Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: takis@poobah.wellesley.edu (Takis Metaxas)
Subject: Interactive CD-ROM Proceedings for Parallel Computing
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 13:44:53 GMT

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TELOS Publishes Interactive CD-ROM Proceedings for Parallel Computing
 
Santa Clara, California, January 1, 1994 - TELOS (The Electronic Library of
Science) announces the release of an interactive CD-ROM entitled "Parallel
Computation: Practical Implementation of Algorithms and Machines" (ISBN
0-387-14213-4).
 
This revolutionary CD-ROM utilizes multimedia software on a Macintosh platform
and has been devised to replace the traditional practice of publishing
proceedings on paper. The 1992 DAGS Parallel Computing Symposium proceedings
are brought to you in this exciting format through the enterprising efforts of
Peter Gloor (Union Bank of Switzerland and Dartmouth College), Fillia Makedon
(Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College) and James W. Matthews
(Dartmouth).
 
The purpose of Dartmouth's Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies (DAGS) is to
strengthen the interaction between the theoretical and practical communities by
acting both as a forum and as a working environment to stimulate new
applications of parallel computation. In 1992, the DAGS Symposium addressed
"Issues and Obstacles in the Practical Implementation of Parallel Algorithms
and the Use of Parallel Machines," with the focus on problems that arise in
parallel scientific computing.
 
This CD-ROM brings the invited speakers from that meeting to your desktop,
along with proprietary hypertext software that allows viewers to annotate the
papers. Eight invited speakers' presentations are displayed in video and sound,
with an adjacent window displaying the full-color overheads used by each
presenter with their talk. In addition to viewing the presentations on the CD,
viewers may stop the video at any time, call up the abstract of the original
paper, read it, and even print it. Highlighted segments of the talk and the
backgrounds of presenters may also be accessed.
 
The CD-ROM is packaged with a 16-page booklet that describes how to use the
disc, including how to maneuver through the talks and how to use the software
to annotate the papers. Also included on the CD is a HyperCard(r) presentation
that explains how the CD was put together, to give viewers interested in
capturing their next conference, workshop, or meeting, valuable insight into
what is involved in this procedure.
 
INVITED SPEAKERS
Programming Parallel Algorithms
Guy Blelloch, Carnegie-Mellon University
 
The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5
Charles Leiserson, MIT
 
>From Parallel Algorithms to Applications and Vice Versa: Real Life Stories
Andrew Ogielski, Bellcore
 
Sorting Circuits, Fault Tolerance, and Tournament Ranking
Tom Leighton, MIT
 
Parallelization of Sequential Code for Distributed-Memory Parallel Processors
Marco Annaratone, DEC Massively Parallel Systems Group
 
Internals of the Connection Machine Compiler
Gary Sabot, Thinking Machines
 
Architecture of the KSR-1 Computer System
James Rothnie, Kendall Square Research
 
The Organization of Parallel FFT's: The Real Data Case
Charles Van Loan, Cornell University
 
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Title: Parallel Computation: Practical Implementation of Algorithms and
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