Tuesday, October 12, 1999

9:00am - 9:15am

Opening Remarks
Fred Douglis, Program Chair, AT&T Labs-Research

Keynote Address
E-Commerce--An Optimistic View
Udi Manber, Yahoo! Inc.

Will E-commerce change the world? Yes.

Do we know how? No.

Are there any interesting unsolved technical and other problems? In abundance.

Udi Manber, winner of the 1999 Annual Software Tools Users Group award, is Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. He wrote more than 50 technical articles, 3 of which won best paper awards, co-developed Agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and the Search Broker, and wrote a popular textbook on design of algorithms.

Shared Caching
Session Chair: P. Krishnan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Scalable Web Caching of Frequently Updated Objects Using Reliable Multicast
Dan Li and David R. Cheriton, Stanford University

Hierarchical Cache Consistency in a WAN
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, and Calvin Lin, University of Texas at Austin

Organization-Based Analysis of Web-Object Sharing and Caching
Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Molly Brown, Tashana Landray, Denise Pinnel, Anna Karlin, and Henry Levy, University of Washington

Applications
Session Chair: Terence Kelly, Microsoft Research and University of Michigan

The Ninja Jukebox
Ian Goldberg, Steven D. Gribble, David Wagner, and Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley

Cha-Cha: A System for Organizing Intranet Search Results
Michael Chen, Marti Hearst, Jason Hong, and James Lin, University of California at Berkeley

A Document-based Framework for Internet Application Control
Todd D. Hodes and Randy H. Katz, University of California at Berkeley

Techniques
Session Chair: Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley and Inktomi

Sting: A TCP-based Network Measurement Tool
Stefan Savage, University of Washington

JPEG Compression Metric as a Quality-Aware Image Transcoding
Surendar Chandra and Carla Schlatter Ellis, Duke University

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