CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC PACKAGING
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.  

The workshop dates are May 8-10, 1996 at Tamiment Resort and Conference
Center in Tamiment, Pennsylvania.  It is about an hour's drive from
Newark Airport in the foothills of the Pocono Mountain Region.

In accordance with IEEE Workshop rules, this is much more informal than
a major conference.  This means that no written document is required,
no cameras are allowed, and the presenters cannot be recorded.  These
rules are intended to encourage an "off the record" technical
interchange that should be a learning experience for all involved.
There are no concurrent sessions so every attendee can see every
presentation.

Presentations are requested for the following five sessions:
SESSION 1: Packaging Technology and Opportunities for Innovation
SESSION 2: Present & Future Client and Small Server Systems
SESSION 3: Networks and Communications Systems
This session is related to telephony's convergence with computers and
network systems.  POSSIBLE SUBJECTS: Network system architectures and
their packaging ramifications, LAN and WAN trends and packaging
requirements, hardware description and requirements for data storage
and switching nodes in global networks (backbones) such as Internet,
requirements for combining voice and data in a single network,
packaging for ATM systems, military networks, wireless networks
(cellular systems), fibreoptics networks, set-top boxes, etc.
Additional topics are welcome.
POSSIBLE OVERVIEW PAPER: Future trends for networks, the need to
handle voice and data simultaneously, multimedia requirements (e.g.,
video on demand), bandwidth needs and their implied impact upon
packaging, etc.
SESSION 4: Panel Discussion - Future of the Packaging Business
SESSION 5: Large Server and Parallel Processor Systems

The session chairs and workshop committee include experts from
Alcatel, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi,
IBM, Intel, Interconnection Decision Consulting, Silicon Graphics,
Toshiba, and Unisys.
For more information please contact:
     Bryan Douglas, Applications and Technology Group
     Alcatel Network Systems
     825 Security Row, Mail Stop 406-246
     Richardson, TX  75081
     tel +1 214 996 5945
     fax +1 214 996 6867
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