USENIX - 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference - Technical Sessions


FREENIX only

The Technical Sessions are Thursday - Saturday and include:

Keynote (Thursday morning)
General Refereed Paper Track (Thursday - Saturday)
Invited Talks Track (Thursday - Saturday)
FREENIX Refereed Paper Track (Thursday - Saturday)
Guru Is In Track (Thursday - Saturday)
Work-in-Progress Reports (Friday, 2pm)
Closing Session (Saturday, 4pm)


THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2002   

8:45 am - 10:30 am    Serra Ballroom I

Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote

Keynote Address:  The Internet's Coming Silent Spring
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University

The innovation of the Internet grew out of the network's unique 
design. Its 'architecture' was built to enable neutral and 
unrestrained innovation. In this talk, Lawrence Lessig shows how this 
ecology of innovation is now being undermined by those who were 
threatened by the original network architecture. Changes to this 
architecture, and the legal environment within which it lives, will 
in turn undermine the network's potential.

Professor Lessig, the nation's leading scholar of law and cyberspace, 
recently formed the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law 
School. The Center aims to examine
the relationship between the architecture of cyberspace and the basic 
constitutional and public policy values that define our democracy.

10:30 am - 11:00 am   Break


11:00 am - 12:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


File Systems
Session Chair: Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System (DAFS)
Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, and Margo 
Seltzer, Harvard; Jeff Chase, Drew Gallatin, Richard Kisley, and 
Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Duke; and Eran Gabber, Lucent

Conquest: Better Performance Through a Disk/RAM Hybrid File System
An-I Wang, Peter Reiher, and Gerald Popek, UCLA; and Geoffrey 
Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College

Exploiting Gray-Box Knowledge of Buffer Management
Nathan C. Burnett, John Bent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. 
Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

The IETF, or, Where Do All Those RFCs Come from, Anyway?
Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs Research

What are Internet standards, and where do they come from? What is the 
real meaning of an RFC? Did a black helicopter really land on the 
White House lawn? The last topic won't be covered, but you'll hear 
all you need to know about the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) 
and what it does. More important, you'll hear why you should care, 
and perhaps even participate.

FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Building Applications
Session Chair: Chris Demetriou, Broadcom Corp.

Interactive 3D Graphics for Tcl

Oliver Kersting and Jrgen Dllner, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, 
University of Potsdam

The AGFL Grammar Work Lab
Cornelis H.A. Koster and Erik Verbruggen, KUN

SWILL: A Simple Embedded Web Server Library
Sotiria Lampoudi and David M. Beazley, University of Chicago

GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Linux on Laptop/PDA
Bdale Garbee, HP Linux Systems Operation


Bdale currently works at HP helping to making sure Linux will work 
well on future HP systems. He has worked on both UNIX internals and 
embedded systems for many years. He helped jump-start ports of Debian 
GNU/Linux to 5 architectures other than i386, and keeps an impressive 
number of oddball systems running Linux in his basement just for fun. 
When he's not busy trying to keep his compute farm running, Bdale's 
other big hobby is amateur radio, specifically building amateur 
satellites.

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch (on your own)


2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


Operating Systems (and Dancing Bears)
Session Chair: Frank Bellosa, University of Erlangen-Nrnberg

The JX Operating System
Michael Golm, Meik Felser, Christian Wawersich, and Jrgen 
Kleinoeder, University of Erlangen-Nrnberg

Design Evolution of the EROS Single-Level Store
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University; and Jonathan Adams, 
University of Pennsylvania

Think: A Software Framework for Component-based Operating System Kernels
Jean-Philippe Fassino, France Telecom R&D; Jean-Bernard Stefani, 
INRIA; Julia Lawall, DIKU; and Gilles Muller, INRIA


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Introduction to Air Traffic Management Systems
Ron Reisman and James Murphy, NASA Ames Research Center, and Rob 
Savoye, Seneca Software

This introduction to air traffic control systems summarizes the 
operational characteristics of the principal Air Traffic Management 
(ATM) domains (i.e., en route, terminal area,  surface control, and 
strategic traffic flow management) and the challenges of designing 
ATM decision support tools. The Traffic Flow Automation System 
(TFAS), a version of the Center TRACON Automation System (CTAS), will 
be examined. TFAS achieves portability across platforms (Solaris, 
HP/UX, and Linux) by adherence to software standards (ANSI, ISO, 
POSIX). Software engineering issues related to design, code reuse, 
portability, performance, and implementation are discussed.


FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Network Performance
Session Chair: Craig Metz, Extreme Networks

Linux NFS Client Write Performance
Chuck Lever, Network Appliance; and Peter Honeyman, CITI, University 
of Michigan

A Study of the Relative Costs of Network Security Protocols
Stefan Miltchev and Sotiris Ioannidis, University of Pennsylvania; 
and Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University

Congestion Control in Linux TCP
Pasi Sarolahti, University of Helsinki; and Alexey Kuznetsov, 
Institute for Nuclear Research at Moscow


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Large Data/Clusters/Resilient Computing
Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs Research

Andrew Hume has worked at Bell Labs and AT&T for 21 years. Most 
recently, he has been working on solving very large-scale data 
problems, using data feeds from legacy systems, on a Linux cluster 
using resilient computing techniques.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm   Break


4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


Building Services
Session Chair: Jason Nieh, Columbia University

Ninja: A Framework for Network Services
J. Robert von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, Nikita Borisov,
Michael Chen, Matt Welsh, Josh MacDonald, Jeremy Lau, Steve Gribble, 
and David Culler,
University of California at Berkeley

Using Cohort Scheduling to Enhance Server Performance
James R. Larus and Michael Parkes, Microsoft Research


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Adventures in DNS
Bill Manning, ISI

The Internet Domain Name System is poised for explosive growth in 
several areas: * adding support for IPv6; * DNS security; * support 
for alternate character encoding methods. The existing DNS root 
structure was constructed with some presumptions about the underlying 
transport protocol that have dictated how the DNS root structure and 
context have evolved. Our project has constructed and deployed a root 
context that supports the IPv4 data but introduces new features and 
protocol support. We have augmented the system with IPv6 and DNSSec 
records and are discussing how to test alternate encodings. I'll 
review some preliminary findings and possible ramifications.

FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II


Xtreme Xcitement
Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team & SuSE, Inc.

The Future Is Coming: Where the X Window System Should Go
James Gettys, Compaq Computer Corp.

XCL: An Xlib Compatibility Layer for XCB
Jamey Sharp and Bart Massey, Portland State University


Biglook: A Widget Library for the Scheme Programming Language
Erick Gallesio, University of Nice; and Manuel Serrano, INRIA


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

SAMBA Ins and Outs
Gerald Carter, SAMBA Team / Hewlett-Packard

Gerald Carter has been a member of the SAMBA Team since 1998 and is 
employed by Hewlett-Packard as a Software Engineer, where he works on 
Samba-based print appliances. He is currently working on a guide to 
LDAP for system administrators with O'Reilly Publishing. Gerald holds 
a master's degree in computer science from Auburn University, where 
he was also previously employed as a network and system administrator.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2002   


9:00 am - 10:30 am    

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


Network Performance
Session Chair: Vern Paxton, ACIRI


EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring
Yun Fu, Duke University; Ludmila Cherkasova and Wenting Tang, 
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; and Amin Vahdat, Duke University

The Performance of Remote Display Mechanisms for Thin-Client Computing
S. Jae Yang, Jason Nieh, Matt Selsky, and Nikhil Tiwari, Columbia University

A Mechanism for TCP-Friendly Transport-Level Protocol Coordination
David Ott and Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

The Joy of Breaking Things
Pat Parseghian, Transmeta

When Transmeta launched the Crusoe microprocessor, how did we assure 
its compatibility with the x86 architecture? The CPU's layered design 
poses unique challenges, from the silicon's underlying proprietary 
architecture through the multiple stages of the Code Morphing 
Software which executes x86 instructions. This talk will share a 
testing philosophy and set of practices that can be applied to 
software products as well as systems or devices.



FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Hacking in the Kernel
Session Chair: Chuck Cranor, AT&T Labs Research

An Implementation of Scheduler Activations on the NetBSD Operating System
Nathan J. Williams, Wasabi Systems Inc.

