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Release 1.0 calendar - April 1989-March 1990

RELEASE 1.0 CALENDAR April 17-19 Macintosh business conference & exposition - New York City. Sponsored by Cambridge Marketing. Keynote by John Sculley; also MacUser's Marty Mazner and Fred Davis and the MacUser Eddy Awards (not to be confused with our EDdy bears!). Call Brice Hereford, (800) 262-3378 or (617) 860-7100.

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April 17-19 NCGA '89 - Philadelphia. Sponsored by National Computer Graphics Association. Contact: Michael Weiner at (800) 225-6242 or (703) 698-9600. April 18 Oracle at the analysts' - New York City. Sponsored by New York Society of Security Analysts. Larry Ellison speaks. Contact: Lourdes Figueroa at (212) 344-8450. April 18-20 Connect '89 - Boston. Sponsored by Cahners Exposition Group with Larry DeBoever and Dale Kutnick. For MIS managers mostly. Contact: Dave Sell at (203) 964-0000. April 20-21 COMPUTER ACCESS AND USE FOR DISABLED PERSONS - Newington, CT. A topic of increasing social and business impact. Sponsored by Trace R&D Center (see Release 1.0, 87-6). Contact: Gregg Vanderheiden, (608) 262-6966. April 26-28 Executive UniForum Symposium - Santa Barbara, CA. For MIS executives. Sponsored jointly by Patty Seybold's Office Computing Group and /usr/group. Contact Judy Hurwitz, (617) 742-5200, or Ed Palmer, (408) 986-8840. April 30-May 4 CHI '89: Conference on human factors in computing systems - Austin. Sponsored by ACM/SIGCHI and a host of other groups. Contact: Claudia Raun, MCC, (512) 338-3798. May 1-4 Computer viruses '89 - Chicago. Against them, of course. Sponsored by Computer Security Institute. Contact: June Kolikoff at (508) 393-2600. May 2-3 High-Tech 1992 - London. Selling high tech in a unified Europe. Sponsored by KPMG, Peat Marwick. With Regis McKenna, Apple's Mike Spindler, others. Contact: Sara Hooper, (011) 44 1 236-8000, fax 248-6552. May 2-4 Speech Tech - New York City. Produced by Media Dimensions publisher of Speech Technology magazine. Everything from voice mail and audiotex to neural networks and speech recognition. Call Stan Goldstein, (212) 533-7481 or -3943. May 4 Financial applications of expect systems - Los Angeles. Sponsored by Arthur Young, c/o Barbara Day, (213) 977-3284. May 6-8 Computer Game Developers' Conference - Sunnyvale, CA. Hear and meet fellow game developers and publishers, including Chris Crawford, Doug Carlston, Trip Hawkins, Bing Gordon, Bruce Davis, Richard Garriott. Technical, social and business topics. Contact: Stephen Friedman, (415) 949-3379. May 7-9 Culpepper CEO Forum - Atlanta. Meet fellow software ceos and share experiences, focusing on sales and sales management. Contact: Warren Culpepper, (404) 668-0616. May 7-10 ASM Information Systems conference - Dallas. Keynote speeches by Dave Eskra of Pansophic and Bob Berland of IBM. Sponsored by the Association for Systems Management. Contact: Terri Gibbons, (216) 243-6900. May 7-10 Software Maintenance: Share the vision - Atlanta. Annual meeting and conference of the Software Maintenance Association. Contact: Judith Golub, (415) 941-5623. May 7-10 IBM computer services and consultants executive conference - Phoenix. Contact Norm Urquhart, (914) 749-3154. May 8-12 CASExpo - Washington, DC. With Pieter Mimno, James Martin Associates; John Henderson, MIT; others. Hear and meet vendors and see demos. Sponsored by Arthur Young. Call Dick Welsh, (214) 969-8000, or Don Dowd, (415) 593-9899. May 9-11 OpticalStorage89 - San Jose. Back for the fourth time by popular demand. Sponsored by DISK/TREND and Freeman Associates. Call Darlene Plamondon, (408) 554-6644. May 9-11 National FinCom - New York City. The national financial computer & automation conference. Keynote by American Stock Exchange chairman Arthur Levitt; speakers include Mellon's George DiNardo. Managed by H.A. Bruno. Call Annie Zdinak, (800) 444-3976 or (201) 569-6474. May 9-11 Second international conference on computer-assisted learning - Dallas. Sponsored by U of Texas' Computer Learning Research Center. Contact: Janet Harris, (214) 690-2204. May 11 Massachusetts Software Council spring membership meeting - Newton, MA. Sentry's Software Market survey, new Board of Regents chairman Paul Tsongas on higher education, demos, etc. Contact: Joyce Plotkin at (617) 437-0600. May 