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FW: Deadline extension
by Augusto Casaca 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: Ramon Puigjaner [mailto:putxi@uib.es] Sent: domingo, 7 de Abril de 2002 17:37 To: Miquela Vanrell; Abdelmalek Benzekri; Augusto Casaca; Bartomeu Serra; Benjamin Baran; Christophe Diot; Farouk Kamoun; Guy Pujolle; Jacques Labetoulle; Javier Diaz; Jose Piquer; Julio Escobar; Otto Spaniol; Yutaka Takahashi; Dipak Khakhar; Koos Koen; Jose Neuman de Souza; Craig Partridge; Lyman Chapin; Raouf Boutaba; Luis Olsina Santos; Patricia Corbo; Yezid Donoso; Daniela Rosu; Liane Tarouco; Germinal Isern; Carlos Giorgetti; Cecilia Tuwjasz; Pilar Suter; Jorge Clot; Javier Ouret Subject: Deadline extension Dear friends, After receiving your comments and after the meeting of the IFIP-TC6 it has been decided to postpone the call for papers of the Latin America Netwroking Conference until next April 28. Attached you will find the call for papers in .doc, .pdf, and .txt formats. Please try to promote the conference, by broadcasting this announcement, by estimulating the submission of papers, by proposing tutorials and in any other way you consider appropriate. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================== Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica +34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5 Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es Spain ==========================================================================

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tutorials
by Ramon Puigjaner 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

Dear friends, Several of you have shown your interest in giving some tutorial either in the Latin America Networking Conference or in the CLEI conference. The first one will be held on September 7-11 in Santa Fe (Argentina) and the second one on November 25-29 in Montenvideo (Uruguay). Please confirm me your interest in one or both events and the topic of your tutorial (a brief outline and its objectives) in order to contact the organisers and to decide the selected ones. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================== Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica +34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5 Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es Spain ==========================================================================

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Latin America Conference
by Ramon Puigjaner 07 Apr '02

07 Apr '02

Dear friends, As you know, after the today meeting of the IFIP-TC6 it has been decided to postpone the call for papers of the Latin America Netwroking Conference until next April 28. Attached you will find the call for papers in .doc, .pdf, and .txt formats. Please try to promote the conference, by broadcasting this announcement, by estimulating the submission of papers, by proposing tutorials and in any other way you consider appropriate. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================== Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Phone: +34-971173288 Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica +34-971173401 Carretera de Valldemossa km 7.5 Fax: +34-971173003 07071 PALMA e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es Spain ========================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 28 Latin America Networking Conference 2002 Toward the Internet Next Generation IFIP - TC6 and ACM _ SIGCOMM Santa Fe, Argentina Facultad Regional de Santa Fe, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional September 9 - 11, 2002 http://www.uib.es/congres/lanc2002 Sponsored by IFIP TC6 and ACM SIGCOMM Organized by SADIO, Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativa Organizing Committee Carlos Giorgetti, U. Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Santa Fe (AR) Javier Ouret, Pontificia U. Católica Argentina (AR) Programme committee chair Ramon Puigjaner, U. de les Illes Balears (ES) Programme committee members Benjamín Barán, U. Nacional de Asunción (PY) Abdelmalek Benzekri, U. Paul Sabatier (FR) Raouf Boutaba, U. Waterloo (CA) Augusto Casaca, INESC (PT) Lyman Chapin, Nexthop (US) Patricia Corbo, UORT (UY) Javier Díaz, U. Nacional de La Plata (AR) Christophe Diot, Sprint (US) Yesid Donoso, U. del Norte (CO) Julio Escobar, Centauri Consultoría Tecnológica (PA) Günter Haring, Wien U. (AT) Germinal Isern, U. Central de Venezuela (VE) Farouk Kamoun, ENSI (TU) Koos Koen, U. Wittwatersrand (ZA) Dipak Khakhar, Lund U. (SE) Jacques Labetoulle, IAAI (FR) Jose Neuman de Sousa, U. Federal de Ceara (BR) Luis Olsina, U. Nacional de La Pampa (AR) Craig Partirdge, BBN (US) José M. Piquer, U. de Chile (CL) Guy Pujolle, LIP6 (FR) Daniela Rosu, IBM (US) Bartomeu Serra, U. de les Illes Balears (ES) Otto Spaniol, RWTH (DE) Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto U. (JP) Liane Tarouco, U. Federal de Rio Grande do Sur (BR) Publicity Committee Chair Bartomeu Serra, U. de les Illes Balears (ES) Tomeu.Serra(a)uib.es Latin America Networking 2002 Conference Latin America Networking 2002 Conference will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia from everywhere in the world but especially from the Latin America countries to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in networking mainly oriented to solve the Latin America networking problems. Topics They include but are not restricted to: - Access Networks - Active Networks - Control and Optimisation of Communication Systems - High Performance Networking and Protocols - Internet Services and Applications - Intelligent Networks - Internet/Intranet - LAN, WAN Global Network Interconnection - Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems - Multicast - Network Design Problems in Gigabit - Network Operations and Management - Network Reliability, Availability and Survivability - Networks for Sparse Populations - Object Orientation - Optical Communications - Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems - Photonic Networks - Quality of Service - Routing Design - Satellite and Space Communications - Service Provider Interworking - Services for Sparse Populations - Signalling - Switching and Routing - Switching Design - Tariffying - Terabit Networks - Terrestrial Radio Systems - Traffic and Congestion Control - Traffic Models and Measurements - Video Coding and Distribution - Wireless Networks - Wireless and Mobile Communications Papers should cover not only general network solutions but also solutions oriented to the specific network problems of this region of the world. KEY DATES * April 28, 2002 Deadline for submitting tutorial proposals * April 28, 2002 Deadline for submitting papers * June 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance of papers * July 15, 2002 Papers received in camera ready form * September 7-8, 2002 Tutorials * September 9-11, 2002 Latin American Networking 2002 Conference SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Paper can be submitted by email to lanc2002(a)uib.es or upload electronically to the web site of the conference: http://www.uib.es/congres/lanc2002. Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. Authors must state that their paper have neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. Full papers should: - be no longer than 15 single spaced pages, including tables, diagrams and pictures using a font size of 12 points or larger, or - follow the styles shown at the conference URL: http://www.uib.es/congres/lanc2002. The first page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be distributed to the attendees at the conference. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. TUTORIALS We solicit proposals for half/full day tutorial courses outlining the subject area, describing level, goal and orientation and a short biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be submitted by email to the chairman of the Programme Committee Ramon Puigjamer Email: putxi(a)uib.es MINI CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS. Proposals should be sent to the chairman of the Program Committee (putxi(a)uib.es) with indication of the aims, scope, and call for papers of the event and a short CV of the organizer(s) before March 1, 2002. Specific call for papers will be provided. Till now two special sessions have been suggested: - Poster session for student works coming from Latin American Universities - On-going networking research session

