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- N-1-2-100.08 IFIP News by Howard L. Funk*, <funk@vnet.ibm.com>
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- IFIP's major biennial event, the World Computer Congress, which was
- discussed in the previous issue, has extended the deadline for
- submissions of papers for the poster sessions from April 15 to April
- 30, 1992.
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- Whereas there will be many presentations, workshops and seminars of
- interest to Internet Society members, the following topics may be of
- particular interest.
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- "The Electronic Cottage: Delivering information and
- communication technologies to the home."
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- "Reliability and Security in Personal Computers and
- Local Area Networks."
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- "Identification and authentication of users and systems."
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- "Computer ethics and professional responsibility".
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- Professor A. N. (Nico) Haberman, of Carnegie Mellon University, now on
- assignment to the National Science Foundation, is chairman of the
- Software Development and Maintenance Stream. Amongst other well-known
- participants will be the keynote speaker, Pamela McCorduck, author of
- "Machines Who Think."
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- Since our last report, their majesties, the King of Spain, has
- graciously accepted our invitation to open this prestigious
- conference.
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- For any additional information, please address ifip92@dit.upm.es.
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- The working groups of the IFIP TC6 (communications) committee is
- sponsoring the following events during the next few months.
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- Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems,
- 25-27 March, London, England.
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- Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, 25-29 May,
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Symposium on Protocol Specification, Testing and
- Verification, 22-25 June, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
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- For additional information about these meetings or any other
- information about IFIP, address the IFIP Secretariat:
- ifip@cgeuge51.bitnet.
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- * Vice President, IFIP
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