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- Subject: January meetings of the LA ACM.
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- ACM -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY
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- Schedule of events for January 1993.
- For further information, join LA ACM and receive DATA-LINK monthly.
- Call Edwin Quinones, Membership Chairman, (310) 212-6459.
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- Los Angeles Chapter Dinner Meeting
- Wednesday, 6 January, 1993
- Information Technology Networks -- How to Manage and How to Sell to
- Management
- Bruce R. Elbert, Director, Hughes Communications, Inc.
-
- Effective networking is an important success factor in building modern
- information system infrastructures. However, before the data can be
- distributed properly, the associated technologies must be identified,
- evaluated, architected, and sold to management. Client/Server
- environment, networks that are inter-operable, and systems management
- technologies provide a base upon which to rightsize the information
- systems of the future. And no matter how effective in terms of
- performance or cost, a new technology will not be introduced unless it
- can be sold to management. These issues will be discussed and
- philosophies expounded that offer some means of moving forward in this
- turbulent world of organizational and informational downsizing.
-
- Bruce Elbert is an experienced technology manager and systems engineer
- in the field of IT networks. His influential book, _Networking
- Strategies for Information Technology_, is used in state-of-the-art
- courses in IS management. Mr. Elbert has been with Hughes for a total
- of 18 years, having been involved with major networking projects in the
- US, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. He teaches at UCLA Extension both
- in regular evening classes and short courses held at the campus. Among
- his other books are _Private Telecommunication Networks_,
- _International Telecommunication Management_, and _Introduction to
- Satellite Communication_. He is currently working on a new book on
- Distributed Computing, which is scheduled for publication in 1993.
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- Meetings are held at the Ramada Hotel, 6333 Bristol Parkway, Culver City
- east of the intersection of Sepulveda Blvd. and Centinela Ave. Exit the
- San Diego (405) Freeway southbound at Sepulveda-Centinela or northbound
- at Slauson-Sepulveda. A social hour at 6:30 PM precedes dinner at 7:00
- and the program at 8:00. Reservations are required for dinner, not for
- the program; call Jim Matheny, (310) 375-5940, before Tuesday noon.
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- Coming Events in Special Interest Groups and Neighbor Chapters
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- Southern California NeXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting
- Thursday 14 Janaury 1993 6:30 PM
- California State University, Long Beach
- Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room ECS-210
-
- For further information, please contact Mike Mahoney, SCaN President
- and CSULB Professor at (310) 985-1550, e-mail: mahoney@csulb.edu, or
- Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-President and CSULA Professor at (213)
- 343-2056, e-mail: bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu
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- LA ACM TACART
- Adaptable Resource Planner and Scheduler
- Lynda True, TRW
- Thursday, 21 January 1993 7:30 PM
- Santa Monica Public Library, Basement Conference Room
- (Corner of 6th St. and Santa Monica Blvd, in Santa Monica)
-
- The Flexible Activity Scheduling Tool is a resource scheduler that was
- originally developed to support TDRS and ATDRS scheduling. It
- currently addresses scheduling problems that have temporal constraints,
- finite resource capacity constraints, task priorities, and the overall
- objectives to perform as many tasks as possible. Unlike most
- scheduling systems, it does more than simple constraint-based
- scheduling. The algorithm used can be thought of as a tree-shaking
- solution, in which the tasks to be scheduled are first shaken out to
- see whether a conflict-free schedule can be constructed just by using
- the preferences associated with the tasks. Areas of conflict are
- identified, and different styles of scheduling strategies are applied
- to those areas in attempts to remove the conflicts.
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- This effort is based on work done by Eric Beifeld of JPL (OMP,
- Plan-It), and by Mark Fox (Constraint-Directed Search: A Case Study of
- Job-Shop Scheduling). In 1993, we will add a planning capability based
- on Allan Newell's SOAR.
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- Lynda True has a BA in Management Science from Cal State Fullerton.
- She has worked for many of the local aerospace companies in a variety
- of positions, and has been involved with the development of scheduling
- and planning systems for the past five years. Ms. True has been
- working as a member of the technical staff at TRW since 1990. Other AI
- projects in the past include image processing work done at Hughes
- Aircraft, and various small systems done to support the Space Station
- effort at Martin Marietta.
-
- No dinner or social activities are planned. For further information,
- please contact Stephanie E. August ((310) 616-6491,
- august@cs.ucla.edu).
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- CHANNEL ISLANDS ACM SIGAda
- IEEE POSIX and POSIX-Ada Bindings
- Jim Lonjers, Paramax Systems Corporation, Electronic Systems
- Tuesday, 26 January 1993, 6:30 PM
- Paramax Cafeteria, Camarillo, CA
-
- The POSIX standard will likely define computer programming interfaces
- to the operating system for the majority of systems sold in the future.
- It defines these interfaces in such a broad manner as to allow POSIX
- compliant systems to be built on top of VMS and even MD-DOS. The newly
- approved Ada bindings allow Ada to take full advantage of the POSIX
- standard while remaining fully within Ada and without emulation of "C"
- language function calls.
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- Jim Lonjers, Chair of the IEEE Ada POSIX Standards Working Group will
- present an overview of POSIX and details on the Ada-POSIX bindings.
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- For more information, please contact Charles Snyder ((805) 987-6811,
- ext. 4743, csnyder@nisd.cam.unisys.com).
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- LA ACM SIGAda
- IEEE POSIX and POSIX-Ada Bindings
- Jim Lonjers, Paramax Systems Corporation, Electronic Systems
-
- For details about the talk, please see the Channel Islands SIGAda
- listing. For information about when and where the meeting will be
- help, please contact Jolie Mason ((805) 987-6811, ext. 4582,
- mason@nisd.cam.unisys.com).
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