Student Travel for 21st Association of Computing Machinery Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

第21届ACM操作系统原理研讨会（SOSP 2007）定于2007年10月14日至17日举行。在过去的40年里，这个会议一直是操作系统创新研究的主要论坛。SOSP 2007汇集了该领域的领先研究人员，并以计算机系统领域最优秀、最聪明的博士候选人为特色。会议限制了干扰，与会者集中精力介绍和讨论该领域的最新成果和趋势。主题包括内核、文件系统和网络的性能、功能和安全性、无处不在和移动计算、传感器网络、覆盖和点对点通信以及电源管理。美国国家科学基金会目前的提案要求资助22名美国研究生的出席。参加领先的会议是研究生院经历中极其重要的一部分，它提供了与更资深的研究人员互动和接触前沿工作的机会。本提案所要求的支助使那些本来无法参加的学生能够参加。一些支持的学生也将成为会议计划中接受的精选论文的演讲者和共同作者。其他人通过海报和正在进行的项目会议积极参与。本次会议是研究人员从研究生到在该领域为他人所熟知的研究人员的重要组成部分，并继续在学术界和行业研究实验室中进行研究。

The 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007) is scheduled for October 14-17, 2007. This conference, spanning the last 40 years, has been the leading forum for innovative research in operating systems. SOSP 2007 brings together leading researchers in the field and features the best and brightest of the Ph.D. candidates in computer systems. The conference limits distractions and participants focus on the presentation and discussion of the latest results and trends in the field. Topics include the performance, functionality, and security of kernels, file systems, and networks, ubiquitous and mobile computing, sensor networks, overlay and peer-to-peer communications, and power management. The present NSF proposal requested funding to support the attendance of 22 US-based graduate students. Participation in leading conferences is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, providing the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and to be exposed to leading edge work. The support requested in this proposal makes possible the participation of students who would be otherwise unable to attend. Some supported students will also be presenters and co-authors of the select set of papers accepted into the conference program. Others actively participate through the poster and work-in-progress sessions of the program. This conference is an important part of the pipeline of researchers as they progress from graduate students to researchers known to others in the field, and continue to research careers in both academia and industry research labs.