From twilson@netcom.com (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Re: Any experience with Lotus Notes?
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In article <awm.727644820@at1147> awm@at1147 (Art Mansky) writes:
>
>	Has anyone had any experience with the Lotus Notes software
>	package?  We are thinking of using it to handle a document
>	management system, with information being scanned into the
>	system from paper-based forms.  We have been led to believe 
>	that it will handle the access to this information by multiple
>	people, as well as their editing and putting their "OK" on
>	each form.  Any experiences?
>
One group of people within the software product/consulting company that I work
for does Notes installation/customizations/API programming, and we've been
using it in some form or another for about two years. It can be a range of
Notes desktop contains icons of Notes databases (each database = 1 newsgroup)
Databases are composed of documents and responses (like postings and subject).
The interface allows browsing the list of documents (one line each), in a
tabular format, viewing, adding responses, or editing (depending on the
rights allowed to a user.)  Views can include filters for which items
to show, and ordering by topic, who added the item, etc.

As contrasted to Usenet, where there is essentially one "form", Notes 
documents may be created by the database designer (a posting has from,
subject, keywords - Notes has field names you make up).  This gives
a database of whatever variables you decide are relevant to the application
you are designing.  Unlike a relational database, each record may not have
the same variables - there may be several different forms in one database.
(Typically, a primary document and response document will share many
but not all the same fields).  Being in a graphical environment, fields in a
form may contain rich text fields - formatting information like font, point,
margin, tabs, and graphics.  It's pretty good at WYSIWIG, with the intelligent
difference that word wrapping on the screen is appropriate to character
size and screen width, while printed text wraps at the print margins.

In-house, the software group that I'm in uses it in three ways:  on-line
techical documentation for our utilities and subroutines (sort of like man
pages), discussion groups for tech support/development (very much like
a newsgroup for discussing the package), and project tracking.  The 
project tracking is set up so that the designated users have edit rights
on each others documents - so someone may put in a request from the client,
I will see it on my unread list in that group (each icon shows a count of 
the unread documents in the database), I scan through the unread documents,
and add design recommendations in a "proposed solution" field in the form.
Because I have touched it, it will now show as unread to the other members
of the project.  Alternatively, I could add a response to the original,
if I didn't want to put in a design but just want to start a discussion
thread.  I can also send e-mail to users or groups of users, almost
identical to a respond on Usenet.

The most interesting application developed for our clients has been
one where the client keeps manufacturing process descriptions on-line.
Instead of sending out paper updates, the central engineering staff
updates the appropriate spec, the plants see it, and can do responses
for feedback.

I didn't mention above that Notes uses a replication strategy very
similar to Usenet.  Each local site has a Notes server (OS/2 box).
The server can have a modem attached, and schedules for when to call
other servers. We have a notes server in our SF and San Jose offices,
and I also have Notes set up on my PC at home (as do 4-5 others).
When each dials the other, all databases that are in common are
replicated.  So between sites it's basically a store-and-forward
technology.  There's also a Windows and OS/2 API that let you
get at the databases and modify, export, and import (one guy wrote
a utility to extract the database to MS Word for fancier printing).

Complaints - it's not relational, doesn't do lookups between
databases (I think I've heard that's coming). But for what it does,
I'm happy - we're getting communcaiton/documentation done that
fell through the cracks before.  There's a somewhat slow startup
period - our in-house use required that all stations be made
Windows-capable, configure all the user accounts, and give 
them some reason to use it (= create some databases that gave
something that wasn't there before; we already had other packages
for e-mail). 




From leos@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Leo Salemann)
Subject: Collaborative Computing?
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Hi there!!

I'm a University of Washington Computer Engineering Undergrad.  I'm
working /w/ a professor on a project in collaborative computing.  By
collaborative, I mean several users physically in the same room
together using multiple input devices and sharing a single display.
So, it's basically like some of the real-time groupware apps except
that the 'teleconferencing' aspect is gone. Anyway, I would be _very_
appreciative for pointers to vendors, journals, newsgroups, and
mailing lists on the following topics:

o Wall-sized displays
o Touch-sensitive Wall-sized displays

o 'Daisy-chaining' multiple input devices to a single display (say,
   plugging five mice into a mac and having an app that supports an
   indepedent mouse pointer for each mouse.

o Collaborative pen-based computing.



Thanks,

:-) Leo

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From pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Subject: Re: Benefits of Groupware
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In article <93030.103354DH6530A@auvm.american.edu> Diane L. Herdt <DH6530A@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>Does anyone have information about the benefits associated with using
>groupware?  Do the benefits outweigh the risks?

What risks, specifically?

pww



From ron@rivm.nl
Subject: Comments wanted (WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE)
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Hi all,

We are currently undertaken a project, that we want to sollicit comments, ideas
etc. on. I will include a short descritiption. In short, we have the following
questions:
We also would like to know if  you know any related projects, products etc.
that might be of interest.


Thanks in advance, please e-mail replies,


Ron


About the project

WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE

.. is a project aimed at establishing (sometime in the not too distant
future...) a new workstation concept for  researchers at our institue (which,
BTW, is like a combination of EPA and NIH in the US; about 2000 employees).

The workstation will be a 'the view on the world'. It would contain a set of
'objects and actions'               that are relevant to the particular person.
Things like statistics, coupled models, remote databases, vizualation, 
intergroup agenda, group activities etc. would be there. We see this concept as
a set of actions and objects, from which one could compose one's own 'world'. 

We are working on parts of the concept now. A model-editor has been
established, information retrieval (mail, news, WAIS, Gopher and other
services) is being worked on. Real groupware  is still left out.

This concept of the 'workstation' is seen as important by the board of
directors. Their view of the workstation  is a technical world of coupled
models and database and cooperating researchers, that the workstation would
facilitate.

At the moment I am trying to set up a project for the groupware part of it (the
coupled models, people working on the same project using groupware tools,
shared windows etc.). We would encourage every help from others, and are also
looking for institutes having ideas or being able to demonstrate work that has
been done on this subject or on the workstation concept as a whole.



From kerpedjiev@fsl.noaa.gov (P.Barnev)
Subject: CFP: 18th Int. Conf. on Information Technologies and Programming (new deadline)
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     EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WITH SUMMER SCHOOL

          FIRST  ANNOUNCEMENT  AND  CALL  FOR  PAPERS

	I N F O R M A T I O N   T E C H N O L O G I E S   A N D
			P R O G R A M M I N G

	- Information systems and telecommunications in business and
	   public administration
	- Hypertext and multimedia systems
	- Graphical methods for scientific and technical computing

			27 June - 4 July 1993
			   Sofia, Bulgaria

Address: 
		Conference IT&P 
		Institute of Mathematics
		Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl.8
		1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

		Phone: (+359) 2 - 713-3813, 3818, 3808
		Fax:   (+359) 2 - 752078
		E-mail: BARNEV@BGEARN.BITNET

AIM AND SCOPE:

The overall goal of the Conference is to gather people from Western and 
Eastern countries, from industry and universities, to promote contacts
between specialists from different organizations with different profiles, 
to set up links between different  fields of informatics.

TOPICS:

Traditionally the programme of the conference focusses on three main topics

but generally is not limited to them. For this year, the following topics 
are emphasized:

A) Information systems and telecommunications in business and public 
administration
	- methods and systems
	- legal aspects
	- organizational, social and ethical impacts
	- education
	- standards
	- information management

B) Hypertext and multimedia systems
	- models and methods
	- cognitive aspects
	- personal computing
	- cooperative work
	- software
	- object-oriented environment
	- application in training and documentation

C) Graphical methods for scientific and technical computing
	- computer geometry
	- scientific visualization
	- CAD, robotics, and VLSI

The programme will consist of lectures of 90 minutes duration, short papers

of 30 minutes duration, discussions, poster session and demonstrations. The

texts of the lectures and the short papers will be published in the 
proceedings of the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Those with appropriate scientific and technical experience are invited to 
submit papers to the conference. The text (in English) up to 8 pages 
should include the title, author's names and correspondence addresses, a 
brief abstract, an exposition where the essence and the specific results 
are given, and a bibliography. Type the manuscript on white A4 paper,
keeping 
the text within a frame of 240 mm long and 170 mm wide. Use 1 1/2 spacing. 
Avoid using dot-matrix printers in draft mode. The papers in camera-ready 
form must be received at the contact address in triplicate not later than
February 15, 1993.  An electronic copy of the paper (6 A4 pages, ASCII
format only)  can be submitted by e-mail to "barnev@bgearn.bitnet" but if
the paper is accepted the author should present a paper camera-ready
version at a later time. 

The papers will be reviewed by at least two members of 
the International Programme Committee and those accepted will be published 
in the proceedings. Accepted papers will be included into the programme of 
the conference either for oral presentation or for a poster session.

DEADLINES:

Today           Send the intention card
15 February  Contributions received by the secretariat 
                    (incl.  submissions by e-mail, see instructions above)
15 April       Notification of acceptance/rejection and financial
conditions
15 May	       Paying early registration fee
27 June	      Conference begins

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

L. Aiello (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
M. Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
P. Barnev (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Chairman
J. Hoffer (School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
S. Kerpedjiev (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Secretary
B. Kokinov (Insitute of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria) - Secretary
V. Kotov (Insitute of Information Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia)
N. Spyratos (Universite de Paris-Sud, France)
N. Streitz (Geselschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt,
	Germany)
C. Thanos (Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, Pisa, Italy)
T. Vamosh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

======== CUT HERE ========   CUT  HERE ======= CUT HERE =======

IT&P INTENTION CARD (send by mail or email):

		Conference IT&P 
		Institute of Mathematics
		Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl.8
		1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

		E-mail: BARNEV@BGEARN.BITNET

Name .................................................
Organization .........................................
Mail Address .........................................
Phone ................... Fax ........................
E-mail ...............................................

I intent to submit a paper:
Title ................................................

Date ...............      Signature ..................


From chandhok+@cs.cmu.edu (Ravinder Chandhok)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Announcing Version 1.0a9 of PREP
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Date: 1 Feb 93 19:21:18 GMT
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In honour of Groundhog Day , I am pleased to announce the release of
version 1.0a9 of the PREP Editor.  The instructions for anonymous ftp
follow.  

Most notable in the new release:

* Support for "anchors", so that you can attach annotations at a finer
grains size than the paragraph.  In text views, this means you can attach to
any run of characters, and in the drawing editor you can annotate any
drawing object.

* Better and faster file loading and printing - both have had _major_
speedups since the last release.

* lots of other bug fixes and interface cleanups.

You want version 1.0a9, which is stored in prepva9.sea.hqx 

Enjoy!
Rob

* File /usr/chandhok/public/prep/readme ************************************

This is an archive of the PREP Editor, a collaborative writing environment.
PREP is a Macintosh application, compatible with System 6.0 and higher,
including System 7.

The PREP project is funded by the National Science Foundation and Apple
Computer (ATG/ER).  Our goal is to develop a system that encourages and
facilitates collaboration in writing, without imposing requirements on
connectivity and concurrency.  Therefore, PREP requires no central server,
and is not a synchronous "shared-screen" word processor.  PREP provides a
column based interface where related information is linked across columns.
To some degree, PREP provides an unlimited amount of "virtual margins" to
take notes in.

The latest versions of PREP use the Claris XTND technology (provided) to
make it easy to import documents for annotation in PREP (and export them
afterwards with the annoations stored as footnotes).

PREP is available via anonymous ftp on the internet (those instructions
follow).    If you cannot use ftp, please send mail to
<prep-project@andrew.cmu.edu> and we will forward instructions on how you
can get a physical copy in the mail (for a small fee to cover our expenses).

Please try PREP, and let us know what you think!

* Anonymous ftp instructions ***********************************************

The archives are stored as a "binhex'd self-extracting archive".  It
is available for anonymous ftp via gnome.cs.cmu.edu, and the EXACT
instructions for getting the release package follows:

1) open an anonymous ftp connection to gnome.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.254.185)
   That is, do a "ftp gnome.cs.cmu.edu", and login as "anonymous",
   a password of your userid.

2) As your first ftp command after the login, issue the following:

   cd /usr/chandhok/public/prep

   !!! IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW STEP 2 EXACTLY, YOU WILL GET AN ERROR !!!

3) Next, issue the following command (in ascii mode, BTW), and substitute
   the version number for the ??

   get prepv??.sea.hqx
   
4) On your macintosh, use binhex or Stuffit to un-binhex the file.  
   You will end up with an application, which, when double clicked,
   will unpack itself as (at least) two files:
   
   * The Prep Application
   * The documentation in PREP format

   The unpacking may result in a release folder containing all the files,
   depending on what version you are retrieving.

Please send bugs and comments to prep-project+@andrew.cmu.edu
We will only allow for anonymous ftp access to this application if
we get feedback from people, otherwise it is not worth it to us.
See the About Box of the application for more info.

The PREP Editor is Copyright (c) 1990 
by the PREP Editor Group of Carnegie Mellon University.  
All rights reserved.  Do not distribute without permission.

All trademarks are property of their respective owners.
-- 
Ravinder (Rob) Chandhok              Internet : chandhok+@cs.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University           AppleLink: A14


From colston@gid.co.uk (Colston Sanger)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.cog-eng,comp.human-factors,comp.misc,uk.announce
Subject: CSCW book series
Keywords: CSCW, groupware, book series, UK CSCW SIG
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Date: 1 Feb 93 12:37:54 GMT
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COMPUTER SUPPORRTED COOPERATIVE WORK: a new book series
from Springer-Verlag

(Series editors: Dan Diaper and Colston Sanger)

Cooperative work, people working together to achieve common goals, is
essential to the running of most organizations.  Computer Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW) - or 'groupware' - represents a fundamental
paradigm shift in the design and use of computer systems to assist
cooperative working.

The Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) series is the result
of a unique collaboration between the UK CSCW Special Interest Group,
the British Computer Society and Springer- Verlag.

CSCW's synergistic combination of computing science and software
engineering with a range of theoretical and applied human sciences is
producing insights that promise to make it one of the most exciting
areas of everyday computer use in the 1990s.

The CSCW series will provide state-of-the-art material for an
international, interdisciplinary audience.  Each book in the series
addresses a particular aspect, theme or application area of CSCW.
The aim of the series is to give an overview of current knowledge,
research and debate for designers, users and students of CSCW systems.

--------------------------------------

Potential authors of books for the CSCW series should contact the
series editors:

Dan Diaper at University of Liverpool
Department of Computer Science
PO Box 147
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
Email: diaper@csc.liv.ac.uk

or

Colston Sanger at GID Ltd
69 King's Road
Haslemere
Surrey GU27 2QG, UK
UK Email: colston@gid.co.uk

--------------------------------------

CSCW in Practice: an Introduction and Case Studies

Dan Diaper and Colston Sanger (Eds.)

216pp (approx).  Soft cover UK pounds 26.95   ISBN 3-540-19784-2
Available: February 1993


This book provides an introduction to the technical and human aspects
of CSCW, from the perspectives of the technology, the users, and the
user interface.

The authors examine what has, or can be, done with existing technology,
and discuss CSCW as a set of issues, rather than a set of technologies.
Particular topics such as collaborative writing, conferencing, office
automation, decision support, and process modelling, are covered by case
studies.  A description of a CSCW system that was tested, and failed,
in a commercial application is included, and it is hoped that those in
industry will agree with this accurate portrayal of the real world and
that academics will be encouraged to be more practical in their proposals
to their industrial collaborators.

CSCW in Practice: an Introduction and Case Studies is unusual because
it collects and reports practical experience, which, at present, is
in short supply in an accessible form.  It will therefore be of value
to those who are relatively new to CSCW, both students and the more
qualified, and to those with greater experience.  

SCW in Practice: an Introduction and Case Studies - Contents

Technological support for cooperation
Speech act systems
Office procedure systems
Textual conferencing facilities
Multi-user hypertext
Real-time conferencing systems
Desktop conferencing
Multimedia conferencing
User interfaces for CSCW systems
Groupware interfaces
Standard interface design
BLEND: the pioneering spirit
European collaboration
Electronic mail
Computer support for the HCI community
What HICOM has taught us about CSCW
PSS: process support system
Process Modelling in PML: a hospital example
Current directions: the IOPT project
Language-action based process modelling
Field studies of process technology and cooperative work
Free-hand sketching, highlighter and multi-state hot-spots
DrawingBoard
The pod: a purpose-built environment to support group working
Usability trialing for CSCW technology: lessons from a structured messaging task
Cooperative tasks supported by COSMOS II
Lessons learned from the COSMOS II trial
Configurability, compatibility and accessibility of structured messaging systems  


--------------------------------------
CSCW: Cooperation or Conflict?

Steve Easterbrook (Ed.)

224pp (approx).  Soft cover UK pounds 26.95  ISBN 3-540-19755-9 Available:
February 1993


CSCW systems will play an important role in the application of information
systems in the 1990s.  The term "cooperative" is often taken for granted
and it is assumed that CSCW users are willing and able to cooperate
without any difficulty.  This assumption ignores the possibility of
conflict and, as a result, the expression, management and resolution of
conflict are not supported.

CSCW: Cooperation or Conflict? examines the role of conflict in
collaborative work: what do people actually do when they say they are
cooperating and how does this affect the design of systems?

Amongst the topics covered are the social dynamics of the development
and introduction of new software systems, the relationship between
cooperation, conflict and the ownership of information, and conflicts
in small group planning and in large-scale scientific work.

This is the first book to examine conflict from a CSCW perspective,
offering a unique snapshot of current research in this exciting field.
For the designer of CSCW systems, it gives insights into the role of
conflict, and an analysis of the assumptions on which existing CSCW
systems are based.  For the student and researcher, it provides an
introduction to the area, and a set of in-depth studies suitable to
inform future research.  

CSCW: Cooperation or Conflict? - Contents

Perspectives on conflict
Definitions of conflict
Classifications of conflict
Occurrence of conflict
Causes of conflict
Utility of conflict
Development of conflicts
Management and resolutions of conflicts
Results of conflicts
Computer-mediated communication
Information sharing tools
Concept development tools
Computer supported meeting environments
Collaborative writing tools
Shared workspace systems
The social dynamics of systems development: conflict, change and
organizational politics
Social factors in design
The dynamics of design
Process studies of user involvement
Design as social action
Models of change: punctuated equilibrium
A dialectical view of the design process
The psychoanalytic perspective
Cooperation without consensus in scientific problem solving
Resolution of inter-individual conflicts
Sociocognitive conflict
Cooperation and conflict in knowledge-intensive CSCW
Organizational structures, CSCW and conflict
Implications for the design of technology for cooperative working
Going off the rails: understanding conflict in practice
The computer won't let me: cooperation, conflict and the ownership of information

--------------------------------------

Computer Supported Collaborative Writing

Mike Sharples (Ed.)

