Program Chairs Margo Seltzer and Ric Wheeler opened FAST ’09 by thanking the contributors and stressing the value of interaction between students and attendees. Best Paper awards were presented to “CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System” by Batsakis, Burns, Kanevsky, Lentini, and Talpey of NetApp and Johns Hopkins, and to “Generating Realistic Impressions for File System Benchmarking” b...

I would like to begin by thanking Ron Chrisley for his interesting and detailed commentary.1 There is much I find to agree with; indeed, it seems to me that his essay can largely be read, not as a criticism of the perspective offered in my own article,2 but rather as a useful and largely complementary alternate view. I am especially grateful for the insights expressed in the last section of the...

In addition to thanking the organisers and session chairmen for their heroic efforts, and the speakers for their stimulating talks, I will discuss a small problem which might be of interest to both numerical analysts and number theorists: when is a rotation, performed with rounding to nearest, reversible in the sense that we can apply the inverse rotation (again with rounding to nearest) and ge...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...

It is very difficult to express in words my appreciation of the honour conferred on me by this distinguished Society in selecting me as its President for the coming year. I know Avhat a high record my predecessors have established, and in thanking you for the honour you have done me, I can only say I will try to do the best I possibly can for you. Now one of my duties is to give you an opening ...