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LISA 2000: 14th Systems Administration Conference, 
New Orleans, December 3-8, 2000
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Technical Sessions    Wed., Dec. 6 | Thurs., Dec. 7 | Fri., Dec. 8 | Guru Is In | All in one file
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Wednesday - Friday, December 6 - 8, 2000     (Mardi Gras A,B)
Co-location Services/Hosting
Wednesday, 11:00am-12:30pm
Cat Okita, Global Crossing
Cat has worked on both sides of the fence--selecting a colocation provider and being the colocation provider. This experience has given her an understanding ofthe issues from both perspectives.

Automated Sysadmin
Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College
Mark is an associate professor at Oslo University College and the author of cfengine.

Java, RDBMS
Wednesday, 4:00-5:30pm
Leeland G. Artra, Cellworks Project, University of Washington
Leeland is currently the Director of Systems Research and Design for the Cellworks Project (CWP) at the University of Washington. His work has encompassed a wide range of disciplines and technologies requiring the use of the Java programming language, relational database systems, and the development of entirely new database systems. Leeland has been the primary researcher, designer, and programmer for the majority of the computer systems work done by CWP.

Wireless Ethernet (802.11)
Thursday, 9:00-10:30am
Tom Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
Tom has deployed 802.11 (WaveLAN) in a large environment and has fretted over many of the security issues that are involved as the deployment grows larger.

W2K Kerberos/"Active Directory"--MIT Kerberos KDC integration
Thursday, 11:00am-12:30pm
Steven Freed, Industrial Light & Magic
Steve has been poking into the nooks and crannies of Kerberos ever since his introduction to it while attending the 1st Annual Athena Technical Conference at MIT in 1991. Working with the idiosyncrasies of integrating W2K Kerberos is just another step in the Kerberos evolution.

Customer Relations and Help Desk Issues
Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm
Nick Stoughton, Webvan Group Inc.
Nick is technical architect for Webvan's customer relationship management system, and has been working in this field for over 6 years as a consultant. He has built both internal and external help-desk systems for a wide variety of organizations, in the U.S. and in Europe. His experience covers several leading applications. He also has a wealth of experience in computer telephony integration. When not building help-desk systems, Nick serves as USENIX's Standards Liaison.

Incident Response/Network Activity Logging and Tools
Thursday, 4:00-5:30pm
Steve Romig, The Ohio State University
Steve Romig is in charge of the Ohio State University Incident Response Team, which provides incident response assistance, training, consulting, and other security services for The Ohio State University community.

Systems Programming
Friday, 9:00-10:30am
Doug Hughes, Auburn University College of Engineering
Doug Hughes has been doing systems programming for many years and has contributed a number of useful tools to the community, including: DLPI, RPC and sockets networking tools, an Exabyte jukebox driver for Solaris, qps for /procfs, and numerous serial and other utilities.

Managing SysAdmins
Friday, 11:00am-12:30pm
Strata Rose Chalup

Broadband
Friday, 2:00-3:30pm
Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates, Inc.
Prior to returning to his consulting business, Brent was Director of Network Architecture and IT Infrastructure for Covad Communications Company. Brent is also coauthor of the O'Reilly & Associates book "Building Internet Firewalls" and creator of the Majordomo mailing list management package.

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