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FW: [IFIP] New IFIP-UNESCO Curriculum published
by Augusto Casaca 04 Apr '02

04 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 4 de Abril de 2002 09:47 To: all Subject: [IFIP] New IFIP-UNESCO Curriculum published To: IFIP GA and IFIP Member societies TC 3 management Dear All, Yesterday, we received 2 complimentary copies of the recently published "Elementary Curriculum for Teacher Training" and thought our GA reps and Member societies would be interested to hear about this new IFIP-UNESCO [Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Moscow] product. The curriculum is produced by an IFIP working party. Members of the Editorial working group are Anton Knierziger (AT), Sindre Rosvik (NO) and Erling Schmidt (DK) with contributions from Mike Aston (UK), Boyka Gradinarova (BG), Hajime Ohiwa (JP), Raul Wazlaweich (BR) and Honbo Zhang (CN). The Drawings are by Nina Beier and were originally made for the teaching material of the Pedagogical ICT Driving License in Denmark. This is a state-of-the-art publication which provides important guidelines for successful treks across the immense variety of options that ICTs provide to teacher training. The main point the authors underscore is that Pedagogy, not Technology, should be in the forefront when implementing ICTs in Education. IFIP's contribution was coordinated by the management of Technical Committee 3 on Education. The publication is under UNESCO copyright - ISBN 5-902116-02-3. The contents and further details are available at http://www.iite.ru/iite/publications/publications?id=38 The Delivery Co. -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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Email address list
by Otto Spaniol 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

