From: hsoza@dcc.uchile.cl (Hector Soza Pollman)
Subject: INFONOR'92
Originator: hsoza@caicai
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:59:42 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

Presentation
INFONOR '92, the International Symposium on applied Applications of
Information Technology,is an event that takes place in Antofagasta, Chile,
every two year. Since the beginning in 1979, it has become the most important 
event in it's area in this region.

The principal objetive of this symposium is to favour and promote, by means
of tutorials, sesion, pannel sesion and papers, the contact and the
interchange of the theoretical and practical knowledge, between chilean and
foreign professionals that work in the areas of engineering and information
technology.

This year there will be ten tutorials and around fifty papers.  EXPOIN '92
the Industrial Exhibit of the North,is programmed simultaneously with INFONOR.
EXPOIN '92 will take place in the industrial park, located in the north part
of the city. In it is located the Computer Pavilion, sponsored by INFONOR
'92, that will show the state of the art in computational equipment
technology.

Symposium site.
INOFONOR '92 will take place in Universidad Catolica del Norte, in
Antofagasta, the address is Avenida Angamos 0610, wich is in the south
part of the city.

Climate.
The climate in the months of November and December is warm. During the
spring the temperature fluctuates between 18 and 25 degrees centigrade.
The beaches and swimming places are a great turistic attraction, the waters
are calm and appropite for the practice of several nautic sports.

Hotels.
All the hotels are located in te main streets of the city. There are buses
from the airport to the principal hotel in Antofagasta, that is one block
from the COLON square. The prices for single rooms of some of the
hotels, with a previous reservation from the University are: El Tatio US$
14, Colon US$ 22, Astore US$ 24, San Marin US$ 18, Antofagasta US$30. Some
of the prices for economic hostels are: El Cobre US$ 4, Latorre US$ 4.

Money Exchange.
The chilean currency is the peso, wich is equivalent to $380 per dollar.
The main hotels receive dollars and can also be changed in the banks and
special exchange places. Most of the stores accept credit cards, like
Mastercard, Visa, Dinners and American Express.

Travel Agency.
TIEMPONOR is INFONOR's official travel agency. It is located in Latorre
2528, office 13, telephone 265527, fax 265529.

Registration Fee.
The registration fee depends on the type of participant, wich should be
accredited when registered. The values are in chilean pesos and dollars are:
      General: $ 70.000 or US$ 184.
      Academics: $ 35.000 or US$ 92.

Preliminay Program.
INFONOR '92 will take place between Monday November 30 and Friday December
4. The program consists of ten tutorials and aproximately fifty papers. The
program is:
Tutorials:
1st Tutorial: Visualization, concepts and applications of a new tool.
	      Nicolas di Biase, IBM Chile.
2nd Tutorial: Multimedia.
	      Jorge Moreno Escobar, IBM Chile.
3rd Tutorial: Process Control in Real Time.
	      Gaston Lefranc H., IEEE Chilean chapter.
4th Tutorial: Formal Methods in Software Engineering.
	      Pablo Straub, Universidad Catolica de Chile
5th Tutorial: Design and Analisys of Silmulation Experiments.
	      David Kelton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,USA.
6th Tutorial: Discrete Simulation and its state of the art.
	      Jerry Banks, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,USA.
7th Tutorial: Simulation based on Galiorkin Ideas.
	      Rene Reynaga, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, Bolivia.
8th Tutorial: Distributed Systems.
	      Xavier Rousset de Pina, Unite Mixte BULL-IMAG, Universite
	      Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Francia.
9th Tutorial: Competivity in the 90's and information technology.
	      Rodrigo Castro, SCCC.
10th Tutorial:Introduction to Computer Graphics.
	      Tony Woo, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.




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Nestor Gonzalez V. / Presidente del Comite de Programa INFONOR'92 ======== 
e-mail : infonor@lascar.unorte.cl / tel: 56+(0)55-241148 / Fax: -241724 
Universidad Catolica del Norte  Av. Angamos 0610 Antofagasta Chile ======
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