At A Glance

All events will take place at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Tuesday, June 12
Registration: Registration Desk in the Constitution Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
HotCloud '12
Constitution B
WiAC '12
Independence West
UCMS '12
Back Bay AB
USENIX Cyberlaw '12
Constitution A
Continental Breakfast: Constitution Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Cloud Risks
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Opening Session
Program Co-Chairs: Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, and Carolyn Rowland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Invited Talk
Leslie K. Lambert, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Juniper Networks
9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Summit Chair: Daniel V. Klein, Google and USENIX Association

9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Ted Zlatanov, CFEngine, “Scaling ­Configuration Management Across Data Center and Cloud”

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Open Discussion of Topics of the Day

9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Intellectual Property and Innovation

10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
Ed Felten, Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission

Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Cloud Hardware
11:00 a.m.–11:40 a.m.
Invited Talk
Emily Gladstone Cole, Operations Architect, Cisco Systems, Inc.

11:50 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Invited Talk
Clea Zolotow, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Invited Talk
Sean O’Meara, Opscode, “Promises, Lies, and Dry-Run Mode”

11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Invited Talk
Alan Robertson, Assimilation Monitoring Project, “How to Assimilate a Million Servers and Not Get Indigestion”
11:00 a.m.–Noon
Technology and Democracy
FCW Luncheon: Back Bay CD, Noon–2:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Networking
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Panel: Strategies for a Successful Career in Computing
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Discussions: Problems, Solutions, Suggestions, and Futures
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Cybersecurity
Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 2:45 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Programming Models
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Workshop
Facilitator: Cat Allman, Group Manager, Outreach, Open Source Programs Office, Google

4:30 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Invited Talk
Sabrina Farmer, Site Reliabiity Engineer, Google Inc., “Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself”

5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Program Co-Chairs: Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, and Carolyn Rowland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Discussions, Continued

5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks
Summit Chair: Daniel V. Klein, Google and USENIX Association
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Civil Rights and New Technologies
Tuesday Happy Hour and HotCloud ’12 Poster Session: Republic Ballroom, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 7:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 13
Registration: Registration Desk in the Constitution Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
HotCloud '12
Constitution B
USENIX ATC '12
Constitution A
HotStorage '12
Back Bay AB
WebApps '12
Independence West
Continental Breakfast: Constitution Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.


8:30 a.m–9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Awards
Program Co-Chairs: Gernot Heiser, NICTA and University of New South Wales; Wilson Hsieh, Google 

HotStorage '12 begins in the afternoon.   9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m.
Introductory Remarks
Program Chair: Michael Maximilien, IBM Research—Watson

9:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Keynote 1: Programming Style and Your Brain
Douglas Crockford, PayPal
Constitution Ballroom
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Cloud: Joint Session with HotCloud '12 and USENIX ATC '12
Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Storage
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Multicore
  11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Papers 1: JavaScript, Social
FCW Luncheon: Back Bay CD, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Working with Big Data
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Packet Processing
1:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Program Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

1:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Dealing with Dynamics

1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Papers 2: Distributed Systems and Browser Ext
Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Scheduling

5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Security

4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Plenary Session
 
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Cloudy with a Chance of QoS

4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Keynote 2
Yehuda Katz, Tilde, Inc.

5:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m.
Demo papers: Client and JavaScript

Annual Meeting with USENIX Board, Independence East, 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Joint USENIX ATC '12 and HotStorage ’12 Poster Session and Happy Hour: Grand Ballroom, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 14
Registration: Registration Desk in the Constitution Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
TaPP '12
Constitution B
USENIX ATC '12
Constitution A
HotStorage '12
Back Bay AB
Continental Breakfast: Constitution Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–9:10 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Program Co-Chairs: Umut A. Acar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and Todd J. Green, University of California, Davis, and LogicBlox

9:10 a.m.–10:10 a.m.
Invited Talk on Provenance and Security
Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Security

9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Keynote Address
Umesh Maheshwari, Nimble Storage, “Designing Storage Systems with Flash”
Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Provenance and Security
11:00 a.m.–Noon
Short Papers: Tools and Networking
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Dealing with Devices

FCW Luncheon: Back Bay CD, Noon–1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Practical Tools
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Distributed Systems
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Panel: What's Next: Storage Evolution or Revolution?

Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.–3:40 p.m.
Provenance and Ranking

3:40 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Poster Session
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Deduplication
2:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Archival Storage

4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
A Coterie Collection

5:30 p.m.–5:35 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Program Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

FCW '12 Reception and HotStorage ’12 Poster Session, Grand Ballroom, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Friday, June 15
Registration: Registration Desk in the Constitution Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–Noon
TaPP '12
Constitution B
USENIX ATC '12
Constitution A
NSDR '12
Independence West
Continental Breakfast: Constitution Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Invited Talk
TBA

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Languages and Tools

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Welcome Remarks and Keynote Address
Program Co-Chairs: Kameswari Chebrolu, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Brian Noble, University of Michigan
Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Provenance Models

11:15 a.m.–Noon
Querying Provenance
11:00 a.m.–Noon
Short Papers: Performance
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Meeting Needs

FCW Luncheon: Back Bay CD, Noon–1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.–1:50 p.m.
Provenance and Software Engineering

1:50 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Provenance Instrumentation
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
OS
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
On the Go

Break with refreshments: Constitution Foyer, 2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Whiteboard Chats
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Replication
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Building Blocks

5:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Program Co-Chairs: Kameswari Chebrolu, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombaye, and Brian Noble, University of Michigan