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The  submission deadline for the First Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP ’09) is December 5, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST.

We invite submissions addressing research problems involving provenance in any area of computer science, including but not limited to: databases, programming languages and software engineering, systems and security, and workflows/scientific computation.

More information and submission guidelines can be found here.

TaPP ’09 will take place February 23, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Booklet #19, Configuration Management with Bcfg2, by Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener, is now online for members and available for purchase. Whether you're wondering which configuration management tool—if any—is for you, or you've settled on Bcfg2 and are already deploying it, this booklet by Bcfg2 authors Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener will provide you with valuable insights and advice. Take a look now!

The submission deadline for the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference is quickly approaching.

Please submit all work by January 9, 2009.

We seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results.

Find out more in the Call for Papers.

USENIX ’09 will take place June 14 -19, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

The grant application deadline for Diversity '08 has been extended.
Applications are now due: November 17, 2008
Please complete this application by November 17 and answer the following
questions in your statement of interest (as required by NSF funding):
* Do you want to attend the Diversity workshop?
* Are you a woman or an underrepresented minority?
* At the time of the conference, will you be studying at a U.S. university?