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# Questions?  Call Jim Rees at (734) 763-4174.  Also see "Readme" file.
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1998/12/09 1100|1998/12/09 1730|The Guru is IN|note
Provincetown/Orleans Rooms, 4th Floor
END
1998/12/09 1200|1998/12/09 1900|Products Exhibition|note
USENIX/SAGE Products Exhibition, University of Massachusetts Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor
END
1998/12/09 1730|1998/12/09 1900|Reception|note
University of Massachusetts Exhibit Hall & Foyer, 3rd Floor
END
1998/12/09 1900|1998/12/09 2300|BOFs|note
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, See BoF Bulletin Board in registration area for details
END
1998/12/09 0900|1998/12/09 1030|Joint Opening Session|note
Joint Opening Session

Opening Remarks & Awards: Xev Gittler and Rob Kolstad, Program Co-Chairs

Keynote Address: The Evolution of Open Source Software
Eric Allman, CTO, Sendmail, Inc.
END
1998/12/09 1100|1998/12/09 1230|3 Tracks|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A - E
Refereed Papers Session: Security
Session Chair:  Phil Cox, NTS, Inc.

Titan
Dan Farmer, Earthlink Network; Brad Powell, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; and Matthew Archibald, KLA-Tencor Corporation

Infrastructure: A Prerequisite for Effective Security 
Bill Fithen, Steve Kalinowski, Jeff Carpenter, and Jed Pickel, CERT Coordination Center, Carnegie Mellon University

SSU: Extending SSH for Secure Root Administration 
Christopher Thorpe, Yahoo!, Inc.

TRACK 2, SALON F
PRACTICUM
Teaching System Administration
Session Chair:  Lee Damon, QUALCOMM, Inc.

TRACK 3, SALONS G - K
INVITED TALKS
Got LDAP? Deploying and Using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Leif Hedstrom, Netscape Communications Corporation
END
1998/12/09 1400|1998/12/09 1530|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A - E

INVITED TALKS
Zero to LISA in One Year
Brent Chapman and Paul Evans, Covad Communications Company

TRACK 2, SALON F

REFEREED PAPERS: Pushing Users and Scripts Around
Session Chair:  Ozan S. Yigit, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

System Management With NetScript
Apratim Purakayastha and Ajay Mohindra, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Accountworks:  Users Create Accounts on SQL, Notes, NT and UNIX
Bob Arnold, Sybase, Inc.

Single Sign-On and the System Administrator
Michael Fleming Grubb and Rob Carter, Duke University

TRACK 3, SALONS G - K

PRACTICUM
FREENIX Administration Issues
Session Chair:  Strata Rose Chalup, VitrualNet Consulting
END
1998/12/09 1600|1998/12/09 1730|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A-E

REFEREED PAPERS: Storage Performance 
Moved to Thursday 09.00 - 10.30
Session Chair: Marc Staveley, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Using Gigabit Ethernet to Backup Six Terabytes
W. Curtis Preston, Hughes Space and Communications

Configuring Database Systems
Christopher R. Page, Millennium Pharmaceuticals 

TRACK 2, SALON F

PRACTICUM
University Issues
Session Chair:  David Parter, University of Wisconsin

TRACK 3, SALONS G-K

INVITED TALKS
Practical Cryptography - Privacy for Business and Electronic Commerce
Frederick M. Avolio, Security Consultant
END
1998/12/10 0900|1998/12/10 1730|The Guru is IN|note
Provincetown/Orleans Rooms, 4th Floor
END
1998/12/10 1000|1998/12/10 1600|Products Exhibition|note
USENIX/SAGE Products Exhibition, University of Massachusetts Exhibit Hall, 3rd Floor
END
1998/12/10 1730|1998/12/10 1830|SAGE Community Meeting|note
SAGE Community Meeting/Candidates Forum, Salons G - K, 4th Floor
END
1998/12/10 1830|1998/12/10 1930|Conference Reception|note
Conference Reception, Salons A - F & Foyer, 4th Floor
END
1998/12/10 1900|1998/12/10 2300|BOFs|note
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, See BoF Bulletin Board in registration area for details
END
1998/12/10 0900|1998/12/10 1030|2 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A-F

INVITED TALKS/PRACTICUM
Succumbing to the Dark Side of the Force: The Internet as Seen From an Adult Website
Dan Klein, Cybertainment, Inc.

TRACK 2, SALONS G-K

REFEREED PAPERS: Distributed Computing
Session Chair: Phil Cox, NTS, Inc.

A Configuration  Distribution System for Heterogeneous Networks
Gldson Elias da Silveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Federal University of Pernambuco 
NOT BEING PRESENTED

An NFS Configuration and Management System and its Underlying Object-Oriented Model
Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Juliana Silva da Cunha, Danielle Franklin, Luciana Varejo, and Rosalie Belian, Federal University of Pernambuco
NOT BEING PRESENTED

Moved from Wednesday
Using Gigabit Ethernet to Backup Six Terabytes
W. Curtis Preston, Hughes Space and Communications

Configuring Database Systems
Christopher R. Page, Millennium Pharmaceuticals 

Design and Implementation of an Administration System for Distributed Web Server
C. S. Yang and M. Y. Luo, National SunYat-Sen University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
END

1998/12/10 1100|1998/12/10 1230|3 Tracks|note
TRACK 1, SALON F

INVITED TALKS
Branchstart - A Generic, Mutli-OS Installation Server
Rory Toma, WebTV Networks Inc.

