The EurOpen Convention


hosted by HrOpen


For all members of EurOpen National Groups

17th, 18th & 19th April, 1997
at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computing ,
University of Zagreb, Croatia

The event will consist of 2 days of Conference presentations and one day of Tutorials.

Conference Presentations

Thursday, 17th April & Friday 18th April

If Cryptography is useful, why isn't it used? - Matt Blaze, AT&T Laboratories, USA
WWW - Intranet / Internet - Isabelle Gayral, SGI
High Performance Computing - Michael Schlenhrich, SGI
Virtual LAN in Practice - William Bello, Bello Ltd.
JAVA: The Next Wave of Computing - Peter Karlsson, SUN Microsystems
Java and Database Connectivity - Simple Approach - Damir Kirasic, FER, Croatia
The Future of UNIX - Zbig Zdanowicz, SCO
Clustering Intel UNIX Systems - Mark Cotton, SCO
Free SCO OpenServer - to be announced, SCO
Multimedia Data Compression - Mario Kovac, FER, Zagreb
WEB Multimedia over standard dial-up lines - Kristijan Zimmer, HrOpen, Croatia
Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding in MPEG-4 - Igor Sunday Pandzic, MiraLab, Switzerland
Universal Server and Datablade Technology - Urlich Press, Informix
Multimedia Content Delivery via Satellites - Alan Kuresevic, SES, Luxemourg
The Network Computer - Kim Biel-Nielsen, EurOpen, UNIWARE Denmark
What happened on the WWW horizon - Jan Saell, YASK, Systemkonsult AB
Internationalization Standards and Software - Keld Simonsen, DKUUG
The ICT Partnership: Co-operation through Europe - Jean-Michel Cornu, EurOpen
Software Process Improvement - Hypothesis for Information Society Establishment - Domagoj Vucica, Pulsar, Split & Silvana Tomic, ZIH, Zagreb
Applications of Broadband Digital Networks - Ruzica Vucic & Jasenka Gojsic CARNet, Croatia
From Beginners to Advanced Users - Zoran Bekic & Miroslav Milinovic, CARNet, Croatia
Getting Technology to Users and Real Life - Jasenka Gojsic, Anica Juretic & Zoran Vlah, CARNet, Croatia

Tutorial Programme

Saturday, 19th April

Tutorial 1.HTML Starting Course, Jan Saell, YASK Systemkonsult AB
Tutorial 3.Security for Software Developers: How to write code that withstands hostile Environments, Matt Blaze, Bell Labs, USA

Conference Dinner

The Conference Dinner will be held on Thursday, 17th April at 20.00.
Venue: Restaurant Okrugljak, 3 course dinner with wine and entertainment.
The Conference Dinner is free to all Conference delegates.

Trip on Sunday

The trip on Sunday, 20th April, will take the guests to the national park Plitvice lakes, some 150 km south-east of Zagreb. Follow this link for more info in 4 languages.

Costs

ConferenceEarly Bird rate - before 20th February290 ECU
Conferenceafter 20th February330 ECU
TutorialsEarly bird rate - before 20th February150 ECU
Tutorialsafter 20th February190 ECU

All prices are subject to VAT (European bookings will not be charged VAT if the relevant VAT number is quoted at the time of booking).

Hotels & City Tours

Globtour Travel Agency - Zagreb will be happy to make all hotel arrangements for delegates. A full programme of sight-seeing tours will also be offered to delegates on Saturday, 19th and Sunday 20th April.
Globtour's WWW page is here, and this is Globtour's page which contains the list and description of hotels in which EurOpen delegates will be accommodated, some information on Zagreb and excursions planed for EurOpen delegates.
On this page, you can book a hotel room, and pick which locations would you like to visit.

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