1. Introduction

   • Hagit Attiya
   • Sergio Rajsbaum

   Special Issue Pages: 69 - 70

2. Some perspectives on PODC

   • Nancy Lynch

   Special Issue Pages: 71 - 74

3. Shared-memory mutual exclusion: major research trends since 1986

   • James H. Anderson
   • Yong-Jik Kim
   • Ted Herman

   Special Issue Pages: 75 - 110

4. Compact and localized distributed data structures

   • Cyril Gavoille
   • David Peleg

   Special Issue Pages: 111 - 120

5. Hundreds of impossibility results for distributed computing

   • Faith Fich
   • Eric Ruppert

   Special Issue Pages: 121 - 163

6. Randomized protocols for asynchronous consensus

   • James Aspnes

   Special Issue Pages: 165 - 175

7. Cryptography and cryptographic protocols

   • Oded Goldreich

   Special Issue Pages: 177 - 199

8. Action systems in incremental and aspect-oriented modeling

   • R. Kurki-Suonio

   Special Issue Pages: 201 - 217

9. Arbitration-free synchronization

   • Leslie Lamport

   Special Issue Pages: 219 - 237

10. Appraising two decades of distributed computing theory research

    • Michael J. Fischer
    • Michael Merritt

    Special Issue Pages: 239 - 247