2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference - Announcement and Call For Papers
Hali McGrath
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2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Announcement and Call for
Papers June 25-30, 2001 Marriot Copley Place Hotel Boston,
Massachusetts USA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Best Paper Awards Awards will be given for the best paper and best
student paper within the Refereed Paper Submissions.
1) Important Dates
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FREENIX Refereed Track: November 27, 2000 General Session Refereed
Track: December 1, 2000 Notification to authors: January 31, 2001
Camera-ready papers due: May 1, 2001
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Program Chair: Yoonho Park, IBM Research
2) Overview
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USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For over 25
years, its members have come from a broad community of developers,
researchers, system administrators and engineers with interests
spanning the full range of technology. As the core conference of this
community, 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.
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.
3) Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cluster
computing * Complexity management * Distributed caching and
replication * Extensible operating systems * File systems and storage
systems * Interoperability of heterogeneous systems * Mobile code *
Networking and network services * Multimedia * Pervasive computing *
Reliability and QoS * Security and privacy * Web technologies
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