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From: johnson@ucsco.ucsc.edu (Tim Johnson)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: C++ Programming Language: An Intensive Workshop
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:05:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.33093
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


           UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXTENSION
                -- IN SANTA CLARA -- 
--------------------------------------------------------
     C++ Programming Language: An Intensive Workshop
                  **** May 4-8 ****

This hands-on workshop covers the C++ programming language,
including: object-oriented programming and the differences
between C and C++ (such as abstract data types, inheritance
and C++ classes).  The course will show how to use C++ to
design and develop reliable programs.  The course will also
cover I/O with C++ (i.e. streem I/O).  Finally, the
pitfals of C++ will be reviewed.

Prerequisites:  Experience programming in C.

Fee:  $645, includes textbook and course notes.  Enrollment 
limited.

Instructor:  ERIC HAGLER has been an instructor of computer 
languages for the past 11 years at various Bay Area colleges 
and private companies.  He is a member of the Borland C 
and C++ suport team on CompuServe.  His class materials 
will be published in the future by Wes Educational 
Publishing for use throughout country.

Location: UC Extension, 3120 De la Cruz Blvd 
          (Trimble off of Hwy 101).
          Santa Clara, CA

*******************ENROLLMENT FORM**************************

C++ Programming Language: An Intensive Workshop
Monday-Friday, May 4-8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
UC Extension, 3120 De la Cruz Blvd (Trimble off of Hwy 101).
Fee: $645.  (EDP 913084)

Enroll by phone using your Charge Card: Call (408) 427-6600, 
or enroll by Faxing enrollment form to (408) 427-6608 
                        - or - 
Mail enrollment form to: University of California Extension, 
740 Front Street, Suite 155, Santa Cruz, CA  95060.

Ms./Mr. ____________________________________________________
        Last,                   First                   M.I.

Address ____________________________________________________
        Street                  City                     ZIP

Home Phone __________________ Daytime Phone ________________


Social Security Number _____________________________________

Make checks payable to:  Regents, University of California, 
or charge to __ MasterCard, ___ Visa

Credit Number ______________________________Expires ________

Authorizing Signature ______________________________________

(If others are enrolling, please provide same information 
on a separate sheet).

*************************************************************
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
From: stevemc@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Steven McKearney)
Subject: 4/24/92 Juergen Vollmer Talk at ICSI
Keywords: Gentle, A Compiler Construction System Based On Horn Logic 
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:30:49 GMT

          The International Computer Science Institute
                  is pleased to present a talk:

                Friday, April 24, 1992  2:00 p.m.

                         JUERGEN VOLLMER
                       GMD Research Group
                     University of Karlsruhe

   ``Gentle, A Compiler Construction System Based on Horn Logic''

   Gentle is a compiler description language in the tradition of two
level   grammars  and  logic programming.    It  provides a   common
declarative  notation   for  high level   description   of analysis,
transformation,  and  synthesis.  Imperative constructs  like global
variables  and   dynamic arrays,   needed   for efficient   compiler
construction, are introduced as well.   A tool has been  implemented
to check the wellformedness of Gentle descriptions, and  to generate
very fast (generation speed 260.000 lines per minute) very efficient
compilers (compilation speed nearly  90.000 line  per minute  on Dec
3100 workstation).

      This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
        1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
     (On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)
From: kempson@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Kempson)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: 4/14/92 Ravi Jain Talk at ICSI
Keywords: Scheduling I/O in Parallel Computing Systems
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:45:23 GMT
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Distribution: ba
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
NNTP-Posting-Host: icsib.berkeley.edu


              The International Computer Science Institute
                     is pleased to present a talk:

                   Tuesday, April 14, 1992  2:00 p.m.

                               RAVI JAIN
                    Department of Computer Sciences
                     University of Texas at Austin

            ``Scheduling I/O in Parallel Computing Systems''

           The  increasing  importance   of   the   parallel   I/O
      bottleneck  makes scheduling parallel I/O transfers so as to
      improve parallel computer  system  performance  increasingly
      attractive.   Parallel I/O scheduling differs from most pre-
      vious work in scheduling because I/O tasks require  multiple
      resources  simultaneously  in  order  to  execute.  We first
      present a graph-theoretic model  for  specifying  scheduling
      problems  precisely.   We  then develop an optimal algorithm
      for  scheduling  I/O  in  parallel  computers   with   tree-
      structured  I/O  architectures, such as the Sequent Symmetry
      and the IBM RP3.  We also design a heuristic for  scheduling
      both  local and remote data transfers for parallel computers
      with multiple I/O bus architectures, and obtain  an  optimal
      algorithm for the problem of parallel I/O in the presence of
      a  class  of  mutual  exclusion  constraints.   Finally   we
      describe the experimental evaluation of this work, currently
      in progress.

