Wednesday, May 5: Ken Kennedy (Rice University; PITAC Co-Chair)
"Future Investment in Information Technology Research: Report of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee"
Thursday, May 6: Charles Bennett, IBM Research
"Quantum Information"
The technical program for each constituent conference is independently administered, with each responsible for its own meeting's structure, contents, and proceedings. The constituent conference committees are to be commended for putting together exceptionally strong, interlinking technical programs. To the extent facilities allow, attendees are free to attend technical session of other constituent conferences being held at the same time as their "home" conference. Proceedings from other constituent conferences will be available for purchase on-site.
Please note: An FCRC general fee must be added to the total registration fee unless you are attending CRA-W Career Workshop exclusively. The fee schedule follows: Members prior to 4/15 - $80, members after 4/15 - $140, non-members prior to 4/15 - $140, non-members after 4/15 - $200, students prior to 4/15 - $20, students after 4/15 - $80. This will automatically be added into your total if you utilize the on-line registration form. Attendees registering via fax and mail are asked to add the appropriate fee into their total conference registration.
CRA-W Careers Workshop on Research Careers for Women in Computing Science and Engineering (CRA-W)
- Friday 4/30 - Saturday, 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into CRA-W only. Lunch/breaks on both days, light dinner on Friday and continental breakfast on Saturday.
Workshop on Compiler Support for System Software (WCSSS)
- Saturday, 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into WCSSS plus other Saturday workshops. Continental Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the WCSSS notes.
ACM SIGPLAN PLDI Tutorials
- Saturday, 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into registered tutorials only. All PLDI tutorial attendees need to make their tutorial selections on the registration form. You are requested to select 1 from 2 morning tutorials and 1 or 2 from 2 linked choices of afternoon tutorials. Be sure to indicate your selection on the registration form.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
- Sunday, 5/2
Registration includes: Entry into PLDI plus access to other conferences on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Sunday and Monday, coffee breaks on Sunday - Tuesday, early evening refreshment break on Sunday - Tuesday, Monday night SIGPLAN Awards Reception, and a copy of the PLDI proceedings.
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)
- Wednesday, 5/5
Registration includes: Entry into LCTES plus access to all other conferences on Wednesday. Continental breakfast, lunch, coffee break, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the LCTES proceedings.
ACM Workshop on Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (WSSMM)
- Friday 4/30 - Saturday 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into WSSMM plus access other Saturday workshops. Friday afternoon coffee break, Saturday continental breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the WSSMM notes.
ACM/IEEE ISCA Tutorials
- Saturday, 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into registered tutorial only. Continental Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the tutorial notes. Each tutorial is 1/2 day. You may register for 1 or 2. Be sure to indicate your tutorial selection on the registration form.
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
- Sunday 5/2 - Tuesday 5/4
Registration includes: Entry into ISCA plus access to other conferences on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Sunday and Monday, coffee breaks on Sunday - Tuesday morning, early evening refreshment break on Sunday and Monday, Saturday evening reception, ISCA Business Meeting, a ticket to the ISCA excursion and banquet on Monday evening, and a copy of the ISCA proceedings.
ACM/IEEE ISCA Excursion
- Monday, 5/3
The ISCA excursion is to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History and includes an IMAX show.
ACM SIGMETRICS Tutorials
- Saturday, 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into SIGMETRICS Tutorials and to the Second Workshop on Internet Server Performance. Attendees signing up for SIGMETRICS Tutorials can attend the Workshop or any SIGMETRICS tutorial . Continental Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, early evening refreshment break, and a package containing copies of the slides for all the tutorials are included in registration.
ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer
Systems (METRICS)
- Sunday 5/1 - Tuesday 5/4
Registration includes: Entry into SIGMETRICS plus access to other conferences on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Sunday and Monday, coffee breaks on Sunday - Tuesday morning, early evening refreshment break on Sunday and Monday, Sunday evening reception, and a copy of the SIGMETRICS proceedings.
PADS Tutorials
- Saturday 5/1
Registration includes: Entry into registered tutorial only. Continental Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the tutorial notes.
ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS)
- Sunday 5/2 - Tuesday 5/4
Registration includes: Entry into PADS plus access to other conferences on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Sunday and Monday, coffee breaks on Sunday - Tuesday morning, early evening refreshment break on Sunday and Monday, PADS Business Meeting, Saturday evening reception, Monday evening excursion, and a copy of the PADS proceedings.
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
- Sunday 5/1 - Tuesday 5/4
Registration includes: Entry into STOC plus access to other conferences on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Sunday and Monday, coffee breaks on Sunday - Tuesday morning, early evening refreshment break on Sunday and Monday, Saturday evening reception, STOC Business Meeting, and a copy of the STOC proceedings.
