Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

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The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating systems. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Before 2023, SOSP was held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI); starting 2024, SOSP began to be held every year. The first SOSP was held in 1967. It is sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS).

History

The inaugural conference was held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on 1–4 October 1967 at the Mountain View Hotel. [6] There were fifteen papers in total, of which three presentations were in the Computer Networks and Communications session. [7] Larry Roberts presented his plan for the ARPANET, a computer network for resource sharing, which at that point was based on Wesley Clark's proposal for a message switching network. [8] [9] [10] Jack Dennis from MIT discussed the merits of a more general data communications network. Roger Scantlebury, a member of Donald Davies' team from the UK National Physical Laboratory, presented their research on packet switching in a high-speed computer network, and referenced the work of Paul Baran. [11] [12] At this seminal meeting, [13] [14] [15] Scantlebury proposed packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts the economics were favorable to message switching. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]

In total, 29 conferences have been held, seven of which were outside the USA. The first conference held outside the USA was in Saint-Malo, France in 1997. Other countries to have hosted the conference are Canada, the UK, Portugal, China and Germany. [26]

List of conferences

From 1967 to 2023, the conferences were held every two years, with the first SOSP conference taking place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. [26] Beginning in 2024, SOSP the conference is held every year.

NoYearDatesLocation
11967Oct 1-4Gatlinburg, TN USA
21969Oct 20-22Princeton, NJ USA
31971Oct 18-20Palo Alto, CA USA
41973Oct 15-17Yorktown Heights, NY USA
51975Nov 19-21Austin, TX USA
61977Nov 16-18West Lafayette, IN USA
71979Dec 10-12Pacific Grove, CA USA
81981Dec 14-16Pacific Grove, CA USA
91983Oct 10-13Bretton Woods, NH USA
101985Dec 1-4Orcas Island, WA USA
111987Nov 8-11Austin, TX USA
121989Dec 3-6Litchfield Park, AZ USA
131991Oct 13-16Pacific Grove, CA USA
141993Dec 5-8Asheville, NC USA
151995Dec 3-6Copper Mountain Resort, CO USA
161997Oct 5-8Saint-Malo, France
171999Dec 12-15Kiawah Island Resort, SC USA
182001Oct 21-24Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada
192003Oct 19-22Bolton Landing, NY USA
202005Oct 23-26Brighton, UK
212007Oct 14-17Stevenson, WA USA
222009Oct 11-14Big Sky, MT USA
232011Oct 23-26Cascais, Portugal
242013Nov 3-6Farmington, PA USA
252015Oct 4-7Monterey, CA USA
262017Oct 28-31Shanghai, China
272019Oct 27-30Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
282021Oct 25-28Koblenz, Germany - Virtual Event
292023Oct 23-26Koblenz, Germany

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  8. ↑ Press, Gil. "A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-02-07. Roberts' proposal that all host computers would connect to one another directly ... was not endorsed ... Wesley Clark ... suggested to Roberts that the network be managed by identical small computers, each attached to a host computer. Accepting the idea, Roberts named the small computers dedicated to network administration 'Interface Message Processors' (IMPs), which later evolved into today's routers.
  9. ↑ Roberts, Lawrence (1967). "Multiple computer networks and intercomputer communication" (PDF). Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communications. pp. 3.1–3.6. doi:10.1145/800001.811680. S2CID   17409102. Thus the set of IMP's, plus the telephone lines and data sets would constitute a message switching network
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  12. ↑ "On packet switching". Net History. Retrieved 2024-01-08. [Scantlebury said] Clearly Donald and Paul Baran had independently come to a similar idea albeit for different purposes. Paul for a survivable voice/telex network, ours for a high-speed computer network. ... We referenced Baran's paper in our 1967 Gatlinburg ACM paper. You will find it in the References. Therefore I am sure that we introduced Baran's work to Larry (and hence the BBN guys).
  13. ↑ Post, The Washington (2015-11-10). The Threatened Net: How the Web Became a Perilous Place. Diversion Books. ISBN   978-1-68230-136-4. Historians credit seminal insights to Welsh scientist Donald W. Davies and American engineer Paul Baran
  14. ↑ Hempstead, C.; Worthington, W., eds. (2005). Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology. Vol. 1, A–L. Routledge. p. 574. ISBN   9781135455514. It was a seminal meeting
  15. ↑ Moschovitis 1999 , p.  58-9
  16. ↑ Naughton, John (2015). A Brief History of the Future: The origins of the Internet. Hachette. ISBN   978-1474602778. they lacked one vital ingredient. Since none of them had heard of Paul Baran they had no serious idea of how to make the system work. And it took an English outfit to tell them. ... Larry Roberts paper was the first public presentation of the ARPANET concept as conceived with the aid of Wesley Clark ... Looking at it now, Roberts paper seems extraordinarily, well, vague.
  17. ↑ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (2018). The Dream Machine. Stripe Press. pp. 285–6. ISBN   978-1-953953-36-0. Scantlebury and his companions from the NPL group were happy to sit up with Roberts all that night, sharing technical details and arguing over the finer points.
  18. ↑ Barber, Derek (Spring 1993). "The Origins of Packet Switching". The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society (5). ISSN   0958-7403 . Retrieved 6 September 2017. Roger actually convinced Larry that what he was talking about was all wrong and that the way that NPL were proposing to do it was right. I've got some notes that say that first Larry was sceptical but several of the others there sided with Roger and eventually Larry was overwhelmed by the numbers.
  19. ↑ "Oral-History:Donald Davies & Derek Barber" . Retrieved 13 April 2016. the ARPA network is being implemented using existing telegraphic techniques simply because the type of network we describe does not exist. It appears that the ideas in the NPL paper at this moment are more advanced than any proposed in the USA
  20. ↑ Needham, Roger M. (2002-12-01). "Donald Watts Davies, C.B.E. 7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 87–96. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0006. S2CID   72835589. Larry Roberts presented a paper on early ideas for what was to become ARPAnet. This was based on a store-and-forward method for entire messages, but as a result of that meeting the NPL work helped to convince Roberts that packet switching was the way forward.
  21. ↑ Abbate, Jane (2000). Inventing the Internet. MIT Press. p. 38. ISBN   0262261332. The NPL group influenced a number of American computer scientists in favor of the new technique, and they adopted Davies's term "packet switching" to refer to this type of network. Roberts also adopted some specific aspects of the NPL design.
  22. ↑ Hafner, Katie; Lyon, Matthew (1996). Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet. Internet Archive. New York : Simon & Schuster. pp. 76–78. ISBN   978-0-684-81201-4. Roberts also learned from Scantlebury, for the first time, of the work that had been done by Paul Baran at RAND a few years earlier.
  23. ↑ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (2000). How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web . Oxford University Press. p.  25. ISBN   978-0192862075. Roberts was quick to latch on to a good idea. 'Suddenly I learned how to route packets,' he later said of the Gatlinburg conference.
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