SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 01-01-2001 Happy new year and new millenium! Contents -------- 1. Announcements CFParticipation: HPCA-7, CAECW01, MDM01 CFP: PODC, WCW, IWSP 2. Sites-of-the-month Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful This month's theme: the PhD job search 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 ---------------- Title: Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (PODC) Deadline: 26 January 2001 Conference: 26-29 August 2001 Web page: http://www.podc.org/podc2001/ Synopsis: Research contributions on the theory, design, specification, implementation, or application of distributed systems are solicited. PODC 2001 differs from earlier PODCs in that we are actively seeking papers reporting on the implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of real systems. Title: Sixth International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop Deadline: 9 March 2001 *** Note new date *** Conference: 20-22 June 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01 Synopsis: The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Delivery (WCW) is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of content caching, distribution and delivery on the Internet. Title: International Workshop on Security Protocols Deadline: 31 January 2001 Conference: 25-27 April 2001 Web page: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqjam/2001SPW-announce.html Synopsis: You are invited to consider submitting a position paper to the Ninth Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols. This year's theme is "Mobile Computing vs Immobile Security". This theme includes (but is not limited to): location-dependent authorization, portable hardware and alien infrastructure, enforcing foreign security policy, recognizing ambassadors and malware, migrating user requirements. Title: IASTED International Conference on WIRELESS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (WOC-2001) Deadline: 1 March 2001 Conference: 27-29 June 2001 Web page: http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2001/banff/submit-331 Synopsis: The International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC-2001), sponsored by IASTED, will be a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of telecommunications systems with emphasis on wireless and optical communications. Call for participation: Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-7) and Fourth Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads Conference: 20-24 Jan 2001 Workshop: 21 Jan 2001 Web page: http://www.csl.cornell.edu/hpca7/ http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/caecw01/ Synopsis: The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. This fourth workshop will again bring together researchers and practitioners in computer architecture and commercial workloads from industry and academia. We will discuss work-in-progress that utilizes commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer architectures. Call for participation: Title: International Conference On Mobile Data Management (MDM '2001) Conference: 8-10 Jan 2001 (Preconference Tutorials 1, Jan 7, 2000) Web page: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/mdm2001 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/ This month's sites: 'Tis the season for PhD students to start looking for jobs. This month's theme is sites to help them. Title: Tips for a Massive Academic Job Search Maintainer: Ellen Spertus URL: http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/job-search/job.html Summary: Tips and links useful for PhDs who plan to search for academic research jobs (this year or in the future.) Title: Steve Lumetta's Academic Job Resource Page Maintainer: Steve Lumetta URL: http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~steve/acad-job/ Summary: Useful links for PhDs who plan to search for academic research jobs. Title: Is work hell? Life in industrial research URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Wilkes/papers/CMUemigrationCourse.2up.ps Maintainer: John Wilkes Summary: Tips and links useful for PhDs who plan to search for industrial research jobs (this year or in the future.) Previous months' sites are listed at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ 3. About the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list ----------------------------------------- The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, still starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) 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