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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A note
from Al Spector:<br>
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I'm writing to you as General Chair of the Symposium on Cloud
Computing.
<br>
<br>
I took on this conference, because of the truly enormous impact and
<br>
potential of this area, in both research and engineering. While one
could
<br>
argue that Cloud Computing is "just distributed
computing/distributed
<br>
databases on steroids," many things make the area much more
interesting:
<br>
There are quite a few orders of magnitude in scale. There are vast
number
<br>
of emerging applications (e.g., most of us who worked on traditional
OLTP
<br>
never anticipated the data, transaction, and processing requirements
of
<br>
web-scale AI/machine learning...). There are enormously interesting
<br>
economic implications on both the cost and pricing side. And, many
more...
<br>
<br>
So, on October 15-17th in San Jose, we'll have the first
ACM-sponsored,
<br>
independent Cloud Computing Conference, and I am hoping that we will
<br>
establish SOCC in the best tradition of SOSP, SIGMOD, and the other
great
<br>
systemsy conferences. The Program Committee, under the leadership of
<br>
Michael Carey and Steven Hand accepted ~25 papers, out of 160
submissions,
<br>
so we have a great start. We've also gotten excellent sponsorships,
so the
<br>
conference should be a most pleasant experience.
<br>
<br>
The program for The Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2012) is now
online.
<br>
<br>
Why this note? It is to encourage you and/or some of your team
<br>
members/colleagues to attend the conference. For those unable to
register
<br>
before the original, early bird deadline, we have extended the early
bird
<br>
registration deadline to September 24, 2012. I'd like to see
diverse
<br>
attendance from the many relevant areas of academe and industry, and
I'd
<br>
appreciate your help.
<br>
<br>
Thanks for your attention.
<br>
<br>
Alfred
<br>
<br>
PS -- For details on the exciting things happening at SoCC 2012,
continue
<br>
reading below.
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<br>
What’s new at SoCC 2012?
<br>
This will be an exciting year for SoCC because it’s the first time
it
<br>
will run independently from SIGMOD and SOSP. In addition, its
Silicon
<br>
Valley location should make it easy for the large local cloud
computing
<br>
community to participate. Program details are in the works, but it
will
<br>
include a keynote address, two full days of single-track technical
talks,
<br>
and then a day of optional tutorials. Below are a few of the
anticipated
<br>
highlights:
<br>
<br>
Keynote
<br>
The accomplished Scott Shenker (Berkeley) will be keynoting at SoCC
2012 on
<br>
“Software-Defined Networking: Overview and Implications”. In
addition
<br>
to teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he is also
the chief
<br>
scientist and leader of the Networking Group at the International
Computer
<br>
Science Institute, where he was a founding member of the ICSI Center
for
<br>
Internet Research. Scott has received awards from both SIGCOMM and
IEEE and
<br>
serves as a leader in the movement toward Software-Defined
Networking.
<br>
<br>
Tutorials
<br>
We will have two tracks of informative Tutorials available the day
after
<br>
the main conference:
<br>
<br>
“Designing Good Algorithms for Map-Reduce and Beyond” (Full Day)
<br>
Speakers: Foto N. Afrati (NTUA and Google), Magdalena
Balazinska
<br>
(University of Washington), Anish Das Sarma (Google), Bill Howe
(University
<br>
of Washington), Semih Salihoglu (Stanford University), and Jeffrey
D.
<br>
Ullman (Stanford University)
<br>
“Distributed Programming and Consistency: Principles and
Practice”
<br>
(Half Day)
<br>
Speakers: Peter Alvaro (UC Berkeley), Neil Conway (UC
Berkeley), and Joseph
<br>
M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
<br>
“Open Source Cloud Technologies” (Half Day)
<br>
Speaker: Salman A. Baset (IBM Research)
<br>
<br>
<br>
Papers
<br>
We received over 160 paper submissions covering a variety of topics.
As
<br>
mentioned, The program committee accepted ~25 papers, which equates
to a
<br>
selective 15.33% acceptance rate, so you can look forward to a very
high
<br>
quality technical program.
<br>
<br>
Networking
<br>
In addition to the high-caliber technical participation at the
conference,
<br>
there will also be opportunities to mingle with world-class leaders
in
<br>
cloud computing in a more informal setting (i.e accompanied by
excellent
<br>
food, wine, and cocktails). Monday evening, October 15th, we will
host a
<br>
banquet exclusively for SoCC attendees at the Tech Museum, which
houses
<br>
many innovative exhibits.
<br>
<br>
The SoCC 2012 organizing committee is excited to hear about all the
latest
<br>
work being done in cloud computing and to bringing together all of
the
<br>
fantastic thought leaders in this field. We hope to see you there!
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