The Technical Community on Distributed Processing (TCDP) addresses the technical aspects of specifying, designing, implementing, and evaluating distributed computing systems. Specific topics of interest include executive and operating systems for decentralized control, logical and physical interconnection and communication, reliability and fault tolerance, systems and hardware architecture, distributed databases, and software specification, verification, applications, and systems. The TC sponsors workshops and conference sessions on these and related topics, and sponsors the annual International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, along with the annual Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems.