SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 1-October-2000


Contents
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  1. Announcements
     DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000)
     SIGMETRICS 2001 / Performance 2001
     Special announcement: Computing reviews reviewers urgently needed
  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: SIGMETRICS 2001 / Performance 2001
       Joint Intl. Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems
Deadline: 26 October 2000
Conference: June 17-20th, 2001
Web page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001
Synopsis:
  The joint SIGMETRICS/Performance conference solicits papers
  (and proposals for tutorials and hot topics) on the
  development and application of state-of-the-art, broadly-applicable
  analytic, simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation
  techniques. Of particular interest is work that furthers the
  state-of-the-art in performance evaluation methods, or those that
  creatively apply previously developed methods to understand or to gain
  important insights into key design trade-offs in complex
  computer/communication systems.


Title: DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000)
Symposium: 4-6 October 2000
Place: Toledo (Spain)
Web page: www.DISC2000.org
Synopsis: One of the two leading annual technical meetings in the 
        theory of distributed computing and algorithms.



Special announcement: _Computing_Reviews_ reviewers needed

  Reviewers are urgently needed to write reviews of computing
  literature for Computing Reviews, the Association for Computing
  Machinery's review journal covering computing literature from around
  the world.  ACM is expanding the scope of CR in preparation for
  launching an online version. At the same time, a number of long-time
  reviewers have retired, and there is a critical need for people who
  are qualified to review articles and books in the computing
  field. If you are interested in seeing your reviews in print (and
  online), please go to ACM's Web application form at
  http://www.acm.org/reviews. In addition, please tell any of your
  colleagues you think might be interested and direct them to this
  URL.
                             Carol Wierzbicki
                             Executive Editor, Computing Reviews
                             wierzbicki@acm.org



2. Sites-of-the-month
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			  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
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This month's sites:

Title: Risks Forum
URL: news:comp.risks
URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/risks.html
Summary:
  Cautionary tales of computer system design moderated by
  Peter G. Neumann. I hope that every programmer who is involved in
  building the cars I drive, the banks I frequent, and the software I
  run is a regular reader.


Title: In Pursuit of Simplicity: the manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
Summary:	
  From the forward:
  Although most of Edsger's publications began life as EWD manuscripts,
  the great majority of his manuscripts remain unpublished. They have
  been inaccessible to many potential readers, and those who have
  received copies have been unable to cite them in their own work. To
  alleviate both of these problems, the department has collected over a
  thousand of the manuscripts in this permanent web site...We hope you
  will find it convenient, useful, inspiring, and enjoyable.


Previous months' sites are listed at 
       http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/







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