240pp (approx).  Soft cover, UK pounds 26.95  ISBN 3-540-19782-6 Available:
February 1993


The growth of interdisciplinary studies, international research projects,
and distributed work groups within large companies, has led to pressure
on writers to work in collaboration.  Writing groups may consist of
people who rarely meet face-to-face, yet they are expected to work
closely together, and to tight schedules.  Recent research has studied
the process of collaborative authoring and these studies have led to
the development of software to support both formal co-authorship and
more informal collaboration, such as the sharing of ideas and opinions,
and critical reading and annotation of drafts.

This volume brings together people with different interests - software
design, computer support for technical authoring, models of the
collaborative writing process - who explore the research problems and
offer practical solutions.

Computers may appear merely to extend the traditional means of
collaboration: electronic mail replaces letter writing, computer
conferencing substitutes for meetings, shared databases stand in for
filing systems and libraries.  In fact, each of these systems offers
new ways of working and blurs the boundary between informal and formal
collaboration.

Computer Supported Collaborative Writing presents in-depth studies of
formal and informal collaboration and proposes preliminary designs for
new computer tools.  It provides invaluable reading for researchers
and students, software designers, and writers.  

Computer Supported Collaborative Writing - Contents


The collaborative tradition
New ways of working together
Research issues in the study of computer supported collaborative writing
Writing and group working
Single-author writing
Small-group working
Interleaving tasks
Substitutability and interdependence between group members
Identifying the purpose of a communicated representation
Structured communication
Social writing: premises and practices in computerized contexts
Computer networking for development of distance education courses
Networked groupware
How collaborative is collaborative writing? An analysis of the
production of two technical reports
A survey of experiences of collaborative writing
Multimedia conferencing as a tool for collaborative writing: A case study
Electronic mail
Shared filestore
Using synchronous and asynchronous modes of communication
Reviewing designs for a synchronous-asynchronous group editing environment
Direct communication
Shared artefacts
A case study in task analysis for the design of a collaborative document
production system
MILO: A computer-based tool for (co)authoring.


--------------------------------------


Forthcoming titles:

Design Issues in CSCW Duska Rosenberg and Chris Hutchison (Eds.)
ISBN 3-540-19810-5  UK pounds 30 approx.  Planned publication: July 1993

CSCW and Artificial Intelligence John Connolly and Ernest Edmonds (Eds.)
ISBN 3-540-19816-4  UK pounds 30 approx.  Planned publication: July 1993


--------------------------------------

Ordering information

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From Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
Subject: Comments wanted
Message-ID: <C1tBzH.4AE@rivm.nl>
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Reply-To: ron@rivm.nl
Organization: RIVM 
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 08:38:05 GMT
Lines: 57

 Hi all,

(For some this might be the second time you read this. But the article has been
received empty in some countries..).

We are currently undertaken a project, that we want to sollicit comments, ideas
etc. on. I will include a short descritiption. In short, we have the following
questions:
We also would like to know if  you know any related projects, products etc.
that might be of interest.


Thanks in advance, please e-mail replies,


Ron


About the project

WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE

... is a project aimed at establishing (sometime in the not too distant
future...) a new workstation concept for  researchers at our institue (which,
BTW, is like a combination of EPA and NIH in the US; about 2000 employees).

The workstation will be a 'the view on the world'. It would contain a set of
'objects and actions'               that are relevant to the particular person.
Things like statistics, coupled models, remote databases, vizualation, 
intergroup agenda, group activities etc. would be there. We see this concept as
a set of actions and objects, from which one could compose one's own 'world'. 

We are working on parts of the concept now. A model-editor has been
established, information retrieval (mail, news, WAIS, Gopher and other
services) is being worked on. Real groupware  is still left out.

This concept of the 'workstation' is seen as important by the board of
directors. Their view of the workstation  is a technical world of coupled
models and database and cooperating researchers, that the workstation would
facilitate.

At the moment I am trying to set up a project for the groupware part of it (the
coupled models, people working on the same project using groupware tools,
shared windows etc.). We would encourage every help from others, and are also
looking for institutes having ideas or being able to demonstrate work that has
been done on this subject or on the workstation concept as a whole.

 

____________
  Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
  Senior Consultant
  National Institute on Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
  Informatics Service Centre
  Postbox 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands
  Tel. ++31 30 742790, Fax. ++31 30 282 316



From Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
Subject: comp.human-factors
Message-ID: <C1tC0A.4BD@rivm.nl>
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Reply-To: ron@rivm.nl
Organization: RIVM 
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 08:38:34 GMT
Lines: 57

 Hi all,

(For some this might be the second time you read this. But the article has been
received empty in some countries..).

We are currently undertaken a project, that we want to sollicit comments, ideas
etc. on. I will include a short descritiption. In short, we have the following
questions:
We also would like to know if  you know any related projects, products etc.
that might be of interest.


Thanks in advance, please e-mail replies,


Ron


About the project

WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE

... is a project aimed at establishing (sometime in the not too distant
future...) a new workstation concept for  researchers at our institue (which,
BTW, is like a combination of EPA and NIH in the US; about 2000 employees).

The workstation will be a 'the view on the world'. It would contain a set of
'objects and actions'               that are relevant to the particular person.
Things like statistics, coupled models, remote databases, vizualation, 
intergroup agenda, group activities etc. would be there. We see this concept as
a set of actions and objects, from which one could compose one's own 'world'. 

We are working on parts of the concept now. A model-editor has been
established, information retrieval (mail, news, WAIS, Gopher and other
services) is being worked on. Real groupware  is still left out.

This concept of the 'workstation' is seen as important by the board of
directors. Their view of the workstation  is a technical world of coupled
models and database and cooperating researchers, that the workstation would
facilitate.

At the moment I am trying to set up a project for the groupware part of it (the
coupled models, people working on the same project using groupware tools,
shared windows etc.). We would encourage every help from others, and are also
looking for institutes having ideas or being able to demonstrate work that has
been done on this subject or on the workstation concept as a whole.

 

____________
  Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
  Senior Consultant
  National Institute on Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
  Informatics Service Centre
  Postbox 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands
  Tel. ++31 30 742790, Fax. ++31 30 282 316



From Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
Subject: Comments wanted (Future workstations)
Message-ID: <C1tC14.4C8@rivm.nl>
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Reply-To: ron@rivm.nl
Organization: RIVM 
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 08:39:04 GMT
Lines: 57

 Hi all,

(For some this might be the second time you read this. But the article has been
received empty in some countries..).

We are currently undertaken a project, that we want to sollicit comments, ideas
etc. on. I will include a short descritiption. In short, we have the following
questions:
We also would like to know if  you know any related projects, products etc.
that might be of interest.


Thanks in advance, please e-mail replies,


Ron


About the project

WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE

... is a project aimed at establishing (sometime in the not too distant
future...) a new workstation concept for  researchers at our institue (which,
BTW, is like a combination of EPA and NIH in the US; about 2000 employees).

The workstation will be a 'the view on the world'. It would contain a set of
'objects and actions'               that are relevant to the particular person.
Things like statistics, coupled models, remote databases, vizualation, 
intergroup agenda, group activities etc. would be there. We see this concept as
a set of actions and objects, from which one could compose one's own 'world'. 

We are working on parts of the concept now. A model-editor has been
established, information retrieval (mail, news, WAIS, Gopher and other
services) is being worked on. Real groupware  is still left out.

This concept of the 'workstation' is seen as important by the board of
directors. Their view of the workstation  is a technical world of coupled
models and database and cooperating researchers, that the workstation would
facilitate.

At the moment I am trying to set up a project for the groupware part of it (the
coupled models, people working on the same project using groupware tools,
shared windows etc.). We would encourage every help from others, and are also
looking for institutes having ideas or being able to demonstrate work that has
been done on this subject or on the workstation concept as a whole.

 

____________
  Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
  Senior Consultant
  National Institute on Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
  Informatics Service Centre
  Postbox 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands
  Tel. ++31 30 742790, Fax. ++31 30 282 316



From nlc@turing.cs.nott.ac.uk (Neil L Cook)
Subject: Re: Benefits of Groupware
Message-ID: <1993Feb2.112452.25438@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Sender: nlc@turing (Neil L Cook)
Organization: Communications Research Group
References: <1993Jan25.223718.1@seb.se> <harmo.199@valt.Helsinki.FI> <93030.103354DH6530A@auvm.american.edu> <1993Feb1.134245.12640@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 11:24:52 GMT
Lines: 4

Of course there are risks - people might start communicating if groupware became
widely available. We can't have that; Western Society would collapse.

Neil.


From Tom Brinck <hammer@thumper.bellcore.com>
Subject: window-sharing systems for X
Message-ID: <1993Feb4.160703.10602@walter.bellcore.com>
Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: bambam.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 16:07:03 GMT
Lines: 84

I recently posted a query about what window-sharing systems were
available for the X Window system.  This posting summarizes the replies
I got, as well as any descriptions and contact information.  Thanks to
all the dozens of people who responded.

First, there seemed to be some confusion about what was meant by
window-sharing, so I'll try to define it.  Unfortunately,
"window-sharing" is a fairly ambiguous term, but it has frequently been
used in one specific technical sense.  A window-sharing system is
software which allows you to share arbitrary single-user applications
without modifications.  Window-sharing systems generally work by
overriding the window system somehow.  They allow two or more users to
work with the same single-user application by either mixing the inputs
of the users or by allowing only one user to control the application at
a time.

Window-sharing systems have one great advantage, which is that they make
a lot of software sharable without doing any work.  On the other hand,
they have a lot of disadvantages.  Most of them are fairly unreliable
because they are very difficult systems to build.  For instance, making
window-sharing work in X can be difficult because different
implementations of X tend to have various incompatibilities, such as
fonts and colormaps.

Some people use the terms "window-sharing", "shared windowing", and
"screen-sharing" synonymously.  Others use them to distinguish different
types of systems.  The best advice I can give is to ask people to define
their terms.


Here's the list:

Shared X:  HP (commercial product).  Currently only runs on HP workstations.

X/TeleScreen Interactive: a soon-to-be-available shared X product (works
on Sun, DEC, SGI, and others):
GVI
1448 Flicker Way
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
phone and fax: (408)737-1904

XTV:  Old Dominion Univ. and UNC.  An X contrib application.
by Abdel-Wahab & Feit (Old Dominion University) wahab@cs.odu.edu
This software enables multiple users to share the exactly same window
(strict WYSIWIS), which is initiated by any of the participants. Any
X-based client can be run on it.  Has problems sharing between X servers
with different colormaps (e.g. MacX and Sun, Sun and Tek X terminal). 
Big performance hit.  Requires you to know ahead of time which
application you might want to share with someone.

Rapport:  Bell Labs

Shadows:  Bellcore.  Not currently available.  It has also never been
used beyond X11R3.  It does not handle color disagreements on different
machines.

Shared Virtual Screen : Jin-Kun Lin <linjk@cs.unc.edu> at UNC

xmx:  jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik).  A screen-sharing system.  Requires
you to run a special window manager for the purpose of using it.  A new
version is currently in development. Obtain it from wilma.cs.brown.edu

COMIX:  MONET multimedia conferencing system developed at the Concurrent
Engineering Research Center, West Virginia U.  You can get technical
reports in PostScript from their FTP server --
babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.  Only one user interacting at a time.

shX:  Shared X - a modified X library to give dynamic multi-display
support. It provides "naive" X applications with the capability to work
with several displays simultaneously, dynamically add and remove new
displays and hand input control from display to display."  Author:
Michael P. Altenhofen, CEC Karlsruhe, e-mail:
Altenhofen@kampus.enet.dec.com.   Available via cs.ucl.ac.uk:
~ftp/car/shX.ucl.tar.Z, gatekeeper.dec.com, or pub/X11/contrib/shX.tar.Z.


-- Tom

----------------------------------------------
Tom Brinck
Bellcore
(201) 829-5238
hammer@bellcore.com



From jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik)
Subject: Re: window-sharing systems for X
Message-ID: <1993Feb4.163807.12155@cs.brown.edu>
Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
References:  <1993Feb4.160703.10602@walter.bellcore.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 16:38:07 GMT
Lines: 11

In article <1993Feb4.160703.10602@walter.bellcore.com>, Tom Brinck <hammer@thumper.bellcore.com> writes:
|> 
|> xmx:  jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik).  A screen-sharing system.  Requires
|> you to run a special window manager for the purpose of using it.  A new
|> version is currently in development. Obtain it from wilma.cs.brown.edu

Correction:

Xmx works with *any* window manager, *any* X client(s) and *any* X server(s).

John


From steve@insl.com (Steve Buckman)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: FAQ Availability
Message-ID: <1993Feb05.114005.20806@insl.com>
Date: 5 Feb 93 11:40:05 GMT
Organization: Insalaco Markets, Inc.
Lines: 12


Can anyone tell me how to obtain an FAQ for this news group?

Thanks!


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From bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
Subject: Re: A fun groupware application (Idea)
In-Reply-To: ccat@netcom.com's message of Sat, 30 Jan 1993 15: 43:16 GMT
Message-ID: <BERGSTRO.93Feb5090257@data.src.honeywell.com>
Originator: bergstro@data.src.honeywell.com
Sender: news@src.honeywell.com (News interface)
Nntp-Posting-Host: data.src.honeywell.com
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Minneapolis, MN
References: <1993Jan30.153516.6745@netcom.com>
	<1993Jan30.154316.6974@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 15:02:57 GMT
Lines: 19


In article <1993Jan30.154316.6974@netcom.com> ccat@netcom.com (Chris) writes:

C> With the much ballyhood introduction of ISDN and the new proposed
C> highspeed data network,I'm expecting shortly afterward to see the audio
C> equivalent
C> of IRC. This might also transmit MIDI data.. What a boon to musicians
C> to be able to jam together without having to be in the same place..
C> -Chris.

What about latency problems? I've seen a couple of demos of software
(i.e., Nevot) where it takes at least a second for sound whispered
into a microphone on a Sun to be played from a second Sun on the other
end of a small room. This is on an Ethernet network. 

Pete

--
-- 


From kling@ics.uci.edu (Rob Kling)
Subject: CFP ... Conference on Computing in Organizations
Message-ID: <9302050839.aa01511@q2.ics.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.infosystems
Lines: 127
Date: 5 Feb 93 16:39:20 GMT

                               Call for Papers
                                   COOCS 93
                Conference on Organizational Computing Systems
                   Sponsored by ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA
                       in cooperation with IFIP WG 8.4
       Sheraton Silicon Valley --- Milpitas (near San Jose), California
                              November 1-4, 1993


As we move toward globally distributed businesses, widespread mixed-media
computing systems and highly mobile workers, the availability of information
within an organization becomes increasingly critical.  Advances in tools,
technologies, and methodologies that facilitate the use of information systems
in organizations will improve the way information is made available and used.
This conference is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners
interested in the use, management, and movement of information within
organizations. The scope of the conference is intended to cover areas related
to this goal, including but not limited to:

        Organizational computing systems
        Distributed AI, Expert Systems and Multi-Agent models
        Object and Database Models and Systems
        Parallel, Distributed and Open Information Systems
        Computer-Supported Collaboration
        Task Analysis, Modeling, Planning and Coordination
        Social Aspects of Integrating and Using Information
        Analysis of Organizational Structure and Dynamics to
                organizational utilization of computers
        Multimedia Information, Storage, Retrieval and
        Portability and the Mobile Office
        Organizational Impact of Large Distributed Applications


Submissions to the conference can be in the form of papers, demonstration,
panel, workshop or tutorial proposals.

Papers can take two forms.  Research Investigations present original work in
any of the areas of interest to the conference.  Case studies discuss projects
which introduce innovative tools, technologies or methodologies into
particular organizational settings, and critically analyze the results and
impact of the project.  Papers should not exceed 12 ACM camera-ready pages.
It is possible that some papers will be presented at the conference in poster
sessions.

Demonstration proposals should be 3-5 pages long, and include enough
information to allow the committee to judge the relevance and significance of
the work.  Please include machine requirements.

Panel proposals should motivate the subject of the panel, and give brief
biographical sketches of each of the proposed panel members.

Workshop and Tutorial proposals should motivate the workshop/tutorial and its
relevance to this conference. For tutorials, provide an outline and a brief
biosketch of the proposers.  For workshops, motivate the workshop, indicate
how you would select participants, and outline the format of the workshop.
Proposals for both half-day and full-day workshops and tutorials are welcome.

Authors should submit five copies of their manuscript, in English, together
with a cover sheet, to the Program Chair by March 31, 1993.  The cover sheet
should contain (i) submission type; (ii) title, (iii) names, addresses, phone
numbers, fax numbers and email addresses (if available) of all authors; (iii)
contact author; (iv) keywords and abstract.  Information on paper format can
be obtained from the Program Chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:
        Submissions due:        March 31, 1993
        Author notification:    June 7, 1993
        Manuscripts due:        August 13, 1993


General Chair:
        Peter de Jong (IBM, USA)

Conference Committee:
        Robert Allen (Bellcore, USA)
        Fred Lochovsky (HKUST, Hong Kong)
        Doug Vogel (U. Arizona, USA)
        Carson Woo (U. British Columbia, Canada)

Registration/Local Arrangements:
        Charles Grantham (U. San Francisco, USA)

Treasurer:
        Jeanie Treichel (Sun Microsystems Labs, USA)

Workshops:
        Michael Muller (Bellcore, USA)

Demonstrations:
        Keith Swenson (Fujitsu/OSSI, USA)

Program Chair:
        Simon Kaplan
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Illinois
        1304 W. Springfield Avenue
        Urbana, IL 61801
        USA
        phone: +1 217 244 0392
        email: kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu
        fax: +1 217 333 3501

Program Committee:
        Graham Button  (Xerox EuroPARC, UK)
        Prasun Dewan  (Purdue U., USA)
        Bob Ensor (AT&T  Bell Labs, USA)
        Anthony Finkelstein  (Imperial College, UK)
        Dave Gedye  (SunLabs, USA)
        Saul Greenberg  (U. Calgary, Canada)
        Hiroshi Ishii  (NTT, Japan)
        Gail Kaiser  (Columbia U., USA)
        John King  (U.C. Irvine, USA)
        Rob Kling (U.C. Irvine, USA)
        Dan Kogan  (Intel Corp., USA)
        Jintae Lee   (U. Hawaii, USA)
        Dave Marca  (DEC, USA)
        Ken Pier  (Xerox PARC, USA)
        Tom Rodden  (Lancaster U., UK)
        Sunil Sarin   (Xerox, USA)
        Thomas Schael (RSO, Italy)
        Allan Shepherd  (HP Labs, USA)
        John Smith  (U. North Carolina, USA)
        Terry Winograd  (Stanford U., USA)
        Mike Wish  (AT&T Bell Labs, USA)





From avs@doppler.ncsc.org (AVS account)
Subject: 2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference (AVS '93)
Message-ID: <C25D32.sw@doppler.ncsc.org>
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 20:33:02 GMT


****************************************************************
			Visualization.  
			   Imaging.  
	              Computer Graphics.
****************************************************************


		INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION??

