The Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC, is an event that brings together several
academic conference
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s, workshops, and plenary talks in the field of
computer science
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. FCRC has been organized and held in the
United States
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in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2023. The 2023 event was held in
Orlando, Florida
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.
In the first FCRC, the main organiser was the
Computing Research Association
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; since then, the
Association for Computing Machinery
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has taken the lead in organising the event.
The
Turing Award
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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
László Babai
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Babai was an invited speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Kyoto (1990), Zürich (199 ...
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
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,
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 Define ...
,
Cynthia Dwork
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Dwork w ...
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Shafi Goldwasser
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Hector Garcia-Molina
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John L. Hennessy
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Torsten Hoefler
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Richard Karp
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,
Randy Katz
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Biography
Katz was born in Brooklyn, ...
Ed Lazowska
Edward Delano Lazowska (born August 3, 1950) is an American computer scientist. He is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair emeritus, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
Schola ...
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Barbara Liskov
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,
Robin Milner
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner.Charles R. (Chuck) Moore,
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou (; born August 16, 1949) is a Greek-American theoretical computer scientist and the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
Education
Papadimitriou studied at the National Technical ...
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Michael Rabin
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Biography
Michael Rabin was of Romanian-Jewish descent. His mother Jeann ...
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Scott Shenker
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,
Burton Smith
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Education
Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as ...
,
Guy L. Steele Jr.
Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.
Biography
Steele was born in Missouri ...
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Avi Wigderson
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,
Maurice Wilkes
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San Diego
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* 1996:
Philadelphia
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* 1999:
Atlanta
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* 2003: San Diego
* 2007: San Diego
* 2011:
San Jose, California
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* 2015:
Portland, Oregon
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* 2019:
Phoenix, Arizona
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* 2023:
Orlando, Florida
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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.
Usenet
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