The SPAA Symposium was called the ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures from 1989 to 2002. The new name reflects the expanded scope of the conference as detailed below. SPAA '08 will feature regular papers, each with a 20-minute talk, and brief announcements, each with a 10-minute talk. The SPAA brief announcements are for brief communications including work in progress or demos. In addition to this, we will have a special track on hardware and software techniques for multicore machines and a poster session.

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~spaa/2008/