[TriLUG] LISA in Atlanta

[Joseph Tate]

As promised, the information about LISA.  If you're a student it looks 
like a great deal.  Note that the dates are NOV 14-19.  Not December as 
mentioned at the meeting.

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Register now for LISA, the 18th Annual Large Installation System
Administration conference at:
http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm

LISA comes to Atlanta November 14-19.  As always, the breadth and
quality of this years tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and
participants is excellent. Some highlights:


Professional TRAINING:  The biggest and best slate of tutorials we've
ever had: 36 instructors teaching 51 full-day and half-day tutorials,
30 of which are new.  Some quick examples:

o  John Sellens: System and Network Monitoring
o  David Rhoades: Securing Web-based Apps
o  Eric Allman: Advanced Sendmail
o  Rik Farrow: Thinking Like a Hacker
o  Peter Baer Galvin: Advanced Solaris Administration
o  James Mauro and Richard McDougall: Solaris Kernel Performance,
Observeability, and Debugging


PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Joshua Goodman, Esther
Filderman, Gerald Carter and Yi-Mon Wang will present cutting-edge
issues in topics such as:

o  Looking at both symptom and state information for configuration
faults
o  Biology and Informatics for System Adminstrators
o  Electronic Presidential Campaigning and the lessons learned
o  How spammers are circumventing Bayesian filtering
o  Information Security Laws
o  Grid Computing


Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a
preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and
get feedback from the audience.

Single- and multi-day registration options let you attend for
one day or several.

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WHAT:   LISA - the 18th Large Installation System Administration
Conference
WHEN:  November 14-19, 2004
WHERE:  Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Marriott Marquis
WHO:    System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs,
                Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk
personnel, etc.
WHY:    To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system
administration
HOW:    http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm
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