SAC 2009

My excuse, or rather reason, for being in Hawaii was to attend the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009). That is a large (about 500 delegates), international (lots of European and Asian delegates) conference with several "tracks" focusing on different aspects of computing. I had helped with reviewing the submissions for one of the tracks on Coordination Models, which is the general area in which my own research falls. The Coordination Models track had a single session, on the Tuesday morning, but there were several others dealing with a number of other related topics (distributed systems, computer networks, mobile and internet computing) that had presentations of interest.

Again, there were some very useful papers and I made some good contacts with various people. Next year SAC is to be held in Switzerland (why do they keep choosing such expensive venues!), and I hope to be able to submit a paper on some of the work done during my sabbatical.