Adam Rifkin: Conferences and Talks

  1. IETF-42 Meeting, Chicago, August 24-28, 1998.
    Gave 20-minute talk at the NOTIFY BOF on Event Notification Service Scenarios (slides in html / slides in ppt)
  2. Workshop on Internet-Scale Event Notifications, Irvine, California, July 13-14, 1998.
    Gave a 40-minute talk on The Evolution of Internet-Scale Event Notification Services (abstract / slides in html / slides in ppt)
  3. WWW7 Conference in Brisbane, Australia, April 14-18, 1998.
    30-minute presentation of paper The Origin of (Document) Species (html); also, presentation of poster Trust Management Issues for the World Wide Web (html; full version in html).
  4. ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, Palo Alto, California, February 28 - March 1, 1998.
    30-minute presentation of paper Using Announce-Listen with Global Events to Develop Distributed Control Systems (PostScript/ html).
  5. Systor, Basel, Switzerland January 19, 1998.
    3-hour XML: The Least You Need to Know, part of their CHOOSE-Events series (see Systor/CHOOSE-Event: XML for Software Construction)
  6. Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, January 5-8, 1998.
    Participant and presented white paper 1 and white paper 2.
  7. ISCOPE, Marina Del Rey, December 8-11, 1997.
    30-minute talk on a general framework for resource reservation.
  8. International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Maui, Hawaii, July 21-23, 1997.
    Attended the Problem Solving Environment sessions at the Maui Supercomputing Center.
  9. Microsoft Technology Research Briefing, Redmond, WA, May 28 and 29, 1997.
    Attended two-day workshop on the latest Microsoft research endeavors.
  10. NASA Goddard Hubble Telemetry Center, Maryland, May 5, 1997.
    Investigated the reengineering of the control center software system for the Hubble telescope.
  11. CRPC Minority Youth Program, Caltech, March 25, 1997.
    Helped coordinate an Internet activity.
  12. Socal Computer Science Symposium, Santa Barbara, March 21, 1997.
    30-minute talk on infospheres and archetypes.
  13. Caltech Directors Conference, Caltech, February 5-6, 1997.
    Presented poster on infospheres, personal networks, sessions, and djinns.
  14. HICSS-30 Minitrack on Object-Oriented Methods for Distributed Applications, Maui, Hawaii, January 6-10, 1997.
    20-minute talk about Infospheres - Processes and Sessions. Winner of the Software Technology Best Paper Award. Paper to appear in the Oxford University Press Computer Journal, October 1997.
  15. Canon Japan, Tokyo, December 23, 1996
    30-minute talk on intelligent image strategies.
  16. Canon Japan, Tokyo, September 23, 1996
    30-minute talk on standardizations and bringing images to the Web.
  17. Socal Computer Science Symposium, Santa Barbara, March 21, 1997.
    30-minute talk on infospheres and archetypes.
  18. Fifth Workshop on High Performance Distributed Computing, Syracuse, NY, August 6-9, 1996.
    20-minute talk about the Caltech Infospheres Project. Winner of Best Paper Award for High Performance Distributed Computing Software.
  19. W3C/OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects and Mobile Code, Boston, MA, June 24-26, 1996.
    20-minute talk about the Caltech Infospheres Project.
  20. 6th Annual Research Symposium, Center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC), Argonne National Labs, May 14-16, 1996.
    25-minute talk about the Caltech Infospheres Project.
  21. Lunch Bunch, Caltech, May 7, 1996.
    45-minute talk about the Caltech Infospheres Project.
  22. CS 138 Class Lectures, Caltech, April 16-18, 1996.
    Two ninety minute talks on writing Java applications and applets.
  23. CRPC Minority Youth Program, Caltech, March 18-19, 1996.
    Helped coordinate parallel processing activity.
  24. NECC 95, Baltimore MD, June 17-19, 1995.
    On program committee, presiding over the "Technology Tools for Authentic Teaching, Learning, and Assessment" panel session, and presenting a paper on CRPC outreach programs.
  25. CRPC Minority Youth Program, Caltech, March 18-19, 1995.
    Helped coordinate parallel processing activity.
  26. CS 140 Class Lecture, Caltech, November 28, 1994.
    Ninety minute talk on object-oriented software tools and issues, with Rohit Khare.
  27. Lunch Bunch, Caltech, October 4, 1994.
    Forty-five minutes on the software engineering of object-oriented parallel programs.
  28. CRPC Site Visit, Rice University, Houston TX, September 1, 1994.
    Poster session with Svetlana Kryukova on eText and outreach programs.
  29. ADMI 94, Spelman College, Atlanta GA, July 22-24, 1994.
    Gave two-hour talk on CRPC's software and outreach programs.
  30. CRPC Minority High School Teachers Workshop, Caltech, June 20-24, 1994.
    Gave a three-hour talk on technology innovations and a one-hour talk on video games and education.
  31. CICA Visit, Indiana University, May 15-16, 1994.
    Gave one-hour talk on the electronic textbook eText project.
  32. CRPC Minority Youth Program, Caltech, March 17-18, 1994.
    Helped coordinate parallel processing activity.
  33. ACM SIG CSE, Phoenix AR, March 10-12, 1994.
    Presented a paper on parallel processing activity. Student volunteer.
  34. ACM SIG CSC, Phoenix AR, March 8-10, 1994.
    Presented a paper on eText project. Student volunteer.
  35. Task Parallel Fortran Workshop, Pasadena CA, February 9-10, 1994.
    Attended and took notes.
  36. 4th Annual Research Symposium, Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), Pasadena CA, January 24-26, 1994.
    Attended.
  37. Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, November 23-24, 1993.
    Taught class with Rohit Khare about hypermedia engines.
  38. Supercomputing 93, Portland OR, November 11-19, 1993.
    Attended and presented eText at CRPC booth. Student volunteer.
  39. OOPSLA 93, Washington DC, September 24-30, 1993.
    Attended. Student volunteer.
  40. DIMACS Workshop, Rutgers University, September 19-22, 1993.
    Gave twenty minute talk about MCM performance model and archetypes.
  41. SIGGRAPH/ ACM MULTIMEDIA 93, Anaheim CA, August 1-6, 1993.
    Attended.
  42. Los Angeles ACM Tutorial Week, Culver City CA, June 18-19, 1993.
    Attended.
  43. Object World, San Francisco CA, June 15-17, 1993.
    Attended.
  44. High Performance C++ Workshop, Marina del Rey CA, May 18-19, 1993.
    Attended and took notes.
  45. PADS 93, San Diego CA, May 16-17, 1993.
    Visited old buddies David Nicol and Subhas Roy.
  46. Harvard Business School Venture Capital Conference, Irvine CA, April 26, 1993.
    Received scholarship to attend.
  47. History of Programming Languages II, Boston MA, April 20-23, 1993.
    Attended and asked many, many questions.
  48. IPPS 93, Irvine CA, April 13-16, 1993.
    Attended.
  49. CRPC Minority Youth Program, Caltech, March 18-19, 1993.
    Helped coordinate parallel processing activity.
  50. Southeast US ACM Conference, Raleigh NC, April 16-20, 1992.
    Presented a paper on the utility of lookahead in single-server scheduling.
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