From: ctp@cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: DECUS Symposium Press Release
Date: 8 Oct 1992 19:05:15 -0500
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Austin
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For Immediate Release
For More Information
Paul Murphy
(508) 841-3346



               DECUS U.S. CHAPTER FALL SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIUM
                 DECEMBER 5 - 11, 1992  -  LAS VEGAS, NEVADA


SHREWSBURY, MA - October 8, 1992 - The U.S. Chapter of DECUS, the Digital 
Equipment Computer Users Society, will hold its Fall Seminars and Symposium 
programs, December 5 - 11, 1992 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas 
Hilton Hotel, and Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada. Considered by many 
to collectively be the most comprehensive and cost effective forum on working 
with products, services and technologies from the Digital and Digital-related 
arenas, the semiannual DECUS seminars and symposium programs continue to 
provide a slate of training and professional networking opportunities 
unmatched by any other events of their kind.

The DECUS Seminars program, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 
6, will offer over 100 one- and two-day in-depth training sessions covering a 
variety of technical topics. The program includes two workshops which focus 
on introductory and advanced levels of working with DECforms. The workshops 
will provide participants with the unique training opportunity of being able 
to immediately apply what they learn in an interactive hands-on environment.

The Fall 1992 Symposium, which runs from December 7 - 11, will be a diverse 
program of over 1,100 hours of sessions covering virtually every area of 
computing. With up to 25 individual sessions running at any one time, 
attendees can plan their own level of participation based on their needs and 
time constraints. Symposium sessions will cover such interest areas as: 
artificial intelligence; business practices; data management systems; 
electronic publishing; fourth generation languages; multimedia; networks; 
personal computing systems; security; VMS, ULTRIX, MUMPS and RISC based 
platforms; and many more.

Once again DECUS will provide the most up-to-date information on Digital's 
64-bit RISC Alpha architecture. A variety of both seminars and symposium 
sessions will focus on the technical issues related to dealing with OpenVMS, 
NT, and OSF/1 on Alpha systems. Application coexistence and migration; 
converting to Alpha systems; Alpha I/O support and concepts; and Alpha 
workstations are just a few of the topics that will be covered. In addition 
to Digital developers involved with the Alpha project, a number of day-to-day 
users who have successfully ported applications to the Alpha architecture 
will also be on hand.

Dr. Donald A. Gaubatz, vice president of the Workstations and Servers Group 
at Digital Equipment Corporation, will discuss ways in which Alpha-based 
computing integrates the many diverse environments in use today, while 
bringing a new level of productivity through open systems. Dr. Gaubatz's 
keynote address "Alpha Computing: The Journey Begins" will be presented 
Tuesday, December 8 at 8:00 a.m.

Other noted speakers will include Ron Bleed, vice chancellor of Information 
Technologies for the Maricopa Community Colleges and current chair of the 
board of directors of CAUSE, and Bruce Borden, vice president of Marketing at 
Kubota Pacific Computer. Mr. Bleed, keynote speaker for the Education Special 
Interest Group (SIG), will discuss "Using Technology to Harness the Winds of 
Change in Education" on Monday, December 7 at 10:00 a.m. Mr. Borden will 
present the Graphics Applications SIG keynote session entitled "Computing in 
the 90s" on Tuesday, December 8 at 9:00 a.m. 

A special stream of sessions designed to address both the technical and 
managerial issues being faced by today's managers of information technology 
will be presented on Monday and Tuesday, December 7 and 8. Sessions range 
from such topics as: Strategic Planning for Information Systems; to Hiring 
Honest People. The DECUS Management Track will also cover such Digital 
specific issues as: Alpha Migration Planning; COHESION Overview; and 
PATHWORKS Case Studies.

The symposium will also feature activities focusing on the issue of 
multi-vendor application migration. Digital's U.S. Marketing Group will 
sponsor several activities around this topic including migration 
demonstrations and on-site meetings to provide information on available 
migration paths. The group is also expected to provide roadmaps to selected 
sessions dealing with migration from various vendor platforms to Digital open 
systems platforms.

Further information on the programs is available in the Fall 1992 DECUS 
Seminars and Symposium Registration Program which may be obtained by calling 
(800) 358-2614.

Registration forms will be accepted at the DECUS Office until November 4, 
1992. All other registrations will be conducted on site in Las Vegas. 
Registration forms may be sent to the DECUS Office via fax at (508) 841-3373 
- or via mail to: DECUS Seminars/Symposia Processing, SHR1-4/D31, 333 South 
Street, Shrewsbury, MA 01545-4195.

DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society, is currently in its 31st 
year of helping members and their organizations, to be more successful. There 
are approximately 50,000 members in the U.S. Chapter. DECUS members solve 
their organization's computing problems and stay abreast of industry issues 
and emerging technologies with the aid of the Society's: national seminars 
and symposium programs; regional conferences; local seminars programs; 
Special Interest and Local Users Groups; electronic conferencing system; and 
public domain software library.

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COHESION, DECforms, DECUS, the DECUS logo, Digital, OpenVMS, PATHWORKS, 
ULTRIX, and VMS are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.

MUMPS is a registered trademark of Massachusetts General Hospital.

OSF/1 is a registered trademark of Open Software Foundation, Inc.

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