The Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC, is an event that brings together several

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s, workshops, and plenary talks in the field of

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. FCRC has been organised in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019. The 2023 event will be held in

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. In the first FCRC, the main organiser was the

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; since then, the

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has taken the lead in organising the event. The

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1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 recipients gave plenary talks in FCRC 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. Other plenary speakers in FCRC include

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, Charles Bennett,

Randal Bryant Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware and software. Bryant has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984. He ser ...

Bob Colwell Robert P. "Bob" Colwell (born 1954) is an electrical engineer who worked at Intel and later served as Director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA. He was the chief IA-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and ...

David Culler David Ethan Culler (born November 12, 1959) is a computer scientist and former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a principal investigator in the Software Defi ...

Cynthia Dwork Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Affiliated Professo ...

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Michael J. Flynn Michael J. Flynn (born May 20, 1934) is an American professor emeritus at Stanford University. Early life and education Flynn was born in New York City. Career Flynn proposed Flynn's taxonomy, a method of classifying parallel digital compute ...

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John L. Hennessy John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist, academician and businessman who serves as Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as ...

Richard Karp Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing ...

Randy Katz Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Biography Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He was first exposed to computers in ...

, Ken Kennedy, James Kurose, Ed Lazowska,

Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the development of the Liskov su ...

Robin Milner Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010), known as Robin Milner or A. J. R. G. Milner, was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner.

, Charles R. (Chuck) Moore,

Christos Papadimitriou Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou ( el, Χρήστος Χαρίλαος "Χρίστος" Παπαδημητρίου; born August 16, 1949) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist and the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Un ...

, Michael Rabin,

Scott Shenker Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the Intern ...

Burton Smith Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 2, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Education Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as a ...

, Guy L. Steele Jr.,

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, William A. Wulf.

Locations

* 1993:

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, USA * 1996:

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, USA * 1999:

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, USA * 2003: San Diego, California, USA * 2007: San Diego, California, USA * 2011:

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, USA * 2015:

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous ...

, USA * 2019:

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, USA * 2023:

Conferences

The following table contains conferences that have been part of FCRC at least twice; workshops have not been listed. Other notable events held in conjunction with FCRC include HOPL III, the History of Programming Languages Conference in 2007.

References and Notes

* tp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/fcrc/94/program.ps FCRC 1993 program(a PostScript file, reverse page order). * Information about FCRC 1993 can be found also in the following posts in

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news (links t
Google Groups
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PPoPP 1993 program
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PPoPP 1993 CFP
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SoCG 1993 CFP
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WOPA 1993 program

* ttps://archive-fcrc.acm.org/2019/past-events.html#h-fcrc-1999:-1999-federated-computing-research-conference FCRC 1999 web site
FCRC 2003 web site

* ttps://archive-fcrc.acm.org/2019/past-events.html#h-fcrc-2011:-2011-federated-computing-research-conference FCRC 2011 web site
FCRC 2015 web site

FCRC 2019 web site

on CRA web site.
Erik Demaine's List of Events: FCRC

External links

* {{Authority control Computer science conferences Association for Computing Machinery conferences