SOSP Women's Workshop

Oct 13-14, 2007

Skamania Lodge, Stevenson WA

Program

Saturday October 13

3 - 5 pm Arrival and registration
5 - 5:30 pm

Session 0 - Welcome & Tips on navigating a technical conference [slides]
Carla Ellis, Duke University

5:30 - 7 pm

Session 1 - Beyond the OS textbook - getting started in OS research [slides]
Dilma da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett Packard Labs

7 pm - on Dinner

 

Sunday October 14

7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30-10 am

Session 2 - Major themes in systems design research
Barbara Liskov, MIT [slides]
Sharon Perl, Google
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University [slides]

10 - 10:30 am Break
10:30- noon

Session 3 - Bugs and threats and risks, oh no!
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [slides]

noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3 pm

Session 4 - Career advice for OS researchers
Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research, Cambridge [slides]
Jinyang Li, New York University [slides]
Barbara Liskov, MIT

3 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5 pm

Session 5 - Challenges of architectural trends
Susan Eggers, University of Washington [slides]
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University [slides]

Break before SOSP conference reception

Organized by: Carla Ellis, Sharon Perl, & Barbara Liskov

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