Conference Home DSN At a Glance Final Program Tutorials Workshops FastAbstracts Student Forum Keynote Speaker Registration Venue Local Information Hotel Reservations News Registration Desk at DSN 2004 will be open on June 28 during the entire afternoon and the Welcome Reception. We strongly suggest that attendees register on June 28, and only latecomers use June 29 from 7.30 to 8.00. The Opening Session will start on June 29 at 8.00 sharp Angelo Marino of EU will present during the Business Meeting the latest information on IST Programme and on the cooperation with NSF Tutorial A "Creating Strategy and Tactics Cyberspace " and Tutorial C "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Background, Diagnosis and Mitigation" have been cancelled all, other three Tutorials are confirmed Dr. Leslie Lamport Keynote Speaker at DSN 2004 Student Grants Committees Original Call for Contributions Preliminary information about DSN 2005

Student Grants Applications due: April 26, 2004 The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing is soliciting applications for travel scholarships to partially offset the cost of students planning to attend DSN-2004 in Florence, Italy, June 28-July 1, 2004. To be eligible, the applicant must be enrolled in a degree program at the time of DSN-2004. Authors of accepted papers, students currently submitting papers to the Student Forum, and others are all welcome to apply. Participation, such as presenting a regular paper or a paper in the Student Forum will be used as one criterion in awarding the scholarships, however. The Technical Committee anticipates awarding scholarships in the range of $500. Application Procedure To apply, submit by email a write-up not exceeding 500 words stating your student status and summarizing your current research related to dependable computing and describing how it is relevant to DSN-2004, what you hope to learn by attending the conference, and how you expect it to affect your future research directions. Also include your name, postal address, electronic mail address, telephone number, and fax number. Applications must be received no later than April 26, 2004 and should be submitted to the chair of the student forum: Susanna Donatelli, University of Turin, Italy The preferred submission format is an ASCII file by e-mail. The awards will be announced May 10, 2004. Questions can be directed to Susanna Donatelli using the e-mail address above.