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WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Session papers are available to workshop registrants immediately and to everyone beginning April 15, 2008.
WOWCS Scribe Notes
Colin Dixon, University of Washington;
Fred Douglis, IBM Research;
Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College;
Jane-Ellen Long, USENIX Association;
Jeffrey C. Mogul, HP Labs
Notes in PDF
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Monday, April 14, 2008
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| 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. |
NSDI '08 and Workshops Welcome Get-Together
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Issues Within the Scope of a Single PC
Session Chair: Richard Draves, Microsoft Research
Best Practices for the Care and Feeding of a Program Committee,
and Other Thoughts on Conference Organization
Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
What Ought a Program Committee to Do?
Mark Allman, International Computer Science Institute
Talk slides in PDF
Paper in HTML | PDF
Program Committee Meetings Considered Harmful
Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University
Talk slides in PDF | PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
Paper Rating vs. Paper Ranking
John R. Douceur, Microsoft Research
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Issues Beyond the Scope of a Single PC
Session Chair: Greg Minshall, University of Washington
Overcoming Challenges of Maturity
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Talk slides in PDF | PowerPoint OOXML
Paper in HTML | PDF
Thoughts on Improving Review Quality
Paul Francis, Cornell University
Talk slides in PDF | PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
Scaling Internet Research Publication Processes to Internet Scale
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge; S. Keshav, University of Waterloo; Nick McKeown, Stanford University
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
Towards a Model of Computer Systems Research
Thomas Anderson, University of Washington
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
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| 12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Workshop Luncheon
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| 1:45 p.m.–2:15 p.m. |
Review-Management Software
Session Chair: Greg Minshall, University of Washington
Banal: Because Format Checking Is So Trite
Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego
Talk slides in PowerPoint
Paper in HTML | PDF
Hot Crap!
Eddie Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper in HTML | PDF
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| 2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Short Break
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| 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. |
Moderated Discussion/Debate/Flaming on Proposals
That Go Beyond the Scope of a Single PC
Moderator: Tom Anderson, University of Washington
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| 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Break
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| 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. |
Moderated Discussion on Concrete Things We Can Do
Moderator: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs
Examples include: a WOWCS Wiki; a multi-conference repository for reviews; other "institutional memory"; other experiments or proofs of concept
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Additional Material: "Before and After WOWCS:
A literature survey,
A list of papers we wish had been submitted," by Jeffrey C. Mogul and Tom Anderson
Paper in HTML | PDF
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