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- From: kolstad@BSDI.COM (Rob Kolstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Results from San Antonio `Topic Box'
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 17:46:54 -0400
- Organization: Berkeley Software Design
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- Keywords: Idea for papers, topics
-
-
- The Board of Directors met at the San Antonio USENIX meeting (June 7,
- 1992) at their regular pre-conference day-long session. Among the items
- discussed was the topics of papers at conferences. There was some notion
- that papers any more just didn't know how to address the mainstream topics
- that people wanted to hear about.
-
- It was then suggested that maybe USENIX audiences had a relatively wide
- spectrum of interests and that a small set of papers would never satisfy
- the majority of the participants, since each one had a different set of
- topics they most enjoyed. One board member suggested that each person in
- the meeting write down five of the topics that interested them most. The
- results were fascinating: with a minimum of 5 different topics and a
- maximum of 70 different possible, over 44 topics were represented.
-
- That seemed like not too much overlap of interests to me.
-
- So, it was proposed that we have a `Topics' box at the conference so that
- attendees could put their interests in the box and we'd know that the
- overlap was, in fact, much greater.
-
- This note includes the results. Some people had more than 5 topics; a few
- had fewer than 5. Of the 126 votes cast, 89 separate topics (as merged by
- Greg Rose and myself) were chosen. Again, not much overlap. Very
- interesting.
-
- The results are below. If you wanted to submit a selection, but didn't,
- please e-mail it to kolstad@bsdi.com -- before you read the list. I have
- reason to believe tainting makes a big difference.
-
- If your submission isn't here, somehow I have lost it. Please send it to
- kolstad@bsdi.com. Two people wrote notes -- they have been forwarded to
- the Board of Directors. I can not explain all the topics; some of their
- meanings are mysterious to me.
-
-
- 6 Mobile Computers
- 5 Gigabit networking
- 5 Distributed applications (w/high availability)
- 4 Supercomputing/visualization
- 4 Distributed Unix single system image
- 3 Telecommuting
- 2 Very large network/system administration
- 2 VLDB/Distributed information management
- 2 TCL
- 2 System tools/tips
- 2 Real time & Unix
- 2 Object oriented database/persistent stores
- 2 O/S level fault tolerance & fault tolerant systems
- 2 New network services & futures
- 2 Network resource allocation
- 2 Multimedia (including mail)
- 2 Massively parallel software & operating system
- 2 Integrated sysadmin
- 2 Case study: intellectual property & s/w patents
- 2 Admin/Architectural issues for Large-Scale CAD/CAM & VLSI design
- 2 AIX oriented topics (LVM, SMIT, ODM)
- 2 "Tiny" interpreted languages
- 1 WAN Information Navigation (WAIS, Gopher, etc.)
- 1 Video/Audio/Teleconf on internet
- 1 Van Jacobsen Dartnet report
- 1 User interface tools
- 1 User friendly interfaces
- 1 Usenet news
- 1 UNIX in the K-12 environment
- 1 UNIPLEX
- 1 The Real World: UNIX applications for the common man
- 1 Testing & exercising O/S and applications
- 1 Students
- 1 Stackable filesystems
- 1 Special purpose clusters: design & support
- 1 Secure networking
- 1 Scheduling algorithms for multiprocessors
- 1 Scalable tools (>100x)
- 1 Realtime/Embedded systems
- 1 Protecting critical applications
- 1 Programming language rut/Death by C++
- 1 Programming for X
- 1 Portable embedded systems
- 1 Perl extensions
- 1 Perl cum X
- 1 Perils w/BSD 4.4
- 1 Performance enhancement
- 1 POSIX progress
- 1 Online services available
- 1 One hour tutorials on various utilities
- 1 OSF update
- 1 Nontechnical side of system administration
- 1 More parallel topics: Like DECUS
- 1 Measures of quality or competence in networked UNIX sites
- 1 Mailbox management
- 1 Low cost Internet
- 1 Logging file systems
- 1 Language Design
- 1 Kernel subsystem performance papers which focus on the numbers & improvements
- 1 Justifying USENIX conference attendance
- 1 Invited talk like the ML talk for Scheme
- 1 Invited talk like the ML talk for Modula-3
- 1 Interpreted GUIs
- 1 IP address space restrictions
- 1 How to setup support facilities
- 1 How to integrate vendor's supplied systems -- setting reasonable expectations
- 1 Heterogeneous environments
- 1 Gigabit workstations
- 1 Frame relay, ATM
- 1 FDDI, HIPPI
- 1 Extinction of disks
- 1 Ethics: personal data
- 1 Electronic Data Interchange/Business Objects
- 1 Disconnected operation
- 1 Dealing with the customer
- 1 DS1 (64K digitized voice) multiplex
- 1 Computers for your person
- 1 Computer Music
- 1 Cheap typesetting
- 1 Case study: security breach
- 1 Cache strategies for file pages
- 1 Basic, intermediate, & advanced general topics (sys mgt, net mgt)
- 1 BOF: Things I did wrong
- 1 Algorithms
- 1 Advances in OS/Platform Architecture (particularly I/O system advances)
- 1 Abbreviated presentations of training courses
- 1 ATM prototypes and products
- 1 AFS -> UNIX
- 1 64-bit
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