From NA-Request@Score.Stanford.EDU Fri Mar 13 08:38:24 1987 Received: from Score.Stanford.EDU (score.stanford.edu.ARPA) by anl-mcs.ARPA (4.12/4.9) id AA20367; Fri, 13 Mar 87 08:29:50 cst Message-Id: <8703131429.AA20367@anl-mcs.ARPA> Date: Thu 12 Mar 87 22:59:28 PST Subject: NA Digest V87 #16 From: NA Digest Errors-To: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU Maint-Path: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: NA.Distribution.List:; Reply-To: NA@Score.Stanford.edu Status: R NA Digest Thursday, March 12, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 16 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: A new floating-point standard Reunion/Symposium March 26-28 Announcement for NA-net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 87 11:15:15 cst From: cody@anl-mcs.ARPA (Jim Cody) To: na.dis@su-score.arpa Subject: A new floating-point standard As of 11:32 EST this morning, 3/12/87, P854, the draft Radix-Independent Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic, is an official IEEE standard. This culminates an effort that began in 1977 with the first work on what is now ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985, the standard for binary floating-point arithmetic. ------------------------------ Mail-From: GOLUB created at 12-Mar-87 14:20:19 Mail-From: TAJNAI created at 12-Mar-87 14:13:24 Date: Thu 12 Mar 87 14:13:24-PST From: Carolyn Tajnai Subject: Reunion/Symposium March 26-28 To: csd-list@Score.Stanford.EDU ReSent-Date: Thu 12 Mar 87 14:20:18-PST ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub ReSent-To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU Computer Science at Stanford The Impact of the First Ten Years 1987 March 26-28 Thursday, March 26 5:30 to 8:00 reception at Faculty Club Red and Gold Lounges (no-host bar) Friday, March 27 7:30 a.m. reg & continental brk Terman Bldg Loobby 8:30 Welcome - Jim Gibbons Terman Aud 8:40 symposium Intro - John Levy 8:50 Computer Science ADvisory Com. - Cuthbert Hurd 9:00 Origins of CS at Stanfrod - Bill Miller 9:35 Impact of Stanford CS on Academia and Industry Tom Bredt 10:10 coffee break 10:40 resources for computing at Stanford Ed Feigenbaum 11:15 CS program at Stanford Nils Nilsson 11:50 lunch at Tresidder 1:20 Theoretical Foundations: Then and Now - Don Knuth 1:55 Numerical Analysis: Then and Now - Gene Golub 2:30 Systems and Languages: Then and Now - Forest Baskett 3:05 coffee break 3:35 AI: then and now - John McCarthy 4:10 Student Perspectives: Then and Now panel discussion (current and former students) 4:45 closing presentations 5:00 end of symposium session 5:30 cocktails (cash bar) faculty club 6:30 banquet faculty club (prime rib, salmon, chicken, veggie dish - buffet) 7:30 Keynote address: "Has Computer Science Instruction Helped the Development of High Quality Software?" Edsger W. Dijkstra, Professor, CSD, UT Austin 8:30 What's Happening: open microphone CS Alumni - 5 minutes per speaker 11:30 end of banquet session Saturday, March 28 10:00 Tours of various facilities -- meet at Palm Drive Circle 12:00 picnic lunch -- Memorial Court at Inner Quad COST: full conference $110 ($75 for current faculty & Staff - $55 for current students) (includes Thursday reception, full day Friday symposium [cont. brk., coffee breaks and lunch,] banquet, Sat. picnic, t-shirt, proceedings). banquet only $30 picnic only 9 proceedings only 20 t-shirt only (s, m, l, xl) $8 For registration: contact John Levy (Levy@sushi) or call 415/327-4296 Computer Structures, 580 College Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306 The Computer Science Department is sponsoring the reunion/symposium, but not underwriting it. IF there is a profit, it will be turned over to the department. If there is a deficit (heaven help us). Committee: General Chairman John Levy Program Tod Bredt & Bill White Local Arrangements Linda Lorenzetti & Carolyn Tajnai Registration Skip Stritter & John Levy Archiving arrangements John Shoch (includes videotaping) picnic arrangements Dani Beaudry Student coordinator Haym Hirsh ------------------------------ Mail-From: GOLUB created at 12-Mar-87 22:57:26 From: scott%PSUVAX1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 12 Mar 87 23:12:17 est To: golub@su-score.arpa Subject: Announcement for NA-net ReSent-Date: Thu 12 Mar 87 22:57:25-PST ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub ReSent-To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU S C I E N T I F I C C O M P U T A T I O N Special Sessions at The 833rd Meeting of the American Mathematical Society Kent State University -- Student Union Friday, April 3, 1987 Special Session on Scientific Computation, I Room 313 9:00- 9:30 Jesse Barlow 833-65- 22 Dept. of Computer Science Pennsylvania State Univ. 9:40-10:10 Max Gunzburger 833-65-117 Dept. of Mathematics Carnegie-Mellon Univ. 10:20-10:50 Bill Hager 833-65- 46 Dept. of Mathematics Pennsylvania State Univ. Invited Hour Address Kiva Auditorium 11:00-12:00 Ridgway Scott 833-65- 46 Dept's of Computer Science and Mathematics Pennsylvania State Univ. Special Session on Scientific Computation, II Room 313 3:00- 3:30 Janet Petersen 833-65-130 Computer Research and Applications Los Alamos National Laboratory 3:40- 4:10 George Majda 833-65- 76 Dept. of Mathematics Ohio State Univ. 4:20- 4:50 Ricardo Nochetto 833-65- 58 Inst. for Math. & Applic. Univ. of Minnesota 5:00- 5:30 Nic Nicolaides 833-65-125 Dept. of Mathematics Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Saturday, April 4, 1987 Special Session on Scientific Computation, III Room 313 9:00- 9:30 Werner Rheinboldt 833-65- 63 Dept. of Mathematics Univ. of Pittsburgh 9:40-10:10 Bram van Leer 833-65- 36 Dept. of Aero.Eng. Univ. of Michigan 10:20-10:50 Ed Overman 833-65- 60 Dept. of Mathematics Ohio State Univ. For further information, see the January and February issues of the NOTICES of the American Mathematical Society ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------