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From: dede@cpsi7.dibe.unige.it (G. DESOLI  F.DE NATALE (Vernazziani))
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: IMAGE PROCESSING: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:00:15 GMT
Expires: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: University of Genoa  Dept. of Elect. Eng. (DIBE), Genova, Italy


         IMAGE PROCESSING: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
               An International Conference

                    June 1416, 1993
              Villa Nobel, San Remo, Italy


General Chairman: G.Vernazza, DIBE, Genoa Univ., Italy

Program Chairman: A.N.Venetsanopoulos, DEE, Toronto Univ., Canada

Technical Committee
C.Braccini, Italy (Chairman); M.Barlaud, France; J.Biemond, The Netherlands;
H.Bunke, Switzerland; V.Cappellini, Italy; L.P.Clarke, U.S.A.;
T.S.Durrani, U.K.; T.Hinamoto, Japan; G.Jacovitti, Italy; J.Kittler, U.K.;
S.Levialdi, Italy; A.Murat Tekalp, U.S.A.; Y.Neuvo, Finland; H.Niemann, Germany;
I.Pitas, Greece; F.Rocca, Italy; H.Samet, U.S.A.; G.L.Sicuranza, Italy;
I.Sobel, U.S.A.; P.Zamperoni, Germany.

The conference is sponsored by:
AEI  Italian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
EURASIP  European Association for Signal Processing
IAPR  International Association for Pattern Recognition
IEEE  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

It is open to all aspects of image processing, including but not limited to:
 Picture and Video Coding
 Filtering, Color, and Texture
 Segmentation, Feature Extraction, and Motion Analysis
 Classification and Understanding
 Applications (Biomedical, Geophysics, Radar, Remote Sensing, Robotics, Sonar,
  etc.)

A number of invited lectures will be given, on different aspects
of image processing; in particular:
 T.S.Huang, Univ Illinois, U.S.A. (motion analysis)
 M.Kunt, EPFL, Switzerland (image data compression)
 D.C.Munson jr., Univ of Illinois, U.S.A. (inverse synthetic aperture radar)
 E.M.Riseman, Univ Massachusetts, U.S.A. (interpreting natural scenes:
  acquiring and extending 3D models for navigation)
 A.N.Venetsanopoulos, Univ Toronto, Canada (multispectral image processing)
 J.W.Woods, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, U.S.A. (3D spatiotemporal
  Kalman filtering with motion compensation).

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the technical areas.
Please, send five copies of an extended summary of your paper (four A4 pages,
approximately 2000 words) to the Conference Secretariat for review.
The top of the first page must include title, authors' names, affiliations,
addresses, phone and fax numbers. The summary should mention clearly the aims,
the importance, and the novelty of the paper. Please, select the area (or the
areas) where your paper fits best. Accepted papers will be included in the
proceedings, published by Elsevier and available at the symposium.

SCHEDULE
extended summary:            October 10, 1992
notification of acceptance:  December 10, 1992
cameraready copy:           February 06, 1993

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
E.Battistini and D.Risso
c/o DIBE, via Opera Pia 11A, Genoa, I16145 Italy
phone: + 39 19 3532 755
fax: + 39 10 3532 777  telex: 272399 die ge i
email: ipta@dibe.unige.it
From: dawn@umiacs.umd.edu (Dawn Vance)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: JICSLP '92 / Session Call for Participation
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:02:06 GMT
Expires: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: dc.general
Distribution: na
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742


		       Call for Participation

		Logic Programming as an Introductory
			Programming Paradigm

		Informal Birds-of-a-Feather Session

		Joint International Conference and
		Symposium on Logic Programming '92

		      Tuesday, Nov 10th, 1992
			   6:00PM -- 8:30PM

		  Organizers: J. Reinfelds and G. Gupta

This informal session is  devoted to  discussion on  using  the  logic
programming  paradigm to teach programming to beginners. The  emphasis
is on  teaching  logic  programming (rather than Prolog), and  the aim
is to induce beginners to learn ``declarative thinking." This approach
can be  contrasted with  the functional programming  approach that has
been becoming increasingly popular recently.

The discussion  is open to  all the participants in the conference who
are  invited  to present  their  views on  (but  not  limited  to) the
following issues:

1) Why is  Logic  Programming  a  more  suitable paradigm for teaching
	programming to beginners?
2) Is there a need for  using LP for this purpose, or is FP enough, or
	is some other approach better?
3) How to evaluate the success of such an enterprise?
4) Your  experiences  related  to  using  LP  to  teach programming to
	beginners.

Dissenting views are specially welcome.

As part of the session  we will  relate our  experience  with using LP
(and a closely co-ordinated  sister course in discrete Math and Logic)
to teach programming to Freshman students  at New Mexico State. Others
are welcome to relate their experiences too.

