The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating systems.[1][2][3][4][5]
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- 1989 (1989): AOL dial-up service provider, email, instant messaging, and web browser
- 1990 (1990): IMDb Internet movie database
- 1994 (1994): Yahoo! web directory
- 1995 (1995): Amazon online retailer
- 1995 (1995): eBay online auction and shopping
- 1995 (1995): Craigslist classified advertisements
- 1995 (1995): AltaVista search engine
- 1996 (1996): Outlook (formerly Hotmail) free web-based e-mail
- 1996 (1996): RankDex search engine
- 1997 (1997): Google Search
- 1997 (1997): Babel Fish automatic translation
- 1998 (1998): Yahoo Groups (formerly Yahoo! Clubs)
- 1998 (1998): PayPal Internet payment system
- 1998 (1998): Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator
- 1999 (1999): 2ch Anonymous textboard
- 1999 (1999): i-mode mobile internet service
- 1999 (1999): Napster peer-to-peer file sharing
- 2000 (2000): Baidu search engine
- 2001 (2001): 2chan Anonymous imageboard
- 2001 (2001): BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing
- 2001 (2001): Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 2003 (2003): LinkedIn business networking
- 2003 (2003): Myspace social networking site
- 2003 (2003): Skype Internet voice calls
- 2003 (2003): iTunes Store
- 2003 (2003): 4chan Anonymous imageboard
- 2003 (2003): The Pirate Bay, torrent file host
- 2004 (2004): Facebook social networking site
- 2004 (2004): Podcast media file series
- 2004 (2004): Flickr image hosting
- 2005 (2005): YouTube video sharing
- 2005 (2005): Reddit link voting
- 2005 (2005): Google Earth virtual globe
- 2006 (2006): Twitter microblogging
- 2007 (2007): WikiLeaks anonymous news and information leaks
- 2007 (2007): Google Street View
- 2007 (2007): Kindle, e-reader and virtual bookshop
- 2008 (2008): Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- 2008 (2008): Dropbox cloud-based file hosting
- 2008 (2008): Encyclopedia of Life, a collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all living species
- 2008 (2008): Spotify, a DRM-based music streaming service
- 2009 (2009): Bing search engine
- 2009 (2009): Google Docs, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service
- 2009 (2009): Kickstarter, a threshold pledge system
- 2009 (2009): Bitcoin, a digital currency
- 2010 (2010): Instagram, photo sharing and social networking
- 2011 (2011): Google+, social networking
- 2011 (2011): Snapchat, photo sharing
- 2012 (2012): Coursera, massive open online courses
- 2016 (2016): TikTok, video sharing and social networking
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Before 2023, SOSP was held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI); starting 2024, SOSP began to be held every year. The first SOSP was held in 1967. It is sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS).
The inaugural conference was held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on 1–4 October 1967 at the Mountain View Hotel.[6] There were fifteen papers in total, of which three presentations were in the Computer Networks and Communications session.[7] Larry Roberts presented his plan for the ARPANET, a computer network for resource sharing, which at that point was based on Wesley Clark's proposal for a message switching network.[8][9][10] Jack Dennis from MIT discussed the merits of a more general data communications network. Roger Scantlebury, a member of Donald Davies' team from the UK National Physical Laboratory, presented their research on packet switching in a high-speed computer network, and referenced the work of Paul Baran.[11][12][13] At this seminal meeting,[14][15][16] Scantlebury proposed packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts the economics were favorable to message switching.[17][18][19][20][21] The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design.[22][23][24][25]
In total, 29 conferences have been held, seven of which were outside the USA. The first conference held outside the USA was in Saint-Malo, France in 1997. Other countries to have hosted the conference are Canada, the UK, Portugal, China and Germany.[26]
From 1967 to 2023, the conferences were held every two years, with the first SOSP conference taking place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.[26] Beginning in 2024, SOSP the conference is held every year.
