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.
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).
History The inaugural conference was held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on 1–4 October 1967 at the Mountain View Hotel. There were fifteen papers in total, of which three presentations were in the Computer Networks and Communications session. 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. 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. At this seminal meeting, Scantlebury proposed packet switching for use in the ARPANET and persuaded Roberts and Bob Taylor the economics were favorable to message switching. The ARPA team enthusiastically received the idea and Roberts incorporated it into the ARPANET design.
In total, 31 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, Germany and South Korea.
List of conferences From 1967 to 2023, the conferences were held every two years, with the first SOSP conference taking place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Beginning in 2024, SOSP the conference is held every year. No Year Dates Location 11967 Oct 1-4 Gatlinburg, TN USA 21969 Oct 20-22 Princeton, NJ USA 31971 Oct 18-20 Palo Alto, CA USA 41973 Oct 15-17 Yorktown Heights, NY USA 51975 Nov 19-21 Austin, TX USA 61977 Nov 16-18 West Lafayette, IN USA 71979 Dec 10-12 Pacific Grove, CA USA 81981 Dec 14-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA 91983 Oct 10-13 Bretton Woods, NH USA 101985 Dec 1-4 Orcas Island, WA USA 111987 Nov 8-11 Austin, TX USA 121989 Dec 3-6 Litchfield Park, AZ USA 131991 Oct 13-16 Pacific Grove, CA USA 141993 Dec 5-8 Asheville, NC USA 151995 Dec 3-6 Copper Mountain Resort, CO USA 161997 Oct 5-8 Saint-Malo, France 171999 Dec 12-15 Kiawah Island Resort, SC USA 182001 Oct 21-24 Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada 192003 Oct 19-22 Bolton Landing, NY USA 202005 Oct 23-26 Brighton, UK 212007 Oct 14-17 Stevenson, WA USA 222009 Oct 11-14 Big Sky, MT USA 232011 Oct 23-26 Cascais, Portugal 242013 Nov 3-6 Farmington, PA USA 252015 Oct 4-7 Monterey, CA USA 262017 Oct 28-31 Shanghai, China 272019 Oct 27-30 Huntsville, Ontario, Canada 282021Oct 25-28Virtual Event292023Oct 23-26Koblenz, Germany302024Nov 4-6Austin, TX USA 312025Oct 13-16Seoul, South Korea
See also History of the Internet International Conference on Computer Communications International Network Working Group Internet Experiment Note List of computer science conferences Protocol Wars
References
External links https://sosp.org/ https://dl.acm.org/conference/sosp