Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

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.

SOSP is held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). 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. There were fifteen papers in total, of which three presentations were in the Computer Networks and Communications session. Larry Roberts presented his plan for the ARPANET, which at that point was based on Wesley Clark's proposal for a message switching network. 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 for data communications and mentioned the work of Paul Baran. After the meeting, Scantlebury suggested packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts that the economics were favorable to message switching. The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design.

The first conference held outside the USA was in Saint-Malo, France in 1997. In total, six conferences out of 27 have been held outside the USA. Other countries to have hosted the conference are Canada, the UK, Portugal and China.

List of conferences

The conferences are held every two years, beginning in 1967, when the first SOSP conference took place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

No Year Dates Location
1 1967 Oct 1-4 Gatlinburg, TN USA
2 1969 Oct 20-22 Princeton, NJ USA
3 1971 Oct 18-20 Palo Alto, CA USA
4 1973 Oct 15-17 Yorktown Heights, NY USA
5 1975 Nov 19-21 Austin, TX USA
6 1977 Nov 16-18 West Lafayette, IN USA
7 1979 Dec 10-12 Pacific Grove, CA USA
8 1981 Dec 14-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA
9 1983 Oct 10-13 Bretton Woods, NH USA
10 1985 Dec 1-4 Orcas Island, WA USA
11 1987 Nov 8-11 Austin, TX USA
12 1989 Dec 3-6 Litchfield Park, AZ USA
13 1991 Oct 13-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA
14 1993 Dec 5-8 Asheville, NC USA
15 1995 Dec 3-6 Copper Mountain Resort, CO USA
16 1997 Oct 5-8 Saint-Malo, France
17 1999 Dec 12-15 Kiawah Island Resort, SC USA
18 2001 Oct 21-24 Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada
19 2003 Oct 19-22 Bolton Landing, NY USA
20 2005 Oct 23-26 Brighton, UK
21 2007 Oct 14-17 Stevenson, WA USA
22 2009 Oct 11-14 Big Sky, MT USA
23 2011 Oct 23-26 Cascais, Portugal
24 2013 Nov 3-6 Farmington, PA USA
25 2015 Oct 4-7 Monterey, CA USA
26 2017 Oct 28-31 Shanghai, China
27 2019 Oct 27-30 Huntsville, Ontario, Canada

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