Authorization and Charging in Public WLANs Using FreeBSD and 802.1x
Pekka Nikander, Ericsson Research NomadicLab

ACPI Implementation on FreeBSD
Takanori Watanabe, Kobe University; and Michael Smith, The FreeBSD Project


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Developing Portable Applications
Nick Stoughton, MSB Consultants

Nick is a principal with MSB Associates, a small Bay Area consulting firm.
He is the USENIX standards liaison, and has been working on developing
standards for portable applications (most notably POSIX and LSB) for 10
years. He is head of delegation for the UK to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15,
Secretary to the IEEE Portable Applications Standards Committee, and
Technical Editor for the Itanium Architecture Specific Linix Standards Base
document. While not developing standards for portabilty, he is writing
portable applications for his clients.


10:30 am - 11:00 am   Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum

Storage Systems
Elizabeth Shriver, Bell Labs


My Cache or Yours? Making Storage More Exclusive
Theodore Wong, Carnegie Mellon University; and John Wilkes, 
Hewlett-Packard Labs

Bridging the Information Gap in Storage Protocol Stacks
Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. 
Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Maximizing Throughput in Replicated Disk Striping of Variable Bit-Rate Streams
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Duke University; and Kenneth C. Sevcik and 
Michael Stumm, University of Toronto


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Technology, Liberty, and Washington
Alan Davidson, Center for Democracy and Technology

The open, distributed, end-to-end architecture of today's Internet is 
becoming a favorite target of policymakers in the U.S. and around the 
world. For example, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, new laws 
and regulations have been proposed in the U.S. to enable greater 
government monitoring of Internet activity.  Concerns about copyright 
have prompted some to propose government-mandated 
digital-rights-management security standards. These and other 
initiatives could directly impact both the architecture of the 
Internet and the rights of Internet users. This talk will report on 
the latest Internet security and policy initiatives in Washington and 
examine their impact on the Internet's architecture and individual 
liberty.


FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Analyzing Applications
Session Chair: Jim McGinness, Consultant

Gscope: A Visualization Tool for Time-Sensitive Software
Ashvin Goel and Jonathan Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland

Inferring Scheduling Behavior with Hourglass

John Regehr, University of Utah

A Decoupled Architecture for Application-Specific File Prefetching
Chuan-Kai Yang, Tulika Mitra, Tzi-Cker Chiueh,
Stony Brook University

GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Automated System Administration
Steve Traugott, TerraLuna, LLC

Steve helped pioneer the term "Infrastructure Architecture" and has 
worked toward industry acceptance of this SysAdmin++ career track for 
the last several years. He is a consulting Infrastructure Architect 
and publishes tools and techniques for automated system 
administration. His deployments have ranged from financial trading 
floors and NASA supercomputers to Web farms and growing startups.

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch in the Exhibition Hall

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


Work-in-Progress Reports
Session Chair: Amin Vahdat, Duke University

Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce interesting 
new or on-going work, and the USENIX audience provides valuable 
discussion and feedback. A schedule of presentations will be posted 
at the conference.



INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis
William LeFebvre, CNN Internet Technologies

On September 11, 2001, Net users flocked to news sites. The 
unexpected and unprecedented demand quickly drove nearly every news 
site into the ground, and CNN.com was no exception. What brought our 
site back up was a tremendous effort of teamwork, fast thinking, and 
troubleshooting. On September 11, with only 85% availability, we 
nearly equaled our site's all-time high. Next day, we shattered 
previous site records. This talk tells the story of the CNN.com team 
that met an unbelievable user demand.



FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Work-in-Progress Reports
Session Chair: Amin Vahdat, Duke University

See the General Track (column 1) for a description of this shared session.


3:30 pm - 4:00 pm   Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum

Tools
Session Chair: Christopher Small, Sun Microsystems

Simple and General Statistical Profiling with PCT
Charles L. Blake and Steven Bauer, LCS MIT

Engineering a Differencing and Compression Data Format
Phong Vo and David Korn, AT&T Labs


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Taking an Open Source Project to Market
Eric Allman, Sendmail, Inc.

What happens when a long-time open source project is converted to a 
commercial model? Some effects are business-oriented and expected: 
for example, marketing and sales departments appear. Some are less 
obvious, involving the way engineering is done. Open source sendmail 
has been the major MTA  since 1982. In 1998, as sendmail neared a 
"success disaster," a commercial company was formed to develop and 
support sendmail. The focus of this talk will be on engineering, but 
business issues will also crop up.



FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II


Access Control
Session Chair: Robert Watson, NAI Labs & The FreeBSD Project

Design and Performance of the OpenBSD Stateful Packet Filter (pf)
Daniel Hartmeier, Systor AG

Enhancing NFS Cross-Administrative Domain Access
Joseph Spadavecchia and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Network Management, System Performance Tuning
Jeff R. Allen, Tellme Networks, Inc.

Jeff has been working in the Sysadmin field since 1992. He
finds himself drawn to running large, complex systems that serve
people who don't want to know they are using a computer (therein
lies the complexity). He developed tools for the NOC at WebTV
Networks, then moved to Tellme Networks, where today he acts as a
bridge between engineering and the NOC, interfaces with the European
operations team, and solves tricky problems as they arise.


SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2002   

9:00 am - 10:30 am    

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum


Where in the Net . . .
Session Chair: Patrick McDaniel, AT&T Research


A Precise and Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity Between Web 
Clients and Their Local DNS Servers
Zhuoqing Mao, UC Berkeley; and Charles Cranor, Fred Douglis, Michael 
Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck, and Jia Wang, AT&T Labs

Geographic Properties of Internet Routing
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, UC Berkeley; Venkata N. Padmanabhan, 
Microsoft Research; and Randy H. Katz, UC Berkeley

Providing Process Origin Information to Aid in Network Traceback
Florian Buchholz, Purdue University; and Clay Shields, Georgetown University


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Information Visualization for Systems People
Tamara Munzner, Compaq SRC

By interacting with a carefully designed visual representation of 
data, people form mental models that help them carry out a specific 
task more effectively. To meet the daunting design challenge of 
finding a cognitively useful spatial mapping for an abstract dataset, 
information visualization draws on ideas from several intellectual 
traditions, including computer graphics, human-computer interaction, 
cognitive psychology, semiotics, graphic design, cartography, and 
art. I will present a survey of information visualization techniques 
and methods, concentrating on solutions relevant to problems faced by 
computer systems people.


FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

Engineering Open Source Software
Session Chair: Niels Provos, University of Michigan

Ningaui: A Linux Cluster for Business
Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs Research; and Scott Daniels, EDS

CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based on Cryptographic Names
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University

X Meets Z: Verifying Correctness in the Presence of POSIX Threads
Bart Massey, Portland State University; and Robert T. Bauer, Rational 
Software Corp.


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Internet Security, Intranet Security, Mapping Networks
Bill Cheswick, Lumeta Corporation

Ches used to be a programmer from Bell Labs. Now he is a programmer 
for a Bell Labs startup. He is working hard on the second edition of 
his book.


10:30 am - 11:00 am   Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum

Programming
Session Chair: Darrell Anderson, Duke University


Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C
Trevor Jim, AT&T Labs Research; and Greg Morrisett, Dan 
Grossman, Michael Hicks, James Cheney, and Yanling Wang, Cornell

Cooperative Tasking Without Manual Stack Management
Atul Adya, Jon Howell, Marvin Theimer, Bill Bolosky, and John 
Douceur, Microsoft Research

Improving Wait-Free Algorithms for Interprocess Communication in 
Embedded Real-Time Systems
Hai Huang, Padmanabhan Pillai, and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan


INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Fixing Network Security by Hacking the Business Climate
Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security

Network security has long been considered an engineering problem, 
which companies try to solve by applying technologies. The 
technologies are failing, and the problem is worsening. What we need 
are security processes, such as detection, response, and deterrence. 
However, the only way to get corporate management to adequately 
address security is to change the risk-management equation. This can 
be achieved by enforcing penalties for liabilities and giving 
corporate management the means to reduce or insure against those 
liabilities. It's only after we do all of these things that the 
Internet will be a safe and secure place.



FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II

File Systems
Session Chair: Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

Planned Extensions to the Linux Ext2/Ext3 Filesystem
Theodore Ts'o, IBM; and Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat

Recent Filesystem Optimisations on FreeBSD
David Malone, Dublin Institute of Technology; and Ian Dowse, Trinity College

Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17
Ray Bryant, SGI; Ruth Forester, IBM; and John Hawkes, SGI


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

General/Random
Jim Gettys, Compaq

Jim helped develop the X Window System. He also edited the  HTTP/1.1 
spec, and is now messing with Linux handhelds.


