SPECIAL SECTION ON THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY OF COMPUTING (STOC 2009).

The article discusses the highlights of the 4st Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on the Theory of Computing held in Bethesda, Maryland on May 31-June 2, 2009. Susanne Albers, Paul Beame and Anna Karlin were some of the program committee members. Papers presented at the symposium included "Bit-Probe Lower Bounds for Succint Data Structures," "Homology Flows, Cohomology Cuts," and "Online and Stochastic Survival Network Design."