USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
June 6 - 10, 1994
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Harvard University