News & Noteworthy
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) is seeking a new Editor-In-Chief
The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC.
read moreNSF Aspiring CSR PIs Workshop
NSF is an opportunity for faculty members in system areas to learn more about the NSF CSR programs and grant-writing techniques.
read moreSATIS 2018 extended submission deadline
Submission deadline for SATIS 2018 has been extended to 28 March 2018.
read moreWhat Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You by Kathryn S. McKinley
Dr. Kathryn S. McKinley talks about about diversity, harassment, and how to make our research community more inclusive.
read moreEvents
9th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2018)
The 2018 ACM SIGOPS APSys will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea on August 27-28, 2018
read moreThe 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in System (SATIS)
ACM SIGOPS is sponsoring a series of summer schools on Advanced Topics in Systems to be held once every two years. This first summer school will focus on advanced topics in Distributed Systems and will be held 14-17 August 2018 on the picturesque and secluded island of Sommarøy located in a Norwegian fjord 300 km (200 miles) north of the Arctic circle.
read moreAPSys 2017: September 2-3, 2017
Building on the success of its predecessors, APSys 2017 will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys 2017 will be held September 2-3 in Mumbai, India.
read moreTuring Award Celebration
During the next several months, ACM will celebrate 50 years of the Turing Award and the visionaries who have received it. Our aim is to highlight the significant impact of the contributions of the Turing Laureates on computing and society, to look ahead to the future of technology and innovation, and to help inspire the next generation of computer scientists to invent and dream.
read moreRecent Awards
2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
The 2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing goes to Bowen Alpern and Fred B. Schneider for their paper: Defining liveness, published in Information Processing Letters 21(4), October 1985.
read moreASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award 2018
The ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award for 2018 goes to the ASPLOS 2000 paper: OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage. The authors are John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Wells, and Ben Zhao
read moreSOSP Student Research Competition 2017 Winners
SOSP 2017 hosted its first ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Congratulations to Jon Gjengset, Brandon Zhang, Tej Chajed, Gefei Zuo, Anish Athalye, and Levente Kurus.
read moreThe Dennis M. Ritchie Award 2017
The 2017 SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award goes to Haogang Chen.
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