This grant will support of the attendance of 22 US-based graduate students to attend The 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2013). Participation in leading conferences is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and to be exposed to leading edge work. In the area of computer systems, SOSP is one of the few such leading conferences. The support requested in this proposal will make possible the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend. SIGOPS is among the oldest of the ACM SIGs, and has a distinguished history of contributions to the advancement of systems research. Many of the key components of the in-formation revolution, from memory management to the Internet, secure communications protocols, net-work file systems, and ubiquitous computing, were first showcased in SIGOPS-affiliated conferences. SIGOPS is a sponsor of SOSP as well as the annual EuroSys conference.
For 40 years, SOSP has been the premier forum for innovative research in operating systems. Continuing in the SOSP tradition, SOSP 20113 brought together the leading researchers and luminaries in the field and featured the best and brightest of the Ph.D. candidates in computer systems. Participants presented and discussed their research and experience and cover the full range of theory and practice. This grant supported the attendance of additional 43 US-based graduate students. Participation in leading conferences is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and to be exposed to leading edge work. In the area of computer systems, SOSP is one of the few such leading conferences. The support from this grant made possible the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend. Particular attention was paid to supporting under-represented minorities: the grant supported 3 ethnic minorities and 18 women. The grant also helped student attend workshops co-located with the conference: Workshop on Diversity in Systems Research, Workshop on Hot Topics in Dependable Systems, Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads, Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, and Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems. Of the 43 funded students, 13 attended the Workshop on Diversity in Systems Research.
