1999 Federated Computing Research Conference

Planning continues for the third Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), which will be held in Atlanta at the downtown Hilton April 30 - May 6, 1999. CRA will be a cosponsor along with ACM, IEEE, and other organizations, with ACM doing the major part of the administrative work. The conference chair is CRA Board member David S. Johnson of AT&T Labs. Past Chair Mary Jane Irwin, CRA Board member from Pennsylvania State University, is on the steering committee, along with David Wise of Indiana University and Donna Baglio of ACM.

As in the past, registrants for one conference can attend talks at any of the other conferences going on at the same time. In addition, registration fees will be structured to encourage attendees at one conference to extend their stay for all or part of a conference in the other half of the schedule.

The portion of the registration fee that covers overall conference overhead will only be charged once for each attendee, no matter how many conference events he or she chooses to attend.

The remainder of the registration fee consists of charges and individual conference "package fees." The charges will cover the daily amenities, which include continental breakfasts, breaks, bundled lunches, and evening "mix and mingle" hours. (The charges are uniform among all the conferences, at the request of past attendees.) The conference package fees will cover conference-specific items, such as receptions and business meetings, conference proceedings, and program committee expenses.

Although there will be no FCRC-wide excursions this time, ISCA and PADS intend to include excursions in their packages, for which other attendees may purchase tickets.

For more information, see the FCRC webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/. Details of the program and how to register should be available there by early February.

The conferences committed to participate so far are:

• CRA Workshop on Academic Careers for Women in Computing Science (CRA-W)
  
• ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
  
• ACM Workshop on Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors (WSSMM)
  
• ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS)
  
• ACM SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools (METRICS)
  
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
  
• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Compiler Support for System Software (WCSSS)
  
• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)
• ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming (PPOPP)
  
• ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
  
• IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (COMPLEXITY)
  
• ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)
  
• ACM/UMIACS Workshop on Parallel Algorithms (WOPA)
  
• ACM/IEEE Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS)
  

The tentative schedule for the confirmed conferences is as follows:

	FRI 4/30	SAT 5/1	SUN 5/2	MON 5/3	TUE 5/4	WED 5/5	THU 5/6
CRA-W	X	X
WSSMM	1/2	X
WCSSS		X
PLDI		T	X	X	X
ISCA		T	X	X	1/2
METRICS		T	X	X	1/2
PADS		T	X	X	1/2
STOC			X	X	X
COMPLEXIITY					X	X	X
PODC					X	X	1/2
PPOPP					1/2	X	X
WOPA					1/2	X
IOPADS						X
LCTES						X