Please note  that the primary focus of the session will be on teaching
logic programming to beginner programmers. Discussion related to teach-
ing Logic Programming to people other than beginners is not encouraged.

Please  send email (to gupta@nmsu.edu  or  juris@nmsu.edu) if  you are
interested in participating. Please indicate in your email if you just
want to attend the session or  whether you  intend to  present a short
position paper too.

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Gopal Gupta
Department of Computer Science	   email: gupta@nmsu.edu
Box 30001, Dept. 3CU		      	  gupta@compsci.bristol.ac.uk
New Mexico State University	   Ph: +1 (505) 646 6236
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001	   Fax: +1 (505) 646 6218
USA
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From: weltyc@porsche.cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: KBSE-92 (7th Conf on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering)
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:01:58 GMT
Expires: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: RPI Computer Science Dept.


		THE 7TH KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
		             (KBSE-92) CONFERENCE

                    September 20-23rd, Tysons Corner, VA

		         Sponsored by Rome Laboratory
In cooperation with  A A A I (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
A C M (Association for Computing Machinery), IEEE Computer Society and SIGART


			THE KBSE-92 CONFERENCE
The focus of this conference is the application of artificial intelligence
and knowledge-based techniques to  software engineering problems.
This includes techniques for constructing, representing, reasoning
about,  understanding and adapting software artifacts and processes.
The conference is concerned with all activities  related to software,
including project planning, domain modeling, requirements acquisition,
specification,  design, coding, documentation, understanding, reuse, evolution,
testing and maintenance; provided that intelligent tools can  perform these
activities, support humans in performing them or cooperate with  humans in
performing them. The core of the conference  is a three-day block of technical
presentations, including panels and paper sessions.  This core is preceded by
a day of tutorials.  Demonstrations and videotapes will be scheduled at
various times throughout the conference to allow for  maximum  viewing.

		CONFERENCE CHAIR:
W. Lewis Johnson
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 USA
Tel:  (310) 822-1511
Fax:  (310) 823-6714
Email: johnson@isi.edu

Program Committee:
Penny Chase (MITRE), Martin Feather (USC/ISI), Steve Fickas (Univ.
Oregon), Mehdi Harandi (Univ.Ill.), David Harris(Lockheed Sanders),
Matthias Jarke(RWTH Aachen), Lewis Johnson (USC/ISI),
Gail Kaiser  (Columbia Univ.)  , Elaine Kant (Schlumberger), Lisa Neal (EDS),
Derek Partridge (Univ. Exeter), Howard Reubenstein (MITRE),
Charles Rich (Mitsubishi Electric), Peter Selfridge (AT&T),
Dorothy Setliff (Univ. Pittsburgh), Doug Smith (Kestrel),
Elliot Soloway (Univ. Michigan), Alistair Sutcliffe (City Univ.London),
Richard C. Waters (Mitsubishi Electric)



** FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, INCLUDING FINAL PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFO,
** SEND MAIL TO kbse7-info@cs.rpi.edu


--

Christopher Welty                   Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs, Troy, NY 12180
weltyc@cs.rpi.edu                  "Porsche:  Fahren in seiner schoensten Form"
From: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: CONF: 2nd Annual Conf. on Virtual Reality and Disabilities,
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:00:23 GMT
Organization: HIT Lab, Seattle WA.


California State University, Northridge (CSUN), announces its Second
Annual Virtual Reality and Persons with Disabilities Conference for
March 17-20, 1993, at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel as a
part of its Eight Annual Conference on Technology and Persons with
Disabilities.  CSUN's 1992 conference derw 2,200 participants, 276
speakers, and 102 exhibitors, according to Dr. Harry J. Murphy,
Conference Director.

A single copy of the PROCEEDINGS from the first Virtual Reality and
Persons with Disabilities Conference is available at no cost from
CSUN.  It includes a dozen papers, including a Keynote Address by
Jaron Lanier, Founder and Chief Scientist of VPL Research, Inc.

"Virtual Reality is a promising technology," says Murphy.  "We are
looking for speakers at our March 1993 conference who are applying
this technology to the problems of persons with disabilities."

For information, contact:

	Dr. Harry Murphy
	Conference Director
	Technology & Persons with Disabilities
	California State University, Northridge
	18111 Nordhoff Street, DVSS
	Northridge, CA 91330  USA

	Telephone:  +1-818-885-2578
	Fax:        +1-818-885-4929
From: mad@merit.edu (Mark Davis-Craig)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Merit Networking Seminar
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:01:01 GMT
Expires: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: Merit Network, Inc.


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Please pass on the announcement below to interested parties.
Hard copies are available for your colleagues who are not yet
attached by sending us their postal address or by calling
1-800-66-MERIT or (313) 936-3000.  Thank you.