Dear delegates, please find below the actual email address list of TC6 delegates. I've marked by (*) the addresses who didn't react to the address validity til now and from whom (according to my knowledge) we didn't receive a message in 2002. Would those delegates please react to this email in order that we know whether their address is correct? Best regards Otto +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Email exploder <ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de>: aagesen(a)item.ntnu.no Adam.Grzech(a)ists.pwr.wroc.pl Andre.Danthine(a)ulg.ac.be aruni(a)us.ibm.com Augusto.Casaca(a)inesc.pt boyanov(a)acad.bg dipak.khakhar(a)ics.lu.se elgmason(a)ntu.edu.sg frk.kamoun(a)planet.tn giancarlo.prati(a)cnit.it (*) Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be Guy.Pujolle(a)lip6.fr Harmen.R.van-As(a)tuwien.ac.at (*) harry.dutton(a)ieee.org hdy(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Herbert.Leitold(a)iaik.at hp(a)csc.ncsu.edu hrudin(a)smile.ch jdiaz(a)unlp.edu.ar (*) Karol.Fabian(a)sk.ibm.com koos(a)knowinter.com lyman(a)nexthop.com mahaniok(a)bas-net.by (*) naamany(a)squ.edu.om neuman(a)ufc.br nfra(a)hpe25.inima.al (*) niemegee(a)cs.utwente.nl (*) Olli.Martikainen(a)necsom.com putxi(a)uib.es radfordp(a)logica.com rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Reinhard.Posch(a)iaik.tu-graz.ac.at saito(a)jp.toyota-itc.com Samir.Tohme(a)enst.fr sarolta.dibuz(a)eth.ericsson.se sheila(a)suria.fke.utm.my (*) slavik(a)testcom.cz spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de sunil.dutt(a)icmg.nu (*) svlad(a)sci.am (*) takahashi(a)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp thodoros(a)aueb.gr (*) tschammer(a)fokus.gmd.de vbi(a)com.dtu.dk veikko.hara(a)sonera.com vw(a)cs.ait.ac.th whileyr(a)mweb.co.zw

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FW: [WWW2002-ANNOUNCE:9] WWW2002 in Hawaii -- Hotel Deadline Approaching!
by Augusto Casaca 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-www2002-announce(a)hawaii.edu [mailto:owner-www2002-announce@hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of WWW2002 Announcements Sent: quarta-feira, 3 de Abril de 2002 07:00 To: WWW2002-ANNOUNCE mailing list Subject: [WWW2002-ANNOUNCE:9] WWW2002 in Hawaii -- Hotel Deadline Approaching! WWW2002: Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference 7-11 May 2002 Honolulu, Hawaii USA (On Beautiful Waikiki Beach) http://www2002.org Don't delay on your hotel reservations, as the deadline for reserving rooms at the conference rate is Friday, 5 April -- just a few days away! Information about accomodations is conveniently available at: http://www2002.org/hotel.html The WWW2002 program schedule is available online so you can see which papers are when and start planning best use of your days in Hawaii. It will continue to be refined at: http://www2002.org/program.html If you are interested in sharing your latest breakthrough at Developers Day you can ask the track chairs or Developers Day co-chairs about opportunities. There's more information at: http://www2002.org/devday.html We have room for more Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions. Check out the selection so far or propose your own at: http://www2002.org/bofs.html And there are still sponsorship opportunities. Just let us know of your interests via email to sponsors(a)www2002.org or check http://www2002.org/sponsorship.html We look forward to seeing you at the eleventh and best-ever international WWW conference! Aloha, The WWW2002 Team ************************************************************************** The WWW2002-Announce mailing list is used to notify all interested individuals or groups of the latest information on the upcoming Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2002, formerly referred to as WWW11. This email list will be used to send you updates and periodic reminders about the WWW2002 conference that will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on 7-11 May 2002. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message to: removal(a)www2002.org and type the following into the body of your message: UNSUBSCRIBE WWW2002-ANNOUNCE This is an announcements-only email list. Messages can only posted by the list administrator. Any questions or comments about the conference or this list can be sent to info(a)www2002.org **************************************************************************

