SAICSIT-2000 1-3 November 2000
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Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and
Information Technologists
Attend an international conference at a South African price.
72 papers from 12 countries have been submitted to SAICSIT-2000, to be held
in the Cape Town area.
Guest speakers include:
* Eric Raymond, President of the Open Software Initiative
* Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Thawte Digital Certificate
Services, sold for $575-million to VeriSign, a local
success story
* Doug Schuler, leading authority on community networks
Papers have been accepted covering a range of areas:
* software engineering
* database
* human-computer interaction
* information security
* e-commerce
* network reliability
* distributed systems
* virtual reality
* neural nets
* computational geometry
* computer science education
* web-based courseware
* intelligent tutoring systems
* process algebras
* formal specification and models
* automata and formal languages
* multiprocessor scheduling
* information systems education
* information systems development
* information systems management
* executive information systems
* software productivity
* outsourcing
* object-oriented systems
* category theory
The best papers will be published in a special issue of the South African
Computer Journal, the rest electronically via the conference web site.
Dates
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* early booking discount ends after Friday 15 September
* tutorials (still open for proposals), check-in 1 November
* technical sessions 2-3 November
Conference Web Site
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<http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/SAICSIT/SAICSIT-2000/>
Philip Machanick [log in to unmask]
Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
2050 Wits, South Africa phone 27(11)717-6185 fax 27(11)717-6199
conference: http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/SAICSIT/SAICSIT-2000/
**NO UNSOLICITED ATTACHMENTS*support freedom of choice in software**
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