May 5-6, 1997 The Wequasset Inn - Chatham (Cape Cod), Massachusetts
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments
The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems will bring together people who write applications and have ideas about what an operating system should provide, people who build operating systems for a living and care how they are put together, and researchers in operating systems who think they know how to solve both kinds of problems. The purpose of HotOS-VI is to explore the goals, costs, and compromises of operating system design and implementation, and to encourage discussion of novel, controversial, or unjustly abandoned ideas in the field. The workshop is designed to encourage full participation of each attendee; both presenters and audience will be active contributors throughout the workshop.We would like to explore questions such as:
To assure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be limited to 60 participants active in the field. Each potential participant should submit ten copies of a position paper of no more than 3000 words (not counting references). We will favor position papers that propose new directions, advocate non-traditional approaches, or generate controversy and discussion. We encourage submissions from practitioners as well as from researchers. Please do not submit abbreviated versions of conference or journal papers.
Position statements will be distributed to participants before the workshop, and will appear in a proceedings volume. The program committee may invite the authors of the best position statements to provide an extended version of their statements for the workshop proceedings.
Submission deadline: January 15, 1997
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 1997
Final position papers due: March 28, 1997
General Chair: Brad Chen, Harvard University
Program Chair: Jeffrey Mogul,
Digital Equipment Corp. Western Research Lab.
Publicity Chair: Puneet Kumar,
Digital Equipment Corp. Systems Research Ctr.
Finance/Registration Chair: Joseph Boykin,
CLARiion Advanced Storage Solutions
Program Committee:
Mary Baker, Stanford University
Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin
John Carter, University of Utah
Peter Druschel, Rice University
Rob Gingell, Sun Microsystems
Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden Research Center
Rob Pike, Bell Laboratories
Jerome H. Saltzer, M.I.T.
Steering Committee:
Brian Bershad, University of Washington
Joseph Boykin, CLARiion Adv. Storage Solutions
Fred Douglis, AT&T Research
Mike Jones, Microsoft Research
Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Send submissions (10 printed copies) to:
Jeffrey Mogul/HotOS-VI Program Chair
Digital Equipment Corp. Western Research Lab.
250 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Please also send the title, author name(s), and abstract
in plain ASCII to hotos6-submit@pa.dec.com
Send questions to hotos6-info@pa.dec.com
More information is available at
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/hotos/
Potential participants should check there for
last-minute information.