11-12 Tenth annual Computer Law Institute - Los Angeles. Sponsored by U of Southern California. Contact: Karen Sprague at (213) 743-2008. May 14-17 ADAPSO Management Conference/IIA Spring Conference - San Diego. Mingle with your peers (and the zoo's nearby just in case). A joint session sponsored by ADAPSO and the Information Industry Association. Luminaries include AT&T's Robert Allen and Sun's Scott McNealy. Contact: Sheila Wakefield, (703) 522-5055. May 15-17 Hammer Forum - Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by Hammer & Co. "Information systems in sales and marketing: Using technology to transform customer relationships." With Russell Harrison of AMR Information Services (American Airlines; see Release 1.0, 89-2). Henry Ancona of DEC, Bruce Hasenyager of Merrill Lynch, Bill Murphy of H-P. Contact: Pam Davis, (617) 354-5555. May 15-18 Eleventh international conference on software engineering - Pittsburgh. Sponsored by IEEE et al. Contact: Larry Druffel, (412) 268-7740. May 15-18 Principles of knowledge representation and reasoning - Toronto. Including comments from the opposition by connectionist Geoff Hinton (respondent: PARC's Danny Bobrow) roboticist Stan Rosenschein (Drew McDermott) and CLSI's John Perry (SRI's Robert Moore). Sponsored by ACM, AAAI, et al. Contact: Raymond Reiter, (416) 978-6324. May 16-18 CEPS '89 - Chicago. Corporate electronic publishing systems. Sponsored by Cahners Exposition Group. With Joe Guglielmi, IBM; Yuri Rubinsky, SoftQuad; Raymond Kammer, NIST; Dan Cheifetz, Odesta; Jim McNaul & Art Coles, Xerox; others. Contact: Kim Ray, (203) 964-0000. May 16-18 Quality Week - San Francisco. Quality assurance (and all it implies) for software. Sponsored by Software Research. Contact: Emily Chais, (415) 957-1441 or (800) 942-SOFT. May 19-20 Indexing in the 90s - San Francisco. Sponsored by the American Society of Indexers. Speakers from KnowledgeSet, Hewlett-Packard, McGraw-Hill, MaxThink, others. Contact: Nancy Mulvany, (415) 524-4195. May 21 Warning! Annual Bay to Breakers Race - San Francisco. Sponsored by the San Francisco Examiner. May 21-24 Software Publishers Association spring symposium - San Diego. Sponsored by SPA. With Ed Esber, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jim Manzi; also, Excellence in Software Awards with Harry Anderson. Contact: Jayne White, (202) 452-1600. May 21-24 Expert systems and the leading edge in productions and operations management -- Hilton Head Island, SC. Sponsored by AAAI, the Operations Management Association, others. Contact: Libby Shropshier, (803) 777-2231. May 21-24 Artificial intelligence and intelligent tutoring systems - Orono (near Bangor), ME. Sponsored by AAAI and the University of Maine. With Donald Michie of Edinburgh, Alen Shapiro of Action Software (yield management), others. Call Jim Toner or Danny Kopec, (207) 581-4092 or 581-3522. May 23-25 Information engineering forum - Washington, DC. "A view from the practitioners." Sponsored by James Martin Associates. Contact: Denise Dellinger, (703) 620-9504. May 29-June 2 Ninth international workshop on expert systems and their applications - Avignon, France. Contact: Jean-Claude Rault, 011 331 4780-7000. May 31-June 1 Portable Computing '89 - Santa Clara. Sponsored by Portable Computer Review, Traveling Software, Hajar Associates. Keynote by Chris Demos of Federal Express. Call Kathleen Duris at IDG Conference Management, (508) 879-6700. May 31-June 2 SIGMOD - Portland, OR. User interfaces to dbms systems and some more esoteric management of data topics. Sponsored by ACM/SIGMOD. Keynote: Esther Dyson! Contact John Bruno, (503) 629-8383. June 5 Toshiba Micro Industry Golf & Tennis Celebrity Tournament - Industry Hills/Los Angeles. With Tom Selleck, others; funds raised go to the Starlight Foundation for terminally ill children. Contact: Dave Freeman, (714) 558-8813. June 5-8 AIIM show & conference - San Francisco. "Discover the power of imaging." Keynote: astronaut Wally Schirra. Sponsored by the Association for Information and Image Management. Contact: James Breuer, (301) 587-8202. June 6-8 International expert systems conference and exhibition - London. Sponsored by Learned Information. Contact: Jean Mulligan, (011) 44 865 730275; fax, 865 736354. June 11-14 Expert Communication '89 - San Francisco. Sponsored by Graphic Communicatiuons