We also have:
- Contributed talks on a variety of topics.
- Talk videos for all of the accepted papers.
- A Discord server where you can discuss all this (and more) with others!
More information can be found at nines-conference.org/attend. We hope you join us tomorrow!!
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NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us.
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NINeS is in a few weeks (February 10). If you are at (or near) Hong Kong, London, New York or Boston, consider going to a pod. See nines-conference.org/pods for details!
This week, we hear @natefoster 's response to Why Nines? A cat is involved in producing the video, but like many good producers does not appear in the video.
📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org#NINeS
Exciting news: 2025 is an odd number, which means it is a year with HotOS.
The 2025 edition will be held at Banff (in Canada) in mid-May. The CFP is now out at sigops.org/s/conferences/hot…, papers are due on January 15th.
Please submit your most fun systems idea.
@NeerajaJY and I are excited to announce that the @ACMSIGCOMM HotNets 2022 (Austin, TX) invitation lottery is now open. You can enter at forms.gle/jzneuGZgNSCVYvWX9 no later than Thursday, October 5th. And please help spread the word around! 🙏
Woot. @vivianfxng's paper CostCO won distinguished paper award at EuroS&P (ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2…). The paper describes a framework for automatically generating cost models for MPC protocols, reducing overheads when incorporating them in existing optimizers.
CostCO: An automatic cost modeling framework for secure
multi-party computation
Vivian Fang (UC Berkeley) @vivianfxng, Lloyd Brown (UC Berkeley), William Lin (UC
Berkeley), Wenting Zheng (UC Berkeley/CMU), Aurojit Panda (NYU),
Raluca Ada Popa (UC Berkeley)
Next week, we will present at USENIX NSDI "Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines"
here is the pitch: can we extend RMT hardware to enforce isolation between different packet-processing programs?
(usenix.org/conference/nsdi22…)
CS Faculty Twitter! Cornell, Maryland, and Max Planck host a 1-week summer school (CMMRS) for aspiring undergraduate and masters researchers. Please help spread the word -- the application deadline is approaching (17th Feb) cmmrs.mpi-sws.org/
New SIGOPS Blog -- "Reproducible Experiments for Useful Internet Systems" by Frank Cangialosi (@frankcangia1osi) and Akshay Narayan (@akshayknarayan) from MIT.
This's the 3rd ep of the blog series, How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared
sigops.org/2021/reproducible…