             (Joint work with J. C. Browne and John Werth)


        This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
          1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
       (On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)
From: root@cayenne.Eng.Sun.COM (Operator)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: Humanities West Lecture
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:37:56 GMT
Reply-To: root@cayenne.Eng.Sun.COM (Operator)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cayenne

HUMANITIES WEST: "San Francisco 1906 - 1939: Recovering the Lost City",
May 8 - 9, 1992, Herbst Theater, San Francisco

What was it really like in San Francisco following the great quake of
1906?  Find out when you join Humanities West on May 8th and 9th in an
unprecedented journey to explore "San Francisco 1906 to 1939" through
the art, literature and politics of post-quake life.

Your conductors on this tour through the past include a stellar array
of historians, writers, performers and scholars.  Through the eyes and
memoirs of the people who were there, their lectures will cover (and
uncover) little known facts about an era which formed the character of
a city.  "San Francisco 1906 - 1939" begins Friday, May 8 at 8 PM and
continues through Saturday, May 9.  Join us for an excursion to the
colorful past.  Call Humanities West at 415 387-8780 for information
and reservations.
From: pasturel@albi.EBay.Sun.COM (Pierre Pasturel)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: Art History Short Course at Foothill College.
Keywords: Art, Impressionism, Japonisme
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:00:23 GMT
Reply-To: pasturel@albi.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: albi.ebay.sun.com


I am posting this for my wife who is teaching an Art History course
(only 4 two hr sessions) at Foothill College.

Please read on if you want to broaden your horizons.......

--------------------------------
Short Course at Foothill College
--------------------------------

---------------------------------------
Japonisme and the French Impressionists
---------------------------------------

We are all aware of the Japanese presence in the computer and
electronic world, but did you know that the Japanese had a
large impact on the development of French Impressionist art?

Introduced into France in the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese 
art and culture created a mania which swept the West.
Fashionable women could be seen wearing kimonos, home
decoration reflected Japanese design, and the wealthy had 
their gardens sculpted into Japanese inspired botanical feasts
for the eye. The Impressionists, equally transfixed, integrated
many stylistic features including bright colors, flattened
forms, and cropped compositions into their own works.

This slide illustrated lecture series will highlight how Japanese 
Ukiyo-e woodblock prints inspired the unique impressions of Manet, 
Monet, Degas, Mary Cassatt, and van Gogh, among others. The intent 
of this course is to provide an historical background to this 
fascinating artistic movement and to enable the participant to 
gain an appreciation and understandng of the many dynamic facets 
of the exchanges between the French Impressionists and the Japanese.

INSTRUCTOR: Deborah Pasturel, M.A., Art History, has studied all 
aspects of Japonisme for four years, and the fruits of her research 
have been published. She has travelled extensively in France where 
she has expansively surveyed the works of the 19th century French 
artists. She has taught Art History to many different age groups, 
and is currently an art docent for the city of Los Altos.

MEETS: Tuesdays, April 28 to May 19 (4 sessions), 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 
Foothill College, Room F-12.

REGISTRATION: Call Foothill College at 415-949-7379 or 415-949-7373 to register 
by phone or for more information.

FEE: $40
From: nb@eris.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: ba.seminars,ucb.seminars,ba.general,ucb.general
Subject: Noontime seminar series: Solar Cars, Racing for the future.
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:05:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.sd431INN87l
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Originator: nb@eris.berkeley.edu


		    Solar Cars, Racing for the Future

                                   by
                             Spencer Quong


		       Wednesday April 22, 1992
                            12 noon - 1 pm
                           Bechtel Room 120C
                             UC Berkeley


In this seminar, Spencer Quong will discuss solar car racing and present
several slides of existing solar cars.  He will also talk about the 
engineering behind a solar car and have components from the 
Berkeley Solar Car.  Spencer Quong is currently an undergraduate
in Materials Science at Berkeley.  He is the Team Leader and 
co-founder of CALSOL, the Berkeley Solar Car Team.  The team is 
constructing their first vehicle and will be racing in Japan in 
August.

                             Sponsored by the
                       Engineering Alumni Society
                      and the Blue Network Committee


Bechtel 120C is in the basement of the Bechtel Engineering Building
to the right of the elevator.

