SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2002

9:00 am—10:30 am

Session 1: Opening Remarks and Keynote Opening Remarks by Jeff Mogul, HP Labs Western Research Lab Keynote Address, Douglass J. Wilson, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corporation Doug is a lead architect in the Architecture and Strategy Team of IBM's Application and Integration Middleware division. He is responsible for architectural oversight for products including Domino and WebSphere integration, WebSphere Portal, Personalization and Content Publisher. In the past, Doug has led many product designs and was lead architect for Lotus 1-2-3 '97. His 25 years of industry experience include developing applications for the legal industry (at Kodak Legal Systems), founding Cognition, Inc., and managing systems development and operations of M.I.T.'s Project Athena. Doug holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from M.I.T., where he specialized in computer control of electro-mechanical systems.

10:30 am—11:00 am   Break

11:00 am—12:30 pm

Session 2 Session Chair: Mark Stuart Day, Cisco Systems Using End-User Latency to Manage Internet Infrastructure Brad Chen and Mike Perkowitz, Appliant Inc. Building an "Impossible" Verifier on a Java Card Damien Deville and Gilles Grimaud, University of Lille Enhancements for Hyper-Threading Technology in the Operating System: Seeking the Optimal Scheduling Jun Nakajima and Venkatesh Pallipadi, Intel Corp.

12:30 pm—2:00 pm   Workshop Luncheon

2:00 pm—3:00 pm

Session 3 Session Chair: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs Western Research Lab Software Strategy from the "1980 Time Capsule" John R. Mashey, Consultant About 20 years ago, I often spoke on "Small Is Beautiful and Other Thoughts on Programming Strategies." Just for fun, this talk uses the original slides, but adds commentary to bring them to 2002. I will examine project success and failure, the common reasons thereof, strategies for failing quickly when necessary, and other related topics in engineering. Most still seem to apply well today, alas. John Mashey is an ancient UNIX software person who has also helped designed microprocessors and systems, managed many software projects, posted many articles on the net, and given 500+ public talks. He has worked at Bell Labs, Convergent Technologies, MIPS Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics (where he ended as VP & Chief Scientist), Sensei Partners (a venture investment firm), and is currently consulting around Silicon Valley.

3:00 pm—3:30 pm   Break

3:30 pm—4:30 pm

Session 4 Session Chair: Rob Gingell, Sun Microsystems, Inc. An Examination of the Transition of the Arjuna Distributed Transaction Processing Software from Research to Products Mark Little, Hewlett-Packard; Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle University Tree Houses and Real Houses: Research and Commercial Software Susan LoVerso and Margo Seltzer, Sleepycat Software

4:30 pm—5:00 pm   Break

5:00 pm—6:30 pm

Happy Hour & Joint WIESS/OSDI Panel Session Noah Mendelsohn, IBM Corp. Working in Industry Improved My Research/Publishing Improved My Product Some computer systems researchers have joined startups and then returned to (or remained in) research. The experience has taught them things that research-only people don't know, but probably should. Some industry employees have written papers for research conferences. Even though this looks like time away from their real jobs, the experience has proved useful both to their careers and to their companies. Our panel will include people from both groups, who will discuss the challenges and rewards of crossing the industry/research boundary. HAPPY HOUR SPONSORED BY HP LABS ALL WIESS AND OSDI ATTENDEES WELCOME!