Location

    The Aspen Institute
    Aspen Meadows, Aspen, Colorado
    May 31 - June 3, 1998

The Fourth Annual Workshop on
Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems
FDIS: Aspen '98

Previous
Workshops

Introduction

    FDIS: Apsen '98 was held May 31 - June 3, 1998 at the Aspen Meadows Conference Center at the Aspen Institute in Aspen CO. As with previous summits, 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. The program was divided into long invited presentations (30 minutes with 15 minutes Q&A), short presentations, both contributed and invited (15 minutes with 10 minutes Q&A), and prepared comments by attendees. Many of the presentations are accessible online from this page in Power Point 4.0 format or in HTML. Overall, 42 people participated this year.

    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 "road-maps" based on our guesses about where technology is going now and in the five to ten year future, using these road-maps to identify critical areas in which research is needed to stay on track. In the summit 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.

Conference
Administration

    Denise Prull
    451 North Sycamore
    Monticello, IA 52310

    Email: ccaprull@ia.net
    Phone: (319) 465-5585
    Fax: (319) 465-6709

Program & Presentations

    Sunday, May 31, 1998 6:00 pm
      Reception

    Monday, June 1 8:00 am
    Moderator: Mike Schwartz    		 Monday, June 1 7:30 pm
    Moderator: Jim Pitkow
    The Freeware software model Brian Behlendorf
    Apache & Organic Online

    Datamining the Internet PPT

    Brewster Kahle
    Alexa

    Searching the Web PPT CiteSeer Paper Inquirus Paper

    Steve Lawrence
    NEC Research Institute

    Video to the Classroom PPT

    Dan Huttenlocker
    Cornell University

    Technical Education over the Internet PPT

    Josh Alspector
    University of Colorado

    Hybrid Service PPT

    J-P Hubaux
    EPFL/ICA, Switzerland

    		 The WebTV User Community Laura Buddine
    Iacta

    Internet congestion: How rational are users?

    Bernardo Huberman
    Xerox PARC

    PBS plans for digital TV and data broadcast PPT Butler PPT Boroughs

    Jerry Butler
    PBS Engineer     David Boroughs
    PBS National Datacast
    Tuesday, June 2 8:00 am
    Moderator: Mitra    		 Tuesday, June 2 7:30 pm
    Moderator: Bob Flynn
    Telecomm Economics in 2000-2010 Simon Forge
    Cambridge Strategic Management Group

    Will the Web Evolve to Subsume the Broadcast Model? PPT

    Mike Schwartz
    @Home

    Commercial Transaction Security: What Works PPT

    Dave Maher
    ATT

    		 Intellectual Property as a Weapon in the US (Bruce Shriver)

    Will content protection by watermarking become a standard? PPT

    Cliff Reader
    Cagent

    Data Broadcast Services over Digital TV PPT

    Aninda Dasgupta
    Philips Research

    Standards for synchronizing mobile data HTML

    Maria Butrico
    IBM

    Efficient Homogeneous Access to Heterogeneous Database PPT

    Farimehr Shlake
    OpenDM, Siemens-Nixdorf
    Wednesday, June 3 8:00 am
    Moderator: Abbas Ourmazd
    Wireless data: WLAN, GSM and UMTS PPT Ran Hong Yan
    Lucent

