[DMANET] PODC'12 will take place in the beautiful island of Madeira

*** Note the early registration deadline: June 15. ****

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- PODC 2012 -

31st Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on
Principles of Distributed Computing

July 16-18, 2012, 2012
Madeira, Portugal

http://podc.org/podc2012/

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The complete program for PODC 2012 is now available at:

http://www.podc.org/podc2012/program.shtml

A highlight of PODC 2012 will be the presentation of the
Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize which was won by:

- Maurice Herlihy, J. Eliot B. Moss, Nir Shavit, and Dan Touitou
for their groundbreaking work on Transactional Memory.


There will also be two invited talks:

- David Peleg (Towards an Algorithmically Usable SINR Model for Wireless
Communication)
- Scott Shenker (Software-Defined Networking: History, Hype, and Hope).


In addition, there will be an invited "Industrial Session" with:
- David Dice from Oracle (Synchronization - A Practitioner's Report), and
- Harry Li from Facebook (Practical Consistency Tradeoffs).


Finally, there are three workshops on July 19 co-located with PODC:

- FOMC 2012: The 8th ACM SIGACT International Workshop on Foundations
of Mobile Computing (Formerly known as DIALM-POMC)

- LADIS 2012: The 6th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware

- WTTM 2012: The 4th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory

Registration is now open, and the early registration deadline is:

***** June 15 *******

Madeira is a beautiful island where you can combine work and holidays.

See you in Madeira!


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