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The Merit Networking Seminars:
Making Your NSFNET Connection Count
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Merit/NSFNET Information Services will sponsor a one-and-
a-half day seminar at the University of Michigan  in Ann Arbor,
Michigan on October 19 and 20, 1992.  "Making Your NSFNET
Connection Count" will be an informative seminar focusing on
Internet tools, resources, and applications. Campus computing
leaders, information systems  and networking administrators,
educational liaisons, librarians, and educators with beginning or
intermediate network experience are encouraged to attend.

An optional three-hour hands-on tutorial will also be offered.
Experienced Merit staff will introduce participants to Internet
tools such as electronic mail, telnet, ftp, Gopher, and WAIS.  The
handout  included with the tutorial will help participants teach their
colleagues  what they have learned.

Since 1987, Merit Network, Inc. has operated and managed the
NSFNET backbone. Merit also manages MichNet, Michigan's
statewide network, providing networking services for over two decades.

The registration fee is $295 until October 5. After October 5 the
fee is  $345.  This fee does not include the tutorial, which is an extra
$79.  The fee does include the rest of the seminar, receptions on Sunday
and Monday  evenings, lunches on Monday and Tuesday, the
demonstration  room, and all other seminar materials. For further
information and a complete agenda, send an electronic  message to
seminar@merit.edu or telephone 1-800-66-MERIT, or 313/936-3000.

 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Mark Davis-Craig, Merit Network, (313)-936-3000, mad@merit.edu
From: serrano@ceniai.cu (Luis Serrano / Instituto de Historia de Cuba)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: informacion
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:00:48 GMT
Organization: (none)


                  *************************
                  * INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA *
                  *                       *
                  *        DE CUBA        *
                  *************************


The main task of the Institute of History of Cuba, consists
in investigating and divulging the most outstanding contin-
gencies, and revealing the most important actions in the
history of our land about the life of its grandees.

In order to carry forward the researches, our Institute relies
not only on its 6O specialists. it disposes of a Scientific
Information Direction, which includes the Library, Archive,
consultating hall, Laboratory and workshops (for the conser-
vation and restauration), and an area for the computation and
translation.

Its Scientific information offers different services:
reproduction of historial material (photocopies, microfiches
or photos), restauration and binding of materials, storage
courses, history assessor, publication exchange, catalogue,
data base, consultation and other.

==============================================================
For further details please contact:
Dr. Ciencias Historicas Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez
Director Informacion Cientifica
Instituto de Historia de Cuba
Palacio Aldama
Amistad No. 510 entre Reina y Estrella
Ciudad Habana, Cuba
correo electronico: cdp!web!ceniai!historia
From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Subject: CFV: sci.virtual-worlds.apps
Followup-To: poster
Organization: WORLDESIGN, Seattle
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:44:03 GMT

-------------------------------------------
1st CALL FOR VOTE:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS.APPS
-------------------------------------------

Several weeks ago, sci.virtual-worlds moderator, Bob Jacobson, and
co-moderator, Mark De Loura, posted a CFD to discuss a new newsgroup,
sci.virtual-worlds.apps .  This new newsgroup would focus on current
and forthcoming uses of virtual-worlds technology ("virtual reality").
It would be moderated by Jacobson and De Loura, who would hand over
moderatorship of sci.virtual-worlds to new moderators selected by that
newsgroup's sponsor, the HIT Lab at the Washington Technology Center.

The comments we received were unanimously supportive of this new
newsgroup.  There were no suggestions for modifications (although
additional segmentations of sci.virtual-worlds were recommended).

Accordingly, we are now calling for a vote.  The vote will continue
for 30 days; votes should be sent before 23:59 GMT, 19 September 1992.

To vote on the creation of sci.virtual-worlds:
----------------------------------------------

1.  Send all votes to: 

		cyberoid@u.washington.edu 

2.  You can do this by replying to this message or sending email
    directly to the account.

3.  If you are replying to this message, the header will 
    automatically indicate the topic.  If you are sending email
    directly to the cyberoid account, put SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS.APPS 
    in the "Subject:" field.

4.  For a positive vote, in the message field type:  YES.

5.  For a negative vote, in the message field type:  NO.

6.  Send nothing else in the message field, with the exception of
    your full name and/or site if it does not already appear in 
    your usual email header.

This message is being posted to news.groups, sci.virtual-worlds,
comp.human-factors, comp.simulation, comp.graphics.visualization, and
alt.cyberspace.  It will also appear on The WELL and may be forwarded
to CompuServe and GEnie.

Thank you for your vote.
-- 
Bob Jacobson			Mark De Loura
Moderator			Co-Moderator
sci.virtual-worlds		sci.virtual-worlds
cyberoid@u.washington.edu	madsax@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,sci.engr,sci.aeronautics,sci.comp-aided,sci.electronics,sci.engr.chem,sci.math.num-analysis,sci.math.symbolic,sci.misc
From: mike@pencom.com (Mike Heath)
Subject: 2nd RFD: comp.org.aix
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:59:50 GMT

Proposed Charter:  comp.org.aix

The purpose of this group is to discuss issues relating to the International
AIX-RISC System/6000 User Group.

