December 8–10, 2008, San Diego, CA

OSDI '08 brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The program includes papers on cloud computing, OS architecture, monitoring, concurrency issues, and more. The full program is now available. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

SysML08: Third Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 11, 2008, San Diego, CA

The SysML workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and systems to discuss ideas and techniques that will benefit the future of both fields. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

HotPower '08: Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

This workshop hopes to provide a forum in which to present the latest research and to debate directions, challenges, and novel ideas about building energy-efficient computing systems. The program includes paper presentations on power in storage, networks, and embedded systems, as well as a panel and poster session. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

WASL '08: First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

Join us for the first WASL, a workshop that will focus on novel techniques for extracting more information from existing system logs and on methods to improve the information content of future logs. The program includes paper presentations on log analysis tools and techniques and log sources, as well as a panel. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

WIOV '08: First Workshop on I/O Virtualization
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 10–11, 2008, San Diego, CA

Don't miss the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization, which is meant to provide a forum to discuss challenges of I/O virtualization that span the virtual machine monitor, guest operating system, processor, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem. The program features papers I/O architecture, network and storage virtualization, industrial practice, and more. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

Diversity '08: Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

The first Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research is a community-building event, serving both to educate women and under-represented minorities about the opportunities in systems research and to support researchers who are already working in the field. The workshop will include a range of panel sessions and presentations by leading researchers from academia and industrial labs. Find out more today. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

Attention students: Grants are also available for the workshop.

HotDep '08: Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability
Co-located with OSDI '08
December 7, 2008, San Diego, CA

Join us for the fourth HotDep, a workshop that brings forth cutting-edge research ideas spanning the domains of fault tolerance/reliability and systems. HotDep will center on critical components of the infrastructures touching our everyday lives: operating systems, networking, security, wide-area and enterprise-scale distributed systems, mobile computing, compilers, and language design. Check out the full program. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

FAST '09: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
February 24–27, 2009, San Francisco, CA

FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Meet with premier storage system researchers and practitioners for ground-breaking file and storage information! Interested in presenting new work? Submit a Work-in-Progress report or poster. Registration is now open and the full program is available.

Register online by February 9, 2009, and save!

For USENIX members, the full December issue of ;login: is now online.

Among the articles free to everyone: "Masquerade: Simulating a Thousand Victims," by Sam Small, Joshua Mason, Ryan MacArthur, and Fabian Monrose; "Update on Standards: Diary of a Standards Geek, Part 2," by Nick Stoughton; editor Rik Farrow's "Musings"; book reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky, Sam Stover, Brandon Ching, and Rik Farrow; and conference reports from the 17th USENIX Security Symposium and four associated Workshops.

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Just Up! New Proceedings: LISA '08

The online proceedings of the following recent events are now available:

• 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '08)

February 23, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Submissions deadline extended! December 9, 2008  Deadline Approaching!

USENIX '09: 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (CFP)
June 14–19, 2009, San Diego, CA

Submissions due: January 9, 2009

HotOS XII: 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (CFP)
May 18–20, 2009, Monte Verità, Switzerland

Submissions due: January 13, 2009

LEET '09: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (CFP)
April 21, 2009, Boston, MA

Submissions due: January 16, 2009

USENIX Security '09: 18th USENIX Security Symposium (CFP)
August 12–14, 2009, Montreal, Canada

Submissions due: February 4, 2009

USENIX LISA '09: 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference (CFP)
November 1–6, 2009, Baltimore, MD

Submissions due: April 30, 2009