TRACK 2, SALONS G-K

REFEREED PAPERS: Networking
Session Chair: Eric Anderson, University of California, Berkeley

MRTG, Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Tobias Oetiker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Wide Area Network Ecology
Jon T. Meek, Edwin S. Eichert, and Kim Takayama, Cyanamid Agricultural Research Center/American Home Products Corporation

Automatically Selecting a Close Mirror Based on Network Topology
Giray Pultar, Coubros Consulting  LLC
END
1998/12/10 1400|1998/12/10 1530|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A - E

PRACTICUM
Mailer Wars
Session Chair:  Strata Rose Chalup, VirtualNet Consulting

TRACK 2, SALON F

INVITED TALKS
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI):  Causes, Treatment, and Prevention
Jeff Okamoto, Hewlett Packard Company 

TRACK 3, SALONS G-K

REFEREED PAPERS: Infrastructure
Session Chair: John Orthoefer, GTE Internetworking

What to Do When the Lease Expires: A Moving Experience 
Lloyd Cha, Chris Motta, Syed Babar, and Mukul Agarwal, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Jack Ma and Waseem Shaikh, Taos Mountain Software; and Istvan Marko, Volt Services Group

Anatomy of an Athena Workstation
Thomas Bushnell, BSG and Karl Ramm MIT Information Systems

Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
Steve Traugott, Sterling Software and NASA Ames Research Center and Joel Huddleston, Level 3 Communications
END
1998/12/10 1600|1998/12/10 1730|2 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A- F

INVITED TALKS/PRACTICUM
Joint Session:  The Great Certification Debate
Session Chair: Barbara Dijker, Labyrinth Computer Sevices

TRACK 2, SALONS G-K

REFEREED PAPERS: Printing and Configuring Files
Session Chair:  David Kensiski, Digital Island, Inc.

Ganymede: An Extensible and Customizable Directory Management Framework
Jonathan Abbey and Michael Mulvaney, Applied Research Laboratories of The University of Texas at Austin

Building an Enterprise Print System
Ben Woodard, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Large Scale Print Spool Service
Ignacio Reguero, David Foster, and Ivan Deloose, CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
END
1998/12/11 0900|1998/12/11 1030|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A- E

INVITED TALKS
Overview of the LISA/NT Conference
Ian Reddy, Cisco Systems, Inc..

TRACK 2, SALON F

REFEREED PAPERS: Distributing Software Packages
Session Chair: E. Scott Menter, ESM Services, Inc.

Mkpkg:  A Software Packaging Tool
Carl Staelin, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

SEPP - Software Installation and Sharing System
Tobias Oetiker, Department of Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Synctree For Single Installation Upgrades and OS Patches
John Lockard, University of Michigan; and Jason Larke, ANS Communications

TRACK 3, SALONS G-K

PRACTICUM
Network Admin and Remote Computing 
Session Chair: Fuat C. Baran, Columbia University
END
1998/12/11 1100|1998/12/11 1230|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A-E

REFEREED PAPERS: New Thoughts and Evolution
Session Chair:  Melissa D. Binde, Amazon.com, Inc.

The Evolution of the CMD Computing  Environment: A Case Study in Rapid Growth
Lloyd Cha, Chris Motta, Syed Babar, and Mukul Agarwal, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Jack Ma and Waseem Shaikh, Taos Mountain Software; and Istvan Marko, Volt Services Group Computer

Computer Immunology
Mark Burgess, Oslo College, Norway

A Visual Approach for Monitoring Logs
Luc Girardin and Dominique Brodbeck, UBS, Ubilab

TRACK 2, SALON F

PRACTICUM
Works-In-Progress (WIPs)
Coordinator: Peg Schafer, Harvard University

TRACK 3
SALONS G-K

INVITED TALKS
Security as Infrastructure
Tom Perrine, San Diego Supercomputer Center
END
1998/12/11 1400|1998/12/11 1530|3 TRACKS|note
TRACK 1, SALONS A-E

PRACTICUM
Palm Pilot Magic
Session Chair: Barbara Dijker, Labyrinth Computer Sevices

TRACK 2, SALON F

REFEREED PAPERS: Mailing Lists
Session Chair:  Tim Hunter, KLA-Tencor Corporation

Mailman:  The GNU Mailing List Manager
John Viega, Reliable Software Technologies; Barry Warsaw and Ken Manheimer, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Drinking from the Fire(walls) Hose:  Another Approach to Very Large Mailing Lists
Strata Rose Chalup, VirtualNet Consulting; Christine Hogan, Greg Kulosa, Bryan McDonald, Bryan Stansell, Global Networking and Computing, Inc.

Request v3:  A Modular, Extendable Task Tracking Tool
Joe Rhett, Navigist

TRACK 3, SALONS G-K

INVITED TALKS
Panel Discussion: TCP/IP Futures 
Moderator: Phil Scarr, Global Networking and Computing, Inc. 
END
1998/12/11 1600|1998/12/11 1730|Joint Closing Session|note
SALONS A - G
Joint Closing Session: The LISA Quiz Show!
Hosted by Rob Kolstad
END
