Forwarded message from [mbj@MICROSOFT.com (Mike Jones)] sent originally on Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:17:56 -0800: : Dear COOTS attendee, : : OSDI 2000, the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and : Implementation, will be held Monday-Wednesday, October 23-25, 2000 at : Paradise Point Resort, San Diego, California, USA. OSDI is sponsored by the : USENIX Association and co-sponsored by ACM SIGOPS and IEEE TCOS. : : We would like to invite you to plan on participating. Paper submissions are : due Tuesday, April 25, 2000. You can view the Call for Participation and : other symposium information at : http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi2000/. : : The goal of the fourth OSDI is to present innovative, exciting work in the : systems area. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and : industrial backgrounds and has become a premiere forum for discussing the : design, implementation, and implications of systems software. : : The OSDI symposium emphasizes both innovative research and quantified : experience in the systems area. OSDI takes a broad view of what the systems : area encompasses and seeks contributions from all fields of systems : practice, including: operating systems, networking, distributed systems, : parallel systems, mobile systems, embedded systems, and the influence of : hardware developments on systems and vice-versa. We particularly encourage : contributions containing highly original ideas. : : The symposium will consist of 2.5 days of single-track technical sessions : with presentations of refereed papers and a keynote address. A session of : Work-in-Progress presentations is planned, and informal Birds-of-a-Feather : sessions may be organized by attendees. We hope to see you there! : : Sincerely, : : Mike Jones and Frans Kaashoek : OSDI Co-Chairs

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