12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch on your own


2:00 pm - 3:30 pm


GENERAL TRACK
Steinbeck Forum

Mobility
Session Chair: Mary Baker, Stanford University

Robust Positioning Algorithms for Distributed Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
Chris Savarese, UC Berkeley; Koen Langendoen, Delft University of 
Technology; and Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley

Application-specific Network Management for Energy-aware Streaming of 
Popular Multimedia Formats
Surendar Chandra, University of Georgia; and Amin Vahdat, Duke University

Characterizing and Analyzing Alert and Browse Services of Mobile Clients
Atul Adya, Paramvir Bahl, and Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research



INVITED TALKS
Serra Ballroom I

Life in an Open Source Startup
Daryll Strauss, Consultant

Development is very different for open source companies. Strangers 
look at your code. You give away large parts of your intellectual 
property. Demands are made by your users. You're expected to explain 
your plans and actions. Outsiders contribute code without necessarily 
understanding the material in depth. The benefits are a better 
product that better meets the requirements of your users. The 
development of OpenGL for Linux, a very large and very visible open 
source project, was a roller coaster ride with a startup company, 
acquisition, and finally a split, but the project lives on. This talk 
will debunk some of the myths about open source development and will 
draw conclusions in the hope of improving experiences for future open 
source companies.


FREENIX TRACK
Serra Ballroom II


Things to Think About
Session Chair: Toon Moene, GNU Fortran Team



Speeding Up the Kernel Scheduler by Reducing Cache Misses
Shuji Yamamura, Akira Hirai, Mitsuru Sato, Masao Yamamoto, Akira 
Naruse, and Kouichi Kumon, Fujitsu Laboratories, LTD


Overhauling Amd for the '00s: A Case Study of GNU Autotools
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University


Simple Memory Protection for Embedded Operating System Kernels
Frank Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County


GURU SESSIONS
Ferrante Room

Sysadmin Management/General
David Parter, University of Wisconsin, Madison

David has been a system administrator at the University of Wisconsin 
Computer Science Department for 10 years, serving as Associate 
Director for the past six. David has been the senior system 
administrator, guiding a staff of 8 fulltime sysdamins, and 
supervising up to 12 student sysadmins at a time. His experiences in 
this capacity include working with other groups on campus; providing 
technical leadership to the group; managing the budget; dealing with 
vendors; dealing with faculty; and training students. As a 
consultant, he has dealt with a variety of technical and management 
challenges. David has also been active in SAGE, serving on several 
program committees and chairing LISA '99. He currently serves as SAGE 
President.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm   Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pmpm   Serra Ballroom

GENERAL TRACK

Special Closing Session: How Flies Fly?
Michael H. Dickinson, Williams Professor, UC Berkeley

Join Professor Dickinson as he shares his fascinating exploration 
into the flight behavior and aerodynamics of flies. In his research 
Professor Dickinson uses virtual technology
to reconstruct what a fly 'sees' and determine the means by which the 
fly's nervous system integrates visual and olfactory input to modify 
aerodynamic forces. This clever
fusion of olfactory and visual information produces a robust and 
efficient search algorithm and should serve as a useful model for 
control systems in autonomous vehicles.

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USENIX - 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference - Activites/BoFs

Conference Activities


Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)


Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, June 12 - 14

Do you have a topic you'd like to discuss with others? Our Birds-of-a-Feather
(BoF) sessions may be perfect for you. These informal and highly interactive
evening gatherings are a great way for you to present new work, meet with your
peers and maximize your time at the conference. Topics range from highly
technical, to fun! Past BoF sessions include:

  BoF Schedule


Getting Plugged into Sendmail
BSD Users, Unite!
UWIN-UNIX for Windows
Oldtimer's BoF
Sun-Manager's BOF
Workplace Issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Sysadmins & Friends
How do YOU manage to not get spammed?

Don't miss the famous LINUX BoF with Linus Torvalds and Ted Ts'o on 
Friday, June
14 from 10pm- midnight.

These sessions are open to all attendees and can be scheduled during the
conference at the registration desk or in advance by contacting 
USENIX (bofs@usenix.org); please include preferred day
and time, title of the BoF, and the name, email address, and phone 
number of the
moderator. Check back here closer to the conference for BoF schedule 
information.

Exhibition Happy Hour, De Anza Ballroom, DoubleTree Hotel
Thursday, June 13, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Enjoy refreshments and light snacks while visiting
the Exhibition.

Free Pizza and Soda!
Visit the exhibition on Friday at 12:30 pm and enjoy a slice of pizza 
and soda on us.


