RFC 526

Technical Meeting: Digital Image Processing Software Systems 🎀

Okay so this is RFC 526 💖, written by Dr. William K. Pratt of USC (NIC 17162) and dated June 25, 1973 🦋. The original doesn't list a category, and it doesn't obsolete or update any other RFC, so there's nothing else to track here 🌸.

The Vibe ✨

The University of Southern California Image Processing Institute is throwing a technical meeting on digital image processing software systems 💅. They're doing it together with the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Processing Techniques Office. It's happening at USC on July 17-18, 1973 🎀.

The whole point is to look at the hardware facilities and software systems that could handle large scale image processing jobs over the ARPANET 🛸. There's also going to be some early talk about building universal image processing software that'd be useful to the entire image processing R & D community 🌈. Ngl, that's main character energy. 👑

Who Can Come 💌

Representatives of interested organizations are invited to attend, so if that's you, bestie, you'll want to reach out to Professor William K. Pratt 🫶:

         Professor William K. Pratt
         Olin Hall, Room 330H
         University of Southern California
         University Park
         Los Angeles, California 90007
         (213) 746-2694

Agenda 📅

Okay, the schedule is literally so full 😭. Here's the whole thing, verbatim:

                           Technical Meeting
               DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
                            July 17-18, 1973
                   University of Southern California
                        Los Angeles, California

                                 AGENDA
                                 ------

17 July 1973
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         Powell Hall - Room 101
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1:00     Introduction; informal tour of USC image processing facilities

         Seaver Science Center Conference Room
         -------------------------------------

         Image Processing Hardware and Software
         Moderator: Bill Pratt - USC

2:00     ARPA Image Processing Programs
         John Perry - ARPA/IPT

2:30     UCLA Campus Computer Network Computational Facilities
         Bob Braden - UCLA

3:00     Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Computational Facilities

3:30     ILLIAC IV Computational Facilities
         Clark Oliphant - Computer Center Corp.

4:00     Coffee Break

4:30     VICAR Image Processing Software
         John Krasner - JPL

5:00     LARSYS Image Processing Software

5:30     PAZ II Image Processing Software
         Azriel Rosenfeld - University of Maryland (tentative)
         Faculty Center
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6:30     Cocktail Hour

7:30     Dinner

8:30     Discussions of Other Image Processing Software
         PECOS      -               -  ESL, Inc.
         LADIES     -  Bob Hunt     -  Los Alamos
         KANDIDATS  -  R. Haralick  -  Kansas


18 July 1973
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         Seaver Science Center Conference Room
         -------------------------------------

9:00     Group discussion

         Moderator: John Perry
         - requirements of user community
         - advantages and disadvantages of existing software systems
         - desired properties of a software system

10:30    Coffee Break

11: 00   Group discussion continuation
         - proposals for adoption of a universal image processing
           software

12:00 Meeting ends

Day two is where the big universal software debate happens, so pace yourself, bestie 🍓.

The Fine Print 🧚

This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp., in October 1999 💜:

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