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USENIX FAST '11 Call for Papers Now Available

Now is your chance to submit your work to the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11).

USENIX Security '10 and Workshops Registration Now Open

Whether you're a researcher, a system administrator, or a policy wonk, come to the 19th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '10) to find out how changes in computer security are going to affect you.

The 3-day program, taking place August 11-13, 2010, in Washington, D.C., includes:

What lengths do you go to in order to recover lost data?

On June 1st, 2009, Air France Flight 447 took off just after 7pm localtime from Rio de Janeiro, bound for Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Four hours into the trip, the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere off the eastern tip of South America. To this day, no one knows why.

MobiSys 2010 Program and Registration Now Available

The 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2010) is taking place June 15-18, 2010, in San Francisco, CA. The conference will be held at JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square. Workshops will be held on June 15, 2010, and the technical program will take place June 16-18, 2010.

MetriCon 5.0 Call for Papers Now Available

The fifth annual MetriCon workshop is a forum for presenting new approaches for measuring information security effectiveness, with a bias towards practical, specific approaches. Topics and presentations will be selected for their novelty and merit, and their potential to stimulate discussion.

Now Open! USENIX WOOT '10 Call for Papers

WOOT ‘10 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in system security to present research advancing the understanding of attacks on operating systems, networks, and applications. A significant goal is producing published artifacts that will inform future work in the field.

Please submit your work by Friday, May 28, 2010.

Multitasking is great, when taken in moderation

I don't mean the multitasking that computers do, I mean the multitasking that we humans do (or at least try to do).

A recent study seems to indicate that we can really only perform two complicated tasks at once. The evidence is actually very interesting:

Submit Your Work to USENIX LISA '10

LISA is the place to exchange ideas, sharpen old and new skills, learn new techniques, debate current and controversial issues, and engage with a rich mix of technologists of all specialties and levels of expertise.

The theme for LISA '10 is "Share your experiences, both real-world and in research."

EVT/WOTE '10 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching

The submission deadline for the 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '10) is just a week away.

Please submit your work by Friday, April 16, 2010.

Submit Your Work to USENIX HotSec '10

HotSec '10 is looking for paper submissions that encompass research on topics including, but not limited to, large-scale threats, network security, hardware security, software security, programming languages, applied cryptography, anonymity, human-computer interaction, sociology, and economics.

Please submit your work by Monday, May 3, 2010.

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