40. COMPCON 1995: San Francisco, California, USA

COMPCON '95: Technologies for the Information Superhighway, Digest of Papers, March 5-9, 1995, San Francisco, California, USA. IEEE-CS 1995, ISBN 0-8186-7029-0

World Wide Web Topics

David W. Robertson, William E. Johnston: Using the World Wide Web to Provide a Platform Independent Interface to High Performance Computing. 3-7
Jeff Sedayao: World Wide Web Network Traffic Patterns. 8-12
Tak W. Yan, Jurgen Annevelink: A Powerful Wide-Area Information Clent. 13-18

Electronic Commerce on the Internet

Marvin A. Sirbu, J. D. Tygar: NetBill: An Internet Commerce System Optimized for Network Delivered Services. 20-25
David K. Gifford, Lawrence C. Stewart, Andrew C. Payne, G. Winfield Treese: Payment for Open Networks. 26-31
B. Clifford Neuman, Gennady Medvinsky: Requirements for Network Payment: The NetCheque Perspective. 32-36

Business on Networks

Jay M. Tenenbaum, Cathy Medich, Allan M. Schiffman, William T. Wong: CommerceNet: Spontaneous Electronic Commerce on the Internet. 38-43

Is it Time to Pay Attention? Information Trials in the Bay Area

W. J. Lennon, R. L. Thombley: Two Wavelength Division Multiplexing WAN Trials. 46-51
Leonid Kazovsky: Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Local Area Networks (Abstract). 52

Distance Learing Technologies

Carla Lane: Strategic Planning: Providing Interaction Through Mixed Media in University Distance Learning Programs. 55-60
Thomas G. Wilkins: Corporate Eduction Directions 1995-2000 Planning Horizon. 61-66

Satellite Superhighways

James R. Stuart: New Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communications Capabilities on the Horizon. 68-69
Larry A. Bergman: Gigabit Satellites in Distributed Supercomputing for Global Research. 71-76

Alpha 21164 Microprocessor and Systems

Peter J. Bannon, Jim Keller: Internal Architecture of Alpha 211164 Microprocessor. 79-87
John H. Zurawski, John E. Murray, Paul J. Lemmon: The Design of the AlphaStation 800 5/300 Workstation. 88-94
David M. Fenwick, Denis J. Foley, Stephen R. VanDoren: Enterprise AlphaServer System. 95-100

First Generation PowerPC SMP Systems

James O. Nicholsen: The RISC System/6000 SMP System. 102-109
Ron Clark, Jack O'Quin, Tom Weaver: Symmetric Multiprocessing for the AIX Operating System. 110-114
Bret R. Olszewski, Jean-Jacques Guillemaud: The Performance and Performance Methodology for a PowerPC SMP System. 116-121

PA-RISC: Application-Driven Innovation

Doug Hunt: Advanced Performance Features of the 64-bit PA-8000. 123-128
Loren Staley: A New MP HW Architecture for Technical and Commercial Environments. 129-132
Tony Brewer: A Highly Scalable System Utilizing up to 128 PA-RISC Processors. 133-140

Information Hosting Services

Paul S. R. Chisholm: Agent Based Messaging and Information Services. 143-146
Darrell Woelk, Christine Tomlinson: InfoSleuth: Networked Exploration of Information using Semantic Agents. 147-152

Mobile Internet Applications (Based on PDAs)

Joel F. Bartlett: Experience with a Wireless World Wide Web Client. 154-157

Infopad

Andrew J. Burstein, Allan Christian Long Jr., Shankar Narayanaswamy, Richard Han, Robert W. Brodersen: The InfoPad User Interface. 159-162
My T. Le, Frederick L. Burghard, Srinivasan Seshan, Jan M. Rabaey: InfoNet: the Networking Infrastructure of InfoPad. 163-168
Eric A. Brewer, Thomas D. Burd, Frederick L. Burghard, Andrew J. Burstein, Roger Doering, Ken Lutz, Shankar Narayanaswamy, Trevor Pering, Brian C. Richards, Thomas E. Truman, Randy H. Katz, Jan M. Rabaey, Robert W. Brodersen: Design of Wireless Portable Systems. 169-176

