International Symposium on Distributed Computing

Abbreviation| DISC
Discipline| Distributed computing
Publication details
Publisher|

* LZI LIPIcs
* Springer LNCS

History| 1985–
Frequency| annual (since 1989)

The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium is organized in association with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC).[1][2][3]

## History[edit]

DISC dates back to 1985, when it began as a biannual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG); it became annual in 1989. The name changed to the present one in 1998.[4][5]

While the first WDAG was held in Ottawa, Canada in 1985, since then WDAG/DISC has been organised primarily in European locations, one exception being WDAG 1992 in Haifa, Israel.[5] In September 2010, DISC returned to North America for the first time since 1985: 24th DISC took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.[6] In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.[7][8]

## Locations[edit]

* 2022: Augusta, Georgia, USA
* 2021: Freiburg, Germany
* 2020: Held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic
* 2019: Budapest, Hungary
* 2018: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
* 2017: Vienna, Austria
* 2016: Paris, France
* 2015: Tokyo, Japan
* 2014: Austin, Texas, USA
* 2013: Jerusalem, Israel
* 2012: Salvador, Brazil
* 2011: Rome, Italy
* 2010: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
* 2009: Elche, Spain
* 2008: Arcachon, France
* 2007: Lemesos, Cyprus
* 2006: Stockholm, Sweden
* 2005: Kraków, Poland
* 2004: Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 2003: Sorrento, Italy
* 2002: Toulouse, France
* 2001: Lisboa, Portugal
* 2000: Toledo, Spain
* 1999: Bratislava, Slovakia
* 1998: Andros, Greece
* 1997: Saarbrücken, Germany
* 1996: Bologna, Italy
* 1995: Mont Saint-Michel, France
* 1994: Terschelling, Netherlands
* 1993: Lausanne, Switzerland
* 1992: Haifa, Israel
* 1991: Delphi, Greece
* 1990: Bari, Italy
* 1989: Nice, France
* 1987: Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 1985: Ottawa, Canada

## See also[edit]

* The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
* The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ EATCS web site: Awards: Dijkstra Prize.
2. ^ PODC web site: Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
3. ^ DISC web site: Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine.
4. ^ DISC website.
5. ^ a b DISC in DBLP.
6. ^ DISC'2010 Preliminary Call for Papers.
7. ^ PODC in DBLP.
8. ^ PODC 2010 Call For Papers.

## External links[edit]

* Official website