Association, co-chaired by Mills Davis and Chris Locke. With John Clippinger, Robert Akscyn, Michael Pliner, Yuri Rubinsky, Esther Dyson. Contact: Norman Scharpf, (703) 841-8160. June 12-14 Seminars and conference on object-oriented programming - Tyngsboro, MA. Sponsored by Wang Institute of Boston University and the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. Eclectic and intensive, with sessions on C++, Objective-C, Eiffel and Smalltalk, among others. Contact: Lisa Gennell, (508) 649-9731. June 12-16 Summer USENIX technical conference - Baltimore. Tutorials on networking, environments, development tools, window systems, etc. Contact USENIX at (213) 592-1381 or 592-3243, or John Donnelly, (303) 499-2600 (exhibits), or Neil Ground Water, (703) 883-1221 (papers). June 13 Effective marketing for a small computer and software services company - Chicago. Sponsored by ADAPSO. Contact: Kelly Bailey, (703) 522-5055. June 13-16 Second international conference on artificial intelligence and law - Vancouver, British Columbia. Sponsored by ACM. Contact Edwina Rissland, (413) 545-0332 or Michael Mills, (212) 554-3180. June 18-22 International joint conference on neural networks - Washington, DC. Sponsored by both IEEE and the International Neural Network Society, in an amicable compromise. Pattered after previous events; you'll recognize all the right speakers, including Kosko, Sejnowski, Widrow, Grossberg, Carpenter, Hecht-Nielsen, Amari. Contact Nomi Feldman, (619) 453-6222. June 19-21 Videotex Industry Association annual conference - San Francisco. E-mail, software services, etc. Call Robert Smith, (703) 522-0883. June 20-22 PC Expo & National CASEcon - New York. Sponsored by PC Expo. Keynote by Dave House of Intel. Call Steven Faher, (800) 444-EXPO or (201) 569-8542. To be followed by .... June 24 Intergalactic user group conference - New York City. For user group officials and other involved people. A follow-on to PC Expo. Call Joe Rigo, (212) 249-6418. June 21-23 Programming language design and implementation - Portland, OR. Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN. Contact: Bruce Knobe, (508) 879-2960 x3376 or Knobe@S56.Prime.com. June 25-28 Twelfth international conference on R&D in information retrieval - Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and other groups. Contact: Bruce Croft, (413) 545-0463. June 25-28 Twenty-sixth Design Automation Conference - Las Vegas. The big event for designers and vendors to designers. Sponsored by ACM. Contact: Pat Pistilli, (303) 530-4333. June 26-28 Object-oriented symposium - Boston. With Larry Constantine, Bertrand Meyer, Burt Rubenstein, Larry Harris, Jacob Stein, Grady Booch, Rich Steiger, and a workshop by Wayland Systems. Sponsored by Digital Consulting. Call Loretta Taylor, (508) 475-6990. July 10-14 ECOOP 89 - Nottingham, England. Sponsored by the British Computer Society, with support from IBM Hursley and Esprit. Contact: Julia Allen, (011) 441 232-2551. July 17-21 CASE 89 - London. Sponsored by Index Technology and a host of academic groups, including London's Imperial College. Contact: Elliot Chikofsky, (617) 494-8200, x 1989. July 23-25 Sun Expo '89 - Santa Clara. Sponsored by Sun Observer magazine for Sun users and resellers. If there is a hot UNIX box, this is it. Come see for yourself and meet the growing Sun community. Contact: Clayton Peters, (408) 296-7111 or (800) 828-EXPO. July 24-26 Computer simulation conference - Austin, TX. Sponsored by the Society for Computer Simulation. Contact: Laurel Costello, (619) 277-3888. July 25-26 SPARCintosh - San Francisco. The impact and implications of Sun's new line (see page 10). Sponsored by the Yankee Group. Contact: Howard Anderson, (617) 367-1000. July 31-August 4 SIGGRAPH '89 - Boston. Sponsored by the Association For Computing Machinery. The annual festival for visual, graphical thinkers. Contact Cindy Stark, (312) 644-6610. August 1-3 Comdex Asia/Pacific - Sydney, Australia. Sponsored by Interface Group. Contact: Cheryl Delgreco, (617) 449-6600. August 6-9 DB2 Users Group annual meeting - Chicago. Sponsored by International DB2 Users Group. Contact: Samantha Sipowicz, (312) 644-6610. August 9-10 Macworld Expo - Boston. Contact: Peggy Kilburn, (617) 326-9955. August 9-11 Conference on object-oriented dbms applications - Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by Santa Clara University. Contact: Mohammed Ketabchi, (408) 554-2731 or mketabchi@scu.bitnet. August 22-24 Summer UniForum - Boston. The regional version. Sponsored by /usr/group. Contact: Ed Palmer, (408) 986-8840. August 22-26 IJCAI-89 - Detroit. The international version of AAAI. Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Contact: Claudia Mazzetti, (415) 328-3123. August 23-25 TechDoc '89 - San Jose. "Publishing in the '90s ... the art of publishing and the science of information management." Technical documentation and all its ramifications, including hypertext. Sponsored by Graphic Communications Association. Contact: Patti Hill, (703) 841-8160. August 24-September 1 Eleventh World Computer Congress - San Francisco. With a focus on tools and application software this year; in the U.S. for the first time in 24 years. Sponsored by 46 IFIP member societies. Call Nancy Dana, (303) 696-6100. September 6-9 Breakaway '89 - Orlando. Sponsored by ABCD, the microcomputer industry association (mostly dealers). Contact: Deborah Keating, (312) 240-1818. September 7-10 Comtec '89 - Singapore. Regional micro exhibition. Sponsored Microcomputer Trade Association of Singapore. Contact: Yong Mee Hiong, Singapore 2913238; fax 2965384. September 12-14 NetWorld - Dallas. Managed by H.A. Bruno. Contact: Adam Torres at (201) 569-8542 or (800) 444-EXPO. September 13-15 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - London (Gatwick). Inspired by the successful U.S. events, but likely to focus even more on social issues. Sponsorship unclear, but we're trying to find out! Contact: Lorna Meek, 011 44 (753) 73232. September 18-20 DataStorage - San Jose. Sponsored by DISK/TREND and Freeman Associates. Call Darlene Plamondon, (408) 554-6644. September 18-22 Third international conference on human-computer interaction - Boston. Sponsored by Association of American Publishers, Bechtel National, IBM, Purdue and the U. of Wisconsin-Madison. Contact: Myrna Leap, (317) 494-5426. September 20-23 Seybold computer publishing conference - San Francisco. Sponsored by Seybold Publications. The usual extravanganza, expanded from desktop publishing to include all electronic publishing. Contact: Kevin Howard, (213) 457-5850. September 21 Microcomputer Managers Association meeting - New York City. Keynote by Esther Dyson. Contact: Priscilla Tate-Austin, (201) 580-9091. September 24-26 Agenda 90 - La Costa, CA. Sponsored by P.C. Letter/PCW Communications; staged by Stewart Alsop. Contact: Tracy Beiers, (415) 592-8880. September 27-28 Portable Computing '89 - New York City. Sponsored by Portable Computer Review, Traveling Software and Hajar Associates. Keynote by Chris Demos of Federal Express, a strategic user of such systems. Contact: Kathleen Duris at IDG Conference Management, (508) 879-6700. September 27-29 Second CASE users conference - Monterey. Sponsored by CASE Research Corporation. Vendor-independent users' conference. Contact: Debbie Boren, (206) 453-9900. October 1-4 ADAPSO Management Conference - Orlando. Mingle with your peers (and Disneyworld's nearby just in case). Contact: Sheila Wakefield, (703) 522-5055. October 2-6 OOPSLA - New Orleans. Sponsored by ACM/SIGPLAN. Come meet your fellow objects and share procedures. Send a message to Carole Mann, (407) 628-3602. October 2-6 CD-ROM Expo - Washington, DC. Sponsored by IDG Conference Group. Contact: Mitch Hall, (617) 329-8090. October 2-6 Interop 89 - San Jose. Interoperability made tangible, with tutorials, discussions, product demos and pitches. Sponsored by Advanced Computing Environments. Contact: Mark Belinsky, (415) 941-3399. October 3-5 PC Expo - Chicago. Sponsored by PC Expo. Contact: Steven Faher, (800) 444-EXPO or (201) 569-8542. October 10-13 Info 89 - New York City. Sponsored by Cahners Exposition Group. Contact: Frank Fazio, (203) 964-0000. October 11-14 Software Publishers Association annual conference - Montreal. Call Jayne White, SPA, (202) 452-1600. October 25-27 SGML applications conference - Washington, DC. Sponsored by Graphic Communications Association. Contact: Norman Scharpf, (703) 841-8160. November 5-10 Hypertext '89/SIGDOC 89 - Pittsburgh, PA. Much larger, for better or worse, than the first, wonderful hypertext conference in the fall of '87. Hypertext covers the first three

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