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (COMPLEXITY)
- Tuesday 5/4 - Thursday 5/6
Registration includes: Entry into COMPLEXITY plus access to other conferences on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, coffee breaks on Tuesday - Thursday, early evening refreshment breaks on Tuesday - Thursday, Monday evening reception, Complexity Business Meeting, and a copy of the Complexity proceedings.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)
- Tuesday 5/4 - Thursday 5/6
Registration includes: Entry into PODC plus access to other conferences on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Wednesday, coffee breaks on Tuesday - Thursday morning, early evening refreshment breaks on Tuesday - Wednesday, Monday evening reception, PODC Rump Session, and a copy of the PODC proceedings.
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP)
- Tuesday 5/4 - Thursday 5/6
Registration includes: Entry into PPoPP plus access to other conferences on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Continental Breakfast each day, lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, coffee breaks on Tuesday - Thursday, early evening refreshment breaks on Tuesday - Thursday, Monday night SIGPLAN Awards Reception, and a copy of the PPoPP proceedings.
ACM/UMIACS Workshop on Parallel Algorithms (WOPA)
- Tuesday 5/4 - Wednesday 5/5
Registration includes: Entry into WOPA plus access to all other conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday afternoon coffee break and early evening break. Wednesday continental breakfast, coffee break and early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the WOPA notes.
ACM Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS)
- Wednesday 5/5
Registration includes: Entry into IOPADS plus access to all other conferences on Wednesday. Continental breakfast, lunch, coffee break, early evening refreshment break, and a copy of the IOPADS proceedings.
Welcome to the third Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC'99, which is being held April 30th - May 6, 1999 at the Atlanta Hilton and Towers. This third FCRC follows the same model of the previous two conferences. FCRC'99 includes 14 constituent events. The FCRC model is one that assembles a number of existing, specialized, research conferences into a coordinated meeting held at a common time in a common place. This model retains the advantages of the smaller conferences, while at the same time, facilitating communication among researchers in different subfields in computer science and engineering. We have arranged a number of venues for attendee interaction including common breakfasts and breaks throughout the week. And, of course due to its size, FCRC'99 also provides great visibility for the field as a whole.
There will be a plenary talk from 11:30 am - 12:30 PM on Sunday through Thursday. Topics will be of broad appeal to the CS&E community. The plenaries are open to anyone registered for a constituent conference meeting that day. Exhibits, consisting of books and educational software displays and demonstrations, will be open Saturday through Thursday of FCRC week. Attendees of FCRC not registered for ISCA, PADS and METRICS may purchase tickets to their excursions and/or banquet. Please see the registration form for details on cost.
Student subsidies for the 1999 Federated Computing Research Conference have been provided by IBM, Almaden Research Center, AT&T Labs, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, and Telcordia Technologies, as well as grants from ACM SIGACT, SIGPLAN, SIGARCH, and SIGMETRICS.
Conference Programs are available on the conference web sites. Links to those sites are provided above.
PLENARY ABSTRACTS
"Testing Global Properties using Random, Local Data: The Paleontologist Approach to Computer Science"
(Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann Institute)
Absract
Much of complexity theory and algorithm design are occupied with classifying the complexity of computational problems. Complexity is measured in terms of the size of the entire problem, and an algorithm is deemed satisfactory when it solves exactly the underlying
problem.
A recent (10 year) trend in complexity theory relaxes the objective of exact solution for many problems, and in the process is able
to design extremely fast algorithms which need not examine the entire input, but rather make decisions based on random samples of local queries into the input. We will argue that this is "good enough" for many natural problems, especially when the input is just too large (e.g. the web graph). Moreover, this approach has several times yielded subsequent better classical solutions for the original problems.
In this talk we will highlight this apprroach as it emerges in proof-checking, error-correcting codes, program checking, graph properties, learning-theory questions, and clutering algorithms based on linear algebra.
"Back to the Future: Time to Return to Some Long Standing Problems in
Computer Systems?"
(Charles Hennessy, Stanford University)
Abstract
The last 15 years we have seen tremendous growth in the performance of computers. It is unclear that the underlying architectural mechanisms that have enabled this growth can sustain this pace by simple evolution. More radical ideas and a more integrated approach that relies on advances in both hardware and software may be needed to continue the rapid increase in performance. More importantly, we should ask the question of whether performance is the most important attribute to focus on in the coming years. While the past 15 years have seen roughly a factor of 1000 in performance growth, other important system characteristics, such as reliability, maintainability, salability, and usability, have clearly shown much more modest progress. The potentially explosive growth in information appliances and the universal use of computers is likely to emphasize these other characteristics over performance, and thus, highlight our slow progress in improving these characteristics. It seems that it is time for the computer systems research community to focus its attention on a broader set of metrics, lest we become less relevant in the era when computers become ubiquitous.