The following information is the complete preliminary advance
registration for the "2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference"
which is being held May 24-26, 1993 at the WALT DISNEY WORLD
Dolphin Hotel at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  It includes over 100 lectures,
tutorials, workshops and panels in Scientific Visualization using the
AVS (Application Visualization System) environment.  Users from around
the world will present their work in six different tracks:

Biomedical/Medical
Chemistry/Molecular Modeling
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)/ and Remote Sensing
Earth Sciences
General Tracks A and B that include;
	Distributed computing
	Parallelization
	Holographic display
	Sonification
	CFD and FE
	AVS in manufacturing
	and many other topics 

In addition, there will be a video theater of AVS users work.

The Exhibition floor will be technology oriented and provide
examples of hardware and software using AVS.  Make sure to see
VISION DOME, a Virtual Reality environment that is the central 
demonstration of our "Emerging Technologies" exhibit.

This information is also available in hardcopy and in
electronic format on the International AVS Center's public domain
ftp site.  To get an online copy, ftp to 128.109.178.23 and
login as anonymous, give your email address as the password and
cd to the avs93 directory.  For ASCII format, type ascii and then
type get AVS93_prog.txt.  We hope to have PostScript format available
soon.  To get hardcopy, send email to avs93@ncsc.org or write to:

	International AVS Center
	3021 Cornwallis Road
	Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
	Phone (919) 248 1182
	FAX   (919) 248 1101

************************************************************************
**A detailed listing of the titles to be presented is included below.**
			COMPLETE PROGRAM FOLLOWS
************************************************************************

AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the 
International AVS Center and the North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center (NCSC), a division of MCNC, in 
cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The AVS Consortium 
consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., CONVEX Computer 
Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-
Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., and 
SUN Microsystems Inc.

AVS '93 provides a one-of-a-kind, international forum 
for AVS users and developers to share information and 
exchange ideas for the advancement of AVS.  The conference 
features technology-oriented exhibitions, tutorials, 
workshops, lectures, panels, and video screenings.  
Conference topics include computational chemistry, 
computational fluid dynamics, earth sciences, education 
and research, geographic information systems and remote 
sensing, image analysis, medical imaging, molecular 
modeling, oil and gas exploration, scientific visualization, 
structural analysis, and more.

Proceedings

MCNC publishes the proceedings volume for distribution to 
AVS '93 registrants at the conference.  Extra copies can be 
purchased for $50 after the conference.

Program Committee

Program Chair 
DAVID BENNETT,
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Co-Chairs  
KATHERINE MOHRFELD,
International AVS Center /North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

STEVE THORPE, 
International AVS Center/North Carolina Supercomputing 
Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Medical/Biomedical Chair
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Earth Sciences Chair
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Geographic Information Systems Chair 
CHUCK HANSEN,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 

General Track A Chair
TOM PALMER, Cray Research/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Chair
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 

General Track B Chair
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Sessions

Panels

Panelists offer candid and provocative discussion 
and debate on trends, controversies, and viewpoints in 
the visualization industry and address a broad range of 
AVS topics, including virtual reality, packet video, and 
education.

Lectures and Workshops

International experts from industry and academia 
present lectures and conduct hands-on workshops on 
emerging visualization techniques and AVS uses in such 
areas as medical imaging, molecular modeling, geographic 
information systems, and chemistry. 

Note:  Workshops require basic AVS user knowledge.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS Video Review Theatre showcases everyday 
examples of completed works and works in progress by 
AVS users from around the world.  Questions and 
submissions should be forwarded to Steve Thorpe, 
NCSC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2889,  telephone 
919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.  

Special-Focus Groups

Special-focus groups bring together people with 
mutual interests to meet, exchange ideas, and share and 
compare information on a wide variety of visualization 
topics.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide hands-on training by experts who 
offer beginning and basic courses on AVS use as well as 
how to use third-party, AVS-compatible software.  
Tutorials require basic knowledge of AVS except 
courses in the AVS Animator, the Geometry Viewer, the 
Network Editor, and the Overview of AVS 5.

Exhibition

The exhibition features technology-sharing demonstrations 
by the AVS Consortium members and other AVS product-
related vendors and users.  The exhibition is held Monday 
and Tuesday, May 24 and 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
and Wednesday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS 
93 registration fee.  Tickets to attend only the exhibition 
may be purchased for $25 at the 
AVS 93 registration booth.

For additional  information and a copy of the exhibitor 
prospectus, contact Ann Cadran, Conference Associate, 
MCNC, Post Office Box 12889, 3021 Cornwallis Road, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709.
Telephone:  919-248-1432
Fax:  919-248-1445 
Email: cadran@mcnc.org


********************************************************************  
         AVS '93 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
********************************************************************

Medical/Biomedical and Image Synthesis

Chair: MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Ann Arbor, MI

Lectures

Design and Simulation of 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy Using AVS 
(#ML9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

New Methods for Visualizing the Structure of Biological Molecules 
(#ML10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAN PEISACH, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Visualizing Physiological Data 
(#ML3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN PRICE, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 
Loma Linda, CA

Interactive Data Exploration and Telecollaboration in 
Biomedicine Using AVS 
(#ML4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday) GUDRAN J. KLINKER, 
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment 
Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Using AVS 
(#TL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JEFF COCHAND, TASC, Reading, MA

Visualization of Air Flow of a Rats Nasal Airway Using AVS 
and FIDAP 
(#TL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
JULIA S. KIMBELL, Chemical Industry Institute of 
Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC

Building Medical Imaging Applications Using Khoros Modules 
Ported into AVS
(#TL3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday) JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

AVS and Radiotherapy Treatment Planning  
(#TL4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
E. LOREN BUHLE JR., University of Pennsylvania, School of 
Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 

Holographic Display of Medical Image Data 
(#WL9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday) MICHAEL DALTON, Voxel, 
Laguna Hills, CA

Simultaneous Usage of Homologous Points, Lines, and Planes for 
Optimal 3-D Linear Registration of Multimodality Imaging Data 
(#WL10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
GREGG LEICHTMAN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Laser 
Research Center, Los Angeles, CA

3-D Image Segmentation in MR Images 
(#WL2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LLOYD MYERS, University of Washington, School of 
Medicine, Department of Biological Structures, 
Seattle, WA

Workshop

Visualization and Analysis of Multidimensional Biomedical 
Images Using ANALYZE 
(#MW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; 
#TW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday; 
#WW9-1, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
RICHARD ROBB AND DENNY HANSEN, 
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
Earth Sciences

Chair: THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/  
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Lectures

Developing an AVS-Based Training Program for Environmental 
Researchers at the U.S. EPA
(#ML9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
THERESA RHYNE, Martin Marietta/
U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC

Basin Modeling with AVS (#ML10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
ANNETTE WALSH, Mobil Exploration and Producing 
Technical Center, Dallas, TX

Flood Plane Visualization for the Snake River Plain 
(#ML3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
L. ERIC GREENWADE, Visualization and Imaging Team, Idaho 
National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

Circulation and Plume Tracking in the Massachusetts Bay 
(#ML4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
EVELYN WRIGHT AND RICHARD P. SIGNELL, 
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA

UAMworld:  A User-Friendly Distributed Environment for 
Execution Analysis and Visualization of the Urban Airshed Model 
(#TL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday) STEVE CHALL, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

The Weather on Jupiter 
(#TL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TIM DOWLING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science, 
Cambridge, MA

Use of AVS in Meteorology 
(#TL3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
BILL BAUMAN, U.S. Air Force/ North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh, NC

A User's Perspective of AVS in an Engineering Analysis 
Environment 
(#TL4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE GLASS, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational 
Fluid Dynamics, Albuquerque, NM

Airshed Photochemical Model 
(#WL9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
CARY MCGREGOR, California Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento, CA

Atmospheric Science Using AVS 
(#WL10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
PHILIP C. CHEN, Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, CA

Visualizing the Influence of Building Projects in Environmentally 
Sensitive Areas 
(#WL2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
HARALD MAYER, Joanneum Research Institute for 
Information Systems, Graz, Austria

Workshop

SurfCube 
(#MW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW2-2, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW9-2, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
TIM HAYS, Landmark Graphics, Houston, TX
Note: Basic knowledge of AVS is required.
  
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) 
and Remote Sensing

Chair: CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 

Lectures

PAMAP-GIS in AVS 
(#ML9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada

Database System Management for the Sequoia Project Using 
Postgres and AVS 
(#ML10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MIKE KOCHEVAR, Digital Equipment Corporation  Sequoia 
Project, San Diego Supercomputing Center, La Jolla, CA

Natural Disaster Modeling in the Geological Sciences to 
Facilitate Public Policy Decision-Making 
(#ML3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
ERIC FROST; San Diego State University, Computer 
Imaging, Visualization, and Animation Center, San Diego, CA 

Building Remote Sensing Applications Using Khoros 
Modules Ported into AVS
(#ML4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

GIS and Visualization 
(#TL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WILLIAM IVEY, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Parallel Processing Support for GIS 
(#TL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
WOJTEK FURMANSKI, 
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Using AVS to Further NASA Space Science Research and 
Mission Planning 
(#TL3-3, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DAVID MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD 

Environmental Use of a Laser Range Finder and AVS 
(#TL4-3, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, 
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA

Modeling with Artisan in AVS 
(#WL9-3, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MIKE BONNAIN, SET Technology, Boulder, CO

On the Use of 3D in GIS Using AVS 
(#WL10-3, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday) 
JESSE DRIVER, Kubota Pacific, Santa Clara, CA

Workshop

GIS Visualization Using 
PAMAP in AVS 
(#MW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday;  #TW9-2, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-2, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
PAMAP Technologies Corporation, 
Victoria, BC, Canada
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General A

Chair: TOM PALMER 
Cray Research/North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Lectures

Sonification in AVS 
(#ML9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
BRIAN KAPLAN, Indiana University, Center for Innovative 
Computer Applications, Bloomington, IN

Visualization of a Simulation Catalog of Numerical 
Hydrodynamics 
(#ML10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
SHAWN MEHAN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CLI Hints and Tips 
(#ML3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
HOWARD WATKINS, Intera Information Technologies Ltd., 
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom

Distributed Methodologies for Animation Using AVS 
(#ML4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
LARRY DIAMOND, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer 
Science, Austin, TX

Experiences in Developing AVS-Layered Applications 
(#TL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
RALPH FOLZ, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates Inc., 
Concord, MA

The Practical Use of AVS to Aid the Visualization of 3-D 
Semiconductor Device Simulation 
(#TL10-4, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Jonathan Cox, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, DEPARTMENT OF 
COMPUTER SCIENCE, MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Optical Device Modeling:  Debugging and Visualizing with AVS 
(#TL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
PASCAL LANDI, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Summit, NJ

Visualization on Massively Parallel Computers Using AVS 
(#TL4-4, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
CHUCK HANSEN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advanced 
Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	

AVS Functional Visualization:  Extracting Algebraic Expressions 
from Distributed Numbers 
(#WL9-4, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
RON KRIZ, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Interactive Simulations of Focus Wave Modes Using AVS 
(#WL10-4,10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JOHN SHALF, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Finite Element Data Visualization Using UCD 
(#WL2-4, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY SCHOOF, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Scientific Animation Tips-n-Tricks 
(#WL3-4, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS LANDRETH, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Workshop

Importing Your Data into and Visualization Techniques for 
AVS Data Formats 
(#MW9-3, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday topic uses UCD data; #TW2-3,  
2 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday topic uses field data; #WW9-3,  9 
- 11:45 a.m. Wednesday topic uses chemistry data
MARY STEPHENSON AND JON VAGI, 
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle 
Park, NC
Note: This workshop is designed for intermediate users and is 
not suitable for beginners.
  
Chemistry and
Molecular Modeling

Chair: DOUGLAS SMITH, 
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH  

Lectures

Quantum Chemistry Using the AVS Chemistry Viewer 
(#ML9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DOUGLAS SMITH, University of Toledo, Department of 
Chemistry, Toledo, OH

Using AVS as an Internal Design Tool:  Prototyping Code for 
Future Versions of SPARTAN
(#ML10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
JOE LEONARD, Wavefunction Inc., Irvine, CA

Visualizing Molecular Orbital Generated Dynamic Reaction 
Processes with AVS 
(#ML3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GEORGE FAMINI, ERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 
Aberdeen, MD

AVS and CFD in the Chemical Process Industries 
(#ML4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
MICHAEL RANGITSCH, Dow Chemical USA, Plaquemine, LA

Precision Engineering Visualization with AVS
(#TL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

SAVS:  An Integrated Approach to Data Acquisition, 
Manipulation, and Visualization 
(#TL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
Edward P. Szuszczewicz, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MCLEAN, VA

AVS in Crystallography and Molecular Biology 
(#TL3-5, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
LYNN TEN EYCK, University of California at San Diego, 
Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, CA

AVS for Molecular Modeling 
(#TL4-5, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
MIKE PIQUE AND BRUCE DUNCAN, 
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular 
Biology, La Jolla, CA

AVS and the Naval Research Laboratory 
(#WL9-5, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
ROBERT ROSENBERG, Naval Research Laboratory, 
Washington, DC

Resin Transfer Mold Process Simulation Using AVS 
(#WL10-5, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
DOUG MACRAE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA

Workshops

Introduction to the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TW9-4, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW9-4, 9 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, 
Molecular Simulations Inc.,  Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.

Advanced Features of the Chemistry Viewer 
(#MW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW2-4, 2 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WW2-4, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
UPUL OBEYSEKARE, Science and Visualization Laboratory, 
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, and MARK 
BENZEL, Molecular Simulations Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Note: Basic AVS knowledge is required.
  
General B

Chair: STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California 
at Irvine, Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Lectures

IDL: The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#ML9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID STERN, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO

Approaches to Interapplication Communications for AVS 
(#ML10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVE MCNABB, University of Maryland, Advanced 
Visualization Laboratory, College Park, MD

Visual Correlation of Lightning Strikes and BT Alarms 
(#ML3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
GRAHAM WALKER, BT Laboratories, Visualization Systems 
Research, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Visualization in Scientific Computing: Uses in University 
Education 
(#ML4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Office of Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Handling Very Large Structural Models 
(#TL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

The Nature of Scientific Visualization 
(#TL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
ALAN BARNUM-SCRIVENER, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Laguna Hills, CA

Multidimensional Visualization with AVS Applied to 
Semiconductor Simulation 
(#TL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday)
FRANKLIN BODINE, National Center for Computational 
Electronics, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Preserving Your Model Integrity 
(#TL4-6, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Tuesday)
KEITH REDMAN, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA

Dataflow Networks for Multilevel Simulation of Industrial 
Problems 
(#WL9-6, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
MENG LEAN, XEROX Corporation, North Tarrytown, NY

Architecture of the AVS Kernel:  Understanding How to Get 
Maximum Efficiency from Your Network 
(#WL10-6, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
JEFF VROOM, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Nondestructive Testing Using AVS 
(#WL2-6, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
SUSAN B. WARMBRODT, Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., 
Menlo Park, CA

2nd Annual User Group Meeting 
(#WL3-6, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California, Office of 
Academic Computing, Irvine, CA

Workshop

IDL:  The Interactive Data Language for AVS 
(#MW2-3, 2 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TW9-3, 9 - 11:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WW2-3 2 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)  
DAVID FANNING, Research Systems Inc., Boulder, CO 
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Tutorials A

MAPLE5 and AVS 
(#MT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday) BENTON LEONG, 
Waterloo Maple Software, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and LYLE 
WIEDEMAN, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA  
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Image and Volume Data Processing Under AVS  Medical, MRI, 
GIS, Remote Sensing, and Oil and Gas Exploration 
(#MT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; #TT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. 
Tuesday; #WT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE BONG AND BOB KING, Crystal Image Technologies, 
Huntsville, AL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Theoretical Crystallography with AVS 
(#MT11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-1, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
DON JONES AND ERIN THORNTEN, Battelle-Pacific Northwest 
Laboratory, Richland, WA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

The Rational Engineering Visualizer 
(#MT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-1, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REDNER, Sciviz  Scientific Visualization Associates 
Inc., Concord, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the AVS Animator 
(#MT3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday; #TT4-1, 4 - 4:45 
p.m. Tuesday;  #TT5-1, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; 
#TT6-1, 6 - 6:45 p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-1, 9 -9:45 a.m. 
Wednesday) HAM LORD, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
Waltham, MA

Mathematica and AVS 
(#MT4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday; 
#TT9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT10-1, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Wednesday) MATHEMATICA, Wolfram Research Inc., 
Champaign, IL
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Introduction to the Geometry Viewer 
(#TT5-2, 5 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesday; #TT6-2, 6 - 6:45 p.m. 
Tuesday)
KEN FLURCHICK, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC  

Tutorials B

Applications of AVS in the Earth Sciences at Oxford 
(#MT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday; #TT10-2, 10 - 10:45 
a.m. Tuesday; #WT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday)
KEITH REFSON, Oxford University, Department of Earth 
Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Multipolarization Workstation (MPWS) Software 
(#MT10-2, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-2, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
CHRIS WILLIS, GEC-Marconi Research Center, Gread 
Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Writing Code in C Using the AVS Module Generator 
(#MT11-2, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday; #TT2-2, 2 - 2:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Wednesday)
LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 

Overview of AVS 5.0 
(#MT2-2, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday; #TT3-2, 3 - 3:45 
p.m. Tuesday; #WT9-2, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday)
HAM LORD OR LARRY GELBERG, Advanced Visual Systems 
Inc., Waltham, MA 

Introduction to the Network Editor 
(#MT3-2, 3 - 3:45 p.m Monday; #TT4-2, 4 - 4:45 p.m. 
Tuesday; #TT8-2, 8 - 8:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT4-2, 
4 - 4:45 p.m. Wednesday; #WT8-2, 
8 - 8:45 a.m. Wednesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC 

How to Visualize Your CFD Data Using AVS-FLOW 
(#MT10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday; #TT11-1, 11 - 
11:45 a.m. Tuesday; #WT2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Wednesday)
TARO ISHIGURO, ADAM NET LTD., Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, 
Tokyo, Japan
Note:  Basic AVS knowledge is required. 


