Program Chair: Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs--Research
Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley and Inktomi
Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan
David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
P. Krishnan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Udi Manber, Yahoo! Inc.
Jeffrey Mogul, Compaq Western Research Laboratory
Katia Obraczka, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Letter from Fred Douglis, Program Chair

Dear Colleague,

I invite you to the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies & Systems this October in Boulder, Colorado. This is where you will hear, discuss, then put to use the latest research, well-thought-out approaches, and tools and techniques for practical Internet management and development.

If you are looking for in-depth information about Internet technologies you will be able to use immediately, be sure to sign up for a tutorial on Monday the 11th. Choose among the four half-day courses, taught by experts, on Web Application Security; XML and Metadata for the Web; Intrusion Detection and Network Forensics; and An Introduction to Virtual Private Networks (Secure Networking).

Udi Manber, who has contributed such useful tools as agrep and glimpse to our community, will present the keynote address. He recently became Chief Scientist at Yahoo! and will tell us his view of the technical challenges in supporting Electronic Commerce.

The technical track runs all day Tuesday and Wednesday, concluding Thursday at 12:30 p.m. You'll find important papers on distributed caching and Web server performance, together with reports on proxy caching, server implementation and architecture, applications, prefetching, and interesting tools and techniques. The Program Committee had the pleasure of selecting 22 excellent papers, the best among 67 high-quality submissions. There is also a Work-in-Progress session with reports of recent work not quite ready for publication.

Meet colleagues with similar interests at the Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions or present your own Work-in-Progress. The hosted luncheon and reception will offer pleasant opportunities, among the many you'll find during the Symposium, to enjoy stimulating discussion with others working in areas like your own.

Please join us in Boulder this October 11-14.

Sincerely,

Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs--Research
Program Chair

P.S.: Remember to sign up for tutorials early. You'll get your first choice and save some money. Space is limited and classes do fill up.