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1994 Software Conference (1Mar94) (from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 37, 1 March 1994) Preparations for the Fourth Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) are now underway. The Conference is being sponsored by the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Optical Astronomical Observatories, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, with anticipated funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. The Conference will be held in Baltimore on 25-28 September at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, and is being hosted by STScI. The ADASS Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. The members of the Program Organizing Committee for this year's Conference are Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Carol Christian (UC Berkeley), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), Dennis Crabtree (CADC), Daniel Durand (CADC), Bob Hanisch (STScI), Rick Harnden (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Barry Madore (IPAC), Dick Shaw (STScI), Karen Strom (U. of Massachusetts), and Doug Tody (NOAO). Betty Stobie (STScI) is chair of the Local Organizing Committee. The meeting agenda will consist of invited and contributed talks and poster sessions on the following special topics: Astronomical Data Modeling and Analysis, Design and Development of Graphical User Interfaces, Network Information Systems, and Parallel and Distributed Processing. Special interest "Birds of a Feather" sessions will also be held. For further information please send mail to softconf@stsci.edu (Internet) or look at the information on the World-Wide Web with the home page address http://ra.stsci.edu/ADASS.html. Betty Stobie, the local Chair, can be reached by phone at (410) 516-8671 or by FAX at (410) 516-6864. Doug Tody, George Jacoby, Jeannette Barnes
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