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				PANELS
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AVS as an Educational and Instructional Tool 
(#MP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Monday)
STEPHEN FRANKLIN, University of California at Irvine, 
Irvine, CA

Future Technology Needs for Medical Imaging 
(#MP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Monday)
MARC KESSLER, University of Michigan Medical School, 
Radiation Oncology, Ann Arbor, MI

Virtual Reality 
(#MP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Data Management 
(#MP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 

Khoros:  A Visual Software Development Environment 
(#MP3-1, 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday)
JOHN RASURE AND TOM SAUER, 
The Khoros Group, University of New Mexico, Department 
of EECE, Albuquerque, NM

Future Directions and Features for AVS 
(#MP4-1, 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday)
Dave Kamins, Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Waltham, MA

Parallel Computing with AVS 
(#TP9-1, 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Distributed Computing with AVS 
(#TP10-1, 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday)
TERRY MYERSON, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 
Research Triangle Park, NC

Optimal Configurations for AVS Hardware 
(#TP11-1, 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday)
DAVID BENNETT, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

AVS Developers and Porters Panel 
(#TP2-1, 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday)
STEVE THORPE, International AVS Center/North Carolina 
Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Reception and Keynote Address

Because you'll need plenty of time to experience the 
many exciting attractions in the Lake Buena Vista area, AVS 
'93 presents only one evening of conference activities.  
>From 5:15 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 24, the AVS Gala
Reception features a magnificent variety of appetizing hors 
doeuvres and canapes guaranteed to satisfy the most 
discriminating taste.  The receptions focal point is the 
keynote address, from 5:45 - 6:15 p.m.  At 7 p.m., 
activities move on to the first AVS Video Review Theatre.

Dr. Larry Smarr, Director of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications will be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Smarr, age 43, earned his bachelor's and 
master's degrees from the University of 
Missouri, a master's at Stanford University, and 
a doctorate from the University of Texas at 
Austin  (all are in Physics).  He conducted 
research while at Stanford and Texas, and later 
at Princeton and Yale universities.  For the 
three years before he joined the University of 
Illinois faculty in 1979, Smarr was a Junior 
Fellow in the Harvard University Society of 
Fellows.  An internationally recognized 
astrophysicist, Dr. Smarr has conducted 
observational, theoretical, and computational 
based research, resulting in the publication of 
over fifty scientific papers.  He currently is 
actively involved in research on the dynamics 
of black holes in general relativity.

Dr. Smarr has been one of the pioneers in the 
movement to dramatically increase the number 
of academic and industrial researchers using 
supercomputers to attack critical problems in 
research, development and manufacturing.  In 
1983, he initiated the first proposal to the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a 
national supercomputer center.  He worked 
actively with Congress in 1984 to assure 
passage of the legislation which authorized the 
current set of NSF supercomputer centers and 
the NSFnet national network.  In 1985, Dr. 
Smarr became the Director of the National 
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC).  Since then, NCSA has been 
a pioneer in coupling desktop computing and 
scientific visualization with the leading edge of 
supercomputing.

Smarr is a Fellow of the American Physical 
Society and in 1990 he received the Franklin 
Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Medal for 
Leadership in Science or Technology.  His views 
on supercomputers and science have been 
quoted widely in publications including the 
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, 
Business Week, Science, and Science News.  
Most recently, he has co-authored with William 
Kaufmann III, the book, Supercomputing and 
the Transformation of Science.  He travels 
extensively to give lectures on computational 
science and technology and to attend 
conferences and workshops in a  wide variety 
of disciplines, both in this country  and 
internationally.

AVS Video Review Theatre

The AVS '93 Committee is collecting AVS user videos 
from around the world and assembling a review of users
most interesting work representing every discipline.  This 
hour of AVS videos dramatically demonstrates how AVS is 
being used by others.  To contribute work for this showing, 
contact Steve Thorpe, International AVS Center/North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center, Post Office Box 12889, 
3021 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27709-2889, telephone 919-248-1161, email 
avs@ncsc.org.

Advance Registration

The conference registration form at the back of this 
booklet (or a copy) should be used to submit advance 
registration for AVS '93.  Early registrations postmarked 
on or before March 1, 1993, receive a $75 discount.  The 
advance registration deadline is May 14.  All  registrations 
must be accompanied by payment.   After May 14, 1993, 
registrations must be done on-site.  The hands-on 
workshops and tutorials have limited space and may not be 
available to late registrants.

On-Site Registration

On-site registration is Sunday and Monday, May 23 and 
24, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.
Conference staff will be available on-site at all times 
to assist attendees with questions. Late registrants may be 
put on waiting lists for workshops and tutorials.

Registration Discounts

Member Discount:  Each AVS User Group member qualifies 
for a member discount.

Student Discount:  To qualify for a student discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE 
student membership card or a copy of a current student 
identification card.

Government Discount:  To qualify for a government discount, a 
registrant must submit a copy of a current government 
identification card.

Nonprofit Discount:  To qualify for a nonprofit discount, 
registrants must provide a copy of their organization's 
501(c)(3) status from the IRS. 

Payment

A check, money order, or valid MasterCard or Visa card 
authorization must accompany all registrations.  Checks or 
money orders must be in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks and 
made payable to MCNC.  Send payment and conference 
registration form to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park
NC 27709-2889   
USA   
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey
Fax:  919-248-1445

Registration will not be valid until payment is received.  

The registration fee covers participation in  all exhibits, all 
panels, all lectures, up to two tutorials and one workshop; 
one copy of the workshop proceedings; all registration 
materials; refreshments during breaks; AVS Video Review 
Theatre; and an evening reception with canapes and hors 
doeuvres.  Tutorials and workshops are subject to 
availability due to limited seating and limited commitment 
of workstations.  Attendees may participate in additional 
workshops and tutorials at the rate of $150 per workshop 
and $50 per tutorial. The first 200 registrants receive a 
complimentary AVS '93 mug. There is no reduced fee for 
attending only part of the conference.

Refunds

	To receive a 100% refund, a written request must be 
received before May 1, 1993.  Send written requests to:

MCNC
Post Office Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park 
NC 27709-2889
USA
Attention:  
Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	No verbal requests for refunds will be accepted. No 
refunds will be issued after May 1, 1993.

Airline Information

Orlando International Airport accommodates most 
major airlines that serve the area surrounding the WALT 
DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.  Service carriers include Delta, 
American, Bahamasair, British Airways, Continental, 
Iceland, KLM, Northwest, Sky Bus, Trump Shuttle, TWA, 
United, USAir, and Virgin Atlantic.

Local Transportation

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN is located at 1500 
EPCOT Resorts Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista, two miles 
southwest of the Interstate 4 and State Route 536 
intersection.  Rental cars are available at Orlando 
International Airport.  In addition, buses depart the airport 
for the WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN every half hour 
with fares of $12.50 for adults and $9.50 for children ages 
4-14.  Taxi fare from the airport to the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN is approximately $25.

WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN

All AVS '93 events are held at the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN, a year-round resort in the center of the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort between EPCOT Center and The 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  The hotel is located near 
Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and the MAGIC KINGDOM 
Park.  The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has seven 
restaurants and four lounges offering an extraordinary 
variety of American, Chinese, and Italian cuisine.
AVS '93 has a reserved block of discounted rooms at the 
WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN.

Daily rates for single or double:  $130
Government, student, or nonprofit:  $100 single, $120 double
(current and valid identification must be presented to the
hotel in order to receive these rates)
Extra-person charge per room:  $15
Children under age 18:  Free with parents (using existing 
bedding)
Sales tax:  6%
Resort tax:  4%
Check-in time:  3 p.m.
Check-out time:  11 a.m.
Payment:  Personal checks, money orders, or valid credit 
card

Please make reservations directly with the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN by sending in the hotel registration form in the 
back of this booklet, by fax at 407-934-4710, or by mail.  
Please indicate your affiliation with MCNC's International 
AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition.

Accommodations for Guests with Disabilities

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN has 43 accessible 
rooms designed for guests with limited mobility, including 
guests in wheelchairs.  For more information on special-
needs accommodations at the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
DOLPHIN, telephone 1-800-227-1500.

Spouse/Family Program

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN offers numerous 
services to assist guests with transportation and admission 
to a variety of attractions such as the EPCOT Center, 
Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, Typhoon Lagoon, 
Pleasure Island, the MAGIC KINGDOM Park, River Country, 
and Discovery Island.

The WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN itself contains 
numerous boutiques and gift shops and features the 
following amenities.

 	Supervised youth programs
 	Game rooms
 	Health studio
 	Grotto pool
 	White-sand beach
 	Tennis courts
 	Volleyball courts
 	Sailboats and paddle boats
 	Nearby golf courses

Further details are available through the WALT DISNEY 
WORLD DOLPHIN reservations desk, telephone 1-800-
227-1500.

Area Attractions

	The seven theme lands of the WALT DISNEY WORLD 
Magic Kingdom Park are designed to bring out the child in 
everyone.  Main Street U.S.A. is a re-creation of turn-of-
the-century America.  Adventureland features a jungle 
cruise and an encounter with pirates.  Other areas are 
Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, 
and Mickeys Starland.  All feature theme rides and shows.
	The newest addition to the WALT DISNEY WORLD theme 
park family is the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park.  
Visitors can stroll Hollywood Boulevard as it was in the 
magical '30s and '40s, and then take the fabulous Backstage 
Studio Tour with Catastrophe Canyon, a special effects 
adventure.  The Magic of Disney Animation features a walk 
through the fascinating world of animation.  Disney-MGM 
Studios Theme Park offers exciting opportunities to see 
actual movies and television shows being made, from 
filming to postproduction.
	WALT DISNEY WORLD attractions also feature enough 
golf courses and tennis courts to challenge even the most 
accomplished athlete.  And theme-oriented nightclubs create 
worlds of excitement to celebrate till dawn.

Questions?

	Administrative questions regarding AVS '93 should be 
directed to Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey at 919-248-1841, 
email gebuhr@mcnc.org.  Technical questions and questions 
about AVS User Group membership should be directed to 
David Bennett at 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org.  
Exhibition questions should be directed to Ann Cadran at 
919-248-1432, email cadran@mcnc.org. 
AVS Video Review Theatre questions should be directed to 
Steve Thorpe at 919-248-1161, email avs@ncsc.org.

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                            AVS '93
2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition 
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The registration fee covers exhibits, panels, lectures, up to two 
tutorials and one workshop, one copy of the workshop proceedings, 
registration materials, refreshments during breaks, AVS Video 
Review Theatre, and an evening reception.


				Early Registration	After March 1, 1993
			(postmarked on or before 3/1/93)

AVS user group member		$495				$570
Nonmember			$545				$620

(You must provide a copy of current identification or documentation 
for the following categories.)

Student/government/nonprofit
member of AVS user group	$395                            $470

Student/government/nonprofit
nonmember 			$445				$520

Each additional workshop 	$150				$150
(one included with base registration) 

Each additional  tutorial 	$ 50				$ 50
(two included with base registration)
	
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Please fax or mail your registration form.  Make fees payable to 
MCNC by check, money order, MasterCard, or Visa.  Checks must be 
in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks.  Telephone registrations will 
not be accepted.  Faxed registrations must include credit card 
numbers and signatures. The deadline for advance registration is 
May 14, 1993.  After May 14, 1993, you must register on site.  MCNC 
cannot be responsible for or confirm registrations mailed after this 
date.

Please check form of payment.

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Cancellation/Refund Policy

Written cancellations received before May 1, 1993, will receive full 
refund of conference registration fee.

Complete and return this form with your payment to:

			     MCNC
	Post Office Box 12889	3021 Cornwallis Road
   Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 USA
	Phone 919-248-1841	Fax 919-248-1445
	  Attention:  Rebecca Gebuhr-McCloskey

	       KEEP A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS.


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			HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
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				AVS '93 
    2nd Annual International AVS User Group Conference and Exhibition
		      WALT DISNEY WORLD DOLPHIN
	            1500 EPCOT Resorts Boulevard
			Post Office Box 22653
	           Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653
		            407-934-4290
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will be reserved.  Rates are subject to 6% sales tax and 4% resort tax.)  
Published rates are applicable two days prior and two days after the 
conference dates.

Student/government/nonprofit rate:	$100 single, $120 double  
(Proper documentation must be presented for this category.)

Regular conference rate:		$130 single/double

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to one nights stay is required to hold a reservation.  Failure to cancel 
a reservation five days prior to arrival results in forfeit of deposit.  
Reservations are subject to cancellation if deposit is not received.  
Extra-person charges are $15 per night.  Children under 18 may stay 
at no cost with parents, provided no extra bedding is needed.

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Boulevard, Post Office Box 22653, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-2653.   
Fax 407-934-4710.   DO NOT SEND THIS FORM TO MCNC.
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                        	AVS '93
	         2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
                       Conference and Exhibition
***********************************************************************

AVS '93, the 2nd Annual International AVS User Group 
Conference and Exhibition, is presented by the International 
AVS Center and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, a 
division of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium.  The 
AVS Consortium consists of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., 
CONVEX Computer Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Pacific Company Inc., 
and SUN Microsystems Inc.

MCNC is a private, nonprofit research consortium involving 
North Carolina and its industry, universities, and research 
institutes.  MCNC provides advanced capabilities and expertise 
in microelectronics, communications, and high-performance 
computing to support industry, education, and research in 
North Carolina.  It promotes joint research opportunities among 
its industry and academic consortium members and addresses 
specific technology challenges.

NCSC supports industrial and academic initiatives through 
research collaborations, partnerships, computational science 
support, high-performance computing, education programs, and 
related activities.  NCSC also facilitates research in the areas of 
computational science, scientific visualization, and computer 
science.

The International AVS Center, housed at NCSC, is the worldwide 
clearinghouse for collecting, porting, and distributing public-
domain visualization modules.  These modules enable dramatic 
advances in the scope and speed of research in a variety of 
disciplines.  The International AVS Center serves as a catalyst 
for expanding the AVS user base and for increasing AVS 
functionality by fostering discipline-specific module 
development and new AVS uses.


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               Advance Program Image Credits
*****************************************************************

Center Image
Computed Fermi surface for the high-temperature 92 K 123 
superconductor, with colors representing the Fermi 
velocity.  From Pickett, Krakauer, Cohen, and Singh, Science  
255, 46-54, 1992; cover image by Ronald E. Cohen of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.

Border Image
Image processing for regional identification, with 
urbanization highlighted in red.  Image by Wes Bethel of 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Right Interior Image
Molecular dynamics simulation of particles colliding with a 
spherical boundary.  Image by Ken Flurchick of the North 
Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC), Research Triangle 
Park, NC.  Original AVS module written by NCSCs Dave 
Bock.

Left Interior Image
Three-dimensional surface representation of the binding 
pocket of an antibody containing a synthetic peptide 
consisting of residues 100-108 of the influenza virus 
hemagglutinin protein.  Image by U. Schulze-Gahmen and M. 
Pique of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La 
Jolla, CA.
-- 
International AVS Center
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
avs@ncsc.org


From mike@ulinf0.unil.ch (Michael Bloch)
Subject: Looking for a shared whiteboard program under MS-Windows
Message-ID: <1993Feb9.103556.14968@ulci20.unil.ch>
Sender: news@ulci20.unil.ch
Organization: HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 10:35:56 GMT
Lines: 15

One of our users asked me for a program allowing him to share
a window with a coworker. He wants to be able to write, draw, ...
in this window and have everything duplicated on another window
on another computer. This app should be similar to shdr (public
domain for sun) or Person to Person/2 (IBM app for OS/2)

Do you have any idea if this exists for Windows ?
Thanks, greetings

Michael
-- 
Michael Bloch                                     Internet : mike@ulinf0.unil.ch
University of Lausanne, Switzerland               

Love is a better teacher than duty - A. Einstein


From colston@gid.co.uk (Colston Sanger)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.cog-eng,comp.human-factors,uk.events
Subject: UK CSCW SIG seminar, `CSCW for Mobile and Remote Workers'
Keywords: CSCW seminar teleworking comms
Message-ID: <369@sixnine.gid.co.uk>
Date: 8 Feb 93 20:15:12 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: GID Ltd, Upper Basildon, Reading, UK
Lines: 72


CSCW (COMPUTER SUPPORTED CO-OPERATIVE WORK) ISSUES FOR MOBILE AND REMOTE WORKERS

A Colloquium organised by IEE Professional Group C5 (Human-Computer
Interaction) in association with the UK CSCW Special Interest Group to be held
at IEE Headquarters, Savoy, Place, London WC2R 0BL, UK

                        Tuesday 16th March 1993

                        PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Mobile workers (such as sales or technical support staff) and remote
workers (such as tele-workers and small offices) are separated from their
colleagues and their corporate information repositories. In addition, their
communication channels are often poor, low bandwidth or intermittent - how
can such workers co-operate?

