DISC 2006

The 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is hosted by SICS and held in Stockholm, 18 to 20th of September. I am going to help on the reception day and get a free ticket to attend the presentations later on.

There are some cool invited talks, namely:

• Provable Unbreakable Hyper-Encryption Using Distributed Systems,
  Michael Rabin (Turing Award Winner).
• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of My Ideas about Distributed Systems,
  Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, it is said that "his research contributions have laid the foundations of the theory of distributed systems" [Wikipedia]).
• My Early Days in Distributed Computing Theory: 1979-1982,
  Nancy Lynch (MIT Professor, TDS group)

There is also the "4th DYNAMO Workshop" held a day before the actual conference, with some interesting sessions. I am interested in the third session in particular, where algorithmic topics like "Algorithmic aspects of DHT-based overlays", "Algorithmic Game Theory: Mechanisms with Verification" and "Building a peer-to-peer system from scratch" are presented (May be the last one isn't much algorithmic, but non the less, interesting).

Sounds interesting, doesn't it?