Out in Front: July 18, 1996
1996 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISPLED), Monterey, CA, features talks, panels, and contributed papers. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Registration costs $435 for ACM/IEEE members and $510 for nonmembers. Student discounts are available. ISPLED '96, New York, NY. (212) 626-0616.
Pushing Head Technology to the Limit II, Longmont, CO, is a full-day technical symposium on the advancement of magnetic recording. Sponsored by the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA). The symposium costs $125 for members and $180 for nonmembers. IDEMA, Sunnyvale, CA. (408) 720-9352.
LAN/MAN '96, Potsdam, Germany, is the eighth IEEE workshop on LANs and metropolitan-area networks (MANs). The workshop covers residential and mixed-media networking (wired/wireless and electric/photonic). Registration costs $175. Daniel Pitt, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA. (415) 857-7096.
"Seeing the Unseen: Dr Harold Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley," Boston, features the high-speed-photography techniques that Dr Harold Edgerton pioneered. EG&G (Wellesley, MA) is co-sponsor (the E stands for Edgerton, one of the company's founders). Museum of Science, Boston, MA. (617) 589-0250.