FCRC 2011:

David A. Ferrucci:
IBM's Watson/DeepQA 

Ravi Kannan:
Algorithms: Recent Highlights and Challenges 

Luiz Andre Barroso:
Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade 

Luis von Ahn: 
Solving Problems with Millions of Humans and Computers

Maja Mataric:
Robots Among Us? Human-Robot Interaction Methods for Socially Assistive Robotics 

Leslie G. Valiant:
(Turing Award Lecture)


PODC 2010:

Pierre Fraigniaud:
Distributed computational complexities: are you Volvo-driving or NASCAR-obsessed?

Eric Brewer:
A certain freedom: exploring the CAP space

Hagit Attiya:
The inherent complexity of transactional memory and what to do about it


SPAA PODC 2009:

Sarita V. Adve:
Memory Models: A Case for Rethinking Parallel Languages and Hardware

Bruce Hendrickson:
Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Parallel Computing: The Cretaceous Redux?

Robbert van Renesse:
Refining the Way to Consensus


PODC 2008:

Peter Druschel:
Accountability for Distributed Systems.

Joe Halpern:
Beyond Nash Equilibrium: Solution Concepts for the 21st Century.

Don Towsley:
The Internet is Flat: A brief history of networking over the next ten years.

Prakash Panangaden:
Knowledge and Information in Probabilistic Systems.

Special session in honor of Nancy Lynch's 60th birthday:

Michael Fischer:
Evolution of Distributed Computing Theory: From Concurrency to Networks and Beyond.

Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch:
A World of (Im)Possibilities.

Roberto Segala:
The Power of Simulation Relations.

Seth Gilbert:
On Robustness, Fault-Tolerance, and Wireless Networks.

Maurice Herlihy:
The Future of Distributed Computing: Renaissance or Reformation?


PODC 2007:

Marc Tremblay:
Transactional Memory for a Modern Microprocessor.

Tom Leighton:
The Akamai Approach to Achieving Performance and Reliability on the Internet.


PODC 2006:

Maurice Herlihy:
Taking Concurrency Seriously: New Directions in Multiprocessor Synchronization.

Danny Dolev:
Century papers at the First Quarter-Century Milestone.

Tushar Chandra:
Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective.

Jon Kleinberg:
Distributed Social Systems.

Werner Vogels:
Life is not a State-Machine: The Long Road from Research to Production.


SPAA PODC 2005:

Elias Koutsoupias:
The Price of Anarchy of Congestion Games and Coordination Mechanisms


PODC 2004:

Joffroy Beauquier: 
Self-stabilization: Past, Present, Future.

Ran Canetti:
Security and Composition of Cryptographic Proctocols.

Ariel Orda:
Over Two Decades of Research on Networking Games.

Doug Lea:
Concurrency: From PODC to J2SE, and Back.


PODC 2003:

Joan Feigenbaum and Scott Shenker:
Tutorial: Incentives and Internet Computation. 

Jeffrey B. Lotspiech, Tushar Chandra, and Donald E. Leake Jr.:
Tutorial: Content Protection Technologies. 

Michael Franklin:
Data Streams, Message Brokers, Sensor Networks, and Other Strange Places for Database Query Processing.

Ross Anderson:
Cryptography and Competition Policy -- Issues with `Trusted Computing'. 

Butler Lampson:
Principles of Computer Security

Silvio Micali:
Simple and Fast Optimistic Protocols for Fair Electronic Exchange .

Celebrating Michael Fischer's 60th birthday:

Nancy Lynch:
Working with Mike on Distributed Computing Theory, 1978-1992.

Leslie Lamport:
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Rebecca Wright:
Fischer's Cryptographic Protocols. 

Albert Meyer:
M.J. Fischer, et al., The First Decade -- mid-60's to 70's. 


PODC 2002:

Idit Keidar and Sergio Rajsbaum:
On the Cost of Fault-Tolerant Consensus When There Are No Faults. 

Deborah Estrin:
Sensor Networks Research: In Search of Principles.

Frans Kaashoek:
Peer-to-peer computing: a new direction in distributed computing. 

Bruce Maggs:
Global Content Delivery. 


PODC 2001:

James Anderson:
Lamport on Mutual Exclusion: 27 Years of Planting Seeds.

Butler Lampson:
The ABCD's of Paxos. 

Amir Pnueli:
Sticks and Stones: A Coding Scheme for Parameterized Verification. 

Martin Abadi:
Leslie Lamport's Properties and Actions. 

Nancy Lynch:
Implementing Atomic Objects in a Dynamic Environment. 

Chris Rowley:
The Latex Legacy 2.09 And All That.

Maurice Herlihy:
On Beyond Registers: Wait-free Readable Objects. 


PODC 2000:

Leslie Lamport:
Distributed Algorithms in TLA. 

Craig Partridge:
Data Communications vs. Distributed Computing. 

Mark D. Hill:
How Computer Architecture Trends May Affect Future Distributed Systems: From InfiniBand Clusters to Inter-Processor Speculation.

Michael Ogg:
A Middleware Overview: Goals, Research Issues, and Coded Examples. 

Eric A. Brewer:
Towards Robust Distributed Systems.