The International AIX-RISC System/6000 User Group (IAUG) is an independent,
non-profit organization of people who work with the AIX operating system
and associated hardware.

IAUG was founded in 1991 and has grown rapidly to include members from the
United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, and Canada.  Their objective
is to facilitate the free exchange of information among AIX users so that
members can stay abreast of the latest industry developments.

The group shall be unmoderated.
-- 
Mike Heath		Pencom ...  We're not just headhunters anymore.
Pencom Software		
Austin, TX		
mike@pencom.com
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups
From: lon@edsi.plexus.COM (Lon Ponschock)
Subject: CFV: misc.support.stop-smoking 
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:41:57 GMT

Name: misc.support.stop-smoking
Status: unmoderated
Charter:(below)

     This is the 1st Call For Votes
     for misc.support.stop-smoking.

     Please do not post any votes past that date.

The Votes will be collected at two
      addresses:

      smokeyes@edsi.plexus.com  ... to vote YES

      smokeno@edsi.plexus.com  ... to vote NO

Include a line in the body of your text which says:

     "I vote yes on misc.support.stop-smoking"
                        or
     "I vote no on misc.support.stop-smoking"

Since the discussion period is past, your message
should not contain phrases such as:

     "I would vote yes if..."

A vote will be invalidated in
      this instance.

The Call For Votes will continue for 31 days, ending 23:59 EDT on 12
September.  It will be reposted once weekly during the voting period.

     The misc. hierarchy was selected to allow a maximum
         number of readers but not get confused with the
         political debates in the talk.hierarchy.

     The .support element indicates the ability to
         establish other support groups.

     .stop-smoking shows the specific intent of the
          group.

The finalized version of the Charter
which has incorporated name changes
to reflect the intent of the group follows:

========================================================

THE CHARTER

     Misc.support.stop-smoking would be an unmoderated
forum to exchange information on the long term effects
of quitting the smoking habit.  These questions regard
physical changes such as weight gain (does it ever
normalize?) and how can life crises start up the smoking
addiction after a period of calm and abstinence?

     The purpose of this forum is to show that smoking
is a true addiction and requires long term support.
This support would be found through contacts with those
who are on a similar timeline to the individual reading
the forum: A Smokers Anonymous.

     So, misc.support.stop-smoking would be available on
an as-needed basis for any and all questions regarding
techniques for quitting and family problems which arise
from a change in behavior.

     Most importantly, the group would be available during
that period when the individual thinks that she or he is
"out of the woods" but discovers that nothing could be
further from the truth.
========================================================

Thanks to all who have participated in the discussion
and encouraged me to complete the voting procedure.

Tell your friends and anyone else who should be
interested.
-- 
   Question Recently
   Posed to the Net:'Kukla, Fran & Ollie' which one is which?
   Answer: Tom Servo is Kukla, Crooow is Ollie and Joel is Fran.
   lon@edsi.plexus.com
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.games.misc,rec.arts.int-fiction,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: forbes@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Scott Forbes)
Subject: CFV: rec.games.int-fiction
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: vote@icbm.att.com
Organization: Usenet Sports Programming Network
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:42:11 GMT

This is an official CALL FOR VOTES on the creation of the newsgroup

rec.games.int-fiction  (unmoderated)
  Discussion of games in the interactive fiction genre, including but
  not limited to text adventures by Infocom and other manufacturers,
  graphical and non-text-oriented interactive fiction, gameplay hints,
  news about authors, games and manufacturers, and related topics.

Polling is to begin immediately, and end at 12:00 midnight CDT on
Friday, September 11, 1992.  If the group receives a 2/3 majority in
favor of its creation *AND* there are at least 100 votes in all *AND*
there are at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes, the newsgroup
will be created according to USENET Guidelines.

TO VOTE:  Send an e-mail message to "vote@icbm.att.com" with the word
"YES" or "NO" in the Subject: line.  In most newsreaders, (r)eplying
to this message will send e-mail to vote@icbm.att.com.  A daemon will
auto-reply with an acknowledgement of your vote; ambiguous votes will
be acknowledged as NO votes, and then changed manually if necessary.
If duplicate votes are received, the vote received last will count.
Only e-mailed votes may be accepted.

Questions, problems or procedural issues about the vote should be
e-mailed to forbes@icbm.att.com.  An acknowledgement of received votes
will be posted halfway through the voting period and again at the end
of voting.  Results will be posted on or after September 13, 1992.

Thank you in advance for participating in this survey.

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Scott Forbes		AT&T Network Wireless Systems		==---======
Naperville, IL		forbes@icbm.att.com			 =========
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