For further information on the Engineering Alumni Society noontime
seminar series, please contact:

	Nancy Blachman
	Director, UCB Engineering Alumni Society
	Variable Symbols, Inc.
	2161 Shattuck Ave., Suite 202
	Berkeley, CA  94704-1313
	Email: nb@eris.berkeley.edu
	Tel: 510-843-8701
From: ucsee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (UC Society of Elec. Engineers)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars,ucb.seminars,ba.general,ucb.general
Subject: IEEE mtg 4/14 6:00PM @  UC Berkeley
Summary: Announcement for IEEE meeting on 4/14, 6:00PM in  277 Cory Hall
Keywords: UCSEE, IEEE, SF PES, Oakland Hills Fire, pizza
Date: 12 Apr 92 02:58:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: pasteur.1992Apr12.025856.23871
Distribution: ba
Organization: UCSEE, University of California, at Berkeley


The University of California Society of Electrical Engineers 
(UCSEE), the largest student chapter of the IEEE in the nation
and the largest student organization in the UC Berkeley College
of Engineering, in conjunction with the San Francisco chapter
of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, presents their

	  ----> Annual Joint Meeting <----
		TUESDAY APRIL 14TH
		277 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
		6:00PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
		   *Featuring*

		Charles Debelius, 
		Group Senior VP,
		ICF Kaiser Engineers
  	  who will  speak on his efforts for
	  the Oakland Hills Fire Cleanup. 

	  All interested people are invited to attend.

	  Pizza dinner at the UCSEE hangout
	  "La Val's" follows courtesy of SF PES

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

      Mr. Debelius will address the following topics:

- 100 days, 1000 clients, $100 million protection,
 	and a fiber in a canister.
- Practicing safe access.
- Gold in "them thar"  hills.
- The facts machines.
- Undercover activities.
- Mountain recycling may be good for your health. 

	The above is taken verbatim from the SF PES flyer.
	(Our jokes are funnier)

Mr. Debelius is currently the Project Director of the cleanup
effort. An engineering graduate of the US Military Academy,
he spent 24 years with the Army Corps of Engineers.  Prior
projects include Alaska pipeline civil works programs, and
asphaltic concrete highways, airfields, and vertical
construction in Vietnam as a construction battalion commander.

Mr. Debelius  also holds a M.Sc. in Physics from New York
University and a Master in Military Arts and Science from 
the Army Command and General Staff College.  During his
military service he earned 4  Legions of Merit, the Bronze
Star, the Meritorious Service Medal and Commendation Medal.


Further information can found from Keene Matsuda, (415)
864-6776.  No reservations are necessary, and there is no
cover charge.  So hang out with the Berkeley students and
 see whats up! Alumni are especially encouraged to attend. 


-- Robert Freeman
   President -- UCSEE
   (freeman@ucsee.berkeley.edu)
From: lisa@cse.ucsc.edu (Lisa Pascal)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: UCSC CE/CIS Research Seminar 4/16
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:45:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32459
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Originator: lisa@rio

UC SANTA CRUZ:		Computer & Information Sciences and
			Computer Engineering

Research Seminar: 	Thursday, April 16, 10:30-11:30 am, 
			Room 156 Applied Sciences Bldg.
			Refreshments at 10:15

Charles Cox from IBM Almaden Research Center, will speak on:

GANGLION - A Fast Field-Programmable Gate Array Implementation of a
	   Connectionist Classifier

Abstract:

GANGLION is a fully digital implementation of a three-layer,
feed-forward, artificial neural network capable of generating 20
million decisions per second.  It is built entirely from off-the-shelf
components and owes it high performance to a novel use of the
reprogrammability of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).  This talk
will begin with an overview of our application of GANGLION in a
real-time image segmentation engine.  After a brief introduction to
neural networks, I will concentrate on the details of GANGLION's
architecture and implementation.  I will attempt to motivate our FPGA
design methodology and show challenges to automated design tools.
From: konolige@ai.sri.com (Kurt Konolige)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: Miroslaw Truszczynski talk at SRI International
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:55:46 GMT
Distribution: ba.semainars
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

We are pleased to announce a special seminar on nonmonotonic reasoning.

		     LOGICS OF MINIMAL KNOWLEDGE,
		 DEFAULT LOGIC, AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING

			Miroslaw Truszczynski
			University of Kentucky


                   Thursday, April 16 1992, 10:30 AM
                            Romm EJ-228

        Address:	  SRI International
  			 333 Ravenswood Ave.
  			    Menlo Park, CA


                              Abstract

    What conclusions should an agent derive from its initial assumptions if 
    these assumptions are ``all the agent knows/believes''? Several logics
    have been proposed as a means to study this question. They include the 
    minimal model logic of Halpern and Moses, the autoepistemic logic of Moore 
    and Levesque, the logic of grounded knowledge by Lin and Shoham and 
    the logic of minimal knowledge and negation by failure of Lifschitz. 

    In the talk we first briefly review these logics and discuss their 
    advantages and drawbacks. Then, we propose two new logics of minimal knowledge.
    We define them semantically but we also provide equivalent
    proof-theoretic characterizations. Our logics avoid the drawbacks of 
    some of the earlier formalisms. In the same time they are expressive enough 
    to capture the key features of the autoepistemic and default logics. To 
    illustarte this point, we use them to derive declarative characterizations 
    of extensions of default theories and answer sets of (disjunctive) logic 
    programs.



