{"id":36,"date":"2015-09-22T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podc.org\/podc2016\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:38:32","slug":"podc-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.podc.org\/podc2016\/","title":{"rendered":"PODC 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">PODC 2016<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois<br \/>\n<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1211985739\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 25-29, 2016<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>News<\/h2>\n<p>See the <a href=\"\/podc2016\/?p=250\">program<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/podc2016\/?p=354\">proceedings<\/a> from the conference. At the conference,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"\/?p=1620\">2016 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing<\/a>\u00a0went\u00a0to\u00a0Noga Alon, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Babai,\u00a0Alon Itai, and\u00a0Michael Luby.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=1607\">2016 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award<\/a>\u00a0went to\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Hsin-Hao Su\u00a0and\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Shahar Timnat\u00a0\u00a0(presented at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disc-conference.org\/wp\/disc2016\/\">DISC 2016<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>The best paper award went to\n<ul>\n<li>Andrea Cerone and Alexey Gotsman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N18962\"><i>Analysing Snapshot Isolation<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The best student paper award went to\n<ul>\n<li>Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Keren Censor-Hillel and Gregory Schwartzman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N18954\"><i>A Distributed (2+\u03b5)-Approximation for Vertex Cover in O(log(\u0394)\/\u03b5 log log(\u0394)) Rounds<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arnold Filtser and Shay Solomon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N18965\"><i>The Greedy Spanner is Existentially Optimal<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We held the\u00a0<a href=\"\/podc2016\/?p=337\">Faith Ellen Celebration<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate the\u00a0work of Faith Ellen.<\/li>\n<li>We heard great keynote lectures:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podc.org\/data\/podc2016\/AndrewChienInvitedTalk.pdf\">New Opportunities for PODC?: Massive, Volatile, but Highly Predictable Resources<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podc.org\/data\/podc2016\/AndrewChienInvitedTalk.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\nAndrew A. Chien (The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/data\/podc2016\/FaithEllenInvitedTalk.pdf\">Concurrent Data Structures<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"\/data\/podc2016\/FaithEllenInvitedTalk.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<br \/>\nFaith Ellen (University of Toronto)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/data\/podc2016\/PODC16-keynote-PBGibbons.pdf\">How Emerging Memory Technologies Will Have You Rethinking Algorithm Design<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"\/data\/podc2016\/PODC16-keynote-PBGibbons.pdf\">slides<\/a>) Phillip B. Gibbons (Carnegie Mellon University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow PODC on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/@podc_conference\">@podc_conference<\/a> and hash tag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PODC2016Chicago\">#PODC2016Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Scope<\/h2>\n<p>PODC solicits papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The common goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing.<\/p>\n<p>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity<\/li>\n<li>communication networks: algorithms, architectures, services, protocols, applications<\/li>\n<li>multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms<\/li>\n<li>shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, concurrent programming<\/li>\n<li>fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, self-organization, self-stabilization<\/li>\n<li>codes and reliable communication<\/li>\n<li>Internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems<\/li>\n<li>dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms<\/li>\n<li>distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, databases<\/li>\n<li>game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing<\/li>\n<li>distributed mechanisms design<\/li>\n<li>peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, distributed data management<\/li>\n<li>high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing<\/li>\n<li>wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents and robots<\/li>\n<li>context-aware distributed systems<\/li>\n<li>security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols<\/li>\n<li>distributed cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols<\/li>\n<li>quantum and optics based distributed algorithms<\/li>\n<li>nanonetworks<\/li>\n<li>biological distributed algorithms<\/li>\n<li>sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks<\/li>\n<li>specification, semantics, verification of concurrent systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PODC 2016 Chicago, Illinois July 25-29, 2016 News See the program and the proceedings from the conference. At the conference, The 2016 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing\u00a0went\u00a0to\u00a0Noga Alon, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Babai,\u00a0Alon Itai, and\u00a0Michael Luby. The\u00a02016 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award\u00a0went to\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Hsin-Hao Su\u00a0and\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Shahar Timnat\u00a0\u00a0(presented at\u00a0DISC 2016). 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