Refereed Paper Track
Early on in the life of this blog, I talked a bunch about how the papers in the Refereed papers track were actually chosen for the LISA conference. But dear reader, I’ve done you a disservice by not actually talking about which papers were selected.
One of the things which makes LISA special and different from other conferences is the research and investigation into system administration that gets presented. I don’t know of any place else that publishes peer reviewed work like this designed to advance the field.
Here’s a few examples I’m pulling randomly from the technical session listing:
- Fast User-Mode Rootkit Scanner for the Enterprise, Yi-Min Wang and Doug Beck, Microsoft Research (seen anything in the news about rootkits lately?)
- A Case Study in Configuration Management Tool Deployment, Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Scott Matott, Sandra Bittner, Susan Coghlan, Rémy Evard, Cory Lueninghoener, Ti Leggett, John-Paul Navarro, Gene Rackow, Craig Stacey, and Tisha Stacey, Argonne National Laboratory (what is deploying this stuff really like?)
- Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and Upgrades, Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh, Columbia University (reducing downtime something you’ve been asked to do at your job?)
- A1: Spreadsheet-based Scripting for Developing Web Tools, Eben M. Haber, Eser Kandogan, Allen Cypher, Paul P. Maglio, and Rob Barrett, IBM Almaden Research Center (if you’ve suspected spreadsheets could be useful for something beyond number crunching, here’s how to do sysadmin with them)
- Manage People, Not Userids, Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (identity management issues buzzing louder at your workplace these days?)
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