NOTE FOR VISITORS TO SRI:

Please  arrive at least 10 minutes early in order to sign in and be
shown to the conference room.

SRI is located at 333 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park.  Visitors may park
in the visitors lot in front of Building E at 333 Ravenswood Avenue, (first
driveway on the right, east of Laurel).  The seminar room is in Building E.


IMPORTANT:  Attendance is open, but visitors from certain countries
designated by the US government must make arrangements in  advance.
If you have not already made such arrangements before your arrival,
admission to the seminar will be denied. If you believe you may  be
from one of these countries and if you wish to make arrangements to
attend, please call Frances Leonard at (415) 859-4124.
From: patte@cmn13.Stanford.EDU (Patte Wood)
Subject: Phil Burk talks about the HMSL composition language at CCRMA
Reply-To: patte@ccrma.stanford.edu
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:04:08 GMT

Newsgroups: su.org.ccrma.bboard
From: patte
Subject: Talk by Phil Burk on the music composition language HMSL
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:34:34 GMT

Phil Burk of Mills College will give a talk on his composition  
language on Thursday, April 16 at 1:15 in the CCRMA Ballroom.  An abstract for  
his talk follows:

HMSL is an object oriented set of extensions to the Forth language
designed for experimental music.  It allows a composer to create a
hierarchy of compositional objects that include:
	Jobs - which periodically execute a user function,
	Shapes - which contain arbitrary data e.g. notes, timbral  
		controls,
	Players - which schedule the playing shapes,
	Instruments - which convert shape data to musical output,  
		etc.
	
HMSL includes a full MIDI toolbox for controlling MIDI synthesizers,
reading and writing MIDI files, and responding to MIDI input.  It  
also has a toolbox for creating custom user interfaces and a text  
based score entry system.

Recent additions to HMSL allow the control of real-time software
synthesis using the DSP 56000 processor on the AudioMedia or GMP
cards.

HMSL was developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky, and David Rosenboom.

Phil Burk is a lecturer and researcher at the Mills College
Center for Contemporary Music.  He is also President of
Delta Research and co-author of JForth for the Amiga.
From: kempson@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Kempson)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars
Subject: 4/17/92 Fabio Chiussi Talk at ICSI
Date: 10 Apr 1992 17:28:49 GMT
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: icsid.icsi.berkeley.edu
Keywords: Architecture and Implementation of Large Fast Packet Switches

              The International Computer Science Institute
                     is pleased to present a talk:

                   Friday, April 17, 1992  11:00 a.m.

                            FABIO M. CHIUSSI
                      Computer Systems Laboratory
                  Department of Electrical Engineering
                          Stanford University

    ``Architecture and Implementation of Large Fast Packet Switches''

           Many architectural  designs  of  fast  packet  switches
      capable  of meeting the requirements of Broadband Integrated
      Services Digital Networks (B-ISDN) have been  introduced  in
      recent  years; several of these architectures have been pro-
      totyped at the rates required by ATM (155.52 Mb/s).  Due  to
      the  high operating speeds involved, however, implementation
      and technology constraints  limit  the  practical  sizes  of
      switching  modules based on these architectures (the largest
      realizations serve 32-64 users). Thus, to build  large  fast
      packet switches, a common solution so far has been to inter-
      connect smaller modules of identical type and size in a mul-
      tistage configuration.

           In this talk, we explore the use of components of  dif-
      ferent  architectural  types  to  build  a large fast packet
      switch. We present a hybrid architecture, referred to as the
      Memory/Space-division/Memory  (MSM)  switching fabric, which
      integrates shared-memory buffer components along with space-
      division  banyan networks, and makes it possible to build an
      efficient self- routing switch capable  of  serving  several
      hundred  users.  It  has  its  origin  in  the Tandem Banyan
      Switching Fabric (TBSF) architecture,  and  stems  from  our
      desire  to  enhance  the functionality of the latter, and to
      increase the number of lines that the TBSF  can  accommodate
      beyond  the  size  of a single banyan.  The MSM architecture
      maintains the simplicity and high performance of  the  TBSF,
      but  overcomes its critical hardware and architectural limi-
      tations. The MSM can be easily expanded to efficiently  sus-
      tain  burst  switching  and to support hybrid circuit/packet
      switching operation, variable-size packets,  and  multicast-
      ing.  We have demonstrated the feasibility of this architec-
      ture by implementing the components of a 1024x1024 switching
      module  for the 620.08 Mb/s SONET data rate, using currently
      available custom and semicustom 0.8-micron BiCMOS  technolo-
      gies.

        This talk will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at ICSI.
          1947 Center Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
       (On Center between Milvia and Martin Luther King Jr. Way)