Travel Support for Bertinoro Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing

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In June of 2002, a workshop will be held on Fundamentals of DistributedComputing at Bertinoro, Italy. From a set of 43 outstandingsubmissions, a total of 30 white papers were selected for publication,and 46 researchers (including a number of students) invited to attendthe workshop. NSF provides travel funding to support attendanceby these students, many of whom are on very tight budgets. The workshopwill help set the agenda for a new generation of research in distributedcomputing while also knitting together the European and Americanresearch communities in the area. Quality of the white papers was very high, and we have approachedSpringer-Verlag about the possibility of revising and extending theminto a book-length treatment. Our hope is that we might use theworkshop to develop a unified vision and to elucidate the researchagenda in various areas of the discipline, then use this as a structurefor the white papers. The resulting book will be both a snapshot of thestate of the art and also a coherent articulation of researchopportunities in the coming decade.