ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column 28 Idit Keidar Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion Haifa, 32000, Israel idish@ee.technion.ac.il Sergio Rajsbaum, who edited this column for seven years and established it as a relevant and popular venue, is stepping down. This issue is my rst step in the big shoes he vacated. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sergio for providing us with seven years worth of interesting columns. In producing these columns, Sergio has enjoyed the support of the community at-large and obtained material from many authors, who greatly contributed to the column s success. I hope to enjoy a similar level of support; I warmly welcome your feedback and suggestions for material to include in this column! The main two conferences in the area of principles of distributed computing, PODC and DISC, took place this summer. This issue is centered around these conferences, and more broadly, distributed computing research as re ected therein, ranging from reviews of this year s instantiations, through in uential papers in past instantiations, to examining PODC s place within the realm of computer science. I begin with a short review of PODC 07, and highlight some hot
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