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FW: [Ifip_nm] DSOM 2002 CFP
by Augusto Casaca 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: ifip_nm-admin(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:ifip_nm-admin@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca]On Behalf Of IFIP_NM ADMIN Sent: quarta-feira, 3 de Abril de 2002 01:57 To: ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Subject: [Ifip_nm] DSOM 2002 CFP ******************************************************************* ** DSOM 2002: CALL FOR PAPERS ** ******************************************************************* DSOM 2002: 13th IFIP International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management "Making e-commerce and e-business applications successful through management" 21-23 October 2002, Montreal, Canada Conference Website: http://www.dsom2002.org/ As e-commerce and e-business applications grow to be a prominent part of day-to-day business, management technologies that support them gain in importance. The 13th DSOM workshop will focus on the underlying technologies that are key to the success of e-commerce and e-business applications, assuring quality of service, security and trust, end-to-end service management and ubiquity. Authors are invited to submit research and experience papers as well as lessons learnt contributions on the following and related topics: * End-to-end service provisioning, modeling * End-to-end QoS management * Support for virtual enterprises and communities * Transaction management and monitoring * Inter-Domain management * Intelligent environments and smart assistants * Peer-to-peer technologies * Management issues in m-commerce * Ubiquitous computing models for e-commerce * Management architectures for e-commerce and e-business * Security architectures for e-commerce and e-business * Mobility management * Management of middleware and distributed object platforms * Supporting tools, protocols and architectures for e-commerce and e-business * Managing personalized services and interfaces * Adaptive services and applications * Trust models and management * Management of content delivery and distribution networks The workshop will be limited to approximately 100 participants and will follow a single-track program in order to allow for in-depth discussions and interaction among workshop participants. Paper submissions must represent original, unpublished research or experiences. Submissions of late-breaking advances and early results from ongoing research are encouraged. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to DSOM 2002. There will be formal proceedings of the Workshop in paper and possibly in electronic form. Authors are invited to submit papers (up to 12 single-spaced pages) in electronic PDF or Postscript format. Detailed instructions for submission will be available at the workshop website. Important Dates June 2, 2002 Full papers submitted June 30, 2002 Short/position papers submitted July 19, 2002 Notification of acceptance August 26, 2002 Camera-ready papers due October 21-23, 2002 Workshop Contacts For any questions concerning the technical program, contact one of the conference chairs: Metin Feridun Peter Kropf IBM Research University of Montreal Saumerstr. 4 Department of Computer Science and 8803 Rueschlikon Operations Research Switzerland C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7 Phone: +41 1 724 8649 Phone: +1 514 343-2446 Fax: +41 1 724 8953 Fax: +1 514 343 5834 Email: fer(a)zurich.ibm.com Email: kropf(a)iro.umontreal.ca Local Arrangements Committee For questions on local arrangements, please email: local_arrangements(a)dsom2002.org Gilbert Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada Theodor Crainic, University of Montreal, Canada Brigitte Jaumard, University of Montreal, Canada Technical Program Committee Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA Gilbert Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany Mark Burgess, University of Oslo, Norway Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Theodor Crainic, University of Montreal, Canada Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ Munich, Germany Olivier Festor, LORIA/INRIA, France Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM Research, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Gabriel Jakobson Associates, USA Brigitte Jaumard, University of Montreal, Canada Alexander Keller, IBM Research, USA Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Aprisma Management Technologies, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, AT&T Labs Research, USA George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Juergen Schoenwaelder, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Robert Weihmayer, Verizon E-Business, USA Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil _______________________________________________ IFIP_NM mailing list IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm

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FW: [ifip-tc6] PfHSN 2002: Early Registration Deadline April 7, 2002
by Augusto Casaca 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Georg Carle Sent: terca-feira, 2 de Abril de 2002 00:45 To: pfhsn2002_info Subject: [ifip-tc6] PfHSN 2002: Early Registration Deadline April 7, 2002 Dear Colleagues, our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies! The early registration of the IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Protocols For High-Speed Networks (PfHSN'2002) April 22-24, Berlin, Germany ends on April 7, 2002 For complete information about the workshop, please visit: http://www.pfhsn.org/pfhsn2002/ The program of the workshop is available under: http://www.pfhsn.org/pfhsn2002/schedule.html Yours sincerely, Georg Carle and Martina Zitterbart - Co-Chairs of PfHSN'2002 James Sterbenz - Chair, Stering Committee of PfHSN P.S. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. -- Georg Carle E-mail: carle(a)fokus.fhg.de Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS Tel.: +49-30 3463 7149 Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 Fax: +49-30 3463 8149 D-10589 Berlin, Germany http://www.fokus.fhg.de/usr/carle/ _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6

