’ 13 Opening Remarks and Awards

Summarized by Rik Farrow (rik@usenix.org) Jeff Mogul, NSDI co-chair, opened the conference by telling attendees that there were 170 paper submissions, and each paper received three first-round reviews. About half the papers made it into the second round, and also received three or four more reviews. By the time the PC meeting occurred, there were 64 papers left. In total, each PC member performed 25.8 reviews on average. In the end, 38 papers were accepted, more than usual. Because of this, each presentation could only be 20 minutes, including questions at the end. And by the end of the first session, things were going well.