USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference Proceedings
January 17-21, 1994
San Francisco, California
Opening Remarks: Jeff Mogul, Program Chair
Keynote Address: John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
INVITED TALK
- Objecting to Objects
- Stephen C. Johnson, Melismatic Software
SIMPLE DATABASE TOOLS
Chair: Rafael Alonso
- Finding Similar Files in a
Large File System
- Udi Manber, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona
- cql - A Flat File Database Query Language
- Glenn Fowler, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- GLIMPSE: A Tool to Search Through Entire
File Systems
- Udi Manber, Sun Wu, Department of Computer Science, University of
Arizona
WIDE - AREA INFORMATION ACCESS
Chair: Frederick S. Glover
- Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET
News
- Kurt J. Lidl, Josh Osborne, Joe Malcolm, UUNET Technologies, Inc.
- The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic
Database System
- Richard A. Golding, Vrije Universiteit, Darrell D. E. Long, University
of California, Santa Cruz; John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- Filesystem Daemons as Unifying Mechanism
for Network Information Access
- Steve Summit, Consultant, Seattle, Washington
INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION
Chair: Cathy Watkins
- Concert/C: A Language for Distributed
Programming
- Joshua S. Auerbach, Arthur P. Goldberg, Ajei S. Gopal, Mark T.
Kennedy, James R. Russell, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Evolving Mach 3.0 to A Migrating Thread Model
- Bryan Ford, Jay Lepreau, Department of Computer Science, University
of Utah
- Tread Marks: Distributed Shared Memory
on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems
- Peter Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel,
Department of Computer Science, Rice University
EFFICIENT SCHEDULING AND NETWORKING
Chair: Michael B. Jones
- Workstation Support for Real-Time
Multimedia Communication
- Olof Hagsand, Peter Sjodin, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
- Experience and Results from Implementation
of an ATM Socket Family
- Richard Black, Simon Crosby, University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory
- Efficient Packet Demultiplexing for
Multiple Endpoints and Large Messages
- Masanobu Yuhara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Brian N. Bershad,
Chris Maeda, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University;
J. Eliot B. Moss, Department of Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
KERNEL PERFORMANCE
Chair: Brian N. Bershad
- Latency Analysis of TCP on an ATM Network
- Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Improving UNIX Kernel and Networking
Performance Using Profile Based Optimization
- Steven E. Speer, Rajiv Kumar, Hewlett-Packard; Craig Partridge,
Bolt Beranek and Newman
- Memory Behavior for an X11 Window System
- J. Bradley Chen, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Chair: Judith E. Grass
- A Uniform Name Service for Spring's
UNIX Environment
- Michael N. Nelson, Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Sanjay R. Radia,
SunSoft, Inc.
- ACID: A Debugger Built from a Language
- Phil Winterbottom, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
- Rob Pike. AT&T Bell Laboratories
NFS
Chair: Margo Seltzer
- File System Design for an NFS File Server
Appliance
- Dave Hitz, James Lau, Michael Malcolm, Network Appliance Corporation
- Improving the Write Performance of an
NFS Server
- Chet Juszczak, Digital Equipment Corporation
- Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency
forNFS
- Rick Macklem, Department of Computing and Information Science,
University of Guelph
DISKS AND FILE SYSTEMS
Chair: David Presotto
- A Quantitative Analysis of Disk Drive Power
Management in Portable Computers
- Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas Anderson, Computer Science
Division, University of California, Berkeley
- Thwarting the Power-Hungry Disk
- Fred Douglis, P. Krishnan, Brian Marsh, Matsushita Information
Technology Laboratory
- A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a
Wide-Area Distributed File System
- Mirjana Spasojevic, Transarc Corporation and M. Satyanarayanan,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
DEALING WITH THE PC WORLD
Chair: Nathaniel S. Borenstein
- Wux: UNIX Tools under Windows
- Diomidis Spinellis, Department of Computing, Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine
- An MS-DOS Filesystem for UNIX
- Alessandro Forin, Gerald Malan, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
- An Overview of the NetWare Operating System
- Greg Minshall, Drew Major, Kyle Powell, Novell, Inc.