1995 International AVS Inc. Users and Developers Conference

(AVS '95)

Call for Chairs


Greetings Everyone,

We have determined a time and location for the 1995 International AVS Inc.
Users and Developers Conference (AVS '95).  AVS '95 will be held once again
in Boston, MA.  The dates for the Conference are April 19 - 21, and it will
be held at the Boston Marriott - Copley Place.  It is a tremendous hotel in
the heart of the city, and not far from the Sheraton where last year's
Conference was held.

AVS Inc. will bear all financial responsibility for the Conference, but is
interested in having the International AVS Center (IAC) perform the role of
Technical Chair. 

We will need chairs for the Tracks, User Sessions, Video Theater, World
Wide Web Session, Exhibition Area, and Panels.  We'll broadcast a call for
papers, panels, WWW and video segments within a week or so.

We are considering specific alternations to make to the program based on
attendee's input at last year's Conference.  At this time we find the
previous format to have worked well.

This year, in addition to all the AVS-related Conference activities, we
will enhance the Conference by adding many useful lectures on AVS/Express
and Toolmaster products. These complementary product lines will be
particularly useful to those wishing to develop production-quality
applications.  AVS Inc. will continue to integrate portions of the
Toolmaster technology into AVS and AVS/Express as with AVS/Graph.  It would
be valuable if several of the volunteers for chairs have AVS/Express and/or
Toolmaster experience.

Overall, we're contemplating having 2 User Tracks (see below), a stronger
Developer Track, and a Technology Track.

 USER TRACKS - CHAIRS NEEDED:
The User Tracks would be run in a similar fashion to past years.  We think
there will be an opportunity for 2 parallel tracks with 13 sessions each,
for a total of 26 sessions.  After asking AVS Inc. what areas represent the
widest usage of the products, here is a listing of possible areas where
chairs are needed:

(Each includes 3 to 5 lectures)
Medical										Chair Needed
Oil and Gas:  Exploration and Production					Chair Needed
Imaging:  Remote Sensing, Microscopy etc.					Chair Needed
Environmental							Theresa Rhyne, Wes Bethel
GIS & Earth Resources								Chair Needed
Engineering Analysis (Mechanical, CFD etc.)					Chair Needed
Commercial Applications (Financial/Business/Telecomm/Statistics)	Chair
Needed
Research/Government/Academic/Scientific Applications		Chair Needed

DEVELOPER TRACK - CHAIR NEEDED:
The usage of AVS, AVS/Express and Toolmaster by application developers has
increased dramatically.  We're adding "... and Developers Conference" to
the name of the event for this reason.  We'd like to "beef-up" the
developers track, and may include some plenary sessions in this area.

A chair is needed in this area.  This chair should be using AVS Inc.
products to develop applications shipped as runtimes.

TECHNOLOGY TRACK - Ham Lord:
Ham Lord, of AVS Inc., has volunteered to chair the Technology Track (ideas
for technology topics are invited).

VIDEO CHAIR - Mike Pique:
Mike Pique of Scripps Clinic has once again volunteered to perform the role
of Video Chair - if there are no objections, or if no one else had their
heart set on this, this chair is spoken for.

WORLD WIDE WEB SESSION - Loren Buhle & Ken Flurchick:
The WWW Session is still under design.  We'd like to have someone who is
familiar with Mosaic to coordinate this new area.

PANELS -  CHAIRS NEEDED:
We have not identified the panel topics yet, so we'd like to have your
recommendations regarding topics that are broadly applicable to most users.
 In the past, the following have been very popular:

Animation & Video Panel
AVS in Medicine Panel
Wizards/Experts Panel

EXHIBITION CHAIR - AVS Inc. & J.R. Schuman Associates

GENERAL:
Speaker information is almost finished with important due dates, formats
for papers, presentations, reviews, printing, audio/visual forms, and how
to submit with shipping instructions.

Please respond to:

David Bennett
International AVS Center at North Carolina Supercomputing Center
3021 Cornwallis Road, RTP, NC 27709
phone 919 248 1182, fax 919 248 1101
email davidb@ncsc.org or avs@ncsc.org
Technical Program Chair, AVS '95
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