The Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC, is an event that brings together several academic conference

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s, workshops, and plenary talks in the field of computer science

Computer science

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. FCRC has been organised in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011.

In the first FCRC, the main organiser was the Computing Research Association

Computing Research Association

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; since then, the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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 has taken the lead in organising the event.

The Turing Award

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 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010 recipients gave plenary talks in FCRC 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011. Other plenary speakers in FCRC include László Babai

László Babai

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, Charles Bennett

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, Randal Bryant

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, Bob Colwell

Bob Colwell

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, David Culler

David Culler

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, Cynthia Dwork

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, Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

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, Michael J. Flynn

Michael J. Flynn

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, Hector Garcia-Molina

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, John L. Hennessy

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, Richard Karp

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, Randy Katz

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, Ken Kennedy

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, James Kurose, Ed Lazowska

Edward D. Lazowska

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, Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov

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, Robin Milner

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, Chuck Moore, Christos Papadimitriou

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, Michael Rabin

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, Scott Shenker

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, Burton Smith

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, Guy L. Steele, Jr.

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, Avi Wigderson

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, Maurice Wilkes, William A. Wulf.

Locations

• 1993: San Diego, California
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• 1996: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  , USA
• 1999: Atlanta, Georgia
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  , USA
• 2003: San Diego, California
  California
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• 2007: San Diego, California
  California
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• 2011: San Jose
  San Jose, California
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  , California
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Conferences

The following table contains conferences that have been part of FCRC at least twice; workshops have not been listed.

CCC	IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity	-	1996	1999	-	2007	2011
EC	ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce	-	-	-	2003	2007	2011
ISCA	ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture International Symposium on Computer Architecture The International Symposium on Computer Architecture is generally viewed as the top-tier academic conference on computer architecture.-External references:* in the ACM digital library.* in DBLP.* ....	1993	1996	1999	2003	2007	2011
LCTES	ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems	-	-	1999	2003	2007	-
METRICS	ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems	-	1996	1999	2003	2007	-
PLDI	ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation	-	1996	1999	2003	2007	2011
PODC	ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing The Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery ....	-	1996	1999	-	-	2011
PPoPP	ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming PPoPP, the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, is an academic conference in the field of parallel programming...	1993	-	1999	2003	-	-
SPAA	ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures SPAA, the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, is an academic conference in the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing...	-	-	-	2003	2007	2011
SoCG	ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry Symposium on Computational Geometry The Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry is an academic conference in computational geometry. It was founded in 1985, and in most but not all of its years it has been sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGACT and SIGGRAPH special interest groups.A 2010 assessment of...	1993	1996	-	2003	-	-
STOC	ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing Symposium on Theory of Computing STOC, the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing is an academic conference in the field of theoretical computer science. STOC has been organized annually since 1969, typically in May or June; the conference is sponsored by the Association for Computer Machinery special interest group SIGACT.As...	1993	1996	1999	2003	2007	2011

Other notable events held in conjunction with FCRC include HOPL III, the History of Programming Languages Conference in 2007.