Dear BioConductor subscribers, the preliminary program for the 3rd international workshop on 'Distributed Statistical Computing' (DSC 2003) is now available at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/ The workshop will take place at the Technische Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria from March 20-22. The deadline for registrations is March 14, but the deadline for early registration ends on February 14. Further details can be found on the webpage. This workshop will deal with future directions in (open source) statistical computing and graphics. Topics of particular interest include: * Bioinformatics * Database Connectivity * Graphical Modeling * User Interfaces and Office Integration * Resample and Combine Methods * Spatial Statistics * Visualization Emphasis will be given to the R, Omegahat and BioConductor projects. In addition to the conference program there will be several half-day tutorials on March 19 about: * An Introduction to BioConductor * Exploring Genomic Data Using R and BioConductor * Writing R Extensions * R Graphics For the organization committee Achim Zeileis ------------------------------------ Achim Zeileis Institut für Statistik Technische Universität Wien http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~zeileis/