The 1998 LISA conference will happen this year in Boston,
December 6 – 11.
Giving the keynote address will be Eric Allman, author of
Sendmail.
Eric Allman is the original author of sendmail. He was an early
contributer to the UNIX effort at UC Berkeley, authoring syslog,
tset, the -me troff macros, and trek. He was the chief programmer
on the INGRES database management project and designed database
user and application interfaces at Britton Lee (later Sharebase),
and contributed to the Ring Array Processor project for
neural-network-based speech recognition at the International
Computer Science Institute. Eric is the CTO of Sendmail, Inc., and
gives tutorials and presentations at USENIX conferences.