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FW: NETWORKING 2002 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Augusto Casaca 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: info_net2002 [mailto:networking2002@cnuce.cnr.it] Sent: quinta-feira, 28 de Marco de 2002 13:28 To: info_net2002 Subject: NETWORKING 2002 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NETWORKING 2002 The Second IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002 May 19-24 2002, Pisa - Italy Networking is the biennial Conference on Networking of the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Networking 2002 is the second conference of this series --the first event was held in Paris, May 2000 Networking 2002 is organized into three tracks: i) Networking Technologies, Services and Protocols ii) Performance of Computer and Communication Networks iii) Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems. This year the conference received 314 submissions coming from 42 countries from all five continents: Africa (4), Asia (84), America (63), Europe (158) and Oceania (5). From the 314 submissions, we finally selected 82 full papers for the presentation in the conference technical sessions. In addition, we selected 31 short papers for presentation in the poster sessions. The technical program also includes a panel session, and three Invited Talks from worldwide leaders Imrich Chlamtac "Managing Optical Networks in the Optical Domain" Randy Katz "The Post-PC Era: It's All About Services" Gerald Maguire "Personal Computing and Communication". The panel session, organized by Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University), is entitled "Post 9-11 Networking Challenges". The panel discusses on how to cope with the communications systems' vulnerabilities revealed by the World Trade Center attack on September 11. The program of the conference is on five days and includes - two tutorial days, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/tutorial.html - the main conference, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/at-a-glance.html - one-day thematic workshops, http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/workshops.html Advance program, registration information, and hotel information for NETWORKING 2002 are now available at http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002/info.html If you are unable to access the above web page, please send e-mail to: info_net2002 <networking2002(a)cnuce.cnr.it>. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: The deadline for normal registration is APRIL 20, 2002. HOTEL RESERVATION: The deadline for hotel reservation is APRIL 22, 2002. Please book your hotel room as soon as possible. May is a high tourist season in Pisa. After April 22 we cannot guarantee your reservation. ----------------------------------------- NETWORKING 2002 The Second IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference May 19-24 2002, Pisa - Italy c/o CNUCE Institute - National Research Council CNR Research Area Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124, Pisa, Italy fax.: +39 050 3138092/91 http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/Networking2002

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FW: [IFIP] H. Poirot Lottery - The Winner + April award
by Augusto Casaca 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 3 de Abril de 2002 09:55 To: all Subject: [IFIP] H. Poirot Lottery - The Winner + April award Dear All, Ref. message http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00120.html - Who is the Winner of the Spring-is-in-the-air H. Poirot Lottery? The scene: Early March 1994, two men in Brussels enter the NATO Headquarters to meet with the NATO top brass for science and research so as to investigate whether the "peace dividend" could be extended to support participants in IFIP events. The previous day, the same two men had met with representatives of the European Commission. That meeting with the Commission of the European Communities resulted into a contract which made it possible for 34 participants from Central and Eastern Europe to be financially supported so as to attend the 14th IFIP World Computer Congress' 94 in Germany. [Another significant contract followed in 1995 for INTERACT]. The questions: 1. Who were the two men? 2. On the photo at http://www.ifip.or.at/image/open5.gif the two men appear to be involved in a ceremony. What was the special occasion? 3. From which IFIP Member society were the meetings of the two men arranged in Brussels? 4. Which city was the venue of IFIP Congress 94? 5. Which city will be the venue of IFIP Congress 2004? Deadline for submissions was 29 March 2002; Condition to enter the draw - to submit at least 3 of 5 correct answers The CORRECT answers are: 1. Asbjorn Rolstadas and Plamen Nedkov 2. Opening Ceremony of the IFIP Headquarters and Secretariat in Laxenburg, 6 July 1995 3. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 4. Hamburg 5. Toulouse FIRST to respond (some minutes after we sent our mail) was Prof. Klaus Brunnstein, IFIP Vice-President and German GA representative. He deserves being singled out as he is a regular contender for "the fastest reply" award. Unfortunately, he did not get the five correct answers to qualify for the special prize but we greatly value the support Klaus gives to our lotteries and we hope he will continue to be active. THE WINNER of the H. Poirot lottery award is Prof. RITA DE CALUWE, Belgian representative to IFIP who got 4 out of 5 correct answers. Congratulations, Rita and we surely hope you will enjoy your special personal copy of the Presidents' interviews. A stumbling block for all was question number 4. Some thought it was GI (Germany) while others believed it to be FAIB (Belgium). The CORRECT answer is Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The meetings with NATO and the CEC were held at the time of IFIP Council ' 94 in Brussels. Greetings, The Delivery Co. P.S. And your April award... Need a Haircut? A man and a little boy entered a barbershop together. After the man received the full treatment - shave, manicure, haircut, etc. - he placed the boy in the chair. "I'm goin' to buy a green tie to wear for the parade," he said. "I'll be back in a few minutes." When the boy's haircut was done and the man still hadn't returned, the barber said, "It looks like your daddy forgot all about you." "That wasn't my daddy," said the boy. "He just walked up, took me by the hand and said, 'Come on, son, we're gonna get a free haircut!'" -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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