Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
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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 system
s.
SOSP is held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
(OSDI). The first SOSP was held in 1967. It is sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS).
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s.
SOSP is held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Operating Systems Design and Implementation is a biennial Computer Science academic conference organized by USENIX. It alternates with SOSP, and it is the most prestigious multi-track operating systems conference....
(OSDI). The first SOSP was held in 1967. It is sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS).