I am currently involved in various system programming projects, for my PhD program as well as consulting work in the financial industry. I am interested in coming up to speed on Windows NT primarily due to a perceived need at my consulting company to offload some sizeable system software from VAX-based systems to smaller, distributed computing platforms, and it appears that Windows NT may be chosen as the implementation platform for a data distribution system with which I have been heavily involved.

Of particular interest will be the exploration of the nature of various implementations of problem models involving large cooperating systems of communicating processes, and shared events, resources, and data structures. The VMS distributed lock manager has provided an excellent interprocess communication/notification capability, the nature of which we will need to emulate in the Windows NT environment. Experiences with native NT system services as they are presented at the conference should be most useful to guide our future development of these system processes.

I have been involved as well in the NYUAda project, getting the language run-time implementation of the tasking modules to function correctly in a true concurrent/multiprocessor environment. I look forward to the knowledge this conference may provide regarding experiences which may benefit such an effort when the NT Ada implementation is undertaken.

Kurt R. Behnke
New York University
behnke@cs.nyu.edu
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