Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (Dave Beckett)
Reply-To: ItTUG@itdfnext.itdf.pa.cnr.it (Giovanni Muscato)
Subject: ItTUG : Italian Transputer User Group
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Mon, 23 May 94 10:24:19 GMT
Message-ID: <108@nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk>

            Announcing ItTUG - Italian Transputer User Group

Encouraged by The Transputer Consortium (TTC) and the decision to hold the
World Transputer Congress '94 in Italy, a small group of Italian Transputer
users met in Milan on 6 April to discuss the possibility of establishing an
Italian Transputer User Group. This article formally announces the decision of
that meeting.

WoTUG (World Transputer User Group) has been supporting the users of
transputers since the launch of these microrprocessors in 1984. Since then,
several local user groups have been established worldwide, in order to promote
a widespread knowledge of the transputer culture. WoTUG and the local groups
are dedicated to encouraging scientific and technological communication and
discussion of the theory, practice and application of parallel computation,
with particular regard to the use of the transputer family of processors and
the use of languages such as occam.

In this context the Italian Transputer User Group (ItTUG) is born.

ItTUG includes in its field of interest all aspects of hardware and software
development designed for use in parallel computation, including, in particular,
those aspects which further the understanding of the communicating process
paradigm. The group will be interdisciplinary in character, and represent the
transputer and occam parallel computational activities in industry, research
laboratories and educational establishments.
Conferences, workshops, tutorials, and any other means which a member of the
ItTUG considers appropriate might be organised by the group. ItTUG will
cooperate with WoTUG, TTC and the many transputer groups worldwide.

The inaugural meeting of ItTUG is scheduled to be held at the World Tranputer
Congress '94 (WTC '94) that will be held on 5-7 September 1994 at the Villa
Erba, Cernobbio, Como (Italy). WTC '94 registration fee reductions are accorded
to the ItTUG members.

Application for membership can be returned to:

BITNET: fil@ipacuc.cuc.unipa.it
INTERNET: ItTUG@itdfnext.itdf.pa.cnr.it
SURFACE MAIL:  ItTUG
c/o Giovanni Muscato
Dipartimento Elettrico Elettronico e Sistemistico
viale A. Doria 6
95125   CATANIA
Italy