Dessert Reception at the Aquarium

USENIX '02 offers many opportunities for attendees to socialize and get to know
each other. Don't miss our special dessert reception on Friday, June 14, at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium.  The Aquarium features a new special exhibit 
on jellyfish
that you can read about in this SF Chronicle article.

Work-in-Progress
Reports (WiPs)


Friday, June 14, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce interesting new or
ongoing work. If you have work you would like to share or a cool idea 
that's not
quite ready for publication, send a one- or two-paragraph summary to 
usenix02wips@usenix.org. We are
particularly interested in presenting students' work. A schedule of
presentations will be posted at the conference, and the speakers will be
notified in advance. Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute 
presentations; the
time limit will be strictly enforced.

USENIX Annual Meeting
San Carlos I & II, Marriott, Friday, June 14, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Meet the USENIX Association Board of Directors and staff. Get an 
update on USENIX activities. Let's explore new ideas on how best to 
serve you!

AFS
Workshop

Tuesday - Wednesday
June 11-12

The AFS Workshop, co-located with the USENIX Annual Technical 
Conference, brings
together administrators and programmers to discuss the development and progress
of AFS software, which is growing rapidly both in use and usability.
Previous AFS Workshops have covered such topics as methods of authentication,
Multi-Resident AFS [MR-AFS], backups, client stability and configuration,
replacing ubik, and future work on OpenAFS and Arla. As some of the key players
in both OpenAFS and Arla attend the Workshops, these discussions can and do
affect the course of development.
Attendance is limited to 50 people. The cost is $100 for those who
register for the technical sessions at USENIX, and $350 for those who wish to
attend the workshop only. Breakfast pastries, lunch, and beverages will be
provided.
To attend the AFS Workshop, (1) send email to afs-workshop@psc.edu; 
(2) register for the workshop. Your email must
contain at least one of the following:

A proposal for a short talk to present about work done, in progress, or
being considered
A list of topics you would like discussed, time permitting

Workshop Co-ordinators
Esther Filderman has been working with AFS since its infancy at CMU, before it
was called AFS. She is currently Senior Systems Mangler and AFS administrator
for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

Ted McCabe started working with AFS at CMU in the mid-'80s. After a 
5-year stint
studying mathematics in Boston University's graduate program, he returned to
working with AFS at MIT in '96. Ted also represents MIT on the OpenAFS Council
of Elders.

Derrick Brashear works for CMU and is an OpenAFS Elder.

World Juggling Day!

Saturday, June 15

In celebration of World Juggling Day on Saturday, June 15th, join 
fellow attendees on Jeffers Plaza (off the Steinbeck Lobby) during 
the lunch break (12:30 pm - 1:30 pm) to juggle together and attract 
some new converts to the sport.

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BOF Schedule
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USENIX - USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2002


Current Birds-of-a-Feather Schedule (as of June 6, 2002)

Check the BoF Board in the Registration area  for any changes and additions.

To schedule a BoF, please see the registration desk.

Wednesday, June 12

  6:00 p.m.-7:00  p.m.

Berkeley DB BoF--Emily Salus, Sleepycat Software

  6:00 p.m.-8:00  p.m.

SAGE BoF

  9:30 p.m.-11:30  p.m.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends BoF--Trey Harris



Thursday, June 13

  6:00 p.m.-7:00  p.m.

Standards BoF--Nick Stoughton

"User authentication on the Web sucks: What can we do?"--Kevin Fu, MIT

  7:00 p.m.-9:00  p.m.

Sun Community BoF--Eric Boulitier, Sun

  7:00 p.m.-10:00  p.m.

Super BSD BoF--Kirk McKusick

  8:00 p.m.-9:00  p.m.

Getting users involved in GCC integration testing--Janis Johnson, IBM 
Linux Technology Center

  8:00 p.m.-10:00  p.m.

XFree86--Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team, HP Cambridge Research Lab

  10:00 p.m.-11:00  p.m.

Plan 9--Russ Cox



Friday, June 14

  5:30 p.m.-6:30  p.m.

Annual Meeting with the USENIX Board

  8:00 p.m.-10:00  p.m.

Dessert Reception at Monterey Bay Aquarium

  10:15 p.m.-12:00  a.m.

Linux BoF--Linus Torvalds, Ted T'so & Stephen Tweedie
