This award partially supports the travel of students and junior faculty from U. S. Universities to attend the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), which is to be held June 18-21, 2012. ICDCS has made significant impacts to the computing community since it was founded in 1979. The selected papers have influenced the design and implementation of many distributed computing systems, software and applications today. ICDCS has been an important venue for many graduate students and junior researchers around the world. In this conference, these young scholars interact with each other and learn the latest advances in distributed computing.
is a forum for scientists and engineers in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspect of distributed computing. ICDCS is a flagship conference in the field of distributed computing. The conference has made significant impacts to the computing community since it was founded in 1979. The selected papers have influenced the design and implementation of many distributed computing systems, software and applications today. ICDCS 2012 was held from June 18-21, 2012 in Macau, China. This year’s conference accepted 71 papers from 515 submissions (13.8% acceptance rate). In addition to the main conference, there were 8 related workshops organized before, during and after the conference. The goal of the travel grant was to encourage students, who may typically have financial obstacles, to attend ICDCS 2012. Funds from this travel grant gave 10 young researchers and students in the United States an opportunity to travel to and participate in ICDCS 2012. Besides technical paper presentations, the conference offered a wide range of technical activities including panels, posters, demos and keynote talks. Attending such a high-caliber technical conference is extremely valuable for future researchers. Participants were exposed to the state-of-the-art research in the field and had the opportunity to interact with peer graduate students, researchers and experts from all over the world, gaining knowledge that is likely to shape the future of the field.
