At the end of the week, AT&T Co sponsored its 1990 Unix System Software Technology Seminar on the theme Building on the Standard Base, in an effort to provide information on plans for distributed computing, multiprocessing and transaction processing in Unix System V.4, the base technologies as indicated in Unix System V Roadmap. The two days presented such notables from AT&T Bell Laboratories as Dr Peter Weinberger, the chief scientist of Unix System Laboratories, who gave a keynote speech on the future of System V; Dr William Leighton, dfputy head of security systems engineering at AT&T Bell Laboratories who spoke on the theme of implementation of a trusted kernel, auditing and security features in System V, while at the same time maintaining the compatibility, performance and friendliness of System V. Ms Youbong Weon-Yoon indicated the need for a global directory for networking applications, described the X500 directory standard and its use as a common multi-vendor directory service. Other speakers from AT&T gave sessions on Concurrent C, Tuxedo-based Unix transaction processing application case studies, and multiprocessing.
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