never saw such a programm. 18 different tracks in 8 days. a conference where i would love to be cloned to attend most of it. speechless and kind of jealous. probably stuff for some years.

in respect the whole quote of their promotion:

The 2007 Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) in San Diego in June will feature a quintet of discussions by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) on areas of long-term computing research. UC Berkeley's Christos Papadimitriou's talk, "The Algorithmic Lens: How the Sciences are Being Transformed by the Computational Perspective," will focus on how computational research is facilitating a metamorphosis in the physical, mathematical, social, and life sciences, an example being how quantum computation has been very helpful in drawing new insights about basic quantum physics principles. "Data-Intensive Super Computing: Taking Google-Style Computing Beyond Web Search," by Carnegie Mellon University's Randal Bryant, will detail how major breakthroughs in science, business, health care, and information access could be facilitated by the "Data-Intensive Super Computer" systems created by Web search engines to mine massive volumes of data from a wide array of sources, and emphasize the importance of getting the academic research community involved. UC Berkeley's Scott Shenker's "We Dream of GENI: Exploring Radical Network Designs" will talk about the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) proposal for constructing a facility to support large-scale network implementations designed to address various Internet problems, such as security, manageability, and reliability. "Future of Computer Architecture '07" from independent consultant Bob Colwell will discuss the end of the single-core general-purpose processor era and the multilayered challenge computer architecture faces to find a worthy successor to CMOS that supports the software's direct comprehension of the system architecture. CCC Chairman Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington will wrap up the FCRC with "Computer Science: Past, Present and Future," which will offer examples of opportunities for computer science research that could emerge over the next 10 years. | fcrc