From: john@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (John Hosking)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: NZCS Conference Call for Papers
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:28 GMT
Expires: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: news.announce.conferences
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Auck Uni


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             13th New Zealand Computer Society Conference
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                     "Applying the Future Today"

                          Call for Papers

The 13th New Zealand Computer Society Conference will be held at the Aotea
Centre, Auckland New Zealand from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th August
1993.  Held every two years, this is the official conference of the New
Zealand Computer Society, the major society representing computer
professionals in New Zealand.

The Aotea Centre is Auckland's premier conference venue. It is situated in
the central city,  with ample hotel accommodation available nearby.
Auckland provides plenty of opportunity for sightseeing and shopping and
the North Island ski fields and major trout fishing areas are only three
hours drive from Auckland.

Papers are invited on ALL aspects relating to the conference theme of
"Applying the Future Today".  Some suggestions for topics include:

*	Successful development of novel techniques or applications of information
technology in industry, commerce, government, or academia.

*	Successful adaptation of new computing/communications technology to the
New Zealand/Australian situation.

*	The impact of information technology on the workplace and society in
general.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers include:

*	Bob Blaylock, Manager of International Marketing, Multimedia Division,
IBM, who will speak on the future application of Multi-media technology.

*	Niklaus Wirth, Professor of Computer Science, ETH, Zurich and designer of
the Pascal and Modula programming languages, who will talk on the future of
programming and software development.

*	Jnan R Dash, Vice President, Database Technologies, Oracle Corporation,
who will talk on the future of Database technology.

*	Geoff Wyvil, University of Otago, a reknowned expert on image rendering.
His team was responsible for graphics in reporting of the America's cup
yachting challenge. He will address the future of Computer Graphics.

                      Timetables for Authors
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	       December 4th 1992	      Titles and abstracts required
	       March 26th 1993         Full papers required
	       May 14th 1993           Notification of acceptance
	       June 11th 1993          Final copy required

Papers will be refereed and accepted papers will be published in a bound
proceedings available to all conference delegates.

Please send paper titles and 150 word abstracts (together with author
affiliations) to Proceedings Editor, 13th New Zealand Computer Society
Conference, Department of Computer Science, Private Bag 92019, Auckland.
Fax: (64) (9) 3737-453. Email nzcc13@cs.aukuni.ac.nz

--- John Hosking                          john@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
--- Department of Computer Science        Phone: (64) (9) 3737-999 ext 8297
--- University of Auckland,               Fax:   (64) (9) 3737-453
--- Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand