Travel Support for Bertinoro Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing

Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Investigators

Abstract

In June of 2002, a workshop will be held on Fundamentals of Distributed Computing at Bertinoro, Italy. From a set of 43 outstanding submissions, a total of 30 white papers were selected for publication, and 46 researchers (including a number of students) invited to attend the workshop. NSF provides travel funding to support attendance by these students, many of whom are on very tight budgets. The workshop will help set the agenda for a new generation of research in distributed computing while also knitting together the European and American research communities in the area. Quality of the white papers was very high, and we have approached Springer-Verlag about the possibility of revising and extending them into a book-length treatment. Our hope is that we might use the workshop to develop a unified vision and to elucidate the research agenda in various areas of the discipline, then use this as a structure for the white papers. The resulting book will be both a snapshot of the state of the art and also a coherent articulation of research opportunities in the coming decade.