UW EE Advising: LISA '13 Student Grant Deadline Approaching

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Calling all students!

LISA ‘13 grant applications are due Monday, September 30, 2013
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/students/grants

Guidelines and hints for can be found at: https://www.usenix.org/students/tips

Register online for LISA '13 at: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/registration-information

Taking place November 3-8, 2013, in Washington, D.C., LISA '13 includes:

40 half- and full-day training sessions from the industry's top instructors, including:

SRE University: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins by John Looney, Google
Root Cause Analysis by Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
PowerShell Fundamentals by Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
Introduction to Chef by Nathen Harvey, Opscode
Sessions on building good habits, increasing effectiveness in the first 100 days with a new company, and learning how to navigate the business world that will instill (or refresh) useful soft skills training that will stay with you for the duration of your career

A technical program that offers practical information on a variety of key topics, including:

Jason Hoffman's Keynote Address, “Modern Infrastructure: The Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data”
Talks such as Hilary Mason’s Plenary, “Data Engineering for Complex Systems”; and the Closing Session, “PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability,” by Todd Underwood
Practice and Experience Reports and paper presentations on practical concepts such as storage and data, monitoring, tools, and building and infrastructure

Interactive sessions, including:

NEW for 2013! The LISA Lab Hack Space allows attendees to investigate new technologies, apply what they have learned, and interact with other attendees in a participatory technical setting.
Poster Sessions, BoFs, and Lightning Talks
The Vendor Exhibition, where you'll learn about cutting-edge products and services from industry leaders, provocative startups, and open source projects
Guru Is In sessions--led by experts including Daniel J Walsh on SELinux, Adele Shakal on project management, and Charles Wimmer on Hadoop--which allow you to pose your toughest questions and get answers.
Last, but certainly not least, the "hallway track," which offers ample opportunity to meet and mingle with colleagues and industry leaders during breaks, BoFs, and other social activities.

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