    Low Cost ATM Technology and Wireless Adhoc Network PPT

    Rolf Kraemer
    Phillips Research

    Phone Web's PML (Phone-HTML) PPT

    Chris Ramming
    ATT

    Access Architecture and Tradeoffs PPT

    Fred Kemmerer
    Lucent

    Business contrasts between HFC and DSL PPT

    Naval Ravikant
    @Home

Workshop Attendance

    Alspector, Josh
    University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
    Department ECE
    Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
    josh@eas.uccs.edu    		 Hubaux, Jean-Pierre
    EPFL / ICA, Switzerland
    Computer Science
    Lausanne
    Switzerland 1015
    jean-pierre.hubaux@epfl.ch    		 Page, Howard G.
    Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories
    One Adrian Ct.
    Burlingame, CA 94010
    hpage@sprintlabs.com
    Behlendorf, Brian
    Apache & Organic Online
    CTO
    510 3rd Street, #540
    San Francisco, CA 94107
    brian@apache.org    		 Huberman, Bernardo
    Xerox PARC
    Information Systems and Technology Laboratory
    3333 Coyote Hill Rd.
    Palo Alto, CA 94304
    Huberman@parc.xerox.com    		 Pavel, Misha
    AT&T Labs
    75 Willow Road
    Menlo Park, CA 94025
    pavel@att.com
    Boroughs, David
    PBS National Datacast
    1320 Braddock Place
    Alexandria, VA 22314
    dboroughs@pbs.org    		 Huttenlocher, Dan
    Cornell University
    Computer Science
    4130 Upson Hall
    Ithaca, NY 14853
    dph@cs.cornell.edu    		 Pinkerton, Brian
    Excite, Inc.
    555 Broadway
    Redwood City, CA 94063
    bpinkerton@webcrawler.com
    Buddine, Laura
    IACTA
    10810 Paramount Blvd.
    Suite 201
    Downey, CA 90241
    laura@iacta.com    		 Jackel, Larry
    AT&T Labs
    100 Schultz Dr.
    ATT Labs 3-140
    Red Bank, NJ 07701
    ldj@research.att.com    		 Pitkow, Jim
    Xerox PARC
    3333 Cyotoe Hill Road
    Palo Alto, CA 94034
    pitkow@parc.xerox.com
    Butler, Jerry
    PBS
    1330 Braddock Pl.
    Alexandria, VA 22314
    jbutler@pbs.org    		 Kahle, Brewster
    Alexa Internet
    Bldg 116 Sheridan and Ord, Box 29141
    San Francisco, CA 98122
    brewster@alexandria.alexa.com    		 Ramacher, Ulrich
    Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
    Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
    Munich
    Germany D-81730
    ulrich.ramacher@mchp.siemens.de
    Butrico, Maria
    IBM TJ Watson Research Center
    P. O. Box 218
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
    butrico@watson.ibm.com    		 Kemmerer, Fred
    Lucent
    Room 2B-312
    67 Whippany Road
    Whippany, NJ 07981
    fkemmerer@lucent.com    		 Ramming, Chris
    AT&T
    75 Willow Road
    Menlo Park, CA 94025
    jcr@research.att.com
    Capek, Peter G.
    IBM Research
    P. O. Box 218
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
    capek@us.ibm.com    		 Kirkpatrick, Scott
    IBM
    Route 134
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
    kirk@watson.ibm.com    		 Ravikant, Naval
    @Home Network
    425 Broadway
    Redwood City, CA 94063
    naval@home.net
    Dasgupta, Aninda
    Philips Research
    345 Scarborough Rd.
    Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
    add@philabs.research.philips.com    		 Kocheisen, Michael
    AT&T Labs Research
    100 Schultz Dr.
    Rm 3-146
    Red Bank, NJ 07740
    mkoch@research.att.com    		 Reader, Cliff
    Reader LLC
    POB 2666
    Saratoga, CA 95070
    cliff@reader.com
    David, Klaus
    DeTeMobil / IHP
    Von-Humboldt-Str. 15
    Muenster, Nordrhein-Westfalen
    Germany 48159
    laus.david@t-mobil.de    		 Kraemer, Rolf
    Philips Research
    Weisshausstrasse 2
    Aachen
    Germany D-52066
    kraemer@pfa.research.philips.com    		 Schirling, Peter
    IBM Corp
    River Road
    MS 863N
    Essex Jct, VT 05452
    schirlin@us.ibm.com
    Denker, John
    AT&T Laboratories
    360 Park Avenue
    Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
    jsd@research.att.com    		 Lawrence, Steve
    NEC Research Institute
    4 Independence Way
    Princeton, NJ 08540
    lawrence@research.nj.nec.com    		 Schlake, Fari
    Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Fuerstenallee 11
    Paderborn
    Germany D-33094
    Flynn, Bob
    Polytechnic University
    36 Saw Mill River Road
    Hawthorne, NY 11432
    flynn@west.poly.edu    		 Maher, David P.
    AT&T Labs
    180 Park Avenue
    Room B245
    Florham Park, NJ 07932
    dpm@research.att.com    		 Schryer, Norm
    AT&T Laboratories Research
    180 Park Avenue
    Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
    nls@research.att.com
    Forge, Simon
    Cambridge Strategic Management Group    		 Mitra
    Mitra Consulting
    mitra@earth.path.net    		 Schwartz, Michael
    @Home Network
    425 Broadway St.
    Redwood City, CA 94063
    schwartz@corp.home.net
    Harrison, Colin
    IBM Research
    P. O. Box 704
    Yorktown Heights, NY 01598
    cgh@watson.ibm.com    		 Morar, John
    IBM Research
    Anti Virus Systems & Technology
    30 Saw Mill River Road
    P. O. Box 704
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
    morar@us.ibm.com    		 White, Steve
    IBM Research
    30 Saw Mill River Road, H2-B64
    Hawthrone, NY 10532
    srwhite@us.ibm.com
    Howard, Rich
    Lucent Technologies
    600-700 Mountain Avenue
    Room 1C-426
    Murray Hill, NJ 07974
    reh@lucent.com    		 Ourmazd, Abbas
    IHP
    Walter-Korsing-Str. 2
    Frankurt (Oder), Brandenburg
    Germany D-15230
    ourmazd@ihp-ffo.de    		 Yan, Ran-Hong
    Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
    101 Crawford Corner Road
    Room C-402
    Holmdel, NJ 07733
    rhy@lucent.com

Workshop Site & Accommodations

    The workshop is held at Aspen Meadows (the conference center of the Aspen Institute), and rooms are offered at $87/night. To reserve a room, call 1-800-452-4240 (or 1-970-925-4240) (fax - 1-970-925-7790). Aspen Central Reservations has offered consolidator air fare deals at attractive prices in the past. Try them at 1-800-26ASPEN, or 1-970-920-7127 (fax 1-970-925-9008).

    The conference room is equipped to handle projection of laptop screen-based presentations, has a T1 Internet connection, in- house PC, and of course the standard overhead projector.

Organizing Committee

    Josh Alspector Abbas Ourmazd John Denker Bob Flynn
    Univ of Colorado IHP AT&T Polytechnic Univ
    Rich Howard Scott Kirkpatrick Larry Jackel Jim Pitkow
    Lucent IBM AT&T Xerox PARC
    Mike Schwartz Rod Goodman Brewster Kahle Mitra
    @Home Caltech Alexa Mitra Consulting