[Fwd: USENIX Conferences - Mobisys Program Just Announced (73900)]

This is something we need to look into.. Could be a good advocation
stepping stone for the BSDs.

Eric

Dear USENIX and SAGE members and past conference attendees:

USENIX and ACM SIGMOIBLE are jointly sponsoring the First 
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and 
Services.  MobiSys 2003 is a new forum for presenting the best 
cutting-edge research on supporting, enabling, and coping with 
mobility in systems software, applications, and services.

*Presentations, tutorials, demo & poster sessions, and BoFs will
cover the latest innovations in many important areas, including:
-security
-location management
-application support
-mobile architectures
-sensor networks
-energy management
-analysis of mobile networks
-application mobility
-systems techniques for solving mobility problems

*Tutorials on:
-An Intro to Wearable Computing
-Mobile Networking
-802.11 Wireless Network Security
-Programming Wireless Sensor/Effector Networks of TinyOS Motes

*Keynote:  Bob Brodersen of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center
and the University of California at Berkeley

MobiSys '03, May 5-8, 2003, San Francisco, California
http://www.usenix.org/mobisys03

Thanks to our corporate support from IBM Research and Microsoft
Research.
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The 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies & Systems, taking
place March 26-28, 2003, in Seattle, Washington, features invited
speakers David Culler, UC Berkeley, and Michael Luby, CTO of Digital
Fountain, Inc., 19 high-quality papers, Work-in-Progress reports,
and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.

Register before March 3 to get lowest rates.

http://www.usenix.org/usits03

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FAST '03: 2nd USENIX Conference on File & Storage Technologies
March 31-April 2, 2003, in San Francisco, with:
Keynote speaker Dr. John Wilkes of Hewlett-Packard Labs Technical
presentations by Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, AT&T Research;
EMC's David Black, IETF chair for Internet Storage; CMU's Garth
Gibson, founder and CTO of Panasas; Steve Kleiman, CTO of Network
Appliance; Reagan Moore, associate director of data intensive
computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and Tom Ruwart, I/O
Performance, Inc.

http://www.usenix.org/fast03

Thanks to our student stipend sponsors, SNIA and HP.
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UPCOMING SUBMISSION DEADLINES

LISA 2003
Submissions deadline: April 21, 2003
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/

BSDCon 2003
Submissions deadline: April 1, 2003
http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/

5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications 
(WMCSA 2003)
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, in cooperation with ACM 
SIGMOBILE and USENIX
Submissions deadline: May 23, 2003
http://wmcsa2003.stanford.edu/