List of top conferences named "Symposium"

Some people occasionally judge the quality of international conferences based on their names, saying that "symposium"s are not as proper as "conference"s. I heard that it is the case in some areas of study, but it is definitely not true in research areas I've been involved in and nearby fields.

So, here I list up top international conferences that have "symposium" on their names, so that I can give the list when someone says the same thing in the future. The list only shows real top conferences, but not top-ish ones.

• Operating Systems / System Software

  • ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
  • USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
  • USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)

• Parallel Computing

  • ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC)
  • IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)

• Computer Architecture

  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro)
  • International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
  • IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

• Programming Language

  • ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)

• Security

  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
  • USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)

A side note for those who have never heard of "USENIX"; it is an academic organization that hosts international conferences and related events (like ACM and IEEE) especially for the operating systems and system software fields. It is considered as a highly reliable organization and the conferences it hosts are normally very high quality.