10:00   REGISTRATION and COFFEE

        Chairman A Dix (University of York)

10:30   Chairman's introduction

10:40   The Electronic Hard Hat - CSCW on the construction site
        D Madigan (BICC)

11:05   Information Systems for Health Care Professionals
        A W Savill and S D James (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

11:30   The Salesman's promise
        A W S Ainger (Human Centered Systems)

12:00   Personal Information Management in the Context of Collaborative Work
        P Thomas (Brunel University)

12:25   Observations of practically perfect CSCW
        Professor Harold Thimbleby (Stirling University) and D Pullinger (IOP)

12:50   LUNCH

2:10    The Mobile Station Support Toolkit: Integration of Mobile 
        Computers and Distributed Task Management within The EuroCODE Project
        U Busbach (Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany)

2:35    New directions in communications for remote working
        Val Mitchell and S Hannigan (HUSAT Research Institute)

3:00    TEA

3:15    Mobile Open Systems Technologies for the Utilities Industries
        N. Davies, G.S. Blair and A. Friday (Lancaster University)

3.45    The DTI teleworking study: some findings and government policy issues
        H Mitchell (Anders Electronics and Brameur)

4:15    Discussion

4:30    Concluding Remarks

16:35   CLOSE

Further details can be obtained from the Secretary, LS(D)CA, IEE Savoy
Place, London WC2R 0BL or by telephoning 071 240 1871 ext 2206.
---
GID - software engineers to the quality          GID Ltd
                                                 69 Kings Road
Tel/Fax: 0428 654821                             Haslemere
UUCP: colston@gid.co.uk                          Surrey GU27 2QG, UK
-- 
GID - software engineers to the quality
1 Captain's Gorse, Upper Basildon, Reading, Berks RG8 8SZ, UK
UUCP: colston@gid.co.uk               Tel/Fax: +44 491 671964


From vanmol@nlsce1.seri.philips.nl (Peter van Mol)
Subject: Re: Looking for a shared whiteboard program under MS-Windows
Message-ID: <1993Feb9.113713.29380@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl>
Sender: news@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl
Organization: SERI-CEN Network Services, Philips C&P, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
References: <1993Feb9.103556.14968@ulci20.unil.ch>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 11:37:13 GMT
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Very interesting subject! Would it be possible to give any pointers in
the direction of this SUN public domain package?
Thanks in advance,

--
NAME		Peter van Mol
ORGANIZATION	Philips Semiconductors Automation
EMAIL		vanmol@sce.philips.nl
SERIMAIL	vanmol:nlsce1
ADDRESS		P.O. Box 218, Building BAE-4, 5600MD Eindhoven, the Netherlands
PHONE		+31-40-723836
FAX		+31-40-722581


From sajja@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Rajeev Sajja)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: G Protocol. MS windows to UNIX file transfer?
Message-ID: <108746@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 93 16:31:16 GMT
Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Nntp-Posting-Host: gradient.cis.upenn.edu

I need to know whether there is some public domain software
that does file transfer between microsoft windows environment 
and UNIX (uucp). I believe it is something to do with the
G protocol.

Any information leading to getting some code to do this stuff
is appreciated. My need is urgent!!

thanks

-Rajeev
sajja@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Dept. of CIS
University of Pennsylvania


From mklein@atc.boeing.com (Mark Klein)
Subject: CFP: IJCAI Conflict Management Workshop
Message-ID: <1993Feb8.183700.10260@atc.boeing.com>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services R&T
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 18:37:00 GMT
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                         Call For Papers
                         ===============

                       IJCAI-93 Workshop on
            Computational Models of Conflict Management
                 in Cooperative Problem Solving

                     Monday August 30, 1993
                        Chambery, France


Description
-----------

A central aspect of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance,
detection and resolution of conflicts among the participants. This is of
great theoretical interest in such research areas as distributed artificial
intelligence. It is also of considerable practical importance because of
the key role conflict management plays in cooperative problem solving e.g.
in concurrent engineering. Work on conflict management has occurred in a
variety of settings including concurrent engineering, multi-agent planning
& design, AI and Law, distributed AI (including game theory), GDSS (group
decision support systems), CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work),
software engineering, sociology, organizational science, public policy and
international relations. This work thus includes theoretical groundwork,
empirical studies and implemented conflict management systems for human and
computational agents. Despite wide-spread interest, however, there have
been few opportunities for researchers addressing these issues in different
areas to explore commonalities and benefit from the differing insights each
have achieved. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate this kind of
cross-fertilization process.

The workshop will focus on several key themes:

* What lessons do empirical studies of conflict management have to offer
for the development of computational models?

* What are the current theoretical underpinnings for conflict management,
and how can they be applied to practical problems?

* How can computers support group conflict management with both human and
computational participants? What are the benefits and challenges of the
different approaches?

* What aspects of conflict management are generic and what are
domain-specific? Can the same techniques work with human and computational
participants?

* How do computational models of conflict management fare in real-world
social and organisational settings?

Through exploring such themes it is hoped the participants will have a
better idea about how they can use related work from other areas, and can
begin to outline a single general theory of conflict management that works
across multiple domains.

Workshop Information
--------------------

This full day workshop is part of the Workshop Program for IJCAI-93 (the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and will be held in Chambery, France on Monday, August 30, 1993.

The workshop will consist of four moderated 75 minute sessions, each made
up of:

* a brief (5-10 minute) moderators' overview of common themes and key
issues

* four 10 minute presentations (including questions): presenters will be
asked to follow a results-oriented format and to address key issues
identified by the moderators.

* a discussion panel wherein presenters field questions from the audience
and each other. This should be focused on shared issues rather than further
explanation of the participant's individual work.

Workshop participants will also be invited to display posters describing
their work.

Please note that each attendee must have registered for the main conference
and is required to pay an additional 300 FF (about $60 US) fee for the
workshop. IJCAI has offered to exempt the workshop fee for one student
attendee if he or she agrees to be in charge of taking notes for the whole
day. Please let me know if you are interested.

Submissions
-----------

Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately
35 people of which 16 will be presenters. Those who wish to attend the
workshop should submit four copies of a research abstract no more than 5
pages long focusing on the main contribution of their work in preference to
general introductory material, literature review etc. All submissions will
be reviewed by researchers working in a related area. Please include a
brief abstract, the author's electronic and physical address information,
and indicate if you would like to display a poster on your work at the
workshop. Electronic submissions will be accepted only if they are in pure
ascii or binhexed Macintosh Word/MacWrite format.

Submission deadline:		March 1, 1993
Notification date:		April 1, 1993
Final date for revised papers:	June 1, 1993

We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the workshop will
be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or published
collection.

Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to:

Mark Klein
Boeing Computer Services
PO Box 24346, 7L-64
Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA
mklein@atc.boeing.com
Voice: (206) 865-3412
Fax:   (206) 865-2964

Organizing Committee
--------------------

Steve Easterbrook
University of Sussex
Easterbrook@cogs.susx.ac.uk

Mark Klein
Boeing Computer Services
mklein@atc.boeing.com

Victor Lesser
University of Massachusetts
lesser@cs.umass.edu

Stephen C-Y. Lu
University of Illinois
lu@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu

Katia P. Sycara
Carnegie Mellon University
katia@cs.cmu.edu
-- 
	Mark Klein, PhD
	Boeing Computer Services
	Mailstop 7L-64
	Seattle, WA 98124-0346


From david@ruc.dk (David Stodolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Introduction to comp.groupware (Periodic informational Posting)
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Date: 10 Feb 1993 06:02:19 GMT
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Keywords: CSCW, orgware, group, interactive, shared, environments
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Last-modified: 1993/1/17
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Please read carefully:
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5 below). Information for teachers is contained in section 7.

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0. Groupware is software and hardware for shared interactive
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3. Comp.groupware is being archived. (Revised)
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0. Groupware is software and hardware for shared interactive
environments.

The term "environment" includes software and hardware that sets the
context for interaction. Hardware can include specially designed
furnishings and architectural spaces that are considered integral to
correct utilization of a given software application. A groupware
application may require a specific organizational environment to
function as expected. More powerful applications can adapt to, or
overcome limitations of, their environments.

The term "interactive" is used to indicate that time constraints are
managed by the system. Many groupware applications appear to support
real-time interaction. Others merely enforce deadlines that can span
weeks. In either case, the technical limitations on the pace of
interaction are made (to appear) negligible in terms of the objectives
of the application. Systems that exclude reference to real time are not
groupware applications.

The term "shared" indicates that two or more participants interact with
one another in such a manner that each person influences and is
influenced by each other person. No upper limit in the number of
participants is indicated, because mediated groups, as opposed to
natural ones, can maintain joint awareness with very large numbers of
persons. (Joint awareness is one way that "group" is defined.) An
objective of some groupware applications is to increase the number of
persons that can interact "as a group".

Some definitions of groupware include the notion of a common goal. While
all systems require some agreement among participants (at minimum that
they should be jointly used), interactions can be predominately
conflictual. Management of conflict is often a crucial feature of a
groupware system. Vote collecting systems are an example.

Definitions:

Group - Two or more persons who are interacting
with one another in such a manner that each person
influences and is influenced by each other person
(Shaw, M. E. _Group dynamics: The psychology of
small group behaviour_. 1976, p. 11).

Ware - 1 a) manufactured articles, products of art
or craft.... b) an article of merchandise.... 3) an
intangible item (as a service) that is a marketable
commodity. (_Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary_,
1976, p. 1319).


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alt.society.cu-digest

Information about the rights of network users is available from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Information about the Electronic
Frontier Foundation  can be requested from eff@eff.org. You can also
retrieve information about EFF and its projects via anonymous FTP from
ftp.eff.org.

As a final resort, send a summary of your case to:

Carl Kadie (kadie@eff.org)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
155 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02141, USA
Tel.: +1 (617) 864-0665
Fax: +1 (617) 864-0866.

If you can send email off-site, you can post using a Usenet-news mail
server. Email to "comp-groupware@ucbvax.berkeley.edu" is posted with the
subject line of your letter becoming the subject line of the article.
(Note: "." in the newsgroup name is written as "-".) This allows you to
post to a newsgroup even if you have read-only access to Network News.


2. Sign your article. Each name should have one and only one user. If
the article is a joint product, indicate this at the beginning and end
of the article. Some news reading programs allow certain names to be to
be automatically selected. Help the reader by using the same name at all
times. This will improve the chances that people will read your
articles.

The signature should include complete name, address, and telephone
number (this allows quick verification in case forgery is suspected).
Email addresses ought to be included in the signature in case headers
get munged. Another nice feature is geographical coordinates, so the
time zone can be determined (useful in telephoning). The signature
should be limited to four lines as is suggested practice on Usenet.


3. Comp.groupware is being archived.
tvv@ncsc.org (Terry Myerson) began archiving comp.groupware 92.10.6.
The archive is available by anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from:
avs.ncsc.org ( 128.109.178.23 )

in the directory:
~ftp/newsgroups/comp.groupware

The archives are in mail folders named MONTH_YEAR.
For example, to peruse all of the postings in the month of
October, you could download the archive Oct_92, and execute

%       Mail -f Oct_92

FTP is a way of copying files between networked computers.  If you
need help in using or getting started with FTP, send email to:
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu 

with:
send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq

in the body to find out how to do FTP.

Those without FTP access should send email to:
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu

with:
send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources

in the body to find out how to do FTP by email.


4. If you are posting copyrighted work, indicate at the beginning of the
article whether permission has been obtained. If you do not want an
article reproduced, indicate this (e.g., Copyright - Net distribution
only).


5. Read "Welcome to news.newusers.questions" in that newsgroup before
posting for the first time. This helps to avoid common mistakes and
inadvertent abusive behavior that can cause articles to be ignored.

Authors should refer to "Guidelines for posting on Usenet" in the
newsgroup "news.announce.newusers" to make sure they know to spell check
their articles, etc. "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions",
"Introduction to news.announce", "Hints on writing style for Usenet"
available in the same newsgroup also contain information for new users.

Do not post test messages to comp.groupware. There are special groups
for testing. And tests should be as limited in their distribution as
possible. This is basic information from "Guidelines for posting on
Usenet". Posting of test messages inappropriately is considered abusive
and will cause a loss of readership for your articles.

Always use your Subject line to state the *topic* of your article as
completely as possible (e.g., "Macintosh II voice-mail based real-time
meeting software ready.", rather than "Meeting software"). Summary lines
should indicate *what* your message says about the topic (e.g., "New
meeting coordination software available via anonymous FTP"). Statements
should always end with periods, questions with question marks
(typically), and high energy, high impact declarations with exclamation
points. These rules makes articles much easier for recipients to handle
appropriately. 

If you ask a question, your subject line should include "question",
"query", "(Q)" or should end with a "?". Questions should clearly
explain your problem and surrounding issues. Otherwise, you will simply
waste the time of those who want to help you. Tell people the kind of
work you are doing or contemplating doing. This helps them provide the
information you need. Indicate what efforts, if any, you have made thus
far, and what information was found.

Subject, Summary, and Keyword headers are scanned by many news reading
programs, thus permitting readers to find your article easily. You will
have your articles read more often if you select these carefully.


6. When you reply to a message, do not change the subject line or
redirect follow-ups (unless you are changing the subject).  Such changes
make it harder for some news readers to follow the threads in a
discussion. Include a "Summary" line which indicates specifically what
your message says. This permits your article to be found even if it is a
follow-up to an article with poorly chosen subject and keyword
information.

Please, do not post responses to articles you feel are inappropriate or
abusive. (If you can not resist, consider alt.flame as an alternative
newsgroup for your article [it has greater readership than
comp.groupware]). If the author is not saying anything worth reading,
enter the name in your "kill" file, and then no more of your time will
be wasted by that person. If you feel that the author is saying
something worth reading, but in an inappropriate way, respond by mail.
Tell the author what you think is incorrect about the article. If
possible, suggest how to accomplish the objective in an appropriate way
(e. g., post to another newsgroup). If you have responded to a person by
mail a few times without the desired effect, and you feel that the group
as a whole could benefit by a solution to the problem, only then should
you post an article.  The nature of your article should be a suggestion,
if possible, of how such problems can be avoided in the future.


7. Comp.groupware is read by over 28,000 people (Brian Reid posts
readership statistics at the beginning of each month to the newsgroup
news.lists). Consider the cost to readers of any post. If even an
obviously inappropriate article is distributed, one that just takes
readers a few seconds to scan, and then skip or kill, the total time
used is still large. With 36,000 readers, a post that takes an average
of 1 second for each reader to deal with (i. e., examining the subject
line) means a total of ten hours used (36,000 seconds / 3,600
seconds/hour = 10 hours). If the article uses up an average of four
seconds, then the total time expenditure is 40 hours, the equivalent of
a work week. This is probably the minimum time expenditure on any
article that is even selected for scanning. So, if you spend a week
preparing an article and then post it to comp.groupware, there will be a
balance between your time investment and that used by readers, even if
they only scan your article and make no response. The lack of a separate
feedback channel is an unfortunate deficiency in the Network News system
as it is currently structured.

This analysis should not discourage anyone from posting a simple
question. Some of the most interesting and valuable exchanges in
comp.groupware have resulted from such questions. However, authors must
not make such requests unnecessarily. On the other hand, a carefully
prepared article or a report of an extensive project may not receive any
comment at all. This could mean that the article is clear and error
free. It could also mean it was not of sufficient interest to anyone to
be read in detail. What can be assumed is that it was seriously
considered. This is a result of the currently low traffic level in
comp.groupware and high quality of articles posted.

Teachers should not make use of comp.groupware a class activity. If a
class is made aware of comp.groupware, this Introduction should be made
required reading, so inappropriate use is minimized. Instructional use
of the news system is best practised in a local newsgroup established
for that purpose. This also permits establishment of a better
environment for instructional purposes. See the article "Protecting
expression in teleconferencing: Pseudonym-based peer review journals"
{Stodolsky, D. S. (1990).  _Canadian Journal of Educational
Communication_, 19, 41-51. ([1989, May 9]. _Communication Research and
Theory Network [CRTNET]_, No. 175 [Semi-final draft available by
electronic mail from LISTSERV@PSUVM.BITNET at University Park, PA: The
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Speech Communication and
COMSERVE@Vm.ecs.rpi.edu at Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication.])} This article
also available in compressed format as file "prot.express.tele" on
archive.eu.net in ~ftp/documents/authors/Stodolsky, and on ftp.nluug.nl
in ~ftp/pub/documents/authors/Stodolsky.

Retrieve and examine the file by typing, for example
(characters before and including ":" or ">" indicate machine's prompting
for input):

        > ftp archive.EU.net
        login: ftp
        password: <your email address here>
        ftp> bin
        ftp> cd documents/authors/Stodolsky
        ftp> get prot.express.tele.Z
        ftp> bye
        > uncompress prot.express.tele.Z
        > view prot.express.tele


If your email reply to an author fails, try again using information in
the signature lines. An X.500 directory information server can be
consulted to find a person's email address. Read the informational
article, "How to find people's email addresses" (in the newsgroup
"news.answers"), so you know to contact the postmaster at the site of
the person you are trying to reach, and so on. Do not post a reply until
you have tried to reach the author by telephone, facsimile, or paper
mail. If these fail, ask yourself if getting the reply through is worth
ten hours of readers' time. If so, post the message. Do not post a
message asking a person to send you an email address, unless your letter
must be kept private (If this is true, consider using encryption). If it
is not of general interest, use only the person's name as the subject
(e.g., "To: Foo Bar"). If other readers might find it interesting, also
give full subject information. 

Similarly, do not broadcast requests for information you can obtain from
a known source. Requests such as, "What are the contents of book Foo
published by Bar" are not appropriate. This information can normally be
obtained by a short telephone call and a few minutes of work by someone
being paid to provide that service. Let's not deprive someone of a job
and at the same time get comp.groupware readers fired because they are
wasting all their time reading unnecessary articles :-).

Post long articles as a single unit if they are less than 30,000
characters. Otherwise, post separate sections as follow-ups to the
first, breaking at meaningful places. This permits the sections to be
treated as a single unit, thus minimizing expenditure of attention on
the article. The cost of transmitting articles is negligible, so long
posts that take one second to delete "cost" the same as short ones.

Disregarding these considerations or a lack of self discipline in
following them will result in defensive attention management. That is,
certain authors will not be read at all by many readers or valuable
discussions will take place by email instead of being posted. This would
have the unfortunate effect of fractionating the joint awareness that
permits the comp.groupware readership to function as a group. Thus, it
is recommended that authors who prefer entertainment to rigor in their
news reading, post to other newsgroups.

-------

This article compiled with assistance from numerous readers of
comp.groupware.

