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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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]^[13] At this seminal meeting,^[14]^[15]^[16] Scantlebury proposed packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts the economics were favorable to message switching.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21] The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design.^[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.

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
28	2021	Oct 25-28	Virtual Event
29	2023	Oct 23-26	Koblenz, Germany
30	2024	Nov 4-6	Austin, TX USA

References

^ "Top-ranked Conferences in "Operating Systems"". Archived from the original on 2009-12-03. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
^ "Computer Science Conference Rankings". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
^ "stanford.edu/~engler/vmcai04-talk.ppt". The most prestigious conferences (SOSP, OSDI) have had such papers in each of last few editions.
^ "Open Kernel Labs Paper on Formal Verification Wins Top Prize at Prestigious SOSP Conference : Open Kernel Labs". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
^ "In Silicon Valley for the summer | /Dev/Rant". www.thegibson.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (Electronic Mediations). Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: Univ Of Minnesota Press. 2018. ISBN 9781452957579.
^ Gosden, J; Randell, B, eds. (1967). "Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67". ACM Conferences. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/800001.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ "SRI Project 5890-1; Networking (Reports on Meetings).[1967]". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-15. W. Clark's message switching proposal (appended to Taylor's letter of April 24, 1967 to Engelbart)were reviewed.
^ Davies, D. W.; Bartlett, K. A.; Scantlebury, R. A.; Wilkinson, P. T. (October 1967). "A digital communication network for computers giving rapid response at remote terminals" (PDF). Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2.1 – 2.17. doi:10.1145/800001.811669. ISBN 978-1-4503-7370-8.
^ 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.
^ "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).
^ 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
^ 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
^ Moschovitis, Christos J. P. (1999). History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. pp. 58–9. ISBN 978-1-57607-118-2.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "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
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Shapiro: Computer Network Meeting of October 9–10, 1967". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015.
^ "Donald Davies". Internet Hall of Frame. Retrieved 2020-02-15. America's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), and the ARPANET received his network design enthusiastically
^ ^a ^b "Symposium on Operating Systems Principles". SOSP.ORG. Retrieved 2020-02-15.

External links

[microsoft-1] "Top-ranked Conferences in "Operating Systems"". Archived from the original on 2009-12-03. Retrieved 2009-11-02.

[ualberta-2] "Computer Science Conference Rankings". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2010-04-19.

[stanford-3] "stanford.edu/~engler/vmcai04-talk.ppt". The most prestigious conferences (SOSP, OSDI) have had such papers in each of last few editions.

[4] "Open Kernel Labs Paper on Formal Verification Wins Top Prize at Prestigious SOSP Conference : Open Kernel Labs". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2010-04-18.

[5] "In Silicon Valley for the summer | /Dev/Rant". www.thegibson.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[6] Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed (Electronic Mediations). Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: Univ Of Minnesota Press. 2018. ISBN 9781452957579.

[7] Gosden, J; Randell, B, eds. (1967). "Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67". ACM Conferences. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/800001.

[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

[10] "SRI Project 5890-1; Networking (Reports on Meetings).[1967]". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-15. W. Clark's message switching proposal (appended to Taylor's letter of April 24, 1967 to Engelbart)were reviewed.

[11] Davies, D. W.; Bartlett, K. A.; Scantlebury, R. A.; Wilkinson, P. T. (October 1967). "A digital communication network for computers giving rapid response at remote terminals" (PDF). Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Operating System Principles - SOSP '67. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2.1 – 2.17. doi:10.1145/800001.811669. ISBN 978-1-4503-7370-8.

[12] 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.

[13] "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).

[:19-14] 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

[C._Hempstead,_W._Worthington-15] 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

[16] Moschovitis, Christos J. P. (1999). History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. pp. 58–9. ISBN 978-1-57607-118-2.

[17] 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.

[:5b-18] 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.

[19] 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.

[20] "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

[21] 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.

[Abbate2000-22] 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.

[Gillies20002-23] 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.

[24] "Shapiro: Computer Network Meeting of October 9–10, 1967". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015.

[25] "Donald Davies". Internet Hall of Frame. Retrieved 2020-02-15. America's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), and the ARPANET received his network design enthusiastically

[:0-26] "Symposium on Operating Systems Principles". SOSP.ORG. Retrieved 2020-02-15.

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