This was forwarded to me from someone at USENIX, and I thought it might be of interest to some of you... -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Register now for LISA, the 18th Annual Large Installation System Administration conference at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm LISA comes to Atlanta November 14-19. As always, the breadth and quality of this years tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is excellent. Some highlights: Professional TRAINING: The biggest and best slate of tutorials we've ever had: 36 instructors teaching 51 full-day and half-day tutorials, 30 of which are new. Some quick examples: o John Sellens: System and Network Monitoring o David Rhoades: Securing Web-based Apps o Eric Allman: Advanced Sendmail o Rik Farrow: Thinking Like a Hacker o Peter Baer Galvin: Advanced Solaris Administration o James Mauro and Richard McDougall: Solaris Kernel Performance, Observeability, and Debugging PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Joshua Goodman, Esther Filderman, Gerald Carter and Yi-Mon Wang will present cutting-edge issues in topics such as: o Looking at both symptom and state information for configuration faults o Biology and Informatics for System Adminstrators o Electronic Presidential Campaigning and the lessons learned o How spammers are circumventing Bayesian filtering o Information Security Laws o Grid Computing Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and get feedback from the audience. Single- and multi-day registration options let you attend for one day or several. Register by October 22 and save up to $300. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: LISA - the 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference WHEN: November 14-19, 2004 WHERE: Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Marriott Marquis WHO: System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs, Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk personnel, etc. WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system administration HOW: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------