Corrections, comments, and suggestions to:

David S. Stodolsky                            Tel: + 45 31 95 92 82
Department of Computer Science                Fax: + 45 46 75 42 01
Bldg. 20.1, Roskilde University              Internet: david@ruc.dk
Post Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark        : david@mcsun.EU.net


From mike@ulinf0.unil.ch (Michael Bloch)
Subject: Re: Looking for a shared whiteboard program under MS-Windows
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.075952.24320@ulci20.unil.ch>
Sender: news@ulci20.unil.ch
Organization: HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
References: <1993Feb9.103556.14968@ulci20.unil.ch> <1993Feb9.113713.29380@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 07:59:52 GMT
Lines: 13

In article <1993Feb9.113713.29380@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl> vanmol@nlsce1.seri.philips.nl (Peter van Mol) writes:
>Very interesting subject! Would it be possible to give any pointers in
>the direction of this SUN public domain package?

You will find shdr on src.doc.ic.ac.uk in
/computing/graphics/systems/X11/contrib/shdr

(Sorry, I could not join Peter via e-mail)
-- 
Michael Bloch                                     Internet : mike@ulinf0.unil.ch
University of Lausanne, Switzerland               

Love is a better teacher than duty - A. Einstein


From krkang@buddle.kaist.ac.kr (Kyungran Kang)
Subject: Window migration 
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.043745.5945@worak.kaist.ac.kr>
Sender: usenet@worak.kaist.ac.kr (Usenet)
Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 04:37:45 GMT
Lines:       23

Hello everybody.

I'm going to write a paper related to 'window migration'.
'Window migration' means that you can copy your private window
to other displays. After migration, the window become a private window
of that other displays.

I thinks an application of this mechanism is 'exaimination' in an elec-
tronic classroom.

I hope you are kind enough to let me know what programs are available for
elecctronic classroom.

Thanks in advance.

+----------------------------------------------------+ 
| Kang, Kyung Ran : krkang@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr        |
|                                                    |
| Tel. : +82-42-869-3554     Fax. : +82-2-969-0239   |
| System Architecture Lab.                           |
| Computer Science Department, KAIST, KOREA          |
+----------------------------------------------------+


From krkang@buddle.kaist.ac.kr (Kyungran Kang)
Subject: Window migration system(?)
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.052927.6082@worak.kaist.ac.kr>
Sender: usenet@worak.kaist.ac.kr (Usenet)
Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 05:29:27 GMT
Lines:       23

Hello everybody.

I'm planning to write a paper related to 'window migration'.

SharedX and shXlib supports 'window replication'.

I want to know if there are some system which supports 'window migration'.
'Window migration' means to move your window to other's display.


If there are some system which supports something like 'window migration', 
please let me know.


Thanks in advance.
+----------------------------------------------------+ 
| Kang, Kyung Ran : krkang@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr        |
|                                                    |
| Tel. : +82-42-869-3554     Fax. : +82-2-969-0239   |
| System Architecture Lab.                           |
| Computer Science Department, KAIST, KOREA          |
+----------------------------------------------------+


From whitton@bnr.ca (Mark Whitton)
Subject: Re: Looking for a shared whiteboard program under MS-Windows
Message-ID: <1993Feb10.193634.11672@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
Originator: whitton@bcrks76
Sender: 5E00 Corkstown News Server
Reply-To: whitton@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References:  <1993Feb9.103556.14968@ulci20.unil.ch>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 19:36:34 GMT
Lines: 15


Northern Telecom markets a program called VISIT which has
shared screen capability.

- it works on MAC and Windows machines
- it allows annotation (drawing) on screen by either party
- it has a video capability

Disclaimer: BNR is a subsidiary of Northern Telecom

-- 
Mark Whitton,  BNR, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4H7, CANADA
Dept 5S01 
613-763-2137
whitton@bnr.ca


From karenp@sybase.com (Karen Paulsell)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: AT&T PicturePhone Failure Papers?
Message-ID: <29231@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 9 Feb 93 18:24:52 GMT
References: <1993Jan21.120745.12023@bernina.ethz.ch> <1jr4tmINNkbm@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan24.212800.7716@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan25.173143.1117@news.mentorg.com> <1993Jan28.091120.130@rcwusr>
Sender: news@Sybase.COM
Organization: Sybase, Inc.
Lines: 29

In article <1993Jan28.091120.130@rcwusr> lakerb@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
>
>A recent article pointed out that home cable providers have an unrealized
>opportunity for expanded services.  They mentioned that a camcorder was a
>picturephone input device and the TV a picturephone output device, potentially.
>
>Also mentioned was that portable phones could link into the cable
>data/information transport, as well as personal computers, FAX, etc.
>
>Rob Lake
>BP America Research
>lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com

But aren't most cable systems wired only one-way, i.e., the repeaters,
etc., send signal from the headend out to the drops? Only a few
systems have narrow-bandwidth return channels. It's my impression
that the wiring and hardware is not in place to send video back
downstream. And, especially, to switch it from the headend!

'picturephone' is possible over ordinary twisted pairs, these days,
because of improvements in data compression techniques. I'm not
sure what the compression technology costs, but if we assume a
'black box' that plugs into the phone line, with a TV for display,
and either a camcorder or a VCR for input...gee, anyone could send
videos of the new baby to grandma, if grandma had a black box too!
Talking heads are easy, there's not much change from frame to frame.
A dog chasing a tennis ball, or the kids break-dancing takes a lot
more computing power to compress, but I think it's within the realm
of the current technology.


From dsamson@vx9000.weber.edu (D. Samson)
Subject: Q: Seeking groupware suggestions for professor/student sessions
Message-ID: <14FEB199310482819@vx9000.weber.edu>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: virtual office, university
Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
Organization: Weber State University
Date: 14 Feb 1993 10:48 MST  
Lines: 23

I am interested in finding information on groupware that will support
teacher/student work in a university setting.  At Weber State University,
the Dept. of Communication has been dislocated because the building 
housing their offices is being demolished.  Five professors have chosen
to have offices at home.  The university has installed second phone lines
for them, and has equipped their home offices with a pc with fax/modem,
fax grabber, and a laser printer.  There is a similarly equipped "bull pen"
on campus where students can go to "meet" with their professor.

I would also like to use groupware to help _my_ students with their
programming assignments - where I could view their source code and 
output simultaneously with them, whether they are at home or on campus.

Can anybody suggest software or other procedures that would be useful in
this kind of "virtual office" environment?  I'll be happy to summarize
responses, if there's interest.

Dolly Samson
Computer Information Systems Dept.
Weber State University
Ogden, Utah, USA 84408-3804
810-626-7189; dsamson@dd.weber.edu 



From owen@ssc.gov (Cameron Owen)
Subject: Heterogeneous group scheduling?
Message-ID: <owen-160293091559@134.3.128.166>
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Sender: usenet@sunova.ssc.gov (News Admin)
Nntp-Posting-Host: 134.3.128.166
Organization: SSC Laboratory
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 15:18:44 GMT
Lines: 22

Hi!  We have a computing environment comprised of Macs, PCs, Unix
workstations
and VAXen.  I'm looking for a group scheduling solution which would operate
in
this mix.  Ideally, I'd like a single product which worked on all; I would
be
happy with a set of products which cooperated.

Is there such a solution?  If not, do you know of products which would fit
the
bill on a subset (where subset is defined as two or more platforms) of the
above?  

Thanks for the help!

Cameron Owen
Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory             Voice:  +1 214 708
3273
2550 Beckleymeade Avenue; MS 1031                 Facsimile:  +1 214 708
0015
Dallas, Texas  75237                                            
owen@ssc.gov


From mike@x.co.uk (Mike Moore)
Subject: Re: AT&T PicturePhone Failure Papers?
Message-ID: <C2JrKw.57D@x.co.uk>
Organization: IXI Limited
References: <1993Jan25.173143.1117@news.mentorg.com> <1993Jan28.091120.130@rcwusr> <29231@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 15:12:32 GMT
Lines: 39

In article <29231@sybase.sybase.com> karenp@sybase.com (Karen Paulsell) writes:
>In article <1993Jan28.091120.130@rcwusr> lakerb@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
>>
>>A recent article pointed out that home cable providers have an unrealized
>>opportunity for expanded services.  They mentioned that a camcorder was a
>>picturephone input device and the TV a picturephone output device, potentially.
>>
>>Also mentioned was that portable phones could link into the cable
>>data/information transport, as well as personal computers, FAX, etc.
>>
>>Rob Lake
>>BP America Research
>>lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com
>
>But aren't most cable systems wired only one-way, i.e., the repeaters,
>etc., send signal from the headend out to the drops? Only a few
>systems have narrow-bandwidth return channels. It's my impression
>that the wiring and hardware is not in place to send video back
>downstream. And, especially, to switch it from the headend!
>
>'picturephone' is possible over ordinary twisted pairs, these days,
>because of improvements in data compression techniques. I'm not
>sure what the compression technology costs, but if we assume a
>'black box' that plugs into the phone line, with a TV for display,
>and either a camcorder or a VCR for input...gee, anyone could send
>videos of the new baby to grandma, if grandma had a black box too!
>Talking heads are easy, there's not much change from frame to frame.
>A dog chasing a tennis ball, or the kids break-dancing takes a lot
>more computing power to compress, but I think it's within the realm
>of the current technology.

The compression technology is relatively expensive ($2000 on a PC and
$10000 on a SPARC - the same compression chip!)  It is technically feasible
to put everything together for about $6000 provided you already have a TV
a phone and a camcorder.  Add a 100% mark up to $12000 and you have a product
too expensive for most people to buy.  An interesting area might be large
corporates though......

Mike


From frank@gmd.de (Frank von Martial)
Subject: distributed AI and CSCW
Message-ID: <frank.729969637@gmd.de>
Summary: announcement for a new book
Keywords: COORDINATING PLANS of AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
Sender: news@gmd.de (USENET News)
Nntp-Posting-Host: gmdzi
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:20:37 GMT
Lines: 49


Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the study of knowledge
and action as embodied in multi-agent intelligent systems that
include both humans and computers.

you may wish to note the following book on DAI:

COORDINATING PLANS of AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

by

Frank von Martial
DETECON GmbH
Germany

appeared as "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence", No. 610
Springer Verlag, 1992
ISBN 3-540-55615-x
250 pages

A novel approach to coordinate activities of autonomous agents
is presented. The coordination of plans is triggered
by the relations which exist between the actions
of different plans. 
The main contributions of this book include:
1. a detailed taxonomy of relations between the 
plans of different agents,
2. strategies for coordination and plan modifications
based on these relations, and
3. a negotiation framework for synchronizing activities.

The reader may also appreciate the thorough introduction
to the field of distributed AI and its subarea multiagent
planning (ca. 50 pages).

CONTENTS:
   Foreword (by Victor R. Lesser)
1. Introduction
2. Cooperation and Coordination of Intelligent Agents
3. Actions and Plans in Multiagent Domains
4. Multiagent Plan Relations
5. Handling Plan Relations
6. Negotiation for Plan Coordination
7. A Synthesized Model of Distributed Planning
   by Autonomous Cooperating Agents
8. Plan Coordination for Office Automation and
   Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
9. Conclusions 



From joosten@cs.utwente.nl (Stef Joosten)
Subject: CfP: 2nd International Summerschool on Method Engineering and Meta-Modelling
Message-ID: <1993Feb19.151527@cs.utwente.nl>
Keywords: software process modelling, CASE tools, IS development methods, methodology, meta-CASE tools
Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl
Nntp-Posting-Host: utis174
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 14:15:27 GMT
Lines: 149

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CfP: 2nd International Summerschool on Method Engineering and Meta Modelling
Keywords: software process modelling, CASE tools, IS development methods,
	methodology, meta-CASE tools.

                    Wed. 12 May - Sun. 16 May 1993
                      Enschede,  the Netherlands

After a successful event in Jyvaskyla, Finland, last year,
the Summerschool on Method Engineering and Meta Modelling (ME&MM)
is organised for the second time. The location is the Netherlands,
on the beautiful campus of the University of Twente.
This series of summerschools is organised by the IFIP WG 8.1/8.2
Taskgroup on Method Engineering.

The formula is unchanged: limited participation and top-of-the-bill
invited lecturers.

The themes are meta-modelling, method engineering both in practice
and in theory.

The program committee consists of:
   S. Brinkkemper (chair)
   S. Joosten (secr.)
   K. Lyytinen
   R. Stamper
   R.J. Welke
   G. Wijers

Tentative program:
   Wed 12 May: registration

   Thu 13 May: (theory)
    9:00    Yair Wand (Univ. Br. Columbia)
             Ontology
    14:00   Michael Heym (St. Gallen)
             Reference model for IS development
    15:30   Anthony Finkelstein (Imperial College)
             Viewpoints: method integration and extension
    19:00   workgroups

   Fri 14 May: (practice)
    9:00     software process modelling
              (tentative: Wilhelm Schaeffer/Colin Tully)
    14:00   Ron Tolido (Pandata)
             Metamodelling in practice: SDW
    15:30   Guenther Merberth/Bob Rockwell (Softlab)
             Metamodelling in practice: Meastro

   Sat 15 May: (research)
    9:00    Sjaak Brinkkemper (Univ. Twente)
             Metamodelling: overview of techniques and formalisation
    14:00   Dennis Verhoeff (TU-Delft/SERC, Utrecht)
             Modelling design expertise
    15:30   Kally Lyytinen/Kari Smolander (Univ. Jyvaskyla)
             metaphor project
    19:00   presentations from workgroups.

   Sun 16 May (final day)
    10:00   closing session
    12:00   departures.

Participation to this summerschool is limited.
In order to apply for participation, please send a position paper
containing a short description of current research and at most
5 references to papers that describe your current work in more detail.
The position paper must clarify the relation of your current work
to the topic of the summerschool.
The position paper must:
 - be posted by e-mail in LaTeX source format or printable ASCII
   to joosten@cs.utwente.nl together with the registration form (see below)
 - be typically 2 pages A4 when printed, but absolutely not more than 3.
 - be in the posession of the program committee before April 1st, 1993.

Your position paper is refereed by the program committee against the
following criteria:
 - Is participation beneficial to the area of ME&MM?
 - Is the level of research sufficient to ensure an active contribution
   of the participant to the summerschool?
Note that these criteria do not require you to be a top-status researcher
of international standing. However, you must be able to show that
you are active in the area and producing useful results.

The program committee is currently negotiating with the editorial
board of a leading journal to produce a special issue on Method Engineering
and Meta-Modelling.
Accepted contributions will be considered for publication in this special
issue.

If you wish to submit papers (or a demo), beside your position paper,
please contact the program committee (e-mail: joosten@cs.utwente.nl).
There are possibilities of entering a short paper or demo material
in the conference binder.
This material will also be considered for publication.
However, this does not influence your acceptance for the summerschool.

Costs are Hfl 800,- (around $500) and include participation,
accomodation and meals.

The Wednesday is reserved for arrivals, registration and opening session.
The program starts on Thursday in the early morning.

The summerschool is scheduled to precede the IFIP WG8.2 Conference
in Noordwijkerhout, which starts on Monday 17th. Participants to
that conference will have enough time on Sunday to get there.

For further information, please contact
   Stef Joosten
   e-mail: joosten@cs.utwente.nl
or
   Stef Joosten
   University of Twente
   dept. of Computer Science
   P.O. Box 217
   7500 AE  ENSCHEDE
   the Netherlands

   tel. +31-53-893436
   fax. +31-53-339605
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2nd International Summerschool on Method Engineering and Meta-Modelling

name:
initials:
title(s):

Organisation:

postal address:






e-mail address:
telephone:
fax:

wishes to participate in the 2nd International Summerschool on Method
Engineering and Meta-Modelling from May 12th-16th in Enschede, the
Netherlands.

Enter this form together with your position paper before April 1st
to joosten@cs.utwente.nl
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From kmoen@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.)
Date: 19 Feb 1993 16:45 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
Keywords: Lotus Notes, Workflow
Nntp-Posting-Host: misvms.bpa.arizona.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Lines: 21

There was a flury of discussion about Lotus Notes a short while back.
I showed the postings to a colleque of mine and he asked me to post 
this for him.
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have been reading with interest some of the recent discussions about
Lotus Notes.  Although I have very little direct experience with it, I
do have some interesting information and am in touch with an
organization that uses it quite extensively.  In addition, I am
working with a company called Quality Decision Management (QDM) that
is creating add-on software for the Notes system.  Their software
automates simple workflows now and is being expanded for more complex
ones in the future.  I would be interested in talking to anyone on
this subject but am a visitor to this system.  A co-worker gave me
copies of some of your notes and is putting this on your system for
me.  Please contact me thru internet at mtracy@afhrl.wpafb.af.mil
(134.131.108.1) or by phone.

Matthew Tracy
(513) 255-8399
(513) 255-4250 FAX  



From nyseclug@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.security.misc,comp.dcom.lans,comp.groupware
Subject: Security Users Group - Meeting Announcement
Message-ID: <1993Feb21.231900.387@rlgsc.com>
Date: 21 Feb 93 23:19:00 EST
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY
Lines: 50


                     The Security User Group


             Network Security: The Kerberos Approach
                     Tuesday, March 9, 1993
                      6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.


The focus of this presentation will be on the challenges of providing 
security for the cooperative electronic workplace, ones that aspire to 
location and scale independence in the client-server idiom. It begins 
by describing network security from a general point of view, including 
the kinds of threats which result from operating in an open 
environment. Then it describes effective approaches to meeting these 
threats, moving from the theoretical to the practical. The Kerberos 
network security system developed at MIT will be discussed, as well as 
providing in-depth treatment of public-key techniques, the X.509 
authentication model and the Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM). 
Kerberos is the core of the Open Software Foundation's Distributed 
Computing Environment (OSF/DCE), and the DCE extensions and 
enhancements to Kerberos that made it into the de-facto standard for 
network security will also be discussed. The nuts-and-bolts of 
administration and integration of this technology with existing 
environemtns will also be discussed.

Speaker:              Daniel E. Geer
                      Principal and Co-Founder
                      Geer Zolot Associates
                      Previously Manager of Systems Development, 
                      Project Athena

Location:             Coopers & Lybrand
                      1301 Avenue of the Americas (52nd Street)
                      Conference Room A (2nd floor)
                      New York, New York

Host:                 Carol A. Siegel

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by Monday, March 8 to:

                                 Carol A. Siegel
                                Coopers & Lybrand
                                 +1 212 536 3275
                                nyseclug@rlgsc.com

RSVP is mandatory. Building security will not permit any person not on the 
attendee list to enter the building (This is the Security User Group after 
all!)
                         


From lbreid@athena.mit.edu (Lynn B Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: apE E-Mail Contact?
Date: 22 Feb 1993 20:18:56 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 12
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1mbcfgINN44u@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: skye.mit.edu

Hi...
I'd like to get some further information on apE.  Does anybody have an 
e-mail address?

