BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:IC Talk: Automatically Scalable Computation
DTSTART:20180416T101500
DTEND:20180416T113000
DTSTAMP:20260407T184034Z
UID:9ceb95b1a2f1a971c87b68d19b0fafc9455536fe420ad3d2b65acb9e
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Margo Seltzer - Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engine
 ering and Applied Sciences\n\nAbstract:\nAs our computational infrastructu
 re races gracefully forward into increasingly parallel multi-core and clus
 tered systems\, our ability to easily produce software that can successful
 ly exploit such systems continues to stumble. For years\, we've fantasized
  about the world in which we'd write simple\, sequential programs\, add ma
 gic sauce\, and suddenly have scalable\, parallel executions. We're not th
 ere. We're not even close.  I'll present a radical\, potentially crazy\na
 pproach to automatic scalability\, combining learning\, prediction\, and s
 peculation  To date\, we've achieved shockingly good scalability and reas
 onable speedup in limited domains\, but the potential is tantalizingly eno
 rmous.\n\nBio:\nMargo Seltzer is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer S
 cience and the Faculty Director for the Center for Research on Computation
  and\nSociety in Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Appli
 ed Sciences. Her research interests are in systems\, construed quite broad
 ly: \nsystems for capturing and accessing provenance\, file systems\, dat
 abases\, transaction processing systems\, storage and analysis of graph-st
 ructured\ndata\, new architectures for parallelizing execution\, and syste
 ms that apply technology to problems in healthcare.\n\nDr. Seltzer was a f
 ounder and CTO of Sleepycat Software\, the makers of Berkeley DB\, and is 
 now an Architect at Oracle Corporation. \nShe received an A.B. degree in 
 Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College in 1983 and a Ph. D. in
  Computer Science from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1992.\n\
 nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CANCELLED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR