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With approx. 80,000 members, ACM delivers resources that advance as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital ACM Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources. With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Society is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the IEEE Computer Society 39 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information- processing technology.

ASPLOS is a multi-disciplinary conference for research that spans the boundaries of hardware, , , languages, operating systems, networking, and applications. ASPLOS provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in these rapidly changing ASPLOS XIII ACM SIGARCH, SIGPLAN, SIGOPS 3 days fields. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past two decades (e.g., RISC and VLIW processors, small and large-scale multiprocessors, clusters and networks-of-workstations, optimizing compilers, RAID, and network-storage system designs). BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, has quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating BSDCanada 4 days systems and related projects. The organizers have found a fantastic formula that appeals to a wide range of people from extreme novices to advanced The Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC) assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences and workshops into a week long coordinated meeting 7 day mix of held at a common time in a common place. This model FCRC 2003 Federated Computing Tutorials, retains the advantages of the smaller conferences, while Research Conference (held every 4 ACM Workshops, and at the same time, facilitates communication among years) Sessions researchers in different fields in and SEE ATTACHED engineering. Mornings of FCRC week will begin with joint plenary talks on topics of broad appeal to the computing research community.

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The Internet Measurement Conference is an annual conference focusing on Internet measurement and analysis, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM in cooperation IMC ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX with USENIX. The aim is that papers presented at the 2.5 days conference contribute to the current understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into how the Internet behaves. The broad scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of Middleware ACM, IFIP, USENIX 2 days distributed systems platforms and architectures for future computing environments. MobiSys 2008 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless MobiSys ACM SIG-MOBILE, ACM SIGOPS, USENIX systems, applications, and services. This conference 3.5 days builds on the success of the previous five MobiSys conferences. It is jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. OOPSLA is the premier conference for innovative and thought-provoking ideas, for seeking comment on works in progress, and (frequently, we're proud to say) for presenting lecturers on significant works. OOPSLA ACM SIGPLAN & SIGSOFT 3 days It is where industry experts and their academic peers gather and collaborate to: Improve programming languages; refine the practice of software developmeng; and explore new paradigms The SIGCOMM 2008 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite SIGCOMM '07 ACM SIGCOMM 5 days submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and simulation. The biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles is the world's premier forum for researchers, developers, programmers, vendors and teachers of SOSP '07- bi-annual (next '09) ACM 3 days operating system technology. Academic and industrial participants present research and experience papers that cover the full range of theory and practice. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise EuroSys ACM, SIGOPS, HP, 3 days spread over multiple conferences and seekss papers on all aspects of computer systems.

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the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for the presentation of developments 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security & IEEE Committee on Security & Privacy in computer security and electronic privacy, and for 3 days Privacy bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. SC is the premier international conference on high Supercomputing, (SC) IEEE, ACM performance computing, networking, storage, and 5 days analysis. EuroBSDCon is the european technical conference for EuroBSDCon FreeBSD people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating 2 days systems and related projects The purpose of NDSS is to bring the global Internet community together to learn about and discuss cutting- NDSS '07 ISOC - Internet SOCiety 3 days edge advances in the science and application of network and distributed systems security. For a decade, linux.conf.au has brought Linux and open source enthusiasts from around the globe together. This internationally recognised conference, inaugurated in linux.conf.au 1999 as the Conference of Australian Linux Users, has 5 Days cultivated a reputation for successfully combining technology, community and fun whilst attracting key industry figures from around the world. The Linux Symposium is one of the foremost Linux and Open Source conferences in the world, bringing together software developers, industry professionals and Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) 4 days enthusiasts to discuss the latest emerging technologies and ways to improve the functionality and integration of Linux and Open Source software. The Linux Expo of Southern California Inc is a non-profit organization currently comprised, but not limited to, members of the USCLUG, UCLALUG, and SCLUG. The mission of SCALE is outreach - our goal is to evangelize SCALE: Southern California Linux Expo the advantages of Open Source software. Open Source 3 days software is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI (Open Source Initiative)1. Examples of OSS are Linux and the various BSD operating systems, and applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla. Linux World provides practical, real-world guidance and inspiration from more than 100 technical sessions and Linux World IDG 3 days visionary keynotes by top Linux and open source thought leaders

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O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference hones in on the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha O'Reilly Emerging Technology O'Reilly geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and inventing right 3 days Conference now, creating a space for all participants to connect and be inspired. OSCON is the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together the best, brightest, and most OSCon '6 O'Reilly OpenSource O'Reilly interesting people to explore what's new, and to 4.5 days champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. SANS offers courses appropriate for all levels of experience. Whether you are new to or SANS Annual Conference SANS looking for advanced technical courses, we have what 6 day tracks you need from half-day sessions to intense six-day bootcamp classes.

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