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Minutes - Vail 1998

1998 IEEE Computer Elements Vail Workshop

Vail, Colorado

June 21-24, 1998

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's: Technical Committee (TC)

on Computer Elements:

TC Chair: Douglas Westcott, IBM (914) 435-8652

Vice Chair (Vail) Jeff Yetter, Hewlett Packard Company (303) 229-3249

Japan Chair: Michinori Nishihara, IBM Japan 81-0775-87-6110

Europe Chair: Mario Vinsani, Bull Italy 39-2-6779-8244

For Information: Jeff Yetter (303) 229-3249

John Polhemus (303) 781-6190

Doug Westcott (914) 435-8652

 

Vail Workshop:

General Chair: Jeff Yetter, Hewlett Packard Company (970) 229-3249

Co-Program Chair Joel Boney, HP (970) 229-6518

Co-Program Chair Bob Guernsey, IBM (914) 435-8058

Arrangements: Ron Bell, Equator Technologies (408) 369-5477

Registration: John Polhemus, Consultant (303) 781-6190

Treasurer: John Polhemus, Consultant (303) 781-6190

 

Sunday Evening:

Keynote: The Next Decade of Moore's Law

Dr. Rick Baum, IBM Server Chief Architect

Monday Morning:

Announcements:

Yetter, Boney, Guernsey, Polhemus

Session 1. New ISA Processors

Chair: Jim Slager

Speakers:

A. "Sun MicroJava 701 CPU Core"

Speaker: Shailender Chaudhry, Sun Microsystems

B. "Philips Trimedia",

Speaker: Gert Slavenburg, Philips

C. "IRAM"

Speaker: Christoforos Kozyrakis, UC Berkeley

D. "Intel Merced",

Speaker: Michael Slater, Micro Design Resources

Monday Afternoon:

Session 2. Modern Server Technology

Chair: Gene Emerson Co-chair: John Norris

A. "Future High Performance Servers: The Balanced Solution",

Speaker: Charlie Johnson, IBM GigaProcessor project.

B. "Starfire:Extending the SMP Envelope,"

Speaker: Alan Charlesworth, Sun

C. "The HP V-Class: Developing a Successful Technical and

Commercial Server,"

Speaker: Rich Adkisson, Hewlett Packard.

D. "Synfinity Interconnect for Highly Scalable Servers"

Speaker: David Rich, HAL Computer

Monday Evening:

Session 3. Silicon Technology, Cooling, Packaging

Chair: Carl Anderson Co-chair: Hiroshi Yoshimura

A. "PC Microprocessor Packaging and Cooling"

Speaker: Dennis Herrell, AMD

B. "Past, Present and Future of CCD Image Sensors"

Speaker: Sumio Terakawa, Matsushita

C. "Developement Strategy of SuperH Microprocessors for Multimedia

Applications"

Speaker: Hideo Maejima, Hitachi Ltd.

Tuesday morning:

Session 4. Consumer Computing, PC and/or TV

Chair: Yoshiaki Hagiwara

A. "The Home of Tomorrow, Communications, Computing and Consumer"

Speaker: Peter Hortensius, IBM

B. "PC Audio for Consumer Computing"

Speaker: Wayne Galella, Cirrus Logic

C. "Web TV System Architecure and Technology"

Speaker: Tim Bucher, WebTV.

D. "Toshiba TV PC and Sony VAIO"

Speakers: Mikhail Tsinberg, IT Div. of Toshiba America

Isao Murase, Sony.

Tuesday evening:

Session 5. Internet, Security and Java

Chair: Jerry Merckel Co-chair: Bob Guernsey

A. "Internet Telephony"

Speaker: Keith Kelley, Netspeak

B. "e-Business Challenges with Java",

Speaker: Rob Smith, IBM

C. "Gator PC" (Java PC)

Speaker: John Alexander, Gator PC

Wednesday morning:

Session 6. Evolving I/O Technology

Chair: Bob Montoye Co-chair: Winfried Wilcke

A. "The Virtual Retinal Display: Toward the Ultimate Visual Interface",

Speaker: Tom Furness, Univ. of Washington

B. "Pen Input in Computing - An Overview",

Speaker: Krishna S. Nathan, IBM Watson Research.

C. "Deconstructiong Computers with 1394"

Speaker: Gary Hoffman, Consultant

D. "The Equator System on Silicon"

Speaker: David Baker, Equator