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 Orlando, Florida. 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

László Babai László "Laci" Babai (born July 20, 1950, in Budapest) a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and won the Knuth Prize. Babai was an invited speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Kyoto (1990), Zürich (1994 ...

, Charles Bennett, Randal Bryant, Bob Colwell, David Culler, Cynthia Dwork,

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, Michael J. Flynn, Hector Garcia-Molina, John L. Hennessy,

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 A ...

, Randy Katz, 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 s ...

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 ...

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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, Guy L. Steele Jr.,

Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson ( he, אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jerse ...

Maurice Wilkes Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers, and who ...

William A. Wulf William Allan Wulf (born December 8, 1939) is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers. Until June 2012, he was a university professor and the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Depart ...

Locations

* 1993:

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, USA * 1996:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city i ...

, USA * 1999:

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,71 ...

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

San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popul ...

, 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 populou ...

, USA * 2019:

Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the o ...

, USA * 2023: Orlando, Florida

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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PPoPP 1993 program
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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