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USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
June 6 - 10, 1994
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Glen Dudek, VGI
A New Object-oriented Programming
Language: sh
Jeffrey S. Haemer, Canary Software, Inc.
The Old Man and the C
Evan Adams, Sun Microsystems
CLOSING THE SYSTEM
Wednesday 2:00 - 3:30
Chair: Greg Rose, RoseSecure
Key Management in an Encrypting File System
Matt Blaze, AT&T; Bell Laboratories
A Toolkit and Methods for Internet Firewalls
Trusted Information Systems, Incorporated
SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming
Thomas Y.C. Woo, Raghuram Bindignavle, Shaowen Su,
and Simon S. Lam, University of Texas, Austin
UNDER THE COVERS
Wednesday 4:00 - 5:30
Chair: Adam Moskowitz, Menlo Consulting
An Efficient Kernel-Based Implementation
of POSIX Threads
Robert A. Alfieri, Unix Kernel Development,
Data General Corporation
Using OS Locking Services to Implement a DBMS: An Experience Report
Andrea H. Skarra, AT&T; Bell Laboratories
The Slab Allocator:
An Object-Caching Kernel
Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems
FILE SYSTEMS
Thursday 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Kent Peacock
A Better Update Policy
Jeffrey C. Mogul, Digital Equipment Corp,
Western Research Laboratory
The Desktop File System
Morgan Clark, Stephen Rago, Programmed Logic Corporation
Sawmill: A High Bandwidth
Logging File System
Ken Shirriff, John Ousterhout,
University of California, Berkeley
THE NETWORK STRIKES BACK
Thursday 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Win Treese, Digital Equipment Corporation
NFS Version 3: Design and Implementation
Brian Pawlowski, Network Appliance, Chet Juszczak,
Digital Equipment Corp., Peter Staubach, SunSoft Inc.,
Carl Smith, SunSoft Inc., Diane Lebel, Digital Equipment
Corp., Dave Hitz, Network Appliance
Clue Tables: A Distributed, Dynamic-Binding
Naming Mechanism
Cheng-Zen Yang, Chih-Chung Chen, Yen-Jen Oyang,
National Taiwan University
Optimistic Lookup of Whole NFS Paths
in a Single Operation
Dan Duchamp, Columbia University
REVENGE OF THE FILE SYSTEMS
Thursday 2:00 - 3:30
Chair: Mary Baker,Stanford University
Application-Controlled File Caching Policies
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li, Princeton University
Resolving File Conflicts in the
Ficus File System
Peter Reiher, John Heidemann, David Ratner,
Gregory Skinner, Gerald J. Popek, UCLA
Reducing File System Latency using a
Predictive Approach
Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton, University of Kentucky
POTPOURRI
Friday 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Michael Jones, Microsoft Research
Operating System Support for
Distributed Multimedia
Sape J. Mullender, Ian M. Leslie, Derek McAuley,
University of Twente
Splicing UNIX into a Genome Mapping
Laboratory
Lincoln Stein, Andre Marquis, Robert Dredge,
Mary Pat Reeve, Mark Daly, Steve Rozen, Nathan Goodman,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
A Text Retrieval Package for the
Unix Operating System
Liam R. E. Quin, SoftQuad Inc.
OPENING CLOSED SYSTEMS
Friday 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Ozan Yigit, York University
Probing TCP Implementations
Douglas E. Comer, John C. Lin, Purdue University
Experiences with a Survey Tool for Discovering Network
Time Protocol Servers
James D. Guyton, Michael F. Schwartz, University of
Colorado, Boulder
Profiling and Tracing Dynamic Library
Usage Via Interposition
Timothy W. Curry, Sun Microsystems
GETTING AROUND
Friday 2:00 - 3:30
Chair: Peter Honeyman, CITI University of Michigan
Large Granularity Cache Coherence for
Intermittent Connectivity
Lily B. Mummert, M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
An Analysis of Trace Data for Predictive
File Caching in Mobile Computing
Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Gerald J. Popek, Peter L. Reiher, UCLA
Secure Short-Cut Routing for Mobile IP
Trevor Blackwell, Kee Chan, Koling Chang, Thomas Charuhas,
James Gwertzman, Brad Karp, H. T. Kung, David Li, Dong Lin,
Robert Morris, Rob Polansky, Diane Tang, Cliff Young, John Zao
