ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column 32 The Year in Review Idit Keidar Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion Haifa, 32000, Israel idish@ee.technion.ac.il This column overviews the main events related to distributed computing in 2008. I begin with this year s Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, which was awarded (in PODC 08) to Baruch Awerbuch and David Peleg for their paper Sparse Partitions published in FOCS in 1990. The award statement appears earlier in this issue of the SIGACT News. I then proceed with reviews of PODC the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing and its European counterpart, DISC the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing. I decided to also include a review of SPAA the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures since the boundaries between distributed and parallel computing are quite blurred these days: SPAA increasingly deals with classical distributed computing topics such as network (and graph) algorithms, while PODC and DISC continue to deal extensively with concurrent and shared memory-based computing, which arises in parallel architectures. To review these three events, I invited students who have won Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards in the respective conferences (PODC,
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