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Subject: Important news and Information from USENIX (53545) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:05:54 -0700 (PDT) From: enotify@usenix.org To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

Dear USENIX members, SAGE members and past conference attendees:

We thought you'd be interested in the following news and information from USENIX.

------------------------------------------------------- 16TH SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE

Join practicing system administrators, researchers, software developers, and vendors at the 2002 LISA Conference & Tutorial Program, November 3-8 in Philadelphia, PA. This year's conference features:

*Expert instruction in over 35 tutorials, including: - UNIX, Solaris, and Linux system administration - Performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, SANs, massive upgrades, user request management, and other service challenges - Monitoring, intrusion detection, firewalls, and Web security - DNS administration and practical wireless networking

*Technical talks from experts with real-world experience, including: - Keynote: Jim Reese, Chief Operations Engineer of Google, on Google's architecture and the challenges of running an Internet search service - Larry Wall on Perl 6 - Paul Vixie on Internet governance, peering, and legislation - Curtis Preston, backup guru, on streamlining backup and recovery - Len Sassaman on "the promise of privacy" - Tim Nagle of TRW on his years with the NSA Red Team - Daniel V. Klein on the constitutional and legal arguments against spam

*FREE Vendor Exhibition, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, refereed paper track, Work-In-Progress reports, Guru-is-In sessions, Quiz show and much more.

Early registration ends October 11, 2002. Group discounts and student discounts are also available. http://www.usenix.org/lisa02/

------------------------------------------------------- MOBISYS 2OO3

Present your paper at MobiSys 2003, the First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and The USENIX Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, the conference seeks to present innovative, significant research in the area of mobile systems.

Submissions are due October 7, 2002 For more information, please visit: http://www.usenix.org/events/mobisys03/ ------------------------------------------------------- USENIX ANNUAL TECH KEYNOTE - NOW ONLINE

Listen to Professor Lawrence Lessig's Keynote, "The Internet's Coming Silent Spring", presented at this year's Annual Technical Conference in Monterey, CA.

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix02/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- SUBMIT YOUR PAPER The following submission deadlines are quickly approaching. Submit your paper and share your expertise with the community.

5th NordU/USENIX Conference (NordU2003) http://www.nordu.org/NordU2003/index.html Submissions deadline: September 2, 2002

2nd Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/ Submissions deadline: September 3, 2002

4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS) http://www.usenix.org/events/usits03/ Submissions deadline: September 16, 2002

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