“USENIX Celebrates 25 Years of Service to the Unix and Open
Systems Community.”
“USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, announces
USENIX 2000 Annual Technical Conference in San Diego, California,
June 18 – 23. This year’s conference promises to be another
outstanding event with a comprehensive lineup of tutorial programs,
technical sessions and special guest speakers and dignitaries
including Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems, Thomas Dolby Robertson,
Founder of Beatnik, Inc. and Linus Torvalds, Developer of
Linux. Conference attendees will be invited to special
celebrations as USENIX marks 25 years of innovation and service to
the technical community.”
“The conference kicks off Sunday, June 18th with the Tutorial
Program presented by instructors who are experts in their fields
sharing their knowledge of the latest technologies and required
skill-sets to keep IT professionals and their companies at the
forefront of success. USENIX tutorials survey the topic, then dive
right into the specifics of what to do and how to do it so that
attendees can immediately take useful skills and technology
understanding back to their companies and organizations. Over a
three-day period, 28 tutorials will cover topics such as systems
administration, Linux, UNIX, Perl, SGI, Samba, Solaris, Sendmail
and networking. In addition there will be a range of tutorials on
security issues such as Intrusion Detection, Network Forensics, and
Computer Attacks: Trends and Countermeasures. Among the instructors
are Eric Allman of Sendmail, Inc., Tom Christiansen, Perl guru,
Marcus Ranum of Network Flight Recorder, Inc., Bryan Andregg of Red
Hat, Inc., and Evi Nemeth of the University of Colorado, to name a
few.”