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SUMMARY:Honorary Lecture – Prof. James Larus
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DESCRIPTION:Professor James Larus\nDate: Thursday 28 September 2023\n\nPro
 gram: \n\n	17:00-17:05: Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke\, Dean of 
 the IC School\n	17:05-17:25: Guest speakers\n	17:25-18:10: Honorary Lectur
 e by Prof. James Larus - "A Series of Fortuitous Opportunities"\n	18.10-18
 :20: Q & A\n	18:20-18:35: Video\n	18:35-18:45: Speech and Presentation of 
 Honorary Diploma by Prof. Martin Vetterli\, President of EPFL\n	18:45: Tha
 nk you and closing - Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke\n	18:45-20:00: Cocktail dîna
 toire\n\nLocation:  Rolex Forum\, also on Zoom\n\nRegistration: Click her
 e\n\n***********************************************************\n\nProfes
 sor James Larus\n\nA Series of Fortuitous Opportunities\n\nAbstract\nHow d
 id I end up in Switzerland teaching computer science? Thinking back\, I ca
 n only attribute this wonderful situation to saying “yes” at the right
  time to a number of opportunities that fortunately came to me. Along this
  journey\, I made my career in the most interesting field of the past four
  decades\, one that has changed our world three times and is in the midst 
 of doing it again. I learned a few important lessons along this path: coll
 aborators matter\, luck is sometimes better than brains\, never take a job
  without a goal\, and always do new things. \n \nAbout the speaker\nJame
 s Larus is a Professor and former Dean of the School of Computer and Commu
 nication Sciences (IC) at EPFL. Before joining IC in October 2013\, Larus 
 was a researcher\, manager\, and director in Microsoft Research for over 1
 6 years and an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences 
 Department at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison.\n\nLarus has been an 
 active contributor to numerous communities. He published over 100 papers (
 with 13 best and most influential papers and test-of-time awards)\, receiv
 ed over 40 US patents\, and served on many program committees and NSF\, NR
 C\, and DARPA panels. His book\, Transactional Memory (Morgan Claypool)\, 
 appeared in 2007. Larus received a National Science Foundation Young Inves
 tigator award in 1993 and became an ACM Fellow in 2006.\n\nAt EPFL\, Larus
  co-founded DP3T\, which produced the SwissCOVID contract-tracing app and 
 developed the privacy-preserving contract-tracing protocol used by Apple's
  and Google's Exposure Notification framework. His Very-Large Scale Comput
 ing (VLSC) lab studies programming models for non-volatile memory (NVM)\, 
 programming models for FPGAs\, and accelerating bioinformatics computation
 .\n\nLarus joined Microsoft Research in 1998 to start and lead the Softwar
 e Productivity Tools (SPT) group\, which developed and applied a variety o
 f innovative program analysis techniques to build tools to find software d
 efects. This group's ground-breaking research in program analysis and soft
 ware defect detection was widely recognized by the research community and 
 was shipped in Microsoft products such as the Static Driver Verifier\, FX/
 Cop\, and other software development tools. Larus became an MSR Research A
 rea Manager for programming languages and tools. He started the Singularit
 y research project\, which demonstrated that modern programming languages 
 and software engineering techniques could fundamentally improve software a
 rchitectures. Subsequently\, he helped create XCG\, an MSR effort to devel
 op hardware and software support for cloud computing. In XCG\, Larus desig
 ned the Orleans framework for cloud programming used by Xbox and contribut
 ed to the Catapult FPGA accelerator for the Bing search engine.\n\nBefore 
 joining Microsoft\, Larus was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Comp
 uter Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He published over 60 
 research papers and co-led the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel (WWT) research projec
 t with Professors Mark Hill and David Wood. WWT was a DARPA and NSF-funded
  project that investigated innovative approaches to simulating\, building\
 , and programming parallel shared-memory computers. Larus' research spanne
 d many areas: including new and efficient techniques for measuring and rec
 ording executing programs' behavior\, tools for analyzing and manipulating
  compiled and linked programs\, programming languages for parallel computi
 ng\, tools for verifying program correctness\, and techniques for compiler
  analysis and optimization.\n\nLarus received his Ph.D. in Computer Scienc
 e from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1989 and an AB in Applie
 d Mathematics from Harvard in 1980. At Berkeley\, Larus developed one of t
 he first systems to analyze Lisp programs and determine how to execute the
 m on a parallel computer.\n\n\n 
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