SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting 7-Sept-2000 

Contents
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  1. Announcements
     USENIX 2001 CFP
     WWW10 CFP
     ICDCS CFP
  2. Sites-of-the-month
     Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful
     Review of operating systems
  3. About this list 
     How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements

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1. Announcements
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Title: Tenth International World Wide Web Conference
Deadline: 13 November 2000
Conference: 1-5 May 2001
Web page: www10.org 
Synopsis: 
   Leaders from industry, academia, and government will present the
   latest developments in Web technology, and discuss the issues and
   challenges facing the web community as it moves into the 21st
   century. 

Title: USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2001
Deadline: 1 December 2000
Conference: 25-30 June 2001
Web page: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/
Synopsis: 
  Three days of tutorials start the conference with practical
  tutorials on timely topics. The three-day technical session of the
  conference follows and includes a track of General Session Refereed
  Papers selected by the Program Committee; a track of Invited Talks
  by experts and leaders in the field; and FREENIX, a track of
  refereed papers on freely available POSIX-based software and
  systems.


Title: 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 
       (ICDCS-21)
Deadline: 10 Sept 2000 (Extended deadline: 17 Sept 2000)
Conference: 16-19 April 2001
Web page: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/ICDCS2001
Synopsis: 
  This conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in
  academia, industry, and government to present their latest
  research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel
  computing. 



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

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This month's sites:

Name: Review of Operating Systems
URL: http://www.tunes.org/Review/OSes.html
Maintainer: Emmanuel Marty
Maintainer Email: core@suntech.fr
Recommended by: Greg Law (Thanks!)
Summary: A comprehensive review of commerical, free, research and hobby
         OSs


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







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