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;login: The USENIX Association Toronto Meeting The Summer, 1983, technical meetings of the USENIX Association and the Software Tools Users Group will be held July 12— >15 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the Harbour Castle Hilton Hotel. The host of the meeting will be Human Computing Resources Corporation. The local arrangements chairperson is Suzanne MacNary. Local arrangements are being handled by Rogal America. The techn- ical program chairperson for USENIX is Michael Tilson of HCR. A pre-registration jacket and other information on the meeting will be mailed in March. Further information on the meeting may be obtained from: Rogal America 72 Langley Road Newton Centre, MA 02159 (617) 965-1000 First Call for Papers for USENIX for Toronto The Toronto meeting will feature both a conference and an exhibition devoted to the topics of interest to the UNIX community. Presentations are invited in all areas of the UNIX system. UNIX Application This area includes graphics, data base systems, office automation, word processing, and other applications. UNIX Systems This area includes the implementation of network and distributed systems for porting of UNIX to new computer systems and system management and performance. UNIX Programming Tools This area includes utility programs, programming environments and new progr amming languages and implementation. The UNIX World This area includes standards, analysis of commercial trends, and other related topics. Talks are expected to be primarily technical in nature. Talks describing new products are encouraged. However, such descriptions must focus on genuine technical issues. Authors must describe new and interesting work. Talks presented at previous meetings will be rejected even if re- titled or repackaged. Selection of items will be based on the submission of abstracts. Abstracts must contain sufficient detail to allow the program committee to determine the suitability of a presentation, but should not exceed 1,000 words. Abstracts must contain the following information: Title Name of author Institution or company Mailing address Phone number (and network address if available) Audio-visual requirements Abstracts must be submitted by 18 April 1983. The program committee will notify authors of acceptance by 1 June 1983. Abstracts should be submitted to the program chairman: Michael Tilson Human Computing Resources Corp. 10 St. Mary Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M4Y 1P9 4 March 1983 Volume 8, Number 1