Advanced Media Enhancement Technologies

John Beck, Francis Sung, Ken Severson: An Object Based Architecture for a Digital Compression Camera. 179-185
Ruby B. Lee: Realtime MPEG Video via Software Decompression oon a PA-RISC Processor. 186-192
Anthony C. Barkans: COLOR RECOVERY: Millions of Colors From an 8-Bit Graphics Device. 193-198

Interactive TV

Lee Colby: Overview of Interactive TV from the Viewpoint of the Cable TV Settop Converter's RF Modem. 200-202
Andrew Laursen, Jeffrey Olkin, Mark Porter: Oracle Media Server Framework. 203-208
Roger L. Haskin, Frank L. Stein: A System for the Delivery of Interactive Television Programming. 209-215

Storage Hierarchy in Multimedia Systems

Asit Dan, Daniel M. Dias, Rajat Mukherjee, Dinkar Sitaram, Renu Tewari: Buffering and Caching in Large-Scale Video Servers. 217-224
Martin G. Kienzle, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, William H. Tetzlaff: Using Tertiary Storage in Video-on-Demand Servers. 225-233
Vivek Nirkhe, Mark Baugher: Quality of Service Support for Networked Media Players. 234-238
William H. Tetzlaff, Robert Flynn: Elements of Scalable Video Servers. 239-248

HAL Computer Systems

Winfried W. Wilcke: Architectural Overview of HaL Systems. 251-258
Niteen Patkar, Akira Katsuno, Simon Li, Tak Maruyama, Sunil Savkar, Mike Simone, Gene Shen, Ravi Swami, DeForest Tovey: Microarchitecture of HaL's CPU. 259-266
Chien Chen, Yizhi Lu, Anthong Wong: Microarchitecture of HaL's Cache Subsystem. 267-271
David Chih-Wei Chang, David Lyon, Charles Chen, Leon Peng, Mehran Massoumi, Matthew Hakimi, Satish Iyengar, Ellen Li, Roque Remedios: Microarchitecture of HaL's Memory Management Unit. 272-279

PowerPC Processors

Deene Ogden, Belli Kuttanna, Albert J. Loper, Soummya Mallick, Michael Putrino: A New PowerPC Microprocessor for Low Power Computing Systems. 281-284
David Levitan, Thomas Thomas, Paul Tu: The PowerPC 620 Microprocessor: A High Performance Superscalar RISC Microprocessor. 285-291
Michael S. Allen, W. Kurt Lewchuk: A Pipelined, Weakly Ordered Bus for Multiprocessing Systems. 292-298

PowerPC Software and Systems

C. Ray Peng, Thomas A. Petersen, Ron Clark: The PowerPC Architecture: 64-bit Power with 32-bit Compatibility. 300-307
John K. Yuan, Michael P. Taborn, David C. Lee, Albert Tsay: The PowerPC 620 Microprocessor in Distributed Computing. 308-314
Howard C. Thamm: Developing Windows NT Applications for PowerPC Microprocessor Based Systems. 315-319

NOW: Networks of Workstations

Thomas E. Anderson, David E. Culler, David A. Patterson: The Berkeley Networks of Workstations (NOW) Project. 322-326
Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, David A. Wood: Tempest: A Substrate for Portable Parallel Programs. 327-332

High Speed Network Protocols

Gary Hoffman, Daniel Moore: IEEE 1394: A Ubiquitous Bus. 334-338
David B. Gustavson, Qiang Li: Local-Area MultiProcessor: Surpassing Clusters. 339-344

ATM - Panel

Lawrence G. Roberts: Can ABR Service Replace VBR Service in ATM Networks. 346-348

