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Currently reviewing a paper for a French-language journal and I just learned that the French call a "pie chart" a "camembert". Now I want to know what pie charts are called in other languages so we can make a delicious chart of the results.

And if you're new to the systems community, check out the preview session with background info on the main ATC and OSDI topics, organized by Dilma da Silva Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Aurojit Panda Deniz Altınbüken usenix.org/conference/atc… USENIX Association #atc21 #osdi21

Guess this is just the atmosphere realizing that the semester begins tomorrow.

Benjamin Carleton (University of Rochester) receives the #SOSP21 SRC Undergraduate award! Congratulations, Benjamin! 🏆🏆🏆

David Chu (UC Berkeley) receives the #SOSP21 SRC Graduate award! Congratulations, David!

New SIGOPS Blog -- "Reproducible Experiments for Useful Internet Systems" by Frank Cangialosi (Frank Cangialosi) and Akshay Narayan (Akshay Narayan) from MIT. This's the 3rd ep of the blog series, How Are Award-winning Systems Research Artifacts Prepared sigops.org/2021/reproduci…

xkcd.com/2556/ this is too close to reality.

CS Faculty Twitter! Cornell, Maryland, and Max Planck host a 1-week summer school (CMMRS) for aspiring undergraduate and masters researchers. Please help spread the word -- the application deadline is approaching (17th Feb) cmmrs.mpi-sws.org

Next week, we will present at USENIX NSDI "Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines" here is the pitch: can we extend RMT hardware to enforce isolation between different packet-processing programs? (usenix.org/conference/nsd…)

EuroS&P 2022 Distinguished Paper Award Finalists are Announced! #EuroSP22 ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2022/…

CostCO: An automatic cost modeling framework for secure multi-party computation Vivian Fang (UC Berkeley) Vivian Fang, Lloyd Brown (UC Berkeley), William Lin (UC Berkeley), Wenting Zheng (UC Berkeley/CMU), Aurojit Panda (NYU), Raluca Ada Popa (UC Berkeley)

Woot. Vivian Fang's paper CostCO won distinguished paper award at EuroS&P (ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2022/…). The paper describes a framework for automatically generating cost models for MPC protocols, reducing overheads when incorporating them in existing optimizers.

Neeraja Yadwadkar and I are excited to announce that the ACM SIGCOMM HotNets 2022 (Austin, TX) invitation lottery is now open. You can enter at forms.gle/jzneuGZgNSCVYv… no later than Thursday, October 5th. And please help spread the word around! 🙏

who would win? millions of TPU-hours of RL or two cheeky austrians 😜 arxiv.org/abs/2210.04045

OH: Why do aliens never visit the solar system? Because it only has one star.

Exciting news: 2025 is an odd number, which means it is a year with HotOS. The 2025 edition will be held at Banff (in Canada) in mid-May. The CFP is now out at sigops.org/s/conferences/…, papers are due on January 15th. Please submit your most fun systems idea.