MARCH LUNCHEON
THURSDAY, March 21, 1996
11:30  Registration & Social
11:45  Lunch served
12:15 - 1245  Guest speaker presentation
Michael's Restaurant - 830 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale
SPEAKER:  Jeff Rulifson
Director of the Technology Development Group
Sun Microsystems Inc. 

Advances in Nomadic Computing 
and High Speed Interconnect Architecture

	Sun Microsystems has two R&D projects emerging as Sun products which will
ultimately benefit Armed Forces application developers and end users. 
These projects are the advances in Nomadic Computing and High Speed
Interconnect Architecture.

Mr. Rulifson will address advances in Nomadic Computing by designing and
productizing cost-effective workstation capabilities to go anywhere,
anytime.  Nomadic computing provides the capability for highly mobile
applications such as battlefield management.  His discussion will include
Sun's efforts in a cost-effective high-speed interconnect architecture that
enables very fast transfer of large amounts of data within the processing
environment such as the processing and management of reconnaissance imagery
or the transfer of medical imagery in hospitals or battlefield
environments.  

Mr. Rulifson is an award-winning scientist and Fellow of the Association
for Computing Machinery with over 30 years experience.  As Director of
Sun's Technology Development Group, he has advanced development projects in
high resolution video, distributed shared memory, security, and nomadic
networking.  He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University,
a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Washington, and is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery.  Mr. Rulifson was honored as an
ARPANET Pioneer for his work in "packet networking and the concept of a
common language for communications to allow dissimilar systems to
communicate" leading to the Internet.  

* Reservations: phone recorder / or e.mail:	(408) 748-4176/stookede@oafb.af.mil
* Reservations /cancellations (*) no later than:	3:00 PM, Wednesday, 3/20
* Want to receive announcements by e.mail?	Contact: mdw@wdl.loral.com
* Questions/Comments:  	(408) 752-3701
(*) If unable to attend, please cancel reservation by 3:00 P.M. or we will
have to bill you for the lunch.  

DIRECTIONS:  From 101, Wolfe Rd South, right @ El Camino.  From 280, Wolfe
Rd. North, left @ El Camino

NOTICE:  $14 for members; $16 for non-members; $12 for active duty military
and full-time students.  Price includes lunch and education fund raffle
tickets.

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Michael Wilson  mdw@wdl.loral.com (408) 473-5853 voice/ -4452 fax
Loral Western Development Labs, San Jose CA

VP of Programs for AFCEA Santa Clara Valley Chapter & 
Northern California Young AFCEAN Advisory Council Representative 

"Gentlemen, we have no more money; now we must think."  
--Ernest Rutherford, British physicist and Nobel Prize Winner, 1871-1937--