The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks.
[1] The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the PODC.
[2][3][4] DISC dates back to 1985,[5] when it began as a biannual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG); it became annual in 1989.
[6][7] While the first WDAG was held in Ottawa, Canada in 1985, since then WDAG/DISC has been organised primarily in European locations, one exception being WDAG 1992 in Haifa, Israel.
[8] In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.