"What Next? A few Remaining Problems in Information Technology Problems, 1998 Turing Lecture"
(James Gray, Microsoft)
Abstract
Babbage's vision of computing has largely been realized. We are on the verge of realizing Bush's Memex. But, we are some distance from passing the Turing test. These three visions and their associated problems have provided long-range research goals for many of us. For example, the scaleabilty problem has motivated me for several decades. This talk defines a set of fundamental research problems that broaden the Babbage, Bush, and Turing visions. They extend Babbage's computational goal to include highly-secure, highly-available, self-programming, self-managing, and self-replicating systems. They extend Bush's Memex vision to include a system that automatically organizes, indexes, digests, evaluates, and summarizes information (as well as a human might). Another group of problems extends Turing's vision to include prosthetic vision, speech, hearing, and other senses. Each problem is simply stated and each is orthogonal from the others, though they share some common core technologies.
"Future Investment in Information Technology Research: Report of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee"
(Ken Kennedy, Rice University)
Abstract
This talk will provide an overview of the report to President Clinton by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).
That report, entitled "Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future"
is the result of a two-year review of federal research funding in all areas of information technology. The principal finding is that the explosive growth of IT, coupled with slow growth of research budgets, has led Federal agency managers to favor short-term mission-oriented research at the expense of long-term, high-risk investigations. While locally optimal for
the agencies, this trend could be disastrous for the nation if it is allowed to continue. To address the problem, the PITAC has recommended that Federal funding for IT research be doubled to 2.6 billion per year over five years beginning with the FY 2000 budget, with priority for the new funding going to long-term fundamental work. The Clinton Administration has responded by recommending a 366 million dollar increase for FY2000 to fund an initiative entitled "Information Technology for the 21st Century" (IT^2). This talk will discuss the major findings of the PITAC report and the areas of research recommended for increases in investment. It will also discuss recommendations for program management and for how the research endeavor can contribute to important societal problems such as education and the IT workforce shortage.
"Quantum Information"
(Charles Bennett, IBM Research)
Abstract:
An expanded theory of information transmission and processing has emerged over the past few years, encompassing the transmission of intact quantum states through noiseless and noisy channels, the interaction of quantum and classical information, the quantitative theory of entanglement and other nonlocal properties, and quantum speed-ups of certain classical computations. We review this field, concentrating on the parallels with and differences from classical information theory, which is now best seen as a part of the new theory.
DELTA AIR LINES
Special Meeting Fare......Call 1-800-241-6760
Delta Air Lines is offering special rates which allow you a 5% discount off Delta's published round-trip fares* within the continental U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, San Juan, Nassau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. By purchasing your ticket 60 days prior to your departure date, you can receive an additional 5% bonus discount.
*Applicable restrictions must be met. Seats are limited. No discounts apply on Delta Express.
A 10% discount will be offered on Delta's domestic system for travel to the meeting based on the published unrestricted round-trip coach (Y06) rates. No advance reservations or ticketing is required, but if you purchase your ticket 60 days or more prior to your departure date, you can receive an additional 5% bonus discount. No discounts apply on Delta Express.
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ATLANTA HILTON & TOWERS
FCRC'99 will be held at the Atlanta Hilton & Towers. Special rates have been secured for attendees. You must make your reservations by April 3rd. We encourage you to make your reservations early. To make reservations: Call the Atlanta Hilton & Towers at 404-659-2000, fax # 404-221-6368 and refer to ACM along with the conference meeting dates.
| RATES | | |
| Main Hotel | | $135.00 | Single |
| | $155.00 | Double |
| Towers | | $155.00 | Single |
| | $175.00 | Double |
| Student Rate | | $120.00 | Single-Quad |
ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS
265 Peachtree Center Avenue
Reservations deadline for this rate is Friday, April 19th. Call 404-521-0000 to make your reservations. Please don't delay. The Marriott is located across the street from the Atlanta Hilton and Towers (conference hotel).
| RATES | | |
| | $139.00 | Single/Double |
Alternate Hotels
LOCATION INFORMATION:
Located in downtown Atlanta, the upscale, newly renovated Hilton Atlanta &
Towers is just 9 miles and 15 minutes from Hartsfield International Airport.
Located within the central business district. An upscale full service hotel with
(5) restaurants, Business Center, Fitness & Tennis Center. All rooms include
(2) telephones, modem connectors, full sized desk, hair dryer, coffee maker,
and minibar. The hotel is conveniently situated at the convergence of
Interstate I-75 and I-85, just two blocks from Marta (subway).
Guests are within walking distance of Georgia World Congress Center, apparel, gift and
merchandise marts, the Inforum and Civic Center. The hotel is also adjacent
to Peachtree Center Mall and convenient to area attractions -- Underground
Atlanta, Carter Center, Stone Mountain Park, and Six Flags over Georgia.
NEARBY AIRPORTS:
Hartsfield Int. Airport (9 miles/15 minutes)
From 75/85 North, take exit #96 (International Boulevard). Bear left at 2nd
light. Take a right at Piedmont, left at 2nd light onto Baker, 1 block up left
onto Courtland to the hotel entrance.
TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS:
Alternate (45 minutes/1.5000 USD MARTA)
Bus (45 minutes/10.00 USD SHUTTLE)
Limo (15 minutes/55.00 USD)
Subway/Rail (45 minutes/1.5000 USD)
Taxi (15 minutes/17.00 USD)
