Eurosys, the professional society for Computer Systems in Europe, is established to promote excellence in Computer Systems education, research and industry in Europe. We federate European researchers in the area to improve their impact and to provide the European perspective within the international Systems community. EuroSys is approved as the European chapter of ACM SIGOPS.

The Computer Systems topic includes operating systems, distributed systems, real-time systems, systems aspects of databases, language runtimes, embedded systems, etc., and intersects a large number of application areas.

Motivation

Much original work in systems comes from Europe. To cite some highly original and successful recent work:

• The Linux operating system originated in Finland
• Symbian, the makers of systems for mobile phones, is a European company
• The World-Wide-Web originated at CERN in Switzerland
• The high-performance operating system L4, from Uni of Dresden and Uni Karlsruhe-
• The Minix operating system
• The Arjuna middleware for reliability
• The Xen virtual machine monitor from University of Cambridge.
• The Devil programming language for hardware drivers, from IRISA, Rennes
• Camille, a smart-card OS based on proof-carrying-code, from Université de Lille
• The Pastry peer-to-peer system from Microsoft Research in Cambridge
• The Globule peer-to-peer content distribution system from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Yet the center of gravity of systems research and development is in the US, and systems work has little recognition in Europe. Publication impact is disappointing. There are many reasons for this situation, but one is surely the disorganization of our community. EuroSys aims to increase the visibility and quality of systems research in Europe, and to provide forums for researchers and practitioners to meet and communicate.

This Chapter will be operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes to promote increased knowledge of and greater interest in the science, design , development of modern computing systems amd a means of communication between persons having an interest in computing.

The activities of this Chapter will include the following:

1. Collecting and disseminating information through a web site, or other publication.
2. Sponsoring meetings, discussion groups and workshops.
3. Working with other ACM Units on activities such as lectures, professional development seminars and technical briefing

Bylaws of the European Chapter of the SIGOPS

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