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LISA '11: Mark Burgess to Lead CFEngine 3 Training

LISA '11 kicks off Sunday, December 4, with in-person training. Attendees can choose among more than 45 classes, including Configuration Management Solutions with CFEngine 3, taught by CFEngine CTO Mark Burgess.

Burgess, along with Carolyn Rowland, will also teach A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World, on Tuesday, December 6th.

LISA 2011: Student Grant Deadline Is Today

Don't miss your chance to apply for a student grant. The deadline was extended until today, so get those applications in so you can join us at LISA '11: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference, December 4–9, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts.

Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061--2561 AD

Keynote Address given by Charles Stross, Author of award-winning science fiction, at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11), held August 8--12, 2011, in San Francisco, CA.

A science fiction writer takes a look at the medium-term implications the information processing revolution holds for human civilization.

Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces

Refereed Paper presented by Stephen Checkoway (University of California, San Diego) at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11), held August 8--12, 2011, in San Francisco, CA.

Authors: Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego; Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington

A Security Analysis of the APCO Project 25 Two-Way Radio System

Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can't Encrypt: A Security Analysis of the APCO Project 25 Two-Way Radio System

Refereed Paper presented by Matt Blaze (University of Pennsylvania) at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11), held August 8--12, 2011, in San Francisco, CA.

Awarded Outstanding Paper

Authors: Sandy Clark, Travis Goodspeed, Perry Metzger, Zachary Wasserman, Kevin Xu, and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania

Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061--2561 AD

Keynote Address given by Charles Stross, Author of award-winning science fiction, at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11), held August 8--12, 2011, in San Francisco, CA.

A science fiction writer takes a look at the medium-term implications the information processing revolution holds for human civilization.

Dead Media: What the Obsolete, Unsuccessful, and Experimental Can Teach Us About the Future of Media

Full title of talk: Dead Media: What the Obsolete, Unsuccessful, Experimental, and Avant-Garde Can Teach Us About the Future of Media

Invited Talk given by Finn Brunton, Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU, at the 2011 USENIX Federated Conferences Week, held June 14-17, 2011, in Portland, OR.

Software G Forces: The Effects of Acceleration

Invited Talk given by Kent Beck of Facebook, Inc., at the 2011 USENIX Federated Conferences Week, held June 14-17, 2011, in Portland, OR.

Abstract:
As deployment cycles shrink, what constitutes effective software engineering changes radically. Practices that bring improvement to a quarterly release cycle can be fatal with an hourly release cycle. This talk outlines the changes required of software engineering and organization at different cycle times: quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly.

An Agenda for Empirical Cyber Crime Research

Keynote Address given by Stefan Savage, Director of the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED) and Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Talk given at the 2011 USENIX Federated Conferences Week, which took place June 14-17, 2011, in Portland, OR.

Making it easier to submit papers to Usenix LISA

We want YOU to submit a paper this year to the LISA conference  Really.  Yes, you!  Whether you are in academia developing new algorithms that improve system administration, leader of an open source project that sysadmins find valuable, or a practitioner in industry that has written new software to improve productivity, we believe there’s a paper inside all of you that wants to get out!  (Usenix LISA is December 4-9, 2011 in Boston).  LISA is also a great venue for student papers: it is a friendly audience and we have a “Best Student Paper” award that pays cash.

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