Conference on Email and Anti-Spam

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Conference news: Paper decisions were made June 1. We accepted 27 of 
the 81 papers submitted. See the list here. Lawrence Lessig of Stanford 
and Hal Varian of Berkeley will be the invited speakers. We will have a 
Panel on Payment Schemes for Anti-Spam.


More Conference news: Conference registration is OPEN. The room has a 
strict maximum of 275, so it is possible the conference will sell out. 
We highly recommend early registration.

Conference overview: Email has grown from a tool used by a few 
academics on the Arpanet to a ubiquitous communications tool. It has 
evolved from a piece of simple, plain text in an inbox into a rich 
graphical medium that can be viewed, sorted, signed, encrypted, shared, 
archived, searched, prioritized, etc. Spam, following the growth of 
email, has changed from a minor curiosity, to a nuisance, to a 
multi-billion dollar problem.

There have been been numerous industrial conferences on spam and email, 
which have typically concentrated on shipping products and very 
practical concerns. But there is also a need for academic-style 
conferences: peer-reviewed, with a published proceedings, and, most 
importantly, focused on the kind of carefully done, thorough, long-term 
research that the academic and industrial research communities need.

Of course, many academic papers have been published about spam and 
email, in fields as diverse as machine learning, cryptography, natural 
language processing, systems, security, and human computer-interaction. 
But there has been no single conference to bring together these 
communities to exchange ideas and compare techniques.

Email and spam are applied problems, with both legal and practical 
aspects. Another goal of this conference is to create a dialogue that 
includes the legal, policy, industrial and research communities.

Finally, email and email-spam have much in common with other fields, 
like instant messaging (and instant messaging spam), usenet (and usenet 
spam), etc. Solutions across these fields can be shared.

We hope this conference will be the first in an annual series, although 
one day, when spam is eliminated, the name will change to simply "The 
Conference on Email". Come help us make that day come soon.

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