All Technical Sessions will be held in the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina.

Run-Time Tools and Tricks
Session Chair: Christopher Small, Osprey Partners LLC

DITools: Application-Level Support for Dynamic Extension and Flexible Composition
Albert Serra, Nacho Navarro, and Toni Cortes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Portable Multithreading--The Signal Stack Trick for User-Space Thread Creation
Ralf S. Engelschall, Technische Universität München (TUM)

Transparent Run-Time Defense Against Stack-Smashing Attacks
Arash Baratloo and Navjot Singh, Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies; Timothy Tsai, Reliable Software Technologies

An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Communication
Rob Pike, Lucent Technologies--Bell Labs

Quantum computation is more than just the use of very small things to compute. It exploits the fundamentally odd properties of quantum-mechanical interaction to achieve profound parallelism, zero-energy calculations, and other technological marvels. I will discuss how the quantum world makes these things possible, the design of quantum hardware and software, proposals for practical quantum devices, and the prospects for quantum computation and communication in our lifetimes.

Security
Session Chair: Niels Provos, University of Michigan

Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE
Niklas Hallqvist, Applitron Datasystem AB; Angelos D. Keromytis, University of Pennsylvania

Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement
Angelos D. Keromytis, University of Pennsylvania; Jason L. Wright, Network Security Technologies, Inc. (NETSEC)

Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions
Craig Metz, University of Virginia

Measurement and Stability
Session Chair: Fred Douglis, AT&T Labs--Research

Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
Aaron Brown and David A. Patterson, University of California at Berkeley

Performing Replacement in Modem Pools
Yannis Smaragdakis, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Wilson, University of Texas at Austin

Auto-Diagnosis of Field Problems in an Appliance Operating System
Gaurav Banga, Network Appliance, Inc.

Providing Future Web Services
Andy Poggio, Sun Labs

This presentation will begin by describing the day when desktop PCs will no longer dominate as networked devices. In this new era, network appliances will be the most common devices. It will discuss Web services for commerce, education, and entertainment: how they'll change, and what new Web services will proliferate. Finally, it will describe in detail the computer system architecture and network infrastructure that will be needed to provide these services, including the roles that InfiniBand, IPv6, and other new technologies will play.

Cool Stuff
Session Chair: Clem Cole, Compaq

An Operating System in Java for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Microcontroller
Pekka Nikander, Helsinki University of Technology

LAP: A Little Language for OS Emulation
Donn M. Seeley, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.

Traffic Data Repository at the WIDE Project
Kenjiro Cho, Sony CSL; Koushirou Mitsuya, Keio University; Akira Kato, University of Tokyo

Servers: Load Balancing and Scheduling
Session Chair: Yoonho Park, IBM Research

Dynamic Function Placement for Data-Intensive Cluster Computing
Khalil Amiri, David Petrou, Gregory R. Ganger, and Garth A. Gibson, CS, Carnegie Mellon University

Scalable Content-Aware Request Distribution in Cluster-Based Network Servers
Mohit Aron, Darren Sanders, Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University

Isolation with Flexibility: A Resource Management Framework for Central Servers
David G. Sullivan and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University

The GNOME Project
Miguel de Icaza

The GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) project aims at providing a framework for UNIX application development. Lack of infrastructure has made UNIX systems lag in some areas. GNOME provides a component model that encourages code reuse and tool replacement by making applications adhere to a set of GNOME-standardized CORBA interfaces. A name server and an object-launching facility are used to make GNOME tools integrate in the desktop. GNOME graphical applications are written using the GTK+ toolkit, and they use the GNOME foundation libraries to simplify programming and encourage a standardized graphical user environment. The GNOME printing subsystem provides programmers with a portable and powerful printing subsystem.

Short Topics
Session Chair: Stephen C. Tweedie, Red Hat, Inc.

JEmacs--The Java/Scheme-Based Emacs
Per Bothner

A New Rendering Model for X
Keith Packard, SuSE, Inc.

UBC: An Efficient Unified I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD
Chuck Silvers, The NetBSD Project

Mbuf Issues in 4.4BSD IPv6 Support--Experiences from the KAME IPv6/IPsec Implementation
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.

Malloc() Performance in a Multithreaded Linux Environment
Chuck Lever and David Boreham, Sun-Netscape Alliance

New Horizons for Music on the Internet

Thomas Dolby Robertson, Beatnik, Inc.

The dynamics of creating and experiencing Web content are continually evolving. The integration of music and interactive audio into the fabric of computer and Internet technologies have enhanced the overall Web experience, moving it from a silent environment to a multi-sensory one. Come see what Thomas Dolby Robertson and his company, Beatnik, Inc., have contributed to the world of the Internet using sound and audio technologies. Mr. Robertson will show that everyone, from composers and musicians to Web homesteaders and professional Web designers, can benefit from these evolving technologies. Case studies presented will also illustrate how the emergence of new applications is making the Web a stage for true musical interaction.