Taligent Object Services

Russell Nakano, Glenn Marcy: Runtime Support for Extended Types in C++. 351-359
Steve Lemon, Kennan Rossi: An Object Oriented Device Driver Model. 360-366
Stephen Kurtzman, Kayshav Dattatri: Design Goals of Object-Oriented Wrappers for the Mach Microkernel. 367-371

Multimedia Authoring and Acrobat

Brian M. Dennis, Michael A. Harrison: Technical Issues in Hypermedia Authoring Systems (Extended Abstract). 373-378
Andy Shore: Acrobat 2.0 (Abstract). 379

Advanced CD Systems

Paul J. Wehrenberg: CD and Competing Technologies in an Application Driven Environment. 383-389
Alan E. Bell: Storage Intensive Applications in the Distributed Environment. 390-395

High Performance Storage Systems

Edward K. Lee: Highly-Available, Scalable Network Storage. 397-402
Garth A. Gibson, Daniel Stodolsky, Fay W. Chang, William V. Courtright II, Chris G. Demetriou, Eka Ginting, Mark Holland, Qingming Ma, LeAnn Neal, R. Hugo Patterson, Jiawen Su, Rachad Youssef, Jim Zelenka: The Scotch Parallel Storage Systems. 403-410
Jai Menon, Jeff Riegel, James C. Wyllie: Algorithms for Software and Low-Cost Hardware RAIDs. 411-418

New Trends in Storage Management

Luis-Felipe Cabrera, Robert M. Rees, Stefan Steiner, Wayne Hineman, Michael Penner: ADSM: A Multi-Platform, Scalable, Backup and Archive Mass Storage System. 420-427
David A. Low: An Object Oriented Model for Distributed Backup and Archive. 428-433
Jim Gast: Metrics to Use on the Road to HSM. 434-439

The UltraSPARC Microprocessor with Multimedia Support

Dale Greenley, J. Bauman, D. Chang, Dennis Chen, R. Eltejaein, P. Ferolito, P. Fu, Robert B. Garner, D. Greenhill, H. Grewal, Kalon Holdbrook, B. Kim, Leslie Kohn, H. Kwan, M. Levitt, Guillermo Maturana, D. Mrazek, Chitresh Narasimhaiah, Kevin Normoyle, N. Parveen, P. Patel, A. Prabhu, Marc Tremblay, Michelle Wong, L. Yang, Krishna Yarlagadda, Robert K. Yu, Robert Yung, Gregory B. Zyner: UltraSPARC: The Next Generation Superscalar 64-bit SPARC. 442-451
S. Mehta, S. Ahmed, S. Al-Ashari, Dennis Chen, Dev Chen, S. Cokmez, R. Eltejaein, P. Fu, Jeffery Gee, T. Granvold, Amaresh Iyer, A. K. Lin, Guillermo Maturana, D. McConn, H. Mohammed, Jamshid Mostoufi, A. Moudgal, Srinivas Nori, Gary Peterson, M. Splain, T. Yu: Verification of the UltraSPARC Microprocessor. 452-461
Leslie Kohn, Guillermo Maturana, Marc Tremblay, A. Prabhu, Gregory B. Zyner: The Visual Instruction Set (VIS) in UltraSPARC. 462-469
Chang-Guo Zhou, Leslie Kohn, Daniel Rice, Ihtisham Kabir, Aman Jabbi, Xiao-Ping Hu: MPEG Video Decoding with the UltraSPARC Visual Instruction Set. 470-475

Internet Access to Environmental Data

Joseph Pasquale, Jeff Dozier, Randy H. Katz: The Redwood Project. 478-481
Darrell D. E. Long, Patrick E. Mantey, Craig M. Wittenbrink, Theodore R. Haining, Bruce R. Montague: REINAS: the Real-Time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System. 482-487
Paul Cummings: Enhancing Lotus Notes for Carrier Grade Hosting (Abstract). 488