Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM

We have arranged for members and regular attendees of our meetings to get a $50 discount from USENIX conference registration fees. Use priority code BOS08 when registering to get the discount. The conference has lots of good tutorials and some outstanding keynote speakers, but is pretty expensive. Detailed information about the USENIX conference is available at http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/aci

The 3-day training program at USENIX '08 includes:

--Bruce Potter on Botnets: Understanding and Defense
--Peter Baer Galvin on Solaris 10 Administration
--Phil Cox on Securing Virtual Environments
--Alan Robertson on Configuring and Deploying Linux-HA

The full training program can be found at
http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/training/

In addition to the training, 3 days of technical sessions include
refereed papers, invited talks, Guru Is In
sessions, and a poster session.
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/tech/

* Invited talks feature:
-- Keynote Address by David Patterson, Director, U.C. Berkeley Parallel
Computing Laboratory, on "The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You
Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?"

-- Plenary Closing Session by Matthew Melis of the NASA Glenn Research
Center on "The Columbia Accident Investigation and Returning NASA's
Space Shuttle to Flight"

--Robert J. Lang on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern
Science of Origami"

* The refereed papers track provides a look into current research and
practices on in-demand topics.

For complete program information and to register, see
http://www.usenix.org/usenix08/progm