| 2006 | Provenance-Aware Storage Systems. | Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Margo I. Seltzer |
| 2006 | Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper). | Aravind Menon, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel |
| 2006 | Bump in the Ether: A Framework for Securing Sensitive User Input. | Jonathan M. McCune, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter |
| 2006 | Sure, You Can Archive Data, But Will You Be Able to Retrieve It in 20 Years?. | Evan Marcus |
| 2006 | High Performance VMM-Bypass I/O in Virtual Machines. | Jiuxing Liu, Wei Huang, Blent Abali, Dhabaleswar K. Panda |
| 2006 | Gold and Fool's Gold: Successes, Failures, and Futures in Computer Systems Research. | Butler W. Lampson |
| 2006 | Resilient Connections for SSH and TLS. | Teemu Koponen, Pasi Eronen, Mikko Srel |
| 2006 | Towards a Resilient Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks. | Hyoseung Kim, Hojung Cha |
| 2006 | Antfarm: Tracking Processes in a Virtual Machine Environment. | Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau |
| 2006 | Algorithms and Data Structures for the 21st Century. | Stephen C. Johnson |
| 2006 | Implementation and Evaluation of Moderate Parallelism in the BIND9 DNS Server. | Tatuya Jinmei, Paul Vixie |
| 2006 | Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases. | David Irwin, Jeffrey S. Chase, Laura E. Grit, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, David Becker, Ken Yocum |
| 2006 | Efficient Query Subscription Processing for Prospective Search Engines. | Utku Irmak, Svilen Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov |
| 2006 | Cutting through the Confusion: A Measurement Study of Homograph Attacks. | Tobias Holgers, David E. Watson, Steven D. Gribble |
| 2006 | Panel: Is University Systems Teaching and Research Relevant to Industry?. | Gernot Heiser |
| 2006 | Hackers and Founders. | Paul Graham |
| 2006 | Replay Debugging for Distributed Applications (Awarded Best Paper!). | Dennis Geels, Gautam Altekar, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica |
| 2006 | Security Is Broken. | Rik Farrow |
| 2006 | High Capacity and High Performance Storage on a Limited Budget. | Jacob Farmer |
| 2006 | Integrated Scientific Workflow Management for the Emulab Network Testbed. | Eric Eide, Leigh Stoller, Tim Stack, Juliana Freire, Jay Lepreau |
| 2006 | Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous Endsystem Monitors. | Evan Cooke, Richard Mortier, Austin Donnelly, Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs |
| 2006 | Transparent Contribution of Memory. | James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, Emery D. Berger |
| 2006 | VoIP Security. | Heison Chak |
| 2006 | Flux: A Language for Programming High-Performance Servers. | Brendan Burns, Kevin Grimaldi, Alexander Kostadinov, Emery D. Berger, Mark D. Corner |
| 2006 | An Introduction to Software Radio. | Eric Blossom |