U of I to host ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference

The University of Illinois Department of Computer Science is hosting the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference at the iHotel on the University of Illinois campus Nov. 30 through Dec. 4. 

Middleware 2009 provides a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design, construction and uses of middleware, and is the premier event for middleware research and technology. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments.

Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers (including a keynote address by Dr Hector Garcia-Molina of Stanford University), an industrial track, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. 

The technical sessions include papers and presentations on several areas, including Communications Protocols and Optimization, System Monitoring, Pervasive Computing, Failure Resilience, and Stream Processing.

The conference also includes two all-day workshops in parallel and high performance computing.  The first tutorial will be delivered by Illinois computer science professor Laxmikant Kale on Parallel application programming with parallel object.  A second tutorial will cover Practical Problem-Solving with Apache Hadoop & Pig, with Yahoo!’s Dr. Milind Bhandarkar.

For more information about the conference or to register, visit http://middleware2009.cs.uiuc.edu.

View the complete conference program at http://middleware2009.cs.uiuc.edu/program.html.