Technical Sessions
Wednesday, Nov. 10 |
Thursday, Nov. 11 |
Friday, Nov. 12 | All in one file
All Technical Sessions will be held in the
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Level 6.
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Wednesday, November 10
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9:00am - 10:30am Opening Remarks & Keynote - Rooms 6A & 6B
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Getting the Space Shuttle Ready to Fly
Joe Ruga, IBM Global Services Division at Boeing North American
Joe is the lead of the engineering computing center for design, analysis, and
support of each shuttle flight. He will discuss the ins and outs of system
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10:30am - 11:00am Break
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11:00am - 12:30pm
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
Using Electronic Mail
Session Chair: Josh Simon, Collective Technologies
ssmail: Opportunistic Encryption in Sendmail
Damian Bentley, Australian National University;
Greg Rose, QUALCOMM Australia; Tara Whalen, Communications Research
Centre Canada
MJDLM: Majordomo based Distribution List Management
Vincent D. Skahan, Jr. and Robert Katz, The Boeing Company
RedAlert: A Scalable System for Application Monitoring
Eric Sorenson, Explosive
Networking; Strata Rose Chalup, VirtualNet
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
Deep Space BIND
Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium
After having been relatively stable and reliable for about fifteen years, DNS is undergoing its inevitable rototilling, and BIND
with it. It's time
for the world to learn what to expect from BIND-9 and EDNS.
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
Look, Ma, No Hands! Coping with RSI
Trey Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is an occupational hazard faced by many people
who work long hours at a keyboard. Most RSI sufferers either ignore symptoms
until they cannot work, or attempt to self-treat in ineffective or even harmful
ways. This talk will address effective strategies for living and working with
RSI, including the pros and cons of voice recognition technology for technical
work, how to evaluate ergonomic products, and tips for work and living habits
that can help prevent the occurrence, or reoccurrence, of RSI.
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12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch (on your own)
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2:00pm - 3:30pm
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PAPERS Room 6A
The Way We Work
Session Chair: Cat Okita, Earthworks
Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
Adverse Termination Procedures -or- "How to Fire a System Administrator"
Matthew F. Ringel; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent
Technologies/Bell Labs
Organizing the Chaos: Managing Request Tickets in a Large Environment
Steve Willoughby, Intel Corporation
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
The Four-Star Approach to Network Management
Jeff R. Allen, WebTV Networks, Inc.
David Williamson, Global Networking and Computing, Inc.
Presentation slides
Experience shows that large network-management platforms that promise to be all
things to all people usually don't solve the problems we need them to. An
alternative to using one big tool is to assemble a collection of smaller tools
that do precisely what you need. In this talk, I'll explain how WebTV chooses
and uses tools, giving particular attention to Cricket, a tool which has given
us great visibility into the behavior of our systems.
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
Hot Topics/Buzzword Bingo
Moderator: Daniel V. Klein, Consultant
What's the buzz? Come hear our panel of "experts" comment on current technology
buzzwords--what they're about, and whether you should care. Next time your boss
sends you on a hunt, know whether you're chasing something good or just
pointy-haired vaporware.
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3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
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4:00pm - 5:30pm
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REFEREED
PAPERS Room 6A
Tools
Session Chair: Adam Moskowitz, LION bioscience Research, Inc.
GTrace - A Graphical Traceroute Tool
Ram Periakaruppan and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado at Boulder and
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
rat: A Secure Archiving Program with Fast Retrieval
Willem A. (Vlakkies) Schreüder and Maria Murillo, University of Colorado at Boulder
Cro-Magnon: A Patch Hunter-Gatherer
Jeremy Bargen, University of Colorado at Boulder and Raytheon
Systems Company; Seth Taplin, University of Colorado at Boulder and CiTR, Inc.
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INVITED
TALKS Room 6B
Microsoft's Internal Deployment of Windows 2000
Curt Cummings, Microsoft, Information Technology Group
The Information Technology Group (ITG) at Microsoft has aggressively planned and implemented Windows 2000 on a global scale. Microsoft's IT group will share its
deployment process, problems, and concerns with others in the industry.
Discussion of deployment topics includes best practices for global
infrastructure deployment, namespace design, domain hierarchies for a global
environment, Active Directory utilization and planning, schema management, and
custom application integration as an active directory component.
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PRACTICUM Room 6C
A Couple of Web Servers, a Small Staff, Thousands of Users, and Millions of
Web Pages...How We Manage (Sort of)
Anne Salemme and Jag Patel, MIT
Presentation slides
The Web has become an essential part of day-to-day life at MIT, and supporting
the rapidly changing needs of the Web publishers at MIT is a challenge, given
the staff and funding resources of MIT Information Systems. We have been able to
provide Web service for static content for thousands of users and millions of
Web pages by supporting Web servers as basically an add-on to the necessary
underlying services we already provided. This model is challenged by potential
future needs, such as dynamically generated content and authenticated access for
publishers to their content via the Web. We will discuss day-to-day problems
solved and lessons learned, and make some guesses about what we might be
learning in the future.
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