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GENERAL SESSION REFEREED PAPERS

The 2001 USENIX Technical Conference seeks original and innovative papers about the applications, architecture, implementation, and performance of modern computing systems. As at all USENIX conferences, papers that analyze problem areas and draw important conclusions from practical experience are especially welcome. Some particularly interesting application topics are:

Cluster computing
Complexity management
Distributed caching and replication
Extensible operating systems
File systems and storage systems
Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
Mobile code
Mobile computing
Networking and network services
Multimedia
Pervasive computing
Reliability and QoS
Security and privacy
Web technologies

Cash prizes will be awarded for the best papers at the conference. In 1999 the following papers received best paper awards:

The Case for Compressed Caching in Virtual Memory Systems
Paul R. Wilson, Scott F. Kaplan, and Yannis Smaragdakis, UT Austin
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Lightweight Structured Text Processing
Robert C. Miller and Brad A. Myers, CMU
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A Scalable and Explicit Event Delivery Mechanism for UNIX
Gaurav Banga, Network Appliance; Jeffrey C. Mogul, Compaq WRL; Peter Druschel, Rice University
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