Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings

chairs for the two workshops held Bay Area Super User Group meet- Simultaneous submission of the in conjunction with MobiSys ’05 ing, held in November 2005 same work to multiple venues, Michael Hind and Jan Vitek, Inter- Michael B. Jones, Clem Cole, Alva submission of previously pub- national Conference on Virtual Couch, Theodore Ts’o, Matt Blaze, lished work, and plagiarism con- Execution Environments Jon Hall, Geoff Halprin, and Kirk stitute dishonesty or fraud. Margo Seltzer, HotOS X McKusick, for their service on the USENIX, like other scientific and Dina Katabi and Balachander USENIX Board in 2005 technical conferences and jour- Krishnamurthy, Steps to Reducing nals, prohibits these practices and Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Rob Kolstad and Don Piele for may, on the recommendation of a Workshop their efforts with the USA Com- program chair, take action against Ted Ts’o, 2005 Linux Kernel Devel- puting Olympiad, sponsored by authors who have committed opers Summit USENIX them. In some cases, program Patrick McDaniel, 14th USENIX Kirk McKusick and Dan Geer for committees may share information Security Symposium serving on the USENIX 2006 about submitted papers with other David Blank-Edelman, 19th LISA Nominating Committee conference chairs and journal edi- Brad Karp and Vivek Pai, 2nd Mike Jones for serving as liaison to tors to ensure the integrity of pa- Workshop on Real, Large Distrib- the Computing Research Associa- pers under consideration. If a vio- uted Systems tion lation of these principles is found, Garth Gibson, 4th USENIX Confer- sanctions may include, but are not ence on File and Storage Tech- USENIX is grateful to all! limited to, barring the authors nologies from submitting to or participating Invited Talk/Special Track Chairs SUMMARY OF USENIX IIIIIIIIIIIIIII in USENIX conferences for a set and Coordinators: BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS, period, contacting the authors’ in- APRI L 22–OCTOBER 20, 2005I IIIIII stitutions, and publicizing the de- USENIX ’05: tails of the case. Ethan Miller and Erez Zadok, In- ELLIE YOUNG AND vited Talks TARA MULLIGAN USENIX Annual Technical Confer- ence: USENIX has been experi- Atul Adya, Poster Session Conference Network Policy: As menting with formats and time- many of you know, USENIX pro- Security ’05: frame. It was decided that in vides open and insecure wireless Virgil Gligor and Gary McGraw, future years the conference would connectivity at most of our confer- Invited Talks move back to a June timeframe. It ences. The following policy was LISA ’05: will be held in regions with a adopted earlier this year regarding Adam Moskowitz and Bill LeFeb- strong local IT community. The use of the conference network: vre, Invited Talks conference will focus on bridging Philip Kizer, Guru Is In Sessions USENIX may monitor the confer- the gap between academia and in- Luke Kanies, Workshops ence network. USENIX strongly dustry. The General Sessions refer- recommends that all users encrypt And: eed paper track will be renamed their transmissions, and users are Systems Practice and Experience, Victor Bahl for his efforts on the solely responsible for the security with an emphasis on practical im- steering committee for MobiSys of their passwords and data. Illicit plementations and experimental ’05 or intrusive use of the network, in- results. An invited talks track and B. Krishnamurthy for his efforts as cluding packet sniffing, is express- tutorials will be offered every day. liaison and his work on the steer- ly forbidden. Offenders of this pol- The FREENIX track will be re- ing committee for the SIG- icy will be given a verbal warning placed by a conference on experi- COMM/USENIX Internet Mea- on the first offense, and ousted mental computing systems and en- surement Conference from the conference on the second gineering (to be held in 2007). offense. Peter Honeyman for his efforts in USENIX is also seeking more reaching out to other groups, in- Fraudulent Paper Submissions: workshops to co-locate with An- ternational and domestic: the USENIX has adopted the following nual Tech: A workshop on e-vot- OpenAFS community, the SANE policy in response to the growing ing is slated for 2006. conference, What the Hack, and problem of people submitting ir- New! HotDep ’06: USENIX will the Middleware conference regular or fraudulent paper sub- sponsor the Second Workshop on missions to conferences. The poli- Jennifer Davis of BayLISA in help- Hot Topics in System Dependabili- cy is included in all Calls for ing USENIX organize the first SF ty (HotDep ’06), which will center Papers: on critical components of infra- ;LOGIN: DECEMBER 2005 USENIX NOTES 67 structures such as operating sys- SAGE: The USENIX Board of Direc- Next Meeting: The next regular tems, networking, security, distrib- tors has been in discussion with a meeting of the Board of Directors uted systems, and mobile comput- new organization, SAGE Inc., will be held on Monday, December ing. It will be co-located with about the possibility of their pro- 5, 2005, at the LISA conference in OSDI in November 2006. viding services to the USENIX San Diego, CA. What The Hack ’05: The Board SAGE members. No decisions had been made as of October 26. agreed that USENIX should be a SAGE CODE OF ETHICS co-sponsor of What The Hack Nominating Committee: Kirk The SAGE Ethics Review commit- 2005, which was held in the McKusick was appointed the chair tee is reviewing the Code of Netherlands in July 2005. USENIX of the 2006 USENIX nominating Ethics. Email committee@ provided $10K in funds and help committee for the Board elections, sageethics.org to get involved. with promotion. which will be held in the spring of 2006. Thanks to USENIX Supporting Members ADDISON-WESLEY/PRENTICE HALL PTR MICROSOFT RESEARCH AMD NETAPP ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ORACLE CAMBRIDGE COMPUTER SERVICES, INC. OSDL EAGLE SOFTWARE, INC. PERFECT ORDER ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION RAYTHEON ELI RESEARCH RIPE NCC GROUNDWORK OPEN SOURCE SENDMAIL, INC. SOLUTIONS SPLUNK HEWLETT-PACKARD SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. IBM TAOS INTEL TELLME NETWORKS INTERHACK UUNET TECHNOLOGIES, INC. THE MEASUREMENT FACTORY It is with the generous financial support of our supporting members that USENIX is able to fulfill its mission to: • Foster technical excellence and innovation • Support and disseminate research with a practical bias • Provide a neutral forum for discussion of technical issues • Encourage computing outreach into the community at large We encourage your organization to become a supporting member. Send email to Catherine Allman, Sales Director, [email protected], or phone her at 510-528-8649 extension 32. For more information about memberships, see http://www.usenix.org/membership/classes.html. 68 ;LO GIN: V OL. 30, NO. 6.

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