-- 
Lynn B. Reid, "brave Boadicea of Bayesian Bullshit"
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA  02139

Inter/Bitnet: lbreid@athena.mit.edu    UUCP:  mit-eddie!mit-athena!lbreid




From kmoen@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.)
Date: 22 Feb 1993 15:11 MST  
References: <19FEB199316455084@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu>
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
Keywords: Lotus Notes, Workflow
Nntp-Posting-Host: bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Lines: 5

In article <19FEB199316455084@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu>, kmoen@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.) writes...
In the previous message, Matt Tracy's email address should have been listed
as:  mtracy@alhrg.wpafb.af.mil.  The numerical address is correct, however.

Send him a note.  He'd love to hear from you. 


From colston@gid.co.uk (Colston Sanger)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.human-factors,comp.cog-eng,uk.announce
Subject: CSCW Issues for Mobile and Remote Workers, IEE, London, 16 March
Keywords: CSCW, Teleworking, Mobile comms, seminar
Message-ID: <372@sixnine.gid.co.uk>
Date: 23 Feb 93 10:34:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Organization: GID Ltd, Upper Basildon, Reading, UK
Lines: 160

CSCW (COMPUTER SUPPORTED CO-OPERATIVE WORK) ISSUES FOR MOBILE AND REMOTE WORKERS

************************
* NB.
* The IEE is only just getting onto email and is not yet into the swing of it
* all. Registrations can only be accepted by conventional paper mail re the
* following registration form which should be printed out and posted to the
* IEE. It is also possible to register on the day (but slower).
*
************************


A Colloquium organised by IEE Professional Group C5 (Human-Computer
Interaction) in association with the CSCW Special Interest Group to be held
at IEE Headquarters, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL

                        Tuesday 16th March 1993

                        PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Mobile workers (such as sales or technical support staff) and remote
workers (such as teleworkers and those in small, regional offices) are
separated from their colleagues and their corporate information repositories.
In addition, their communication channels are often poor, low bandwidth or
intermittent - how can such workers co-operate?

10:00   REGISTRATION and COFFEE

        Chairman A Dix (University of York)

10:30   Chairman's introduction

10:40   The Electronic Hard Hat - CSCW on the construction site
        D Madigan (BICC)

11:05   Information Systems for Health Care Professionals
        A W Savill and S D James (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

11:30   The Salesman's promise
        A W S Ainger (Human Centered Systems)

12:00   Personal Information Management in the Context of Collaborative Work
        P Thomas (Brunel University)

12:25   Observations of practically perfect CSCW
        Professor Harold Thimbleby (Stirling University) and D Pullinger (IOP)

12:50   LUNCH

2:10    The Mobile Station Support Toolkit: Integration of Mobile 
        Computers and Distributed Task Management within The EuroCODE Project
        U Busbach (Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany)

2:35    New directions in communications for remote working
        Val Mitchell and S Hannigan (HUSAT Research Institute)

3:00    TEA

3:15    Mobile Open Systems Technologies for the Utilities Industries
        N. Davies, G.S. Blair and A. Friday (Lancaster University)

3.45    The DTI teleworking study: some findings and government policy issues
        H Mitchell (Anders Electronics and Brameur)

4:15    Discussion

4:30    Concluding Remarks

16:35   CLOSE

Further details can be obtained from the Secretary, LS(D)CA, IEE Savoy
Place, London WC2R 0BL or by telephoning 071 240 1871 ext 2206.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                                REGISTRATION FORM

            CSCW (COMPUTER SUPPORTED CO-OPERATIVE WORKING) ISSUES FOR 
                            MOBILE AND REMOTE WORKERS

                Colloquium on Tuesday 16th March 1993

                                at

                The Institution of Electrical Engineers
                Savoy Place
                London WC2R 0BL

Tel 071 240 1871, Registered as a charity, IEE VAT reg no. 240-3420-16



Surname _____________________________  Initial _______  Title ___________

Address for correspondence

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

Postcode ___________________     Tel No ________________________




Class of Membership ________________ Membership number _________________

Note: Members of the IEEIE, CSCW-SIG and Eurel Member Associations will be
admitted at the Members rates.

Please insert fee in appropriate column

IEE Members #40.00 (see Note above) (includes #5.96 VAT)        #_________

IEE Retired, Unemployed or Student Member                       NO CHARGE

Non-members  #65.00 (includes #9.68 VAT)                        #_________

Retired, unemployed and Student non-members
#20.00 (included #2.98 VAT)                                     #_________

Lunch Ticket #7.25 (includes #1.08 VAT)                         #_________



TOTAL REMITTANCE ENCLOSED                                       #_________
(Cheques should be payable to the IEE and crossed)

Credit Facilities will only be considered upon receipt of an official order
number and an adminstrative charge of #5.00 + VAT will be made.

                                Order Number _________________


ALL students must have their application endorsed by their Professor or
Head of Department.

                Endorsing Signature __________________________________________



REMITTANCE MUST ACCOMPANY THIS COMPLETED FORM AND SENT TO

                Colloquia Bookings
                IEE
                PO Box 96
                Stevenage
                Herts SG1 2SD

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-- 
GID - software engineers to the quality
1 Captain's Gorse, Upper Basildon, Reading, Berks RG8 8SZ, UK
UUCP: colston@gid.co.uk               Tel/Fax: +44 491 671964


From david@ruc.dk (David Stodolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Introduction to comp.groupware (Periodic informational Posting)
Supersedes: <groupware-intro_729324132@athena.mit.edu>
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Date: 24 Feb 1993 06:02:28 GMT
Organization: Roskilde University
Lines: 349
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Distribution: world
Expires: 24 Mar 1993 06:02:08 GMT
Message-ID: <groupware-intro_730533728@athena.mit.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu
Summary: Guidelines for posting to the Usenet newsgroup comp.groupware.
Keywords: CSCW, orgware, group, interactive, shared, environments
X-Last-Updated: 1993/01/25

Archive-name: groupware-intro
Last-modified: 1993/1/17
Version: 1.5

Please read carefully:
Any article posted to comp.groupware uses a minimum of ten hours of
readers' time. Do not post test messages to comp.groupware (see section
5 below). Information for teachers is contained in section 7.

This article is posted automatically every 14 days to introduce the
group to the more than one thousand new users that have subscribed
during that period. 

---------------- Contents (and revision information) ------------

Sections in this article (Revised in last modification)

0. Groupware is software and hardware for shared interactive
environments.
1. Set your distribution to "world". (Revised)
2. Sign your article.
3. Comp.groupware is being archived. (Revised)
4. If you are posting copyrighted work...
5. Read "Welcome to news.newusers.questions"... (Revised)
6. When you reply to a message, do not change the subject line...
7. Comp.groupware is read by over 28,000 people. (Revised)

------------ End of Contents (and revision information) ----------


0. Groupware is software and hardware for shared interactive
environments.

The term "environment" includes software and hardware that sets the
context for interaction. Hardware can include specially designed
furnishings and architectural spaces that are considered integral to
correct utilization of a given software application. A groupware
application may require a specific organizational environment to
function as expected. More powerful applications can adapt to, or
overcome limitations of, their environments.

The term "interactive" is used to indicate that time constraints are
managed by the system. Many groupware applications appear to support
real-time interaction. Others merely enforce deadlines that can span
weeks. In either case, the technical limitations on the pace of
interaction are made (to appear) negligible in terms of the objectives
of the application. Systems that exclude reference to real time are not
groupware applications.

The term "shared" indicates that two or more participants interact with
one another in such a manner that each person influences and is
influenced by each other person. No upper limit in the number of
participants is indicated, because mediated groups, as opposed to
natural ones, can maintain joint awareness with very large numbers of
persons. (Joint awareness is one way that "group" is defined.) An
objective of some groupware applications is to increase the number of
persons that can interact "as a group".

Some definitions of groupware include the notion of a common goal. While
all systems require some agreement among participants (at minimum that
they should be jointly used), interactions can be predominately
conflictual. Management of conflict is often a crucial feature of a
groupware system. Vote collecting systems are an example.

Definitions:

Group - Two or more persons who are interacting
with one another in such a manner that each person
influences and is influenced by each other person
(Shaw, M. E. _Group dynamics: The psychology of
small group behaviour_. 1976, p. 11).

Ware - 1 a) manufactured articles, products of art
or craft.... b) an article of merchandise.... 3) an
intangible item (as a service) that is a marketable
commodity. (_Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary_,
1976, p. 1319).


1. Set your distribution to "world". Comp.groupware is delivered to all
continents. Do not limit your chances for feedback by restricting
distribution. Restricted distribution can cause confusion when people
read responses to articles they have not seen. If you notice an article
has a restricted distribution, inform the poster by mail.

If you are restricted from posting to "world" by your administrator,
request a change in your privileges, at least for this newsgroup. If
refused, determine what your rights are in terms of appeal, based upon
information available at your site. An alternative is to use the Net to
find information and persons to contact concerning your rights. 
Try the newsgroups:

comp.org.eff.news
comp.org.eff.talk
misc.legal.computing
alt.society.civil-liberty
alt.comp.acad-freedom.news
alt.society.cu-digest

Information about the rights of network users is available from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Information about the Electronic
Frontier Foundation  can be requested from eff@eff.org. You can also
retrieve information about EFF and its projects via anonymous FTP from
ftp.eff.org.

As a final resort, send a summary of your case to:

Carl Kadie (kadie@eff.org)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
155 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02141, USA
Tel.: +1 (617) 864-0665
Fax: +1 (617) 864-0866.

If you can send email off-site, you can post using a Usenet-news mail
server. Email to "comp-groupware@ucbvax.berkeley.edu" is posted with the
subject line of your letter becoming the subject line of the article.
(Note: "." in the newsgroup name is written as "-".) This allows you to
post to a newsgroup even if you have read-only access to Network News.


2. Sign your article. Each name should have one and only one user. If
the article is a joint product, indicate this at the beginning and end
of the article. Some news reading programs allow certain names to be to
be automatically selected. Help the reader by using the same name at all
times. This will improve the chances that people will read your
articles.

The signature should include complete name, address, and telephone
number (this allows quick verification in case forgery is suspected).
Email addresses ought to be included in the signature in case headers
get munged. Another nice feature is geographical coordinates, so the
time zone can be determined (useful in telephoning). The signature
should be limited to four lines as is suggested practice on Usenet.


3. Comp.groupware is being archived.
tvv@ncsc.org (Terry Myerson) began archiving comp.groupware 92.10.6.
The archive is available by anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from:
avs.ncsc.org ( 128.109.178.23 )

in the directory:
~ftp/newsgroups/comp.groupware

The archives are in mail folders named MONTH_YEAR.
For example, to peruse all of the postings in the month of
October, you could download the archive Oct_92, and execute

%       Mail -f Oct_92

FTP is a way of copying files between networked computers.  If you
need help in using or getting started with FTP, send email to:
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu 

with:
send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq

in the body to find out how to do FTP.

Those without FTP access should send email to:
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu

with:
send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources

in the body to find out how to do FTP by email.


4. If you are posting copyrighted work, indicate at the beginning of the
article whether permission has been obtained. If you do not want an
article reproduced, indicate this (e.g., Copyright - Net distribution
only).


5. Read "Welcome to news.newusers.questions" in that newsgroup before
posting for the first time. This helps to avoid common mistakes and
inadvertent abusive behavior that can cause articles to be ignored.

Authors should refer to "Guidelines for posting on Usenet" in the
newsgroup "news.announce.newusers" to make sure they know to spell check
their articles, etc. "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions",
"Introduction to news.announce", "Hints on writing style for Usenet"
available in the same newsgroup also contain information for new users.

Do not post test messages to comp.groupware. There are special groups
for testing. And tests should be as limited in their distribution as
possible. This is basic information from "Guidelines for posting on
Usenet". Posting of test messages inappropriately is considered abusive
and will cause a loss of readership for your articles.

Always use your Subject line to state the *topic* of your article as
completely as possible (e.g., "Macintosh II voice-mail based real-time
meeting software ready.", rather than "Meeting software"). Summary lines
should indicate *what* your message says about the topic (e.g., "New
meeting coordination software available via anonymous FTP"). Statements
should always end with periods, questions with question marks
(typically), and high energy, high impact declarations with exclamation
points. These rules makes articles much easier for recipients to handle
appropriately. 

If you ask a question, your subject line should include "question",
"query", "(Q)" or should end with a "?". Questions should clearly
explain your problem and surrounding issues. Otherwise, you will simply
waste the time of those who want to help you. Tell people the kind of
work you are doing or contemplating doing. This helps them provide the
information you need. Indicate what efforts, if any, you have made thus
far, and what information was found.

Subject, Summary, and Keyword headers are scanned by many news reading
programs, thus permitting readers to find your article easily. You will
have your articles read more often if you select these carefully.


6. When you reply to a message, do not change the subject line or
redirect follow-ups (unless you are changing the subject).  Such changes
make it harder for some news readers to follow the threads in a
discussion. Include a "Summary" line which indicates specifically what
your message says. This permits your article to be found even if it is a
follow-up to an article with poorly chosen subject and keyword
information.

Please, do not post responses to articles you feel are inappropriate or
abusive. (If you can not resist, consider alt.flame as an alternative
newsgroup for your article [it has greater readership than
comp.groupware]). If the author is not saying anything worth reading,
enter the name in your "kill" file, and then no more of your time will
be wasted by that person. If you feel that the author is saying
something worth reading, but in an inappropriate way, respond by mail.
Tell the author what you think is incorrect about the article. If
possible, suggest how to accomplish the objective in an appropriate way
(e. g., post to another newsgroup). If you have responded to a person by
mail a few times without the desired effect, and you feel that the group
as a whole could benefit by a solution to the problem, only then should
you post an article.  The nature of your article should be a suggestion,
if possible, of how such problems can be avoided in the future.


7. Comp.groupware is read by over 28,000 people (Brian Reid posts
readership statistics at the beginning of each month to the newsgroup
news.lists). Consider the cost to readers of any post. If even an
obviously inappropriate article is distributed, one that just takes
readers a few seconds to scan, and then skip or kill, the total time
used is still large. With 36,000 readers, a post that takes an average
of 1 second for each reader to deal with (i. e., examining the subject
line) means a total of ten hours used (36,000 seconds / 3,600
seconds/hour = 10 hours). If the article uses up an average of four
seconds, then the total time expenditure is 40 hours, the equivalent of
a work week. This is probably the minimum time expenditure on any
article that is even selected for scanning. So, if you spend a week
preparing an article and then post it to comp.groupware, there will be a
balance between your time investment and that used by readers, even if
they only scan your article and make no response. The lack of a separate
feedback channel is an unfortunate deficiency in the Network News system
as it is currently structured.

This analysis should not discourage anyone from posting a simple
question. Some of the most interesting and valuable exchanges in
comp.groupware have resulted from such questions. However, authors must
not make such requests unnecessarily. On the other hand, a carefully
prepared article or a report of an extensive project may not receive any
comment at all. This could mean that the article is clear and error
free. It could also mean it was not of sufficient interest to anyone to
be read in detail. What can be assumed is that it was seriously
considered. This is a result of the currently low traffic level in
comp.groupware and high quality of articles posted.

Teachers should not make use of comp.groupware a class activity. If a
class is made aware of comp.groupware, this Introduction should be made
required reading, so inappropriate use is minimized. Instructional use
of the news system is best practised in a local newsgroup established
for that purpose. This also permits establishment of a better
environment for instructional purposes. See the article "Protecting
expression in teleconferencing: Pseudonym-based peer review journals"
{Stodolsky, D. S. (1990).  _Canadian Journal of Educational
Communication_, 19, 41-51. ([1989, May 9]. _Communication Research and
Theory Network [CRTNET]_, No. 175 [Semi-final draft available by
electronic mail from LISTSERV@PSUVM.BITNET at University Park, PA: The
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Speech Communication and
COMSERVE@Vm.ecs.rpi.edu at Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication.])} This article
also available in compressed format as file "prot.express.tele" on
archive.eu.net in ~ftp/documents/authors/Stodolsky, and on ftp.nluug.nl
in ~ftp/pub/documents/authors/Stodolsky.

Retrieve and examine the file by typing, for example
(characters before and including ":" or ">" indicate machine's prompting
for input):

        > ftp archive.EU.net
        login: ftp
        password: <your email address here>
        ftp> bin
        ftp> cd documents/authors/Stodolsky
        ftp> get prot.express.tele.Z
        ftp> bye
        > uncompress prot.express.tele.Z
        > view prot.express.tele


If your email reply to an author fails, try again using information in
the signature lines. An X.500 directory information server can be
consulted to find a person's email address. Read the informational
article, "How to find people's email addresses" (in the newsgroup
"news.answers"), so you know to contact the postmaster at the site of
the person you are trying to reach, and so on. Do not post a reply until
you have tried to reach the author by telephone, facsimile, or paper
mail. If these fail, ask yourself if getting the reply through is worth
ten hours of readers' time. If so, post the message. Do not post a
message asking a person to send you an email address, unless your letter
must be kept private (If this is true, consider using encryption). If it
is not of general interest, use only the person's name as the subject
(e.g., "To: Foo Bar"). If other readers might find it interesting, also
give full subject information. 

Similarly, do not broadcast requests for information you can obtain from
a known source. Requests such as, "What are the contents of book Foo
published by Bar" are not appropriate. This information can normally be
obtained by a short telephone call and a few minutes of work by someone
being paid to provide that service. Let's not deprive someone of a job
and at the same time get comp.groupware readers fired because they are
wasting all their time reading unnecessary articles :-).

Post long articles as a single unit if they are less than 30,000
characters. Otherwise, post separate sections as follow-ups to the
first, breaking at meaningful places. This permits the sections to be
treated as a single unit, thus minimizing expenditure of attention on
the article. The cost of transmitting articles is negligible, so long
posts that take one second to delete "cost" the same as short ones.

Disregarding these considerations or a lack of self discipline in
following them will result in defensive attention management. That is,
certain authors will not be read at all by many readers or valuable
discussions will take place by email instead of being posted. This would
have the unfortunate effect of fractionating the joint awareness that
permits the comp.groupware readership to function as a group. Thus, it
is recommended that authors who prefer entertainment to rigor in their
news reading, post to other newsgroups.

