Information for Authors

Final papers are due by October 2, 1998.  They must be submitted as a Postscript or Adobe Acrobat file via email to pui98@microsoft.com. See below for formatting details.

There are three categories of papers that will be included in the proceedings:

• A FULL PAPER submission may be no longer than six pages long.
• A RESEARCH NOTE submission may be up to four pages long.  Authors are encouraged to provide pointers to web sites that will provide more detailed information or future progress.
• A PROCEEDINGS ONLY submission may be up to six pages long.

Submission Format Details

Full paper and research note submissions must be formatted for 8.5"x11" paper, with 1" margins on the top and bottom, and 0.75" margins on the left and right sides.  The title should be centered in bold face (14-pt Times Roman font preferred), and the body should be in two columns (10-pt Times Roman font preferred).  Here are example submission:

• Postscript format
• PDF format

The following templates can be used as a starting point to produce the final postscript file:

• MS Word format
• RTF format
• LaTeX format

Presentations

Full papers will be presented orally in 25 minute talks (including five minutes for questions).  At the end of each group of two or three talks, there will be a 10-15 minute open discussion time.

Research notes will be briefly described in 5 minute presentations on Thursday afternoon, then presented at the poster/demo session on Friday morning.

The following A/V equipment will be provided for oral presentations: PC laptop projection, overhead projector, slide projector, VHS video deck and monitor, microphone, pointer.

If you need special arrangements or additional equipment, please email pui98@microsoft.com.

If you need to ship equipment to the workshop, address it as follows:

Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental
999 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Attn: Doug Linneman
Hold for: Matthew Turk, PUI Workshop, 11/4/98