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We welcome you to the web page of the 29th Annual International Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, the premier international forum in computing system dependability! The Symposium's scope spans system, software, and hardware issues, including such topics as fault-tolerant architectures, fault tolerance in transaction processing, fault tolerance in distributed and real-time systems, safety-critical systems, fault tolerance in high-speed networking, fault tolerance in multimedia systems, fault tolerance in mobile computing, software fault tolerance, testing, validation, verification, dependability modeling and prediction, and dependability in VLSI.

This year the conference returned to Madison, Wisconsin, and brought with it a new emphasis on student participation. We continued the existing FTCS traditions of the William C. Carter Award, which is awarded to the outstanding paper based on a graduate dissertation, and Student Travel Scholarships, which are intended to help students who would like to participate in the Symposium. This year we went further, with the introduction of a new category of refereed submission called "On-Going Student Research." It provides an opportunity for students to showcase their accomplishments in, and future plans for, continuing research projects. Through all of these special programs we hope to promote the future vitality of our field by stimulating the active involvement of its most recent newcomers.

FTCS-29 continued FTCS-28's innovation of offering a highly functional web page. Once again, the abstract submission and review process took place in large part via forms on this web site. The web page served as a focus for FTCS-related activity in the months leading up to the conference.

For details on the subject areas of interest to the conference, view the Call for Papers.

For information on past FTCS conferences, visit the FTCS Library of past conferences' tables of contents, or order proceedings from the IEEE Computer Society Bookstore.