No |
Year |
Dates |
Location |
1 |
1967 |
Oct 1-4 |
Gatlinburg, TN USA |
2 |
1969 |
Oct 20-22 |
Princeton, NJ USA |
3 |
1971 |
Oct 18-20 |
Palo Alto, CA USA |
4 |
1973 |
Oct 15-17 |
Yorktown Heights, NY USA |
5 |
1975 |
Nov 19-21 |
Austin, TX USA |
6 |
1977 |
Nov 16-18 |
West Lafayette, IN USA |
7 |
1979 |
Dec 10-12 |
Pacific Grove, CA USA |
8 |
1981 |
Dec 14-16 |
Pacific Grove, CA USA |
9 |
1983 |
Oct 10-13 |
Bretton Woods, NH USA |
10 |
1985 |
Dec 1-4 |
Orcas Island, WA USA |
11 |
1987 |
Nov 8-11 |
Austin, TX USA |
12 |
1989 |
Dec 3-6 |
Litchfield Park, AZ USA |
13 |
1991 |
Oct 13-16 |
Pacific Grove, CA USA |
14 |
1993 |
Dec 5-8 |
Asheville, NC USA |
15 |
1995 |
Dec 3-6 |
Copper Mountain Resort, CO USA |
16 |
1997 |
Oct 5-8 |
Saint-Malo, France |
17 |
1999 |
Dec 12-15 |
Kiawah Island Resort, SC USA |
18 |
2001 |
Oct 21-24 |
Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada |
19 |
2003 |
Oct 19-22 |
Bolton Landing, NY USA |
20 |
2005 |
Oct 23-26 |
Brighton, UK |
21 |
2007 |
Oct 14-17 |
Stevenson, WA USA |
22 |
2009 |
Oct 11-14 |
Big Sky, MT USA |
23 |
2011 |
Oct 23-26 |
Cascais, Portugal |
24 |
2013 |
Nov 3-6 |
Farmington, PA USA |
25 |
2015 |
Oct 4-7 |
Monterey, CA USA |
26 |
2017 |
Oct 28-31 |
Shanghai, China |
27 |
2019 |
Oct 27-30 |
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
28 |
2021 |
Oct 25-28 |
Virtual Event |
29 |
2023 |
Oct 23-26 |
Koblenz, Germany |
30 |
2024 |
Nov 4-6 |
Austin, TX USA |
Press, Gil. "A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-02-07. Roberts' proposal that all host computers would connect to one another directly ... was not endorsed ... Wesley Clark ... suggested to Roberts that the network be managed by identical small computers, each attached to a host computer. Accepting the idea, Roberts named the small computers dedicated to network administration 'Interface Message Processors' (IMPs), which later evolved into today's routers.
"On packet switching". Net History. Retrieved 2024-01-08. [Scantlebury said] Clearly Donald and Paul Baran had independently come to a similar idea albeit for different purposes. Paul for a survivable voice/telex network, ours for a high-speed computer network. ... We referenced Baran's paper in our 1967 Gatlinburg ACM paper. You will find it in the References. Therefore I am sure that we introduced Baran's work to Larry (and hence the BBN guys).
Naughton, John (2015). A Brief History of the Future: The origins of the Internet. Hachette. ISBN 978-1474602778. they lacked one vital ingredient. Since none of them had heard of Paul Baran they had no serious idea of how to make the system work. And it took an English outfit to tell them. ... Larry Roberts paper was the first public presentation of the ARPANET concept as conceived with the aid of Wesley Clark ... Looking at it now, Roberts paper seems extraordinarily, well, vague.
Waldrop, M. Mitchell (2018). The Dream Machine. Stripe Press. pp. 285–6. ISBN 978-1-953953-36-0. Scantlebury and his companions from the NPL group were happy to sit up with Roberts all that night, sharing technical details and arguing over the finer points.
Barber, Derek (Spring 1993). "The Origins of Packet Switching". The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society (5). ISSN 0958-7403. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Roger actually convinced Larry that what he was talking about was all wrong and that the way that NPL were proposing to do it was right. I've got some notes that say that first Larry was sceptical but several of the others there sided with Roger and eventually Larry was overwhelmed by the numbers.
"Oral-History:Donald Davies & Derek Barber". Retrieved 13 April 2016. the ARPA network is being implemented using existing telegraphic techniques simply because the type of network we describe does not exist. It appears that the ideas in the NPL paper at this moment are more advanced than any proposed in the USA
Abbate, Jane (2000). Inventing the Internet. MIT Press. p. 38. ISBN 0262261332. The NPL group influenced a number of American computer scientists in favor of the new technique, and they adopted Davies's term "packet switching" to refer to this type of network. Roberts also adopted some specific aspects of the NPL design.
"Donald Davies". Internet Hall of Frame. Retrieved 2020-02-15. America's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), and the ARPANET received his network design enthusiastically