SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-NOV-2000


Contents
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  1. Announcements
     Calls for papers and program annoucements
     2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
     Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing
     Web Caching and Content Distribution Workshop
  2. Sites-of-the-month
     Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful
  3. About this list 
     How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements

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1. Announcements
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Title: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Deadline:
  Freenix submission deadline: November 27, 2000
  General Sessions submission deadline: December 1, 2000
Conference: June 25-30, 2001
Web page: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01
Synopsis:
  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: Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing
Deadline: 20 November 2000
Conference: 2-4 May 2001
Web page: http://isorc2001.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Synopsis:
  This is the fourth IEEE Computer Society symposium dealing with the
  rapidly expanding field of object-oriented real-time distributed
  computing (ORC) technology.  The principal theme of ISORC is the use
  of the object-oriented computing paradigm---which has prevailed in
  many non-real-time applications in the past decade---in a wide
  variety of real-time applications.


Title: Web Caching and Content Distribution Workshop
Deadline: 8 Jan 2001
Conference: 20 June 2001
Web page: http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/wcw01/
Synopsis:
  The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution
  (WCW) is a premiere technical meeting for researchers and
  practitioners interested in all aspects of content caching,
  distribution and delivery on the Internet.




2. Sites-of-the-month
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			  Please contribute.

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Title: CMU Distinguished Lecture Series
URL: http://www.ulib.org/cgi-bin/fastVideo.pl?target=/ASFroot/_Distinguished_Lecture_Series
Summary: 
	 Streaming video of disguished lectures in computer science.



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       http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/







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