History
PODC was first organised on 18–20 August 1982, in Ottawa, Canada. PODC was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference in 1996, 1999 and 2011.
Between 1982 and 2009, PODC was always held in a North American location – usually in USA or Canada, and once in Mexico. In 2010, PODC was held in Europe for the first time in its history, and in the same year, its European sister conference DISC was organised in the USA for the first time in its history. PODC 2010 took place in Zürich, Switzerland, and DISC 2010 took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since 2000, a review of the PODC conference appears in the year-ending issue of the ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column. The review is usually written by the winner or winners of the Best Student Paper Award at the conference.
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