ERCIM News No.37 April 1999 CONTENTS This issue in pdf by Christian Huitema, chief scientist at Telcordia, USA: Next Generation Networks The ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library goes On-line by Antonella Andreoni, Carlo Carlesi and Pasquale Pagano EU-China High Performance Computing and Networking Initiative by Eckart Bierdümpel and Thierry Priol Conferences and Workshops sponsored by ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 1999 - Call for Candidates ERCIM 10th Anniversary Event - Announcement The Social Impact of Networking Technologies by Truls Gjestland Organising Work as Telework - New Possibilities also to Disabled People? by Eystein Fossum The Seniornett Project by Sidsel Bjørneby The Role of the Internet Society by Klaus Birkenbihl Introducing Intermodality for Social Tools by Kent Saxin Hammarström and Kristina Höök Erasing Generation and Country Borders via Networking by Josef Kolár, Tomás Macek, Bozena Mannová and Barbara Williams Software: Objective Zero Defect by Maurice Mashaal Critical Path in Fuzzy Network Analysis by Milan Mares EUROgatherer - Personalised Information Gathering System by Costantino Thanos Cross-Language Information System Evaluation by Carol Peters Presenting Swedish Language Technology by Björn Gambäck Mathematical Morphology and Image Processing by Henk Heijmans Virtual Environments support Interactive Engineering by Gerold Wesche and Jürgen Wind Virtual Reality for Oil and Gas Industry by Bernd Fröhlich and Martin Göbel Virtutech commercializes SimICS by Peter Magnusson Gene-IT - A new INRIA Spin-off Company by Jean-Jacques Codani Eidetica - A new CWI Spin-off Company by Henk Nieland The Computer makes Music in Pisa by Leonello Tarabella

SPECIAL THEME: Networking Technologies by Yves Devillers Gigabit Networking is Reality - 2.4 Gbps via ATM Wide Area Network by Peter Wunderling and Ferdinand Hommes Designing High-speed Communication Systems by Dimitrios N. Serpanos Wormhole IP over ATM by Manolis Katevenis High-Performance ATM Switching: the ATLAS I Single Chip Switch by Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos Integration of Multiple Switching Disciplines by Pertti Raatikainen Multiservice Internet: Service Network or Ham Technology? by Chris Cooper Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services Networks by Sem Borst Control of Network Resources over Multiple Time-Scales by Matthias Grossglauser Internet Enhancements ­ Coexistence with ATM by Magda Chatzaki and Stelios Sartzetakis Technology Interoperation in ATM Management by Stelios Sartzetakis ATM Security Aspects by Petia Todorova and Hartmut Brandt HOT - Home and Office Technologies by Thomas Luckenbach Heterogeneous Inhouse Networking Environment by Dirk Elias ARNO: Algorithms for Radio Network Optimization by Heinz Mühlenbein AMC - ATM based Wireless Mobile Computing by Enrico Gregori and Thomas Luckenbach Internet Telephony merges with the GSM Network by Jori Paananen SFT - Smart File Transfer by Markus Laakso Activities at SICS's Computer and Network Architecture Laboratory by Bengt Ahlgren Monitoring and Displaying Traffic on the World Wide Web by Evangelos P. Markatos and Athanasios E. Papathanasiou Investigation of Internet Object Cache Performance Bottlenecks by Bertold Kolics The Changing Face of Network Management - A Hungarian Experience by István Tétényi The New CNR Research Area in Pisa chooses an ATM Local Area Network by Marco Sommani REPORT SOFSEM’98 - The Successful Silver Jubilee by Gabriela Andrejkova and Jan Vinar ANNOUNCEMENTS 5th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Dagstuhl, Germany, 28 November - 1 December 1999 ICALP’99 - 26-th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Prague, 11-15 July 1999 Tenth DELOS Workshop on Audio-Visual Digital Libraries, Santorini, Greece, 24-25 June 1999 CNR - The Italian government has approved a decree for the reorganisation of the National Research Council.. INRIA - UDLR (Uni Directional Link Routing), a new protocol for satellite communication.. INRIA - INRIA has launched INRIA-Transfert and I-Source Gestion..

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