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                   PARCON'94, Program and Registration
   Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing
                    New York City, October 28, 1994
Dedicated to 35 years of Michael O. Rabin's contributions to Computing

 9:30   "Welcome and Opening Remarks", Richard J. Cole, Department of 
        Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
 9:45   "Convergence Architectures: Efficient Support for Shared Memory
        and Message Passing", John L. Hennessy, Departments of Computer
        Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
 10:30  Coffee Break
 11:00  "Modeling Parallel Communication", Richard M. Karp, 
        International Computer Science Institute and University of 
        California at Berkeley
 11:45  "Optimization of Communication in High Performance Fortran 
        Compilers", Ken Kennedy, Center for Research on Parallel 
        Computation, and Department of Computer Science Rice University
 12:30  Break
  2:15  "The BSP Approach to Transportable Parallel Software", Leslie 
        G. Valiant, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
  3:00  "Communication Bottleneck in Parallel Systems: Myth, Hardware 
        Problem, or Software Problem", Panel discussion led by 
        Marc Snir, IBM Research Division. Panelists: David Culler, 
        University of California at Berkeley; Tom Knight, Massachusetts
        Institute of Technology; Tom Lawrence, Rome Laboratory; Yechiam
        Yemini, Columbia University
  4:30  Reception
SPONSORS:The symposium is sponsored by the Army Research Office, the
National Science Foundation, the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences and the Academic Computing Facility of New York University
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:  Zvi M. Kedem and Krishna V. Palem Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences.
REGISTRATION by October 14 is required, there is no registration fee.
Available seating will be allotted in the order of receipt of 
registration forms. To register, contact parcon@cs.nyu.edu. 
The symposium will be held in the Great Hall, Dagostino Hall, New York 
University, 108 West 3rd Street, New York City.