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SUMMARY:IC Talk: Automatically Scalable Computation
DTSTART:20190619T101500
DTEND:20190619T111500
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DESCRIPTION:By: Margo Seltzer - University of British Columbia\n\nAbstract
 :\nAs our computational infrastructure races gracefully forward into incre
 asingly parallel multi-core and clustered systems\, our ability to easily 
 produce software that can successfully exploit such systems continues to s
 tumble. For years\, we've fantasized about the world in which we'd write s
 imple\, sequential programs\, add magic sauce\, and suddenly have scalable
 \, parallel executions. We're not there. We're not even close. I'll presen
 t a radical\, potentially crazy approach to automatic scalability\, combin
 ing learning\, prediction\, and speculation. To date\, we've achieved shoc
 kingly good scalability and reasonable speedup in limited domains\, but th
 e potential is tantalizingly enormous.\n\nBio:\nMargo I. Seltzer is Canada
  150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in C
 omputer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research intere
 sts are in systems\, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and ac
 cessing data provenance\, file systems\, databases\, transaction processin
 g systems\, storage and analysis of graph-structured data\, new architectu
 res for parallelizing execution\, and systems that apply technology to pro
 blems in healthcare. Professor Seltzer received an A.B. degree in Applied 
 Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College and a Ph. D. in Computer Scienc
 e from the University of California\, Berkeley.\n\nMore information\n 
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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