Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'97)
 
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Technical Program
Tuesday, December 9   Wednesday, December 10   Thursday, December 11

9:00am - 9:15am
Opening Remarks
Carl Staelin, Program Chair, Hewlett-Packard
9:15am - 10:30am
Keynote Address:
Puberty - The Approach to Maturity

Heidi Heiden, UUNET Technologies

Heidi Heiden will deliver a report card on this 15-year-old and discuss its past, present and future. In the beginning there were twins. One died. Is the other out of control? At 15 years of age, the Internet is a precocious adolescent, still growing explosively, sometimes lacking fine motor coordination, and driven to explore all kinds of possibly dangerous behavior by wild hormonal urges. What's it like to live with this party animal? How will it mature? What it will look like at 25?

Heidi B. Heiden Heidi B. Heiden is a senior vice president at UUNET Technolgoies where he is responsible for sales, engineering, operations and service. He created and ran the DDN (Defense Data Network), the largest data system of its time, consisting of many worldwide computer networks which formed the basis of what is now known as the Internet. Prior to entering the commercial arena, Mr. Heiden's career in the United States Army included the leadership of such diverse technology programs as the design and implementation of a national voice and data system for the Government of Spain and the design and development of prototype user equipment for the GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation system. Mr. Heiden is a graduate of West Point Military Academy.
10:30am - 11:00am      Break
11:00am - 12:30pm
Caching I
Session Chair: Richard Golding, Hewlett-Packard

Study of Piggyback Cache Validation for Proxy Caches in the World Wide Web
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs - Research and Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Exploring the Bounds of Web Latency Reduction from Caching and Prefetching
Thomas M. Kroeger and Darrel D.E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz and Jeffrey C. Mogul, Digital Equipment Corporation

The Measured Access Characteristics of World Wide Web Client Proxy Caches
Brad Duska, David Marwood, and Michael J. Feeley, University of British Columbia

12:30pm - 2:00pm      Symposium Luncheon
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Servers
Session Chair: Eric Brewer, University of California at Berkeley and Inktomi

A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems
Nick Christenson, Tim Bosserman, and David Beckemeyer, Earthlink

Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data
Arun Iyengar and Jim Challenger, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server
Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel, Rice University

3:30pm - 4:00pm      Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Potpourri
Session Chair: Richard Golding, Hewlett-Packard

BIT: A Tool for Instrumenting Java Bytecodes
Han Bok Lee and Benjamin G. Zorn, University of Colorado

HPP: HTML Macro-Preprocessing to Support Dynamic Document Caching
Fred Douglis, Antonio Haro, and Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs - Research


TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Tuesday, December 9    Wednesday, December 10    Thursday, December 11
 


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