MISC-93 MID CONTINENT INFORMATION SYSTEM CONFERENCE

                          M  I  S  C  -  9  3
                               FIRST ANNUAL
                MID-CONTINENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
                                     at
                     CENTURY THEATER of the MEMORIAL UNION
                                  and the
              Industrial Agriculture and Communications Center
                         North Dakota State University 
                                     on
                             May 3 and 4, 1993

The First Annual MID-CONTINENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (MISC-93) will be held at North Dakota State University on May 3 and 4, 1993. MISC-93 will focus on mid-continent information system students, who are often unable to attend information systems conferences due to time and cost limitations.

        MISC student attendees will learn about the information system developments and will afford themselves the opportunity to initiate interaction with other students and faculty early in their careers. A theme of the MISC conferences will be the synergism of teaching and research. Research and learning occur very effectively when student and faculty groups work together on important open problems. This mentorstudent  interaction has long been a driving force in information system innovation. With the advent of multimedia distance learning and collaboration  technologies, this teaching-research activity, initiated at MISC, can be carried on remotely throughout the year.

The invited presentations are:

"Future Directions for SQL, Information Systems and the IBM AS/400 System"

          by William Davidson of IBM.

"The Current Status of Multidatabase Systems"

          by Dr. Kenneth Barker of University of Manitoba;

"Communication Networks Present & Future"

          by Dr. Ronald Vetter of Moorhead State University and 
                 North Carolina State University; and



"Schema Integration in Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems"


          by Cyrus Azarbod of IBM and Mankato State University.

The schedule of MISC-93 events is as follows:

May 3 (Monday)

9:30  AM        Registration                            IACC 112
    10:30 AM        Welcome                             CENTURY THEATER
    10:40 AM    Student work in Query Processing        CENTURY THEATER
    1:15  PM    INVITED SPEAKER,  C. Azarbod            CENTURY THEATER
    2:30  PM    Computer Ethics Panel                   IACC 106
    3:45  PM    INVITED SPEAKER, W. Davidson            CENTURY THEATER
    5:15  PM    Student work in Database Sys. Security  CENTURY THEATER
    7:00  PM    Reception                               IACC 4th Lounge

May 4 (Tuesday)

    9:00 AM Student Work in Transaction Management CENTURY THEATER

    10:45 AM    INVITED SPEAKER, K. Barker              CENTURY THEATER
    1:15  PM    INVITED SPEAKER, R. Vetter              CENTURY THEATER

Please direct all inquiries to perrizo_at_plains.nodak.edu Received on Thu Apr 22 1993 - 06:41:28 CEST