The Third Annual Workshop on Frontiers
in Distributed Information Systems
FDIS '97
The Aspen Institute
Aspen Meadows, Aspen, Colorado
June 1 - June 4, 1997
The Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems workshop was held June 1 - June 4, 1997 at a new location, the Aspen Meadows Conference Center at the Aspen Institute in Aspen CO. The focus was on rapidly changing possibilities in the backbone and transport layers of the world's digital networks, and on the new services, new clients, and new communities that are coming into being as a result of their explosive growth. Attendance (see list below) was limited to less than 50 participants, and the program included short presentations by attendees.
Because of the explosion in computing and communication technology, many new products and services are now possible. However, many of the proposed visions for these new products and services are mutually inconsistent and some still have significant technical and social obstacles. Technical elegance will often not be the principal factor in determining success.
Many of us, in our own organizations, prepare "roadmaps" based on our guesses about where technology is going now and in the five to ten year future, using these roadmaps to identify critical areas in which research is needed to stay on track. In the workshop we will identify and critically examine such issues and opportunities in distributed information systems. The goal is to consider them with more vision and greater technical accuracy than we each bring to the discussion individually.
Schedule
6:00 pm Reception
8:00 am High Bandwidth Access Moderator: Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM Wireless Local Loop, Paul Henry, ATT Labs High Speed Fiber Access and services, Nick Frigo, ATT Labs The Mega-Proxy Server, Dan Aronson, AOL Online Presentation Viruses, and the 5 Ages of their Evolution, Steve White, IBM Attendee Presentations: Howard Page, Sprint Chuanyi Ji, RPI Lunch Afternoon Free 7:30 pm The Providers Moderator: Larry Jackel, ATT Internet in China (ChinaByte), Hyojong Kim, DomainAsia Starting Up as an ISP, Homayoon Beigi, Yorktown Heights, NY Attendee presentations: Larry Jackel, ATT Labs Jocelyn Cloutier, ATT Peter Danzig, Network Appliance Brewster Kahle, Alexa Internet
8:00 am The Middle Layer Moderator: John Denker, ATT MPEG4 -- object oriented audio and video, Cliff Reader, Samsung Online Presentation "The Next Big Thing", Colin Harrison, IBM Online Presentation Attendee Presentation: John Denker, ATT Electronic Junk Mail, Jay levitt, AOL Lunch Afternoon Free 7:30 pm User Communities Moderator: Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Scalable Internet Service, Mike Schwartz, @Home network Multi User Interaction in VRML2.0, Mitra, Mitra Internet Consulting Internet Go-Server and its community, Dave Marvit, Alpha World Atomicity in E-Commerce, Doug Tygar, CMU Attendee Presentation: Norm Shryer, ATT Labs
8:00 am New Services Moderator: Colin Harrison, IBM vBNS, Backbone Capacity Enhancements, Rick Wilder, MCI Issues in Privacy and Monitoring, Jim Pitkow, Xerox PARC Online Presentation Collaborative Filtering, PHOAK, Loren Terveen, ATT Intelligent Agents and Open Sesame, Alper Caglayan, Charles River Analytics Attendee Presentations: Josh Alspector, University Colorado Ron Ilgen, MCI Lunch Adjourn
Workshop Site, Accommodations, & Application Information
The workshop was held at the Aspen Meadows Conference Center of the Aspen Institute in Aspen Colorado. Rooms could be booked at the FDIS conference rate of $85/night, single or double occupancy, at 1-800-452-4240.
Flights to Aspen can be quite inexpensive if booked ahead. Aspen Central reservations (ACR) has contracted rates for round trips between major points and Aspen. As of April 14, examples of their rates for non-refundable round trips (June 1-4, same price for Saturday as for Sunday arrivals) were:
- EWR-ASE-EWR $449.50
- LGA-ASE-LGA $449.50
- SFO-ASE-SFO $435.00
The conference room was equipped to handle projection of VGA screen-based presentations, had a T1 Internet connection, in- house PC, and of course the standard overhead projector.
Organizing Committee
| Josh Alspector | Gene Ball | John Denker | Bob Flynn |
| Univ of Colorado | Microsoft | AT&T | Polytechnic Univ |
| Rich Howard | Scott Kirkpatrick | Larry Jackel | Jim Pitkow |
| Lucent | IBM | AT&T | Xerox PARC |
| Eric Sumner | Rod Goodman | Brewster Kahle |
| Lucent | Caltech | Internet Archives |
Attendees
|
Josh Alspector |
Dan Aronson |
|
Homayoon Beigi |
Alper Caglayan |
|
Calton Pu |
Jocelyn Cloutier |
|
Peter Danzig |
John Denker |
|
Nick Frigo |
Paul Fuoss |
|
Rod Goodman |
Colin Harrison |
|
Paul Henry |
Ron Ilgen |
|
Larry Jackel |
Chuanyi Ji |
|
Brewster Kahle |
Hyojong Kim |
|
Scott Kirkpatrick |
Jay Levitt |
|
Mitra |
Abbas Ourmazd |
|
Howard G. Page |
Jim Pitkow |
|
Cliff Reader |
Franco Savadkouhi |
|
Norm Schryer |
Mike Schwartz |
|
Loren Terveen |
Doug Tygar |
|
Steve R. White |
Andreas Weigend |
|
Winfried Wilcke |
Rick Wilder |
Conference Administration
Sandi von PierATT Laboratories
Room 4G-315A
Holmdel NJ, 07733
1-908-949-2783
Email: Sandi@research.att.com