Review of DSN 08 Gabriel Kliot Department of Computer Science, Technion Haifa, 32000, Israel gabik@cs.technion.ac.il The 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2008, was held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA between June 24 and June 27 2008. The conference included two tracks: the Dependable Computing and Communication Symposium (DCCS) and the Performance and Dependability Symposium (PDS), as well as four workshops, tutorials, a student forum, an industry forum on critical topics in dependability, fast abstract sessions, and 3 Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. The DCCS track, chaired by Neeraj Suri, featured 35 paper with acceptance rate of 23.5% and the PDS track, chaired by Kimberly Keeton, featured 23 paper with acceptance rate of 26.5%. Around one third of the paper dealt either directly or indirectly with different areas of distributed computing. DSN 08 featured 2 keynotes. Alex Hills from CMU talked about the Alaskan aviation and its dependability (and sometimes non-dependability) across last decades, in his lecture titled Dependability on the Last Frontier . After his lecture some of us felt we were lucky that the excursion will be by boat and not by airplane. Thomas Seder from General Motors talked about the
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