SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column 36, December 2009,
is now available on the column's archive, both at the Technion:
http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/~idish/sigactNews
and at MIT:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/idish/sigactNews
The column reviews this year's major distributed computing events.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
"Barbara Liskov's Turing Award" by Rodrigo Rodrigues
Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2009: Nicola Santoro
"A Review of PODC 2009" by Keren Censor and Christoph Lenzen
"A Review of DISC 2009" by Andreas Tielmann
DISC 2009 Workshops
"What Theory for Transactional Memory?" by Vincent Gramoli
"BFTW3: Why? When? Where?" by Petr Kuznetsov and Rodrigo Rodrigues
"Reliability and Security in Wireless Networks" by Seth Gilbert and
Dariusz R. Kowalski
"Theoretical Aspects of Dynamic Distributed Systems" by Roberto
Baldoni and Alexander A. Shvartsman
"Game-Theoretic Aspects of Distributed Computing" by Chryssis
Georgiou
"Review of SIROCCO 2009" by Shantanu Das
Happy holidays,
-- Idit