Travel

Charles Severance

Travel is an important way to expand one's horizons and learn about new perspectives - This section lists over 100 trips that I have taken to locations around the world. I givve many presentations to many groups as a way to share my ideas with these groups and learn from them.

TeX Users Group - Palo Alto, CA - June 1983

Midwest VM Users Group - October 1986

SHARE (IBM Users Group) - Chicago, Ill - November 1986

SHARE - Anaheim, CA - February 1987

SHARE - Orlando, FL - November 1987

INTEROP87 - Network Interoperability - Monterrey, CA - March 1987

East Coast BBN Users Group - Washington, D.C. - June 1988

Wang Labs - July 1988 - Assisted the Michigan State University Department of Veterinary Medicine with local area network evaluation.

BBN Computer Corp. - September 1988 - In support of the acquisition of BBN GP-1000 for the Michigan State University Computer Science Department.

USENIX Supercomputer Workshop - September 1988

Convex Computer Corp. - December 1988 - In support of evaluation phase of supercomputer acquisition for Michigan State University Computer Laboratory.

ETA Systems - December 1988 - In support of evaluation phase of supercomputer acquisition for Michigan State University Computer Laboratory.

BELLCORE - Ameritech Fellows Tour - February 1989 - Represented Michigan State University on a tour of the Bell Operating Companies research facilities.

BBN Butterfly Users Group - April 1989

Convex Computer Corporation Users Group May 1989 - Elected president of the group.

Open Software Foundation Computer Standards Meeting - December 1989

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1990

PARBASE-90 - Parallel Database Conference - March 1990

Argonne National Labs - Affiliates Workshop - February 1990.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1990 - Elected secretary of IEEE P1003.0 subcommittee.

Convex Computer Corporation Users Group May 1990 - Hosted the conference, selected presenters and keynote speakers. Appointed to secretary/treasurer of users group in addition to president.

Open Software Foundation Member Meeting - May 1990

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1990.

International Conference on Parallel Processing - August 1990

Summer Institute in Parallel Processing - Argonne National Labs - September 1990.

UNIX SOLUTIONS '90 - October 1990 - Anaheim, CA.

Convex Computer Corporation European Users Group October 1990 - Rotterdam, Netherlands.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1990.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1991.

SHARE - March, 1991

UNIX International Annual Meeting - March 1991

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - April 1991.

Convex Computer Corporation Worldwide Users Group May 1991

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1991.

Convex Computer Corporation European Users Group October 1991 Hamburg, Germany

Open Software Foundation (OSF) Member Meeting - September 1991.

IEEE Standards Seminar Instructor - October 1991.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1991.

New York Polytechnic University - December 1991 - Represented MSU at a CIESIN planing meeting.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1992.

UNIX International Annual Meeting - February 1992

Washington, D.C. - Visited the Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, and National Science Foundation. - March 1992

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - April 1992.

Convex Computer Corporation Worldwide Users Group - May 1992

Office of Naval Research Workshop - Los Angeles, CA - May 1992.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1992.

Convex Computer Corporation European Users Group - Oxford, England - October 1992.

Paul Scharrer Institute - Zurich, Switzerland - October 1992

University of Krakov, Krakov Poland - October 1992 -

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1992 - Utrect, Netherlands.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1992 - Appointed Secretary POSIX/PASC Steering Executive Committee (SEC)

IEEE Society of Industrial and Mechanical Engineers Conference - March 1993

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - April 1993.

Convex Computer Corporation Worldwide Users Group - May 1993

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1993.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1993.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1994.

Convex Computer Corporation Worldwide Users Group - March 1994

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - April 1994 - Nominated to be Chair of POSIX.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1994 - Elected to position of Vice-Chair of POSIX.

IEEE Standards Activity Board POSIX - September 1994 Represented POSIX at the IEEE Standards Activity Board.

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1994 - Joined ISO/IEC SC22/WG15 U.S. Technical Advisory Group (USTAG) as secretary

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - January 1995

Lawrence Livermore Labs - Discussion of K12 Science and Technology program - April 1995

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - April 1995

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - July 1995

Great Lakes Cable Expo - August 1995

International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP95) - August 1995

Kuck and Associates (KAI) - September 1995

IEEE Standards Activity Board - September 1995

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - October 1995

Supercomputing 1995 - December 1995

Convex User's Group - March 4, 1996

Boston, MA - Visited BBN planning for aquisition of BBN TC-2000 - March 19, 1996.

high Performance Computing 1996 - New Orleans, LA - April 4, 1996

MIT Lincoln Labs - March 20, 1996

COMDEX/Windows World '96 - Chicago, Il - June 5, 1996

IEEE Computer Magazine - Editorial Board Meeting - New Orleans, LA - June 1996

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - Nashua, NH - July 1996

International Conference on Parallel Processing 96 - Milwaukee, WI - August 1996

POSIX - International Standards Committee Meeting - Belgium, Bussells - October 1996

IPPS97 - to present a paper titled Comparing Gang Scheduling to Dynamic Space Sharing April 1-5, 1997.

IEEE Computer Magazine - Editorial Board Meeting - Baltimore, MD - May 29, 1997

Internet World, Chicago, August 1997.

IEEE Region 4 Executive Meeting - Chicago, Ill - September 1997

ASEE 1998 North Central Region Conference - Paper and workshop - January 1998

University of Delaware - Visit and consulting - March 1998

IEEE P1384 Standards meeting - Demonstration - March 1998

Santa Anna Community College - Talk and demonstration - April 1998

University of California Berkeley - Talk and demonstration - April 1998

Apple Computer Corporation - Talk and demonstration - April 1998

Sun Microsystems - Talk and demonstration - April 1998

ACM SIGCse in Dublin, Ireland - Demonstration session - May 1998

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (SCALE Group) - Talk and demonstration - August 1998

IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Fall section meeting - Talk and demonstration - September 1998

University of Michigan - Talk and demonstration - November 1998

Frontiers in Education - Phoenix, AZ - November 1998.

ECTC Meeting - Presentation - Sync-O-Matic 3000 - San Diego, CA June 3-4, 1999.

IEEE Computer Magazine Editorial Board Meeting - Richmond, VA - June 7-8, 1999.

ASEE National Meeting - Poster - Experiences Teaching Distance Education Charlotte, NC - June 20-24, 1999.

CERN Web Based Lecture Project - geneva, Switzerland - July 14-21, 1999.

IBM Distance Education Workshop - Presentation: ClipBoard-2000 - Almaden, CA - September 2, 1999.

Internet-2 Meeting - Seattle, WA - October 11-13, 1999.

Educause - Long Beach, CA - October 27-29, 1999.

Frontiers in Education - Workshop: Making and Using Web-Based Lectures - Prsentation: Teaching VRML to K12 students - San Juan, Puerto Rico - October 10-13, 1999.

National Science Foundation - Panel Member - December 3-4, 1999.

CERN - High Energy Physics Laboratory, Geneva Switzerland - Presentation: Web-Based Lectures, the Next Step, January 11-19, 2000.

National Science Foundation - Panel Member - January 26-29, 2000.

NPACI - All Hands Meeting - Session Chair - Instructional Technology and Asynchronous Learning, San Diego Supercomputer Center, February 8-11, 2000.

CERN - High Energy Physics Laboratory, Geneva Switzerland - May, 2000.

National Science Foundation - Panel Member - January 17-19, 2001.

IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) - New York, NY, March 19-23, 2001.