and Friday December
- 4. The program consists of ten tutorials and aproximately fifty papers. The
- program is:
- Tutorials:
- 1st Tutorial: Visualization, concepts and applications of a new tool.
- Nicolas di Biase, IBM Chile.
- 2nd Tutorial: Multimedia.
- Jorge Moreno Escobar, IBM Chile.
- 3rd Tutorial: Process Control in Real Time.
- Gaston Lefranc H., IEEE Chilean chapter.
- 4th Tutorial: Formal Methods in Software Engineering.
- Pablo Straub, Universidad Catolica de Chile
- 5th Tutorial: Design and Analisys of Silmulation Experiments.
- David Kelton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,USA.
- 6th Tutorial: Discrete Simulation and its state of the art.
- Jerry Banks, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,USA.
- 7th Tutorial: Simulation based on Galiorkin Ideas.
- Rene Reynaga, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, Bolivia.
- 8th Tutorial: Distributed Systems.
- Xavier Rousset de Pina, Unite Mixte BULL-IMAG, Universite
- Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Francia.
- 9th Tutorial: Competivity in the 90's and information technology.
- Rodrigo Castro, SCCC.
- 10th Tutorial:Introduction to Computer Graphics.
- Tony Woo, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
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- Nestor Gonzalez V. / Presidente del Comite de Programa INFONOR'92 ========
- e-mail : infonor@lascar.unorte.cl / tel: 56+(0)55-241148 / Fax: -241724
- Universidad Catolica del Norte Av. Angamos 0610 Antofagasta Chile ======
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