Twenty-Fifth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on
Principles of Distributed Computing
(PODC 2006)

July 23-26, 2006, Denver, Colorado, USA

PODC is a conference that focuses on research in the theory, design, specification and implementation of distributed systems. PODC is sponsored by ACM, SIGACT, and SIGOPS.

Sign-up for the 25-Year Rump Session!

Hotel Reservations (deadline: June 22, 2006)
Conference Program
PODC Steering Committee elections
PODC business meeting

Important Dates

Posters and Demonstrations

Submission deadline:	May 8^th, 2006, at 20:59 PDT.
Acceptance notification:	June 1^st, 2006

Nominations: 2006 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

Nomination deadline:

June 1^st, 2006.

Anniversary Celebrations

The 25^th Anniversary Celebrations will feature several events:

Invited talks by:
- Tushar Chandra (Google Inc.),
- Danny Dolev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
- Maurice Herlihy (Brown University),
- Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University),
- Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon).
Special celebration of 25 years of PODC on Sunday, including prizes, etc., before the conference starts. Organized by Maurice Herlihy, Dahlia Malkhi, and Mark Tuttle.
Festive reception accompanied by a poster session on Sunday night.

Ongoing

Overhead and LCD projectors will be available for presenters.
New: The 2006 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is awarded to:
"Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors",
John M. Mellor-Crummey and Michael L. Scott,
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9(1), 1991.
New: Registration now open!!!
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New: The Preliminary Program is now available.
Call for Nominations: 2006 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing "PODC Influential Paper Award".
Call for Posters. Click here to submit electronically.
List of accepted papers.

Further Information

Call for Papers
Local Information
Program Committee
Steering Committee
Conference Committee
Best Student Paper Award
Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
Conferences on Related Areas
A selection of the papers will be published by Springer-Verlag's journal Distributed Computing, continuing with a past collaboration.
The main PODC web page (includes links to earlier PODCs, information for the PODC mailing list and for ordering proceedings from earlier PODCs, and others).

Sponsors

PODC 2006 has been sponsored in part by generous contributions from the following:

American Visas: If you require a visa to attend PODC, please send your request for a letter in support of a visa application to Stephanie Smith (smith_s@acm.org) at ACM headquarters, and include your name, mailing address, and fax number. Indicate that you plan to attend PODC (authors of papers/posters should also include the title). Click here for more details.