Theme: Advanced Data Storage Systems and Interface Technologies

Monday January 18, 1999 (Marriott Hotel, SEATAC Airport Center, SEATAC Airport, Seattle, WA, +1-206-241-2000 or +1-800-643-5479)

1:30 PM- 5:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting

5:00 PM- 7:00 PM NCITS B5 Ad Hoc ID-1 Instrumentation Tape Group

Tuesday January 19, 1999 (Marriott Hotel, SEATAC Airport Center, SEATAC Airport, Seattle, WA +1-206-241-2000 or 1+800-643-5479)

8:30 AM Poster setup

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM- 12:00 NOON General Sessions

• Administrative Announcements - Session Chairman Rob Green

• THIC business announcements: Dick Davis / Jim Craze

• Dr P C Hariharan, 368 Jamie Ct, Glen Burnie MD 21060-8249, Phone: +1-301-441-3694, FAX: +1-301-441-3697, e-mail: hari@charm.net - "Update THIC Homepage and THIC FTP Site"

• Yoshihiro Yoshiura & Dr Tony Sasanuma, 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge NJ 07656, Phone: +1-201-358-4214, FAX: +1-201-358-4215, e-mail: tony_sasanuma@mail.sel.sony.com - "Dual Reproducing Head Technology for 1/2" Tape Data Recorder"

• Linda Kempster, Storage Media Specialist, IIT Research Institute, 4600 Forbes Blvd, Lanham MD 20706, Phone: +1-301-918-1037, FAX: +1-301-731-0253, e-mail: lkempster@iitri.org - "Sources of and Solutions for Pending Petabyte Problems"

BREAK

• Tony Wakita, Sony Electronics, 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge NJ 07656, Phone: +1-201-930-6607, FAX: +1-201-358-4215, e-mail: wakitat@ccmail.sel.sony.com - "An Automated Data Acquisition System"

• Jean Franqois Sulzer, Enertec SA, 185 Avenue du General de Gaulle BP 316, 92143 Clamart Cedex France, Phone: +33 (0)1 41 28 88 63, FAX : +33 (0) 1 41 28 88 63, e-mail: sulzer@enertec.avicore.com - "Data Storage or Display Recording, Convergence or Trade-off"

12:00 NOON- 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM General Sessions

• Professor Les Atlas, University of Washington EE Dept, Phone: +1-206-543-6061, FAX: +1-206-543-3842, e-mail: atlas@ee.washington.edu - "Optimizing Representations for Automatic Identification of Acoustic and Military Signals"

• Joe Key, Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 9500 McArthur Blvd, West Bethesda MD 20817, Phone: +1-301-227-3138 - "ODAS"

• Dr P C Hariharan, 368 Jamie Ct, Glen Burnie MD 21060-8249, Phone: +1-301-441-3694, FAX: +1-301-441-3697, e-mail: hari@charm.net - "Towards Higher Densities: a Time Travelog "

• Dr Felipe Cabrera, Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052-6399, e-mail: cabrera@MICROSOFT.com - "Storage Management in Windows 2000"

Adjourn

5:00 PM- 7:00 PM No-host reception and poster session at the Marriott

Wednesday January 20, 1999

08:30 AM- Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM- 12:00 NOON General Sessions

• Roger O. Borlinghaus, Planning Consultant, StorageTek - Solutions Business Group, Media Services, 5833 Westview Dr. Houston Texas 77055, Phone: +1-713- 957-7204, Fax:+1-713- 290-8730, e-mail: borliRO@HOUSTON.STORTEK.COM, - " Mitigating the 9-track Migration Nightmare"

• John Woelbern, Sony Electronics Inc, 3300 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95134-1940, Phone:+1-408-955-5496,FAX:+1-408-955-5533, e-mail: john_woelbern@mail.sel.sony.com - "Utilizing MR Head Technology with AIT to Approach 1-Gigabit/Square Inch, Recording"

BREAK

• Ger Van Den Engh, Research Professor, University of Washington, Molecular Biotechnology, Phone: +1-206-685-7345, email: engh@biotech.washington.edu - "Data Collection for Genome Analysis"

• Kelly Scharf, Exabyte Corporation, 1685 38th Street, Boulder CO 80301, Phone: +1-303-417-7205, Fax: +1-303-417-7180 fax, email: kelly@exabyte.com - "Exabyte's Mammoth 2 Technology"

12:00 NOON- 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Bus departs hotel lobby for tour of Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Safety (VTS) Center

4:00 PM Bus returns to hotel.