A Review of PODC 2011 Maryam Helmi Department of Computer Science University of Calgary, Canada mhelmikh@ucalgary.ca Introduction The 30th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2011) was held on June 6-8, 2011, in San Jose, California, as part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). 34 regular papers and 31 brief announcements presented in this conference were selected among 129 regular submissions, and 34 additional brief announcement submissions. The conference took place at the San Jose Convention Center. Figure 1: San Jose Convention Center. Figure 2: Nice walk to the reception. FCRC Turing Lecture and Plenary Talks Leslie G. Valiant, who received the 2010 Turing Award, presented the Turing lecture titled The Extent and Limitations of Mechanistic Explanation of Nature on Sunday evening. He introduced the role of computational learning theory in explaining the organization of physically realizable components of nature. Professor Valiant s talk was one of the highlights of the FCRC conference. His thesis was that the changing and increasing functionality of species is a form of computational ACM SIGACT News December 2011, vol. 42, no. 4 learning. He stated that the Darwinian theory of evolution lacks quantitative explanations. Computer simulations
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A review of PODC 2011
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