SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-Aug-2001 Contents -------- 1. Announcements Special announcement: ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award -- Nominations due 1 Sept 2001 http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/weiser.html Calls for papers: OPODIS 27 Aug 2001 http://webdia.cem.itesm.mx/ac/rogomez/OPODIS01 CNDS 15 Sep 2001 http://www.ece.neu.edu/conf/CNDS/2002/ *USENIX 12,19 Nov 2001 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/ COCV 3 Dec 2001 http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/cocv02.html Calls for participation: HOT Chips 19-21 Aug 2001 http://www.hotchips.org SOSP 21-24 Oct 2001 http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ * = new this issue # = updated this issue 2. Sites-of-the-month Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful *SOSP program and call for participation 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS web page: http://www.acm.org/sigops 1. Announcements ---------------- Special announcement: Title: Nominations for ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser award Deadline: 1 September 2001 Web page: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/weiser.html Synopsis: The Mark Weiser Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research. The recipient must have begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox Parc. The committee will choose the recipient based on: "contributions that are highly creative, innovative, and possibly high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark Weiser." The 2001 recipient will be the first recipient of this award. Calls for papers: Title: OPODIS'2001: 5th International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems Deadline: 27 August 2001 Conference: 10-12 December 2001 Web page: http://webdia.cem.itesm.mx/ac/rogomez/OPODIS01 Synopsis: An open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on Distributed Computing among researchers from around the world. Title: Communication Networks And Distributed Systems Modeling And Simulation Conference Deadline: 15 Sep 2001 Web page: http://www.ece.neu.edu/conf/CNDS/2002/ Conference: 27-31 Jan 2002 Synopsis: The objective of this conference is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among a talented group of international researchers on advances in the design and performance analysis of communication networks and distributed systems. The conference emphasizes modeling, technical advances and unique applications in the areas of high speed networking, wireless communications, multimedia applications, computer architecture and distributed, parallel and mobile computing systems. The structure of the conference is designed to facilitate collegiality and continuity of discussion among the conference speakers and attendees on the topics covered during the week. Title: USENIX 2002 Deadline: 12 Nov 2001 (FREENIX track) Deadline: 19 Nov 2001 (general refereed track) Conference: June 9-14, 2002 Web page: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/ Synopsis: USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For over 25 years, its members have come from a broad community of developers, researchers, system administrators and engineers with interests spanning the full range of technology. As the core conference of this community, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference is the premier forum for computing professionals to share the results of their latest and best work, develop new ideas and solutions, and connect with their colleagues. Title: COCV 2002: International Workshop on "Compiler Optimization Meets Compiler Verification (COCV 2002)" Deadline: 3 Dec 2001 Conference: 13 April 2001 Web page: http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/cocv02.html Synopsis: Semantics preservation between source and target program is the commonly accepted minimum requirement to be ensured by compilers. The precise meaning, however, is often only implicit. As a rule of thumb, verification tends to interpret semantics preservation in a very tight sense, not only but also to simplify the verification task. Optimization generally prefers a more liberal view in order to enable more powerful transformations otherwise excluded. Calls for Participation: Title: HOT Chips 13 -- A Symposium on High-Performance Chips Conference: 19-21 August 2001 Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Web Page: http://www.hotchips.org Synopsis: Hot Chips 13 brings together designers and architects of high-performance chips, software, and systems. Presentations focus on up-to-the-minute real developments. This symposium is the primary forum for engineers and researchers to highlight their leading-edge designs. Three full days of tutorials and technical sessions will keep you on top of the industry. Advance program now available at the web site. Title: 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP01) Conference: 21-24 October 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ Call for participation: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/participate.pdf 2. Sites-of-the-month --------------------- Please contribute. The sites-of-the-month list in the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting features web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful. This list depends on contributions from members: if you know of a site you think other members should know about, please nominate it by following the instructions at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ Site: SOSP call for participation URL: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/participate.pdf Summary: Print this out! Post it in your department! Send it to your friends and colleagues! Previous months' sites are listed at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ 3. About the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list ----------------------------------------- Administrative note: Amin Vahdat (vahdat@cs.duke.edu) will be taking over as SIGOPS information director and will run this mailing list starting next month. 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