-------

This article compiled with assistance from numerous readers of
comp.groupware.

Corrections, comments, and suggestions to:

David S. Stodolsky                            Tel: + 45 31 95 92 82
Department of Computer Science                Fax: + 45 46 75 42 01
Bldg. 20.1, Roskilde University              Internet: david@ruc.dk
Post Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark        : david@mcsun.EU.net


From William Tupi <WT4780A@auvm.american.edu>
Message-ID: <93055.102335WT4780A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: groupware research
Lines: 9

I'm a graduate student at The American University and am doing research
on groupware.  I would appreciate any current information on the subject.
The main areas that I am interested in are the catgories of administration,
information management, communications management and real-time meeting
facilitation.  If anybody could post articles on groupware used for these
purposes it would be appreciated.


bill tupi ..  The American University


From barhyb@fi.gs.com (Bill Barhydt)
Subject: collaborative meeting software
Message-ID: <C2yKFn.Apo@fi.gs.com>
Keywords: groupware, meeting
Sender: news@fi.gs.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: psl04
Reply-To: barhyb@fi.gs.com
Organization: Fixed Income Division - Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 15:02:10 GMT
Lines: 19

I am trying to find collaborative meeting software.  The requirements
are as follows:

Windows or Macintosh based (Must have excellent USER INTERFACE)
allows anonymous input during meetings
has more than simple brainstorming capabilities
can run on a LAN of Laptops or PowerBooks

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Please respond directly to my email account.

Bill


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From angelos@athena.mit.edu (Angelo Angelos)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: WAN Groupware
Date: 24 Feb 1993 20:59:04 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I am interested in groupware over Wide Area Networks, possibly even over public
switching networks. Is there any information out there on this subject? Can it be
done feasibly? Is there a market for this?

Angelo Angelos
MIT
e-mail: angelos@athena.mit.edu


From dante@comphi.wariat.org
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Duplicate user account
Message-ID: <gate.98yHZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 17:34:31 EST
Lines: 11

ALERT!  Bad user found.

Devin Rench
    dante
    VICTIM
    adam kadmon

216-521-5279  /  216-521-5279
    dante




From vandeweg@cs.utwente.nl (Rob Vandeweg)
Subject: Call for papers 4th European workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT-93)
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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS



FOURTH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE NEXT GENERATION  OF CASE 
TOOLS (NGCT-93)

Held in association with CAISE-93


On June 5 - 7, 1993, the fourth NGCT Workshop will take 
place in Paris at the Sorbonne University in association 
with the CAISE-93 conference.

Programme: Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
Local Organisation: Prof. Colette Rolland

The workshop brings together leading European researchers on 
Computer Aided Software Engineering. The first three 
workshops held at Noordwijkerhout (the Netherlands), 
Trondheim (Norway), and Manchester (UK) were attended by 25 
- 30 researchers, and have laid the groundwork for 
continuing exchange of research ideas in this area. The 
fourth workshop will consolidate and expand this exchange of 
ideas further into active development and update of the 
agenda for CASE research.
Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only and is 
limited to 25 delegates to promote effective discussion and 
exchange of ideas in a small group. The programme has been 
arranged to encourage informal exchange of ideas. Every 
effort  will be made to keep costs to a minimum.

THEMES

Themes of the workshop will be focused on architectural 
specification of aspects of new generation CASE environments 
with special emphasis on issues as, but not limited to:
* Development process support
* Group software development tools
* Repositories
* MetaCASE (meta-modelling)

Topics in the past have covered:

* Reuse in CASE tools
* Reverse engineering CASE tools
* CASE architectures
* Method support in CASE, including formal methods
* Metamodelling for CASE environments and MetaCASE
* Innovative and Knowledge based CASE tools
* CASE tools for Object-Oriented analysis and design
* Human factors and Organisation issues
* User interfaces and CASE
* CSCW for CASE
* Repository techniques and standards
* Natural language support

Please note submissions must have tool based, i.e. CASE, 
subject matter.


The format of the workshop will consist of short paper 
presentations and thematic discussions plenary as well in 
subgroups.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Two types of submissions are invited:
* Full papers, length not more than 6,000 words
* Position papers, length not more than 2,500 words.
Papers will reviewed by the workshop committee, and 
attendance at the workshop is conditioned on acceptance of 
either a position or a full paper.

Authors of full papers should try to review related work as 
well as presenting their own results. Keynote presentations 
will be selected from full papers. Position papers are 
intended to describe experience and overview of results. 
Membership of working groups will be determined from 
position papers.
All accepted papers will be published in the informal 
workshop proceedings as a technical report (memorandum) of 
the Twente University, which will be supplied to delegates. 
It is intended that a formal published volume of edited 
proceedings will be proceeded after the workshop. The 
proceedings of the second workshop were published as 'Next 
generation CASE tools' by the IOS Press (Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands) last year in the series 'Studies in Computer 
and Communication Systems'.

The procedure will be to select papers on the basis of 
review results and then discussion in working groups. A 
number of papers (no more than twelve) will be selected for 
development to a publication standard. Authors should note 
in their submissions that material which is submitted to the 
main CAISE-93 conference can not be published in the NGCT 
edited proceedings because of copyright restrictions.

The deadline for paper submission will be February 28th,
1993. The call for participation for CAISE-93 can be 
obtained from the secretary of the workshop committee.

WORKSHOP PLAN

NGCT-93 will have as the previous year a panel format of 
discussion and small groups to stimulate development of 
ideas on focused themes. The programme will be as follows:

Day 1. Saturday 5th June 12.00 am - 5.00 pm

(a) Presentation of four - five keynote papers selected from 
the submitted full papers. Twenty minute presentations plus 
five minutes questions. Choice of these papers will depend 
on their academic merit and coverage of topics. We intend to 
have only one paper per theme area presented, even if we get 
several excellent papers on one theme.

(b) Panel presentations. Participants will be invited to 
join panels on basis of  their submitted (position or full) 
papers. Panellists may give five - ten minute short 
presentations. Each panel will be composed of four - five 
participants, 45 minutes per panel, 25 minutes presentation 
plus twenty minutes discussion with the other delegates 
acting as audience. Four - five panels overall, selected on 
coherence of themes.

Day 2 Sunday 6th June 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

Continuation of panel presentations.

(c) Selection of working groups. Participants may elect to 
join a panel or to form a separate group for subjects which 
were not presented. The aims is to form six - seven groups 
on topic themes (assuming a workshop membership of about 
25).

(d) Discussion of topics in working groups. Review of 
submitted papers, ideas for development.

Day 3 Monday 7th June 9.00 - 12.00 am

(e) Plenary session. Presentation by each working group of 
its conclusions, discussion by whole workshop. Plans for 
published volume, and future meetings of workshop.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers (three copies) should be sent by Sunday 28th February 
1993 to:
     Dr S. Brinkkemper,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl},
     tel.nr:  +31-53-893690
     fax-nr:  +31-53-339605 

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 
7th 1993. Camera ready copy should be supplied by 10th May 
1993.


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Rudolf Andersen, University of Trondheim, Norway
Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, NL (chair)
Terry Halpin, University of Queensland, Australia
Neil Maiden, City University, UK.
Colette Rolland, University of Paris, France
Alistair Sutcliffe, City University, UK
Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
Benkt Wangler, SISU, Sweden
Rob van de Weg, University of Twente, NL (secretary)
Richard Welke, Georgia State University, USA
Gerard Wijers, SERC, NL


Those interested in participation and wishing to obtain the 
final call for participation should contact the program 
committee:
     Rob L.W. van de Weg,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl},
     tel.nr:  +31-53-893690
     fax-nr:  +31-53-339605 




From pt@comphi.wariat.org
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Duplicate user account
Message-ID: <gate.yZ0HZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 21:27:09 EST
Lines: 11

ALERT!  Bad user found.

Pt Webster
    pt webster
    mutated chia pet

216-543-9051  /  216-543-9051
    pt webster
    mutated chia pet




From altman@jupiter.aitc.rest.tasc.com. (David Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: GROUPWARE and IDEF
Date: 25 Feb 1993 15:34:09 GMT
Organization: TASC
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Hello all:

I am very interested in hearing from anyone who has used or knows of  
activities involving the facilitation of IDEF business process improvement  
modeling activities using groupware.

I know DoD has a groupware testbed in the Wash Navy Yards.  I believe they  
are using the Group V Systems products out of Arizona.

Any info is appriciated

David J. Altman


From cheekit@iti.gov.sg (Looi Chee Kit (KSL))
Subject: Irene Greif's email address
Message-ID: <1993Feb26.052213.28257@iti.gov.sg>
Sender: news@iti.gov.sg (News Admin)
Reply-To: cheekit@iti.gov.sg
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore
References: <372@sixnine.gid.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:22:13 GMT
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I would like to contact Irene Greif of MIT/Lotus. Would appreciate if someone can 
provide me with her email address. Thanks.

---
Chee-Kit LOOI    			| Internet: cheekit@iti.gov.sg
Knowledge Systems Lab			| Bitnet:   cheekit@itivax
Information Technology Institute	| Tel:      (65) 772-0926
National Computer Board of Singapore    | Fax:      (65) 770-3043



From gcavkaf@state.systems.sa.gov.au
Date: 26 Feb 93 16:32:51 ACST
References: <1993Jan25.173143.1117@news.mentorg.com> <1993Jan28.091120.130@rcwusr> <29231@sybase.sybase.com> <C2JrKw.57D@x.co.uk>
Organization: State Systems, South Australia
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> The compression technology is relatively expensive ($2000 on a PC and
> $10000 on a SPARC - the same compression chip!)  It is technically feasible
> to put everything together for about $6000 provided you already have a TV
> a phone and a camcorder.  Add a 100% mark up to $12000 and you have a product
> too expensive for most people to buy.  An interesting area might be large
> corporates though......
> 
> Mike

I'm not at all sure that this doesn't equate to VideoConferencing which tends
to be even more expensive because of the digital to analog conversion as
well as the compression.
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From prevel@uni2a.unige.ch
Subject: Workflow modelling,lotus notes & ATI
Message-ID: <1993Feb26.091719.1@uni2a.unige.ch>
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Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 07:17:19 GMT

Hello Groupwarers

I am looking for information about the Action Technologies's Workflow 
management methodology used as an add-on companion product on top of 
Lotus Notes.

As far as I know, this methodology is used to describe a business process
using the Flores/Winograd model of conversation management and then
implement this description in a Notes database.

I am specially interested in the model itself, its application to describe
work (and data) flow and the modelling tools implementing the model.
Any descriptions, bibliographic pointers etc. are welcome.

Please, respond via E-Mail and I'll post a resume.

Thanks in advance

                        Michel
...............................................................................
  Michel PREVEL (bur. 407)    	 e-mail : prevel@uni2a.unige.ch
  Universite de Geneve        	 Fax    : (41) (22) 781 41 00
  Dept. COMIN                 	 Phone  : (41) (22) 705 81 16
 102, Bd. Carl-Vogt 
 1211 GENEVE 4  (SWITZERLAND) 
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From tbenham@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Tom Benham)
Subject: Re: WAN Groupware
Message-ID: <sqZkZB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
References: <1mgnioINNu0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 13:38:27 GMT
Lines: 17

angelos@athena.mit.edu (Angelo Angelos) writes:

> I am interested in groupware over Wide Area Networks, possibly even over publ
> switching networks. Is there any information out there on this subject? Can i
> done feasibly? Is there a market for this?
> 
> Angelo Angelos
> MIT
> e-mail: angelos@athena.mit.edu

I believe Lotus Notes is the best product on the market for what
you want to do.  It uses a dialup schedule to exchange data with
servers located anywhere.  They can be connected on a WAN or dial-up.
The server runs on OS/2 and there are clients for OS/2, WIndows,
Unix (I think SCO & SUN so far), and Apple I believe.

Tom Benham - Calliope Systems - Independent Consultants


From Robert C. Everhart <RE5385A@auvm.american.edu>
Message-ID: <93057.141832RE5385A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Group Editors/Word Processors
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Folks,
I am currently involved with a graduate team at American University doing
research on group editors and word processors. I am looking for good research
on specific products in this area, and perhaps some field work on the
benefits and advantages/disadvantages of the various products.  My preference
would be to get a hold of research on this type of tool, regardless of product
name, which studies the effect of the tool on group work and/or group inter-
action. I would greatly appreciate any information in this area.
-Rob Everhart


From mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.groupware,comp.misc
Subject: Priorities and to-do lists -- opinions wanted
Message-ID: <aJ7kZB4w165w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 16:05:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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I'm looking for opinions about how to represent the importance or priority of
a task as a numeric value.

On my to-do list on my Mac at home, I use low numbers to indicate unimportant
tasks and high numbers to indicate important ones.  Discussion in the office,
however, suggests that I am alone in my perversion.  Certainly, looking at
other to-do list packages, the convention of "smaller number means more
important" seems to be very widespread.

So, could people who have strong opinions one way or the other mail me?  At
the moment, my conclusion is that "small = important" is probably the way to
go simply because everyone else does it that way, and the fact that it seems
counter-intuitive to me is just my problem.

Also, does anyone have any thoughts on the idea of having two-dimensional
priorities, with one axis being "urgency" and the other being "importance"?

I'll summarize if anyone's interested.


mathew



From m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.groupware,comp.misc
Subject: re: Priorities and to-do lists -- opinions wanted
Date: 26 Feb 1993 23:50:30 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
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In article <aJ7kZB4w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>I'm looking for opinions about how to represent the importance or priority of
>a task as a numeric value.
>
>On my to-do list on my Mac at home, I use low numbers to indicate unimportant
>tasks and high numbers to indicate important ones.  Discussion in the office,
>however, suggests that I am alone in my perversion.  Certainly, looking at
>other to-do list packages, the convention of "smaller number means more
>important" seems to be very widespread.
>
>So, could people who have strong opinions one way or the other mail me?  At
>the moment, my conclusion is that "small = important" is probably the way to
>go simply because everyone else does it that way, and the fact that it seems
>counter-intuitive to me is just my problem.

Hmmm, well, if you're the only one using it, I say to just go with your
own intuition and do whatever seems natural to YOU.  You don't want to
be fighting it and having to "convert" the numbers in your mind.

This issue comes up all the time when people construct questionnaires
and subjective evaluations. "Do I make '1' be really good, or '10' be
really good?"  Answer: It really doesn't matter... but it might even
be better to not use numbers at all if you don't have to!

Anyway, I think many people use small numbers for high-priority items
because they represent the order in which tasks will (or hope to) be
carried out; hence, '1' means I'll do this 'FIRST' and '2' means
'SECOND,' etc.


>Also, does anyone have any thoughts on the idea of having two-dimensional
>priorities, with one axis being "urgency" and the other being "importance"?

Ah!  You've encountered the "Tyranny of the Urgent!"  What I do in my
Franklin Planner is to assign the priority based on the day I'm writing
it... if the item doesn't get done and gets slipped forward, eventually
it may get a very high priority as the deadline for completion draws
near.


>I'll summarize if anyone's interested.

Sure!

Michael T. Palmer         |  "A man is crazy who writes a secret in any
m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov  |   other way than one which will conceal it
RIPEM key on server       |   from the vulgar." - Roger Bacon


From leos@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Leo Salemann)
Subject: Looking for Pointing devices
Message-ID: <1993Feb27.025636.8330@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 93 02:56:36 GMT
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Does anyone know of any newsgroups or publications that focus on
alternative input devices?  In particular, I'm looking for devices
that can be used /w/ a wall-sized display.  I've heard of Thumbelina,
a hand-held trackball; and a wallbord display that doubles as a touch
tablet.  What else is out there & where can I find it?

Thanks!!

--

:-) Leo

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From malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak)
Subject: Re: Priorities and to-do lists -- opinions wanted
Message-ID: <1993Feb27.042435.5446@grebyn.com>
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <aJ7kZB4w165w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 04:24:35 GMT
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>Also, does anyone have any thoughts on the idea of having two-dimensional
>priorities, with one axis being "urgency" and the other being "importance"?

Personally, the dimensions I use are "time required" and "benefit".



From al@comphi.wariat.org
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Duplicate user account
Message-ID: <gate.7g2LZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 22:13:29 EST
Lines: 11

ALERT!  Bad user found.

Alan Frey
    al
    french

216-751-8981  /  216-751-8981
    al
    french




From joe@netcom.com (Joseph Jesson)
Subject: Re: WAN Groupware
Message-ID: <1993Feb27.161042.6982@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <1mgnioINNu0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <sqZkZB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 16:10:42 GMT
Lines: 10

 Lotus Notes, in their Version 3, offers TCP/IP protocol instead of
Netbios.  NOW it becomes reasonable to use it over a WAN...

 --joe

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From keith@sytex.com (Keith Attenborough)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Any experience with L
Message-ID: <gate.k3RNZB1w165w@sytex.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 93 20:45:30 EST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r
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In article <1993Feb1.080004.12665@netcom.com> and in response to a post
by Art Minsky, Tome Wilson provides an excellent summary of Notes
functionality -- better than some of the Lotus reps I've heard at
demonstrations.

For your info, I just attended a Notes v3.0 late beta demonstration by
our local Lotus office.  V3.0 does include searches across databases and
incorporates the Verity (sp) boolean search engine for full text
searches.  The user interface has been significantly enhanced (as
described in recent press articles and some key administrator functions
have been added.

Our division is looking forward (eagerly) to gaining access to Notes
capabilities.  We have used its anticipated value added to justify
installation of a 200 client LAN.  Hopefully, by investing in the up
front planning (mostly in workflow analysis and organizational
process reviews) needed to establish Notes properly, we'll see the
anticipated pay off.

Keith
keith@sytex.com
                                                           


From broken@comphi.wariat.org
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Duplicate user account
Message-ID: <gate.093NZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 00:47:08 EST
Lines: 10

ALERT!  Bad user found.

Joe Doyle
    broken box

216-943-7826  /  216-943-7826
    kismet
    broken box




From sullivan@cs.washington.edu (Kevin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Duplicate user account
Message-ID: <1993Feb28.203709.7587@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: <gate.093NZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 20:37:09 GMT
Lines: 11

In article <gate.093NZB1w165w@comphi.wariat.org> broken@comphi.wariat.org writes:
>ALERT!  Bad user found.

Just out of curiousity, may I ask why these messages from comphi.wariat.org
keep appearing on this newgroup?  

-- 
Kevin Sullivan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 


