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).
History
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.
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. In September 2010, DISC returned to North America for the first time since 1985: 24th DISC took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.
Locations
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
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.