1995 International AVS Inc. Users and Developers Conference (AVS '95) Call for Chairs Greetings Everyone, We have determined a time and location for the 1995 International AVS Inc. Users and Developers Conference (AVS '95). AVS '95 will be held once again in Boston, MA. The dates for the Conference are April 19 - 21, and it will be held at the Boston Marriott - Copley Place. It is a tremendous hotel in the heart of the city, and not far from the Sheraton where last year's Conference was held. AVS Inc. will bear all financial responsibility for the Conference, but is interested in having the International AVS Center (IAC) perform the role of Technical Chair. We will need chairs for the Tracks, User Sessions, Video Theater, World Wide Web Session, Exhibition Area, and Panels. We'll broadcast a call for papers, panels, WWW and video segments within a week or so. We are considering specific alternations to make to the program based on attendee's input at last year's Conference. At this time we find the previous format to have worked well. This year, in addition to all the AVS-related Conference activities, we will enhance the Conference by adding many useful lectures on AVS/Express and Toolmaster products. These complementary product lines will be particularly useful to those wishing to develop production-quality applications. AVS Inc. will continue to integrate portions of the Toolmaster technology into AVS and AVS/Express as with AVS/Graph. It would be valuable if several of the volunteers for chairs have AVS/Express and/or Toolmaster experience. Overall, we're contemplating having 2 User Tracks (see below), a stronger Developer Track, and a Technology Track. USER TRACKS - CHAIRS NEEDED: The User Tracks would be run in a similar fashion to past years. We think there will be an opportunity for 2 parallel tracks with 13 sessions each, for a total of 26 sessions. After asking AVS Inc. what areas represent the widest usage of the products, here is a listing of possible areas where chairs are needed: (Each includes 3 to 5 lectures) Medical Chair Needed Oil and Gas: Exploration and Production Chair Needed Imaging: Remote Sensing, Microscopy etc. Chair Needed Environmental Theresa Rhyne, Wes Bethel GIS & Earth Resources Chair Needed Engineering Analysis (Mechanical, CFD etc.) Chair Needed Commercial Applications (Financial/Business/Telecomm/Statistics) Chair Needed Research/Government/Academic/Scientific Applications Chair Needed DEVELOPER TRACK - CHAIR NEEDED: The usage of AVS, AVS/Express and Toolmaster by application developers has increased dramatically. We're adding "... and Developers Conference" to the name of the event for this reason. We'd like to "beef-up" the developers track, and may include some plenary sessions in this area. A chair is needed in this area. This chair should be using AVS Inc. products to develop applications shipped as runtimes. TECHNOLOGY TRACK - Ham Lord: Ham Lord, of AVS Inc., has volunteered to chair the Technology Track (ideas for technology topics are invited). VIDEO CHAIR - Mike Pique: Mike Pique of Scripps Clinic has once again volunteered to perform the role of Video Chair - if there are no objections, or if no one else had their heart set on this, this chair is spoken for. WORLD WIDE WEB SESSION - Loren Buhle & Ken Flurchick: The WWW Session is still under design. We'd like to have someone who is familiar with Mosaic to coordinate this new area. PANELS - CHAIRS NEEDED: We have not identified the panel topics yet, so we'd like to have your recommendations regarding topics that are broadly applicable to most users. In the past, the following have been very popular: Animation & Video Panel AVS in Medicine Panel Wizards/Experts Panel EXHIBITION CHAIR - AVS Inc. & J.R. Schuman Associates GENERAL: Speaker information is almost finished with important due dates, formats for papers, presentations, reviews, printing, audio/visual forms, and how to submit with shipping instructions. Please respond to: David Bennett International AVS Center at North Carolina Supercomputing Center 3021 Cornwallis Road, RTP, NC 27709 phone 919 248 1182, fax 919 248 1101 email davidb@ncsc.org or avs@ncsc.org Technical Program Chair, AVS '95 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Paul J. Esdale Tel: (617) 890-4300 -- -- paule@avs.com Fax: (617) 890-8287 -- -- -- -- _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Advanced Visual Systems Inc. -- -- _/_/ _/ _/ _/ 300 Fifth Avenue -- -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Waltham, MA 02154 -- -- _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ USA -- -- _/ _/ _/ _/_/ -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------