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）将于2007年10月14日至17日举行。 这个会议，跨越过去40年，一直是操作系统创新研究的领先论坛。 SOSP 2007汇集了该领域的领先研究人员，并汇集了最优秀和最聪明的博士。计算机系统中的候选人。 会议限制了分心，与会者专注于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，无处不在和移动的计算，传感器网络，覆盖和对等通信，以及电源管理。 目前的NSF提案要求提供资金，以支持22名美国研究生的出席。 参加领先的会议是研究生院经验的一个极其重要的组成部分，提供了与更高级的研究人员互动的机会，并接触到前沿的工作。 本提案所要求的支持使那些本来无法参加的学生能够参加。 一些受资助的学生也将成为会议计划接受的精选论文集的演讲者和共同作者。 其他人则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的管道的重要组成部分，因为他们从研究生到其他人在该领域已知的研究人员的进展